Single Arm Drills

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Okay, so now we're gonna train the single arm release drills while striking a

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golf ball.

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So this is a great one to do at the driving range as part of your mechanical

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practice

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for working on how the hands are gonna transfer energy after the transition

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phase to impact.

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So it's gonna be exactly the same movements that we've trained with the ping p

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ong paddle

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and either the speedball or the impact bag, but now we're using the golf club

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and letting

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the golf ball getting in the way of these movements.

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So we'll start with the right one, I'm gonna take my normal setup, take my left

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hand off

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the club and just kind of stick it on my side.

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And then we're gonna go to that delivery position that we trained in at the end

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of transition.

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And then from here, we're gonna try to feel like we throw the golf ball.

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And if we use that good right wrist mechanics, you can notice I'm gonna have a

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really clean

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strike and hit the ball really well, and finish pretty close to that follow

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through position.

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Okay, so applying the same principles, we can work on the left wrist as well.

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So we're gonna go to that same kind of delivery position, you're gonna take

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your right hand

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off the club this time.

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Now you'll, it's gonna feel weaker, especially if you're right handed and you

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're playing

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golf right handed, and it's gonna feel very weak when I flatten this left wrist

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.

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But if you remember from the impact drill, your hand is going to want to, or

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the door

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jam drill, if you remember, the impact drill, when you go to push into the golf

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ball, your

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hand is gonna feel very strong in that bowed position.

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So it'll feel weak here, but it'll feel strong and transfer more energy when

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you're at impact.

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So we're gonna go to this waist height position, bow that left wrist down.

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There's a good sound.

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So you'll see in this finish position of the left wrist, if I were to take my

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right wrist

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and do it same thing, they would pretty much fit in place.

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And that's the best way to train these wrist movements, is after you do say,

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let's say

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we did a right one, and that wasn't very good, but let's see why.

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So if I put my left wrist where it would be, you can see that my left elbow is

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a little

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bent compared to if I was doing that full follow through position.

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So that means that the club started working up instead of out too soon, which

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is why I

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hit the ball a little heavy.

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So you can do the same thing if we use the left wrist.

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If I hit a good shot, which that was, and then I put my right wrist where it

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would be,

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this will help me train that feeling of those elbows really extending into the

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follow through.

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The hands should basically take the club through the same path regardless of

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which hand is swinging.

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So what I often see in clinics is the right wrist will kind of do a little sco

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opy thingy

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like this and try to hit it high, but then I'll ask you to put your left wrist

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where

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it would be, and you can see that if I finished a real golf swing like this, I

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would be in

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a lot of trouble.

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The same thing will happen when you're working on the left wrist because what

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will happen

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is you'll hit this left wrist and it'll go flying like this and I'll say, "Okay

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, that

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was a good shot, but put your right hand where it would be."

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And they'll have to almost take a step in order to get there.

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So the key for the wrist and the release training is to make sure that each

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hand is taking the

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club through the same 3D space and through the same path.

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If you're able to do the same with both hands, then you'll have a much more

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consistent and

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solid strike when you put both hands on and go back to the 9-3 drill to work

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through

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these movements.

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So this is one of my favorite ways to train the release.

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I've had lots of success with it and I hope you will too if you give it a

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little bit of

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time.