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This drill is backswing width with a towel.

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So many golfers struggle with width in the backswing.

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They tend to kind of create more of a lift of the arms and that can create some

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timing

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problems and some contact problems.

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If we were to just kind of like take a big picture and we looked at your upper

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body being

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somewhat the center of your swing then your arms are the radius and while

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changing that

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radius can potentially add power because you're using some arm muscles it tends

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to create

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some problems with consistency.

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The other big thing is when the arms bend it tends to encourage your body

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staying flexed.

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So you actually even though the club gets into a high position you haven't

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loaded a lot of

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your core muscles you've mostly loaded your arm and shoulder muscles.

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So this drill is going to help us keep the right arm a little bit more straight

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and build

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a little bit more connection.

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So this only works for 10 to 2 and 9 to 3s because it does become a little bit

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of a problem

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as you go to the top of your swing but we're going to use it to kind of gain

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the feel

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of using my body to drive this backswing a little bit more.

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So we're going to take the towel place it in your right arm pit and this just

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works.

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I like a little longer towel so I have a little bit more kind of meat in the

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towel to kind

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of grab onto.

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Then I'm going to take my normal left hand grip and I'm going to place the

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towel on

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top of the right thumb.

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So some golfers who tend to kind of like pick up the club by bending the arms

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also lose

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that connection of that right hand where if I have the pressure there then in

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order to

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keep it taut I'm going to have to feel like I maintain that pressure and

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maintain that

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width.

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So I've got that connection through that right arm pit.

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I've done this with a band and usually I like to wrap the band around to the

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left shoulder

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so this one's a little bit more user friendly and it's kind of easier to feel

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that tension

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where the dynamic push of the band sometimes you might lose it a little bit

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especially

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in transition.

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So this is a way of kind of feeling the triangle connection or feeling more of

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a body driven

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hit this will be a little bit more of an exaggeration of what we would want to

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do in

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that full swing.

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Okay so we're going to start with a nine to three so I've got my connection I'm

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going

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to try and maintain that connection all the way through into the three o'clock

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finish

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position.

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It's probably going to make you feel like you have to use your hips or your

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core a whole

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lot more than you're used to.

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Now we're going to take it up to a ten o'clock swing and this is where a lot of

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golfers

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going from nine o'clock up to ten o'clock tend to just bend the arms and you

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can see

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that I've lost all that slack I've lost that tension so now I'm going to try

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and recreate

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that tension and that's going to feel like I've done more movement here

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possibly even

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getting a little bit extension but more movement here in my chest in my rib

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cage and less movement

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just in my arms.

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So now we're going to do that ten o'clock swing kind of maintaining.

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Nice little ten to two it'll help you with your punch shots this can help you

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with your

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distance wedges and overall it can help with the consistency and quality of

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your low point

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by putting a towel under your armpit in your backswing.