Lead Arm Only

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This drill is lead arm only nine to three. So in the release section, I break

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down what each arm

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should do and what's going on with the trail as well as the lead. But I find

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for a lot of golfers,

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especially if you're kind of in that mid-handy cap, maybe even into the upper-

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handy cap. So with a

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five and below, I love working on each hand and making them work perfectly. But

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for a lot of

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golfers, just working on that lead hand swinging through, kind of staying

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connected,

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getting into a good checkpoint on the way through. And then once I've got that

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good checkpoint,

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putting the right arm on and then just trying to get back there. It forces you

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to be a little

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bit more lead side dominant, which for many golfers is a good thing. But what

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it really helps with is

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if you tend to struggle with kind of scooping and breaking down and having no

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awareness of what's

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going on with the lead side, because the trail side is really overpowering it,

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focusing on the lead

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arm during release can really be helpful. So you're just going to alternate

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hitting shots with just

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the lead arm and then hitting shots with both hands on the club. So with the

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lead arm only,

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I'm hitting a little kind of nine to three, and then I'm going to take my trail

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hand and put it on

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and check where that club is. So it shouldn't be way to the left, kind of like

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so. There shouldn't

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be a whole lot of bend in that arm. So from the face on view, that arm's going

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to be pretty straight,

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the club's going to be pointing kind of out towards my left hip, like so. And

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the club face will be

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pretty close to vertical. So from face or from down the target line, it'll look

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kind of like so.

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And I'm just working on kind of really being somewhat relaxed and letting it

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swing, but making

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sure that I make contact with the ground as I do this. A lot of golfers, when

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they try to do this

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lead arm only, will really try to hold off that face rotation. And allowing

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that arm to rotate

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is one of the key parameters that I see with pretty much every Tour Pro, where

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I rarely see

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that with amateurs. They tend to, amateurs tend to want to hold their forms

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pretty tight.

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You tend to see more of this forearm rotation in Tour Pros with the longer

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clubs. So with the driver

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or five iron compared to when looking at a short, whether it's eight iron or 50

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degree wedge or

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something like that. So again, doing just a little kind of nine to three,

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focusing on that club

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feeling wide. And then putting both hands on the club, either doing kind of an

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open hand or just

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both hands on the club. And feeling that left arm really lead and rotate

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through those shots

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will help you work on kind of this flat spot building in the bottom of the

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swing. Because if

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this arm starts bending and breaking down on the way through, it's very hard to

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have the club

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continuing kind of down and staying low to the ground. So you're going to tend

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to have a smaller

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margin of air, especially with the longer clubs, where you wouldn't want to

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have your upper body

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shifting on top of the golf ball in order to balance that out. So if you're

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struggling with

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working on the club between impact and follow through position, try working

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some lead arm only

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and simplifying it to a kind of a simple one arm feel, where that arm is just

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kind of softly

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rotating, but staying pretty firm as it's rotating. So the the wrist isn't

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really

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breaking down and going this way. It's just kind of gently rotating, then put

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the trail harm on.

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I promise if you work on that, it'll really help the way that the the club

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works and the way that

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that your swing will work from impact

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to that follow through position.