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This drill video is the forefinger release.

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So the forefinger release is a way to kind of feel the rotation of the club

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happening

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a little bit more natural.

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I use this drill a lot for golfers who tend to have a lot of arm tension, have

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kind of

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a very little twisting of the club, often have a really strong grip, but have

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very little

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twisting of the club and have more of this kind of hold on, bend look, chicken

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wing through

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impact where there's just a lot of tension and lifting.

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So I got this drill from Brett Rumford.

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He was using it as a short game video, but I've found that it's really helpful

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for feeling

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the full swing release as well.

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So the forefinger release is you're basically going to grip the club with two

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fingers from

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your left hand and two fingers of your right hand, one, the left hand is going

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to be up

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towards the top of the grip and the right hand is going to be more towards the

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middle

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of the grip, kind of like this or towards the bottom third.

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So now, because the club is an L shape, if I let it drop a little bit like I'm

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doing

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those Zorro loops and then I just let the club rotate, I'm going to help it.

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I'm not saying that I'm not doing anything, I am helping the club rotate, but I

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'll get

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a sense or I'll get this feeling of the club rotating on its own if I'm soft

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enough.

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If you are one of those who has a ton of grip tension, then this will feel very

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soft and

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foreign to you.

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It will feel like you're giving up control, but you'll also feel how stable and

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kind of

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fluid the club face feels.

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So I mostly do this on nine to threes, basically feeling the club rotate.

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If I keep my arms extended and I keep a pretty centered pivot, then I can

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actually hit some

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pretty solid nine to three shots and I'll get into a pretty good finish

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position.

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So then oftentimes, as you know me by now, I will have golfers stop and then

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put their

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normal grip on to feel what it would feel like.

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So in this one, the most common I will use is more that follow through and I

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wasn't gripping

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it quite far enough down, but if I get into that follow through position, there

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is that

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good arm extension instead of oftentimes I will feel more underneath and kind

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of in

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like this.

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So it will feel more wide as it's twisted over.

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The other common place that I will stop it and usually this is hard to do on

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your own is

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I will grab the club and kind of stop it right after impact and have the golfer

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put their

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hands on it.

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And oftentimes, this is where they'll feel the most different.

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That'll be where you'll feel, oh man, my arms would be separate and releasing

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more under

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instead of letting this gradual rotation happen.

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So I would try and stop right about there.

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Like I said, it's really hard to do by yourself, but if you're used to more of

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this pattern,

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then that will feel down and more turnover or on top.

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But one of the big things, the most common reaction that I get is my forearms

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feel like

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they're doing nothing or like they're very soft.

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Then the next step becomes trying to get that feeling in the full swing where

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the softness

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kind of starts happening right around here.

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So the softness and that rotation is rotating into the ball as opposed to

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happening after

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impact.

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That's one of the common things that I see with golfers who have too much of

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this arm

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tension down at the bottom is they will hit the ball and then let it soften as

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opposed

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to what this drill kind of helps you feel is right around there is where it has

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to start

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releasing and it has to start rotating in order to square the club face with

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some body

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rotation.

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So this is an excellent kind of relaxation or softening drill to quiet some of

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your aggressive

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arm pull.

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I use it primarily for nine to threes, but once you get that feeling, you can

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take it

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up into bigger and bigger swings, 10 to two full swing where now I'm simply

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getting this

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feeling of it rotating early and soft as opposed to I might have been trying to

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do the motorcycle

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or trying to do the club face rotation with too much effort.

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So if you if you see either a really dynamic effort movement like that or you

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see a big

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hold on movement like this, the four finger release should become part of your

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at home

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training program to learn how to soften your arms and let the club face release

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more naturally.