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This drill is 9 to throw.

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So this is a 9 to 3 drill to help you work on good soft arm tension.

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9 to 3's are great ways for working on the bottom of the swing or the release.

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And many golfers, if you're coming out of more of a cast pattern, if you've got

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more

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of a scoop, are going to have a lot of arm tension down at the bottom to help

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prevent

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the club from moving or help prevent it from rotating.

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If you're going to have your arms ahead, you do want to have some good softness

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and arm

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rotation to it.

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So a good way to kind of feel that is doing a 9 to 3 where you're going to

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release the

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club at the bottom.

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Now I usually start this by doing left arm only and you're basically going to

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let go

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of the club just after making contact.

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If you're used to having a lot of grip pressure, then you'll find that it's

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virtually impossible.

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So making solid contact and then letting go of the club.

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On that one, I stalled my body just a little bit so I didn't make great

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direction, but

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we'll see if we can do a little bit better.

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So you'll see that by getting into a relatively good finished position or sorry

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, by using

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good mechanics and having soft grip pressure, you'll be able to let go of the

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club before

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you get all the way up to here, all the way before you get to that three.

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Then you can recreate that same feeling with the two hand version and you'll

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usually make

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relatively solid contact.

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It also helps you encourage getting the arms and the club extending out towards

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the target

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instead of really pulling it up and in on the way through because I promise if

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you're

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pulling it up and in, there's no way you're going to be able to let go of it

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before you

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reach waist height.

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So 9 to 3, we'll do it one more time, 9 to 3 left hand only, you're going to

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have a

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little bit of club face closing right as it's making contact and as you're

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pointing that

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thumb away, you're going to let go and you want to be a little bit more lenient

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with

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yourself as far as direction and quality of contact.

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It's really for feeling that tension, but then you can do it with both hands.

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Again, you shouldn't throw it too far and definitely not behind you.

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That would be an indication that you're having more grip pressure.

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You should really be releasing it just after impact.