Trail Side Pass

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This distance wedge drill is trail-side pass.

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So this is a drill designed to help prevent some stall and throw that a lot of

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golfers

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struggle with.

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A lot of bad wedge players kind of get tilted behind and then throw the arms,

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have kind

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of a scoop or just kind of big arm extension look.

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Oftentimes that will also then be accompanied by a chicken wing, but it's kind

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of more of

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the stall throw and so the trail side pass is trying to get the right side of

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your body

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to actually get past the left side of your body so that it's facing more of the

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target

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rather than staying back kind of like this.

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So you do this in one of two different ways.

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We can do this trail arm only or we can do it with both hands on the club.

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With the trail arm only I'm going to feel like my arm stays more connected kind

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of like this

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and I'm going to feel like the shoulder gets past my foot and my left shoulder

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is actually

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behind my right foot so I'm feeling like or my left foot like my shoulders have

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turned

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and I'm facing the road.

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Now the key thing here is that when it passes it's going to go down that

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shoulder plane down

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that shoulder tilt so I'm still going to have some good side bend as it's going

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through.

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If it turns to level then with the right arm only I would either pull it or

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more likely

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have some contact issues unless I've timed that throw and that's usually part

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of the

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problem is if you're not using your obliques and getting your abs to help bring

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that shoulder

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down then you'll tend to have too much throw and oftentimes too much stall.

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So second version we're now going to put both hands on the club and we're going

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to feel

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like the arms do very little so they're going to load in the backswing and then

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they're

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just going to hold on more so than they would in the regular swing.

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More or less I'm bringing it to here and then I'm just trying to rotate my body

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.

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The only difference between this and hitting the golf shot there is I'm going

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to be turning

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on the shoulder angle down at the golf ball rather than turning level so we'll

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do that

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again so we're going to bring this back and then try to get that right shoulder

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to pass

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the left foot and get that left shoulder back over the right foot.

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One of the other keys that this drill can help unfold is you'll see that this

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doesn't

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have to be done explosively.

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It just has to lead, it's more of a sequencing thing than it is a rapid energy

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thing.

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So it's not like I'm getting here and I'm trying to spin around as hard as I

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can.

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In fact what can be really helpful is doing this in slow motion where I try to

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get through

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there very smoothly getting really solid ground contact.

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If I do that then I know my centers are stacked and I'm turning on a really

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good angle and

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it's really going to help with my distance control, my trajectory control, and

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my quality

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of contact in general.

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So if you struggle with more of a stall flip, try this trail side pass to help

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keep the engine

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moving, keep your pivot going.

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That has a big impact on a number of key variables for your distance wedges.