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Chest Turning Through The Ball

Proper sequencing is important for creating speed, but also for getting a repeatable path and consistent contact. A lot of golfers stall their body by standing up near impact. This does a great job of helping close the face, but makes it hard to have the bottom of the swing out in front of the ball. Learning to turn your chest through the ball is a good compliment to the motorcycle and the release.

Tags: Draw vs Fade, Follow Through, Drill, Intermediate

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The drill is chest turning through the ball. So while you're working on your release

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and you're working on what the arms do, we want to talk a little bit about what the body

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is going to do during this release and how it gets to this file through position.

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So one of the interesting things that I see on 3D is that with more accomplished

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players or good golfers, tour golfers, you know, plus handicap type, you will tend to

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see that the chest is turning faster than the arms through the golf ball. So there's

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a couple of reasons that I think this is happening. Basically, that lead arm is going to

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be transferring and rotating kind of like this. And so as this shoulder is rotating

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and as the arm is rotating, you'll tend to actually see this shoulder work a little

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bit more back in towards the golf ball. That combined with the upper body continuing to

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rotate and continuing to side bend is going to give this appearance. So one of the ways

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that I like to work on that is doing nine to three shots and trying to feel like the upper

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body doesn't finish rotating until the golf ball lands. Now you will feel that when

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your arms are extending out, you'll feel like your arms are continuing to move, but

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you may feel like they're not really pulling across your body quite as much as say they do

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during that movement from transition into the release or as we get into this white movement.

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So essentially what's going to happen is a beetle. No one heard him. So essentially what's

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going to happen is I'm going to continue rotating as my arms do their thing. The time when

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you'll struggle with this and why I think most good players do it is what's going to stop

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me from rotating and continue my arm speed is going to be if I were to stand up. So if

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I were to stand up kind of like so during the shot, you'll see my upper body stalls its

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rotational inside bend movement as my arms continue to work across. In a good efficient release,

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what you'll tend to see is that that upper body is going to continue to stay kind of down

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as it's rotating through, it's going to continue side bending and extending kind of like so.

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So this is just an area to focus on when you're doing nine to three shots, focusing on that body

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continuing to rotate until the golf ball is almost landing or well on its way down the fairway.

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If you find that you're stopping pretty much as you're hitting impact, there's a very good

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chance that you're standing up or freezing your upper body or stalling or some of the words that

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people have used in the past. So to make sure that you're in good posture alignment, you can use this

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turn of the upper body through the release as one of your key points to focus on during nine to three

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drills.

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