Trail Arm Straight

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This finesse wedge drill is trail arm straight.

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So of the three big wedge goals of constant radius, stack center, smooth force,

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one that

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can often drive problems is the constant radius.

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And oftentimes where that breaks down is golfers using too much arms in the

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backswing.

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Typically I'd say that's usually the trail arm.

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So what that ends up looking like is if my body is facing the golf ball kind of

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like

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this, then that right arm is going to pull the club up and behind and in kind

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of like

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this.

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And when it gets behind like this, now I'm going to have to make some type of

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correction

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or balancing movement.

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Oftentimes the common ones would be to then really throw those arms so then you

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get a

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lengthening radius on the way through that can cause problems.

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Or you'll often see a little bit more of kind of like a buckle and a dropping.

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And that dropping movement really engages the leading edge or creates some dig

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gy contact.

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So what we're going to try to do is we're going to do some single arm drills

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where we

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focus on the arms staying in front and straight.

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So I don't really care if the arm is a hundred percent locked.

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In fact, in most cases, I'd say it's not.

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But whatever amount of arm bend I create, I'm going to try and keep that amount

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of arm

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bend all the way through the stroke.

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So I'm going to try and make a backswing where it stays at that same amount of

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arm bend and

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still stays in front of my peck.

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And then from there, I'm going to try and get into a finished position where it

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stays

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the same.

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This is probably going to feel like your shoulders are a little bit more stiff

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than you're used

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to.

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Because oftentimes, golfers that pull and push have a lot of shoulder blade

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movement where

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I think golfers who keep that radius pretty constant tend to have a little bit

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more stability

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at the shoulder blade and more movement at the rib cage, maybe even a little

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more movement

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at the wrist.

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So again, this primarily helps if the trail arm is the problem.

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Now if the lead arm is the problem, the lead arm kind of pulls across or pulls

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in.

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Oftentimes just by keeping the trail arm straight, that will help you feel like

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the left arm

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can't pull quite as far across.

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So then the shadow drill would basically be, or the next level of this drill

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would be putting

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the left hand on almost like the open trail hand, but this time it's the open

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lead hand.

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And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to feel like that trail arm does the

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whole

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motion and the lead arm is just touching the club and kind of going for the

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ride.

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So one more like that where the trail arm stays in front and the hit is

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controlled primarily

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with the pivot.

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And then you can bridge into taking your normal grip and executing just kind of

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some

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traditional shots, but feeling like that trail arm stays in front.

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This is a good complement to either using a towel or a ruler or some type of

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arm connection,

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or this can be a good complement to a little bit of kind of distance control.

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So you could be working on your shorter shots and your longer shots while

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feeling like the

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engine is no longer in the shoulder, but now down in the pivot.

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So if you're struggling with your overall contact and you look on video and you

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're seeing

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that that trail arm is getting really behind or narrow kind of like this, then

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I highly

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recommend doing some trail arms, straightening drills to work on your constant

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radius control.

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Okay, so quick demo through the progression, demo number one.

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Arm is pretty straight, a little bit of pivot, both sides to hit the ball.

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Second one, left hand is on, we're kind of touching the right hand, but pretty

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straight.

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Second thing, that was okay.

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Alright third one, we've now taken our normal grip, we're gonna feel that same

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trail arm

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that was really good, we're gonna use that feel when we go play tomorrow.