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Improve Your Golf Swing with the Bounce Pass Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to properly extend your arms during the swing
  • Feel the necessary side bend to create a consistent flat spot
  • Practice the bounce pass motion to develop better ground contact

Learn how to enhance your arm extension and side bend in your golf swing with the bounce pass drill. This exercise helps create a better impact position for improved ball striking.

Video Transcript
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This drill is the bounce pass wipe, so this is a kind of overall feeling drill

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to help

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you get a sense of how your arms should extend and where they should extend in

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the golf swing.

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If you're doing a proper wipe, which is necessary to have a good amount of side

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bend, all necessary

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to build that good flat spot.

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So what we'll do is we'll take a light ball, it could be a medicine ball, it

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could be a

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basketball, soccer ball, volleyball, but we're going to get into this good kind

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of body impact

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position and then from here we're going to throw a bounce pass basically in the

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general

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direction of that bag.

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We're out at about 30 degrees down that target line.

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So in this bounce pass I'm going to bend both elbows and then I'm going to

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straighten both

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elbows.

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So it'll work something like that.

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So again, from here I'm going to have the ball close to myself and then in

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order to

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get that downward motion I'm going to extend both arms.

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This is somewhat similar to what we're trying to do with a good release.

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So I'm going to get into that same position, I'm going to bend both arms which

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is going

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to feel a little weird and then I'm going to extend in that position.

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So compared to my body it's just slightly left of my body, it's not quite

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straight out

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in front, it's just slightly left but because of that side bend even though my

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arms are

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working straight out in front of me the club's not going to slam into the

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ground, it's going

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to brush the ground.

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If I was straight up and down and I did a good white movement the club would

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just slam

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into the ground but if I have this side bend and I do that good white movement

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the club

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will just brush the ground with this high to low pattern.

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So then once I have this feeling I can try hitting some golf balls getting into

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that

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same movement pattern where I'm going to get into this impact position, I'm

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going to bend

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both elbows and then I'm going to extend those arms out in that 30 degree angle

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00:02:07.330 --> 00:02:08.680
position.

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00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.580
So if I'm set up to this ball I'm going to get into this body position, I'm

46
00:02:12.580 --> 00:02:13.160
going to

47
00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:19.320
bend those arms and I'm basically extending my arms down out right about there.

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If I did that with the golf club that would look something like this and now I

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'm going

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to extend my arms out in that direction not extending my arms right at the ball

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.

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So there's that good impact position and then I'm going to bend those elbows

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and extend

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those arms out in front.

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This will help me get the proper feeling of this white movement and it may

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00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:45.040
overcome some

57
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:49.500
barriers as to the direction or the timing of where and when my arms should

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00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:50.160
actually

59
00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:52.160
be extending in a good release.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Your Golf Swing with the Bounce Pass Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Understand how to properly extend your arms during the swing
  • Feel the necessary side bend to create a consistent flat spot
  • Practice the bounce pass motion to develop better ground contact

Learn how to enhance your arm extension and side bend in your golf swing with the bounce pass drill. This exercise helps create a better impact position for improved ball striking.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.720
This drill is the bounce pass wipe, so this is a kind of overall feeling drill

2
00:00:06.720 --> 00:00:07.040
to help

3
00:00:07.040 --> 00:00:12.080
you get a sense of how your arms should extend and where they should extend in

4
00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:13.200
the golf swing.

5
00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.800
If you're doing a proper wipe, which is necessary to have a good amount of side

6
00:00:16.800 --> 00:00:17.680
bend, all necessary

7
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:19.840
to build that good flat spot.

8
00:00:19.840 --> 00:00:24.300
So what we'll do is we'll take a light ball, it could be a medicine ball, it

9
00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:24.760
could be a

10
00:00:24.760 --> 00:00:31.170
basketball, soccer ball, volleyball, but we're going to get into this good kind

11
00:00:31.170 --> 00:00:32.360
of body impact

12
00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:38.840
position and then from here we're going to throw a bounce pass basically in the

13
00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:39.320
general

14
00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:41.080
direction of that bag.

15
00:00:41.080 --> 00:00:44.400
We're out at about 30 degrees down that target line.

16
00:00:44.400 --> 00:00:48.210
So in this bounce pass I'm going to bend both elbows and then I'm going to

17
00:00:48.210 --> 00:00:49.160
straighten both

18
00:00:49.160 --> 00:00:50.160
elbows.

19
00:00:50.160 --> 00:00:53.760
So it'll work something like that.

20
00:00:53.760 --> 00:00:59.160
So again, from here I'm going to have the ball close to myself and then in

21
00:00:59.160 --> 00:00:59.880
order to

22
00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.800
get that downward motion I'm going to extend both arms.

23
00:01:03.800 --> 00:01:09.260
This is somewhat similar to what we're trying to do with a good release.

24
00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:13.110
So I'm going to get into that same position, I'm going to bend both arms which

25
00:01:13.110 --> 00:01:13.640
is going

26
00:01:13.640 --> 00:01:18.520
to feel a little weird and then I'm going to extend in that position.

27
00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:23.350
So compared to my body it's just slightly left of my body, it's not quite

28
00:01:23.350 --> 00:01:24.320
straight out

29
00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:28.810
in front, it's just slightly left but because of that side bend even though my

30
00:01:28.810 --> 00:01:29.360
arms are

31
00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:32.940
working straight out in front of me the club's not going to slam into the

32
00:01:32.940 --> 00:01:33.440
ground, it's going

33
00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:35.360
to brush the ground.

34
00:01:35.360 --> 00:01:39.160
If I was straight up and down and I did a good white movement the club would

35
00:01:39.160 --> 00:01:39.800
just slam

36
00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:44.480
into the ground but if I have this side bend and I do that good white movement

37
00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:45.120
the club

38
00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:48.800
will just brush the ground with this high to low pattern.

39
00:01:48.800 --> 00:01:53.260
So then once I have this feeling I can try hitting some golf balls getting into

40
00:01:53.260 --> 00:01:53.400
that

41
00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:58.300
same movement pattern where I'm going to get into this impact position, I'm

42
00:01:58.300 --> 00:01:59.200
going to bend

43
00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:07.330
both elbows and then I'm going to extend those arms out in that 30 degree angle

44
00:02:07.330 --> 00:02:08.680
position.

45
00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.580
So if I'm set up to this ball I'm going to get into this body position, I'm

46
00:02:12.580 --> 00:02:13.160
going to

47
00:02:13.160 --> 00:02:19.320
bend those arms and I'm basically extending my arms down out right about there.

48
00:02:19.320 --> 00:02:24.590
If I did that with the golf club that would look something like this and now I

49
00:02:24.590 --> 00:02:25.200
'm going

50
00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:31.980
to extend my arms out in that direction not extending my arms right at the ball

51
00:02:31.980 --> 00:02:32.400
.

52
00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:37.560
So there's that good impact position and then I'm going to bend those elbows

53
00:02:37.560 --> 00:02:38.400
and extend

54
00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.000
those arms out in front.

55
00:02:40.000 --> 00:02:44.460
This will help me get the proper feeling of this white movement and it may

56
00:02:44.460 --> 00:02:45.040
overcome some

57
00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:49.500
barriers as to the direction or the timing of where and when my arms should

58
00:02:49.500 --> 00:02:50.160
actually

59
00:02:50.160 --> 00:02:52.160
be extending in a good release.

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