British Open 2026: Why Wyndham Clark is using a coat hanger to fix his swing

I didn't have a coat hanger taking up this much attention on my pre-Open Championship prediction list, but here we are.

Reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark has become the drill king of golf, and at Royal Birkdale he put a coat hanger to the task.

• The issue in Clark's swing is that he creates too much wrist hinge.
• When this happens his club gets long, the clubface gets open, and his swing gets laggy and steep.
• The result is that his fades turn into slices.

"My swing's gotten a little off," Clark explains. "The coat hanger is for wrist angle, trying to get a little more flexion in my left wrist so I can square the face more. That's just what it is."

Clark alludes to it there, but all of these bad things happen only when he cups his left wrist. Fix the wrist, and you automatically fix all these other things.

And that's what the coat hanger is for.

It rests just inside Wyndham's left wrist, which makes it near-impossible for Wyndham to cup his wrist. If it does, it would slide and push into his wrist. The only solution is to keep the wrist flatter, which means Wyndham's swing gets shorter, wider, and produces better shots because of it.