Merry Go Round

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This drill is the merry-go-round drill. The merry-go-round drill is one of my

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go-tos whenever I'm trying to help educate a student on where the body

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should be at impact. Many golfers fall into a pattern of when they get into

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their golf swing, they tend to stand up and not have a whole lot of rotation,

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not

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have a lot of access to it. So if I was to exaggerate it, they tend to get like

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this at impact. So here's setup and then there's impact. There's very little

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change. Most tour pros will have some pretty big profound changes. To feel the

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changes, instead of just describing all the different body movements, we use

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the

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merry-go-round drill. So the merry-go-round drill, you're going to take the

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club and

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place it across your shoulders. If you're right-handed, the club will stick out

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to

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your right shoulder. If you're left-hand, it'll stick out to your left shoulder

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. Then

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from here, I'm going to rotate my body until the club would be just about to

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hit the golf ball. So from my visual perspective, it looks like it's pointing

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right about here. So I'm getting my club into that position, but I haven't

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shifted

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my upper body forward. I'm staying centered while my lower body gets on to

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that lead foot. So I got a little bit of a tilt away from my foot and this body

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rotation is pointing the club just inside of my foot kind of like set. Now I'm

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going to freeze my body in that position and then I'm going to place my hands

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on

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the club. And this is roughly going to get me about where my body should be at

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impact. Might exaggerate some part because it doesn't quite have as much of

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the dynamics, but it gives you a good overall sense of about how much down

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rotate side bent, how your chest will be pointing out in front of the golf ball

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along the target line, somewhere out in that 30-40 degree range, how your hips

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will be pointing even further out along that target line. So if you're used to

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standing up, this will help you feel more down. If you're used to not rotating,

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this will definitely help you feel more rotated. And if you're used to having

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your

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upper body ahead of your lower body, this can be used to help feel like your

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upper body is a little bit more behind your lower body while it's still in that

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rotated position. Once you get used to this body position, then you can start

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moving on to release drills. So whether you want to do things like the push

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ball

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drill where you're just getting used to those arms extending from the merry-go-

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round,

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the impact fix where you're practicing getting into that merry-go-round body

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position from setup just automatically or doing things like 9 to 3 where you're

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basically taking the club back to about waist height and then trying to get

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back

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to that merry-go-round position before your hands get into or make contact with

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the golf ball. So if you're trying to work on where your body needs to be at

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impact and they have no better drill to work on than using this merry-go-round

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drill. Do it both right-handed and left-handed. That'll help give your brain

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more information and more spatial awareness of how it can rotate side bend

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and stay in place. All key components for controlling low point and the bottom

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of your swing.