Casting
What is actually happening
Your hands aren't the problem. They're reacting to one. When your upper body races ahead, the club gets trapped behind you with no room to swing, and throwing the clubhead early is the only way your hands can reach the ball. The wrist angle you loaded going back gets spent at the top of the downswing instead of at the strike.
What it costs you
Casting spends your speed before the ball ever sees it. The strike comes in weak, the loft goes up, and you give back fifteen or twenty yards with the irons. Those are yards you already created and then threw away. It's the difference between hitting an 8-iron and swinging an 8-iron that flies like a wedge.
The butt of the club leads the way down. Hands get to the ball first. The clubhead arrives last.
Pump Drill
Swing to the top. Now pull your arms down until the shaft is parallel to the ground and stop there, with your wrists still fully hinged, the same angle they held at the top. That pull-down-and-stop is one pump. Return to the top and pump again, slow and deliberate, because rushing it defeats the purpose. On the third pump, don't stop. Let the swing continue through the ball with the angle releasing where it belongs, at the bottom instead of the top. Do three sets of three-pumps-and-a-swing, then hit five normal balls. The divot grades every one: when it starts in front of the ball, the angle held. When there's no divot and the ball floats high, the cast came back.
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