Towel Drill for Distance Wedge

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This is the towel drill for the distance wedge.

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So one of the more common drills that you'll see players practicing on tour is

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some type

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of connection drill for wedge shots.

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They typically are pretty good with the stack centers, or else they wouldn't

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make solid

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contact, and typically they're pretty good with the constant radius, they don't

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get too

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much rapid change.

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The towel drill really helps with creating more of the smooth force, and it

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serves as

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a reminder of kind of using more of your cord, especially during the backswing

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in transition.

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So whenever you use the towel drill, or whenever you use the towel, the

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important thing is

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to place it really high up in the armpits, and then connect your arms more on

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the front

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of the body, instead of, I'll do bad, where I had it low, low and on my sides

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kind of like

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this.

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It's not the end of the world here, but you'll see that I have a hard time

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getting my arms

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straight if my arms are on the sides, and I can hit okay shots if I really

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emphasize

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the body going down, or going into the side bend.

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But it will feel like I have a lot more kind of limitations in my backswing.

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It would be hard for me with the arms kind of pin like that to do anything

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further than

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about belly button height.

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So with the towel drill, again, we're going to grip it high up in the armpits,

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kind of

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like that, takes a little bit of setup, and now with my arms more in front, my

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arms can

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feel like they actually have a little bit of wiggle room, a little bit of

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movement, but

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not so much that they would pull the towel away.

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There's just a little bit of lift and chop ability in the arms, but we still

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want them

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to stay more or less in front of the body.

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So we've got the arms feeling connected here, and then the big thing in this is

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we're going

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to emphasize going more towards the chest height, so a little bit longer,

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because the

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place, it's pretty easy to keep the connection of the towel from hip height to

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hip height,

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kind of more of a finesse, kind of nine to three.

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It doesn't take a whole lot of effort to keep the towel connected there.

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Where it starts to become trouble is when you turn the corner, what will happen

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, I'm

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going to hold this in place, but what will happen is a lot of players just kind

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of stop

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rotating with their body and drift with the arms.

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When they drift with the arms, they lose that constant radius, and oftentimes

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they get too

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tilted behind the ball.

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So with this towel, that's going to encourage me to use more of my body to

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create some of

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that lift, so you'll see as I go past here, there's a little bit more side bend

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to accompany

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the lift of the arms, kind of more like that.

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So if you have a real big tendency of kind of pulling the arms around as your

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major backswing

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source, this towel drill, that's pretty good, this towel drill can help sync up

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the arms

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and shoulders.

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The one caution I'd give, if you have a tendency to get really lower body

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dominant, then oftentimes

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the towel drill can actually, because it prevents you from moving your arms,

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oftentimes golfers

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who have a lot of slide or early extension, sometimes they're going to exagger

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ate that

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lower body movement to make up for the arms feeling stiff.

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So you still want to feel like you're more weight on that left foot, you're

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going to

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feel like you stay stacked, and then it's just a pretty good one there, just a

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matter

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of using the core to rotate in both directions, and that rotation is going to

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be on that swing

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plane, that shoulder plane, down at the golf ball.

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So use this if you have a tendency to pull the arms in during the takeaway, or

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get them

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stuck behind towards the top of the swing, it's one of the proven and best ways

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to build

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some connection between your arms and your body and your distance wedges.