Rotate the Triangle

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This finesse wedge drill is rotate the triangle.

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So a lot of golfers get stuck trying to keep the triangle or trying to keep the

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constant

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radius because they don't have any arm rotation.

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So what I mean by that is basically if I had my triangle like this and I made a

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backswing

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where it didn't have any rotation, if my shoulders worked on a pretty steep

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plane, you can see

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how this right arm would get way above the left and the club would get in kind

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of a steep

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position like this.

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That feels very uncomfortable for a lot of golfers and so what they do is then

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they shallow

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out the body rotation, shoulder comes up, shift off the ball and now we no

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longer have

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the stack centers and that creates the need to make some compensations.

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So oftentimes what we have to work on is getting a little bit of arm rotation

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and Steve Stricker,

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Jason Day have both talked about kind of this feeling, staying outly as well

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where there's

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a little bit of forearm rotation as if I was holding on to a steering wheel and

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making

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a slight right turn just kind of like this.

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So there's a little bit of forearm or more likely shoulder rotation just like

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this.

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If I make that movement that's going to tend to shallow out the arms and open

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the clubface

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just slightly.

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So now that movement with the arms of rotating like this can be balanced by

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having a little

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bit steeper plane or shoulder movement.

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So this will allow you to have a little bit more left shoulder down and kind of

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getting

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really stacked over that front foot without feeling like you're going to slam

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the club

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or dig the club into the ground.

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So as we're focusing on keeping this radius constant, we're forming this

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triangle, we're

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just going to feel a little bit of rotation like that during the backswing and

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then we're

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pretty much going to keep that rotation on the way through.

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So it will feel like you've actually opened up the clubface but because you're

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pivoting

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and going into some side bend and hitting the ball with a little bit of shaft

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lean, you'll

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typically balance that feeling of rotating the club on the way through with

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more of that

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body rotation or coasting movement.

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So let's demo a couple where we're going to feel we've got the arms in a

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straight position

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and first thing we're going to do is just set the arm.

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So I'm going to make us very small right hand rotation movement with the

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shoulders.

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This can also feel like the right arm is kind of rotating or sorry the left arm

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is rotating

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over the right arm instead of both of them kind of pulling back and saying

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parallel more

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like this.

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So I'm going to preset that movement and then add a little bit of shoulder dip

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and now we're

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going to try and combo that into one feeling just like that so it had a feeling

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of left

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shoulder way down with some right hand turn from the shoulders and you'll see

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that this

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tends to help give a little bit more like really shallow brushing ground

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contact.

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So if you have a tendency to get a little bit diggy if you do hit the ground

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then feeling

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a little bit of this arm rotation typically helps mellow that or calm that out.

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Now as you go into the longer stroke there's just going to be a little bit more

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I think

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that what's called it more of like a gradient or kind of a more of a non-linear

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pattern.

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So it's going to rotate more quickly and then it's just going to kind of rotate

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a little

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bit more as you go further.

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It's not going to get into kind of as much rotation as you can on this short of

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a shot.

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So even the what it feels like to me is this might be my knee height or my

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short shot and

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then this might be my belly button height.

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So it just goes a little bit more between there and there.

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The majority of the movement is happening right in that first initial phase.

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So we're going to get a little bit of rotation see that one because of the

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shallowness of

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bounce I didn't hit that great but came out pretty well would be happy with the

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shot would

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probably leave me a makeable putt.

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So if you're struggling with your ground contact or you're struggling with

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keeping the triangle

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don't forget to allow a little bit of arm shallowing or rotate the triangle in

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order to balance

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being a little bit more steeper or leftward in your backswing plank.