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This drill is don't spin the shoulders for the driver.

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So the don't spin the shoulders concept is basically making sure that you're

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starting

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your swing with your legs and your pelvis and your lower body.

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Spinning your shoulders can be okay with wedges like distance wedges, it can be

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okay, finesse

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wedges may be even up to about an eight iron, but when you start getting into

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the longer

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clubs spinning with the upper body is going to give you major angle of attack

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issues.

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So spinning with the upper body is basically you get to the top of the swing

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and then straight

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from here you're going to see that left shoulder kind of get open, get on top

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of the ball and

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kind of get square to the target.

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It's easiest to see from down the line, so if you're looking at your video and

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you see

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your shoulders kind of do this, that is spinning the shoulders and you can see

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what that does

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to the path.

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It makes it impossible for me to use really good motorcycle movements, it makes

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it really

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challenging to hit something that has as little loft as the driver.

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So don't just spin the shoulders, it's basically practicing that Jackson 5 and

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that transition

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movement while your chest feels like it's facing away from the target until

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your arm's

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about parallel to the ground and then spinning through.

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So it's not that I never want your upper body to rotate, it's that if you do it

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too soon,

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your path is going to be too far outside to end, you're going to be too steep

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and you're

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going to struggle a lot with your driver.

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So if you're struggling with having a big fade, hitting the ground, actually

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taking divots

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with the driver, there's a very good chance that you're spinning your shoulders

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and you

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want to make sure that they stay closed just a little bit longer during

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transition before

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you let them rotate a lot during the release.