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This drill is club drop shallowing.

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So many golfers need to work on shallowing the club with the arms and transition to help

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with a variety of different patterns.

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One of the more common patterns that causes a lot of inconsistency, both with contact as

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well as ball flight, is getting the club to steep in two quickly in transition.

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One study that Dr. Sasha McKenzie did found that 39 out of 40 Tor pros had some amount

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of this club shallowing in transition and it's not the most common move for amateur.

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So it seems to be one of those differentiators between skill levels of elite level golfers

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and less than elite level golfers.

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So one drill that I've used to help with a feeling of the club shallowing is going up to

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the top of the swing and let's say you're used to the club being more on an angle kind

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of like this and that would be a shallow movement.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to hold the club in the more vertical position

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it would be at the top of the swing and then we're just going to let it drop where the club

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head is going to fall a little bit faster than the grip.

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So I'm going to bring it here and I'm going to let it drop kind of like this.

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So you can see that I'm actually pretty much taking my hands off the club and I'm losing

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some of the sense of the club face.

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It's rotating as well.

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This I've used with many golfers to get the feel of the club dropping in transition.

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Many good golfers have described the club feels like it's falling.

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I feel like my arms are dropping.

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There's a feel like I'm not doing anything with my arms.

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All these relate to this feeling of a club shallowing.

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So how do we do this as an actual drill?

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So you're going to take your hands off and let it drop.

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At the bottom once you catch the grip again, you're going to be already rotating your body

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and that's going to allow you to pull along the club in the direction of the target.

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So I'm going to drop and then when I catch it I'm going to start pulling.

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So I'm going to drop kind of like that.

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Now it's very hard.

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I do this usually from a split grip.

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So it's very hard to make solid contact when doing it as a hitting drill.

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But I have done it where I'm dropping it for students and it seems to work pretty well.

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For you I would say once you've got this sense of that club dropping,

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then take a few practice swings and try to let go of the club and grab it again down here at the bottom.

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But don't actually take your hands off of the grip.

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So lose the grip pressure but don't let go of the grip.

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So now I'm going to make that movement so I'm going to let it drop with zero grip pressure.

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I'm going to let it drop so it's in a more horizontal position and then catch it and pull.

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Then I'm going to try and execute that same movement with a golf ball getting in the way.

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So I'm going to go up to the top and let it drop and then right about here I'm going to catch it.

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Up. Drop.

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Go. Now I'm going to do it without pausing or without breaking it down quite as much.

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But I do recommend that you do a couple of those where you get used to catching it because many

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of you are going to top the ball the first time that you get there if you're used to pulling

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in a more vertical manner from the start of the swing. So we're going to go up.

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We're going to drop and then from here we're going to swing through. So we'll do it in two parts this time.

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So we're going to go up to the top. Drop and swing through. Like I said I almost I caught that a little

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thin not quite a top but definitely a little thin. To now on this next one I'm not going to pause.

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I'm just going to feel that weightlessness during transition and then pick it back up halfway through the

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downswing. And there you'll see lots of my balance a little bit but by focusing on that drop

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movement I got a really good sense of the club coming more from the inside and from the bottom of

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swing. As long as I do the motorcycle movement that's going to have a nice solid draw to it

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with very little muscular effort. So if you're struggling with getting the club to shallow in transition

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I highly recommend trying this drop for shallow and working through that drill will help you get a

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sense of powering the swing with your body instead of your arms and that is one of the key differentiators

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between elite level ball strikers and amateurs.