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This drill is the Doorknob shoulder blade lock.

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So this drill is designed to get some external rotation, but while keeping the

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trail arm

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in front of your pec, oftentimes golfers struggle when trying to get external

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rotation, where

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they kind of bring it around them to the side kind of like this.

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So more recent than that, or more recently, instead of using the idea of kind

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of losing

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an arm wrestling, which I think can potentially incur that, I've been using

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more this image

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of imagine that you are turning a Doorknob but from your shoulder.

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So you'll see I'm not doing this, this would be just turning my forearm, but I

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'm turning

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the Doorknob or turning my hand from shoulder movement.

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And when I do that, I can feel that the shoulder is kind of like packing in

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more or less like

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that.

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Now, that packing in movement makes it a more solid transmission from my body

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rotation.

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So if I put my arm up like this, and I don't have it packed in, as I turn, I

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can try to

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keep it in front, but it feels like I'm working my shoulder a lot.

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And I can feel like a little float, like a little separation.

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So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to turn the Doorknob, just kind of

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like that.

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And now I feel as I move my body, my shoulder transfers all that force into the

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club or

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into my hands.

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So the places, the two places where this tends to be the most relevant are

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ending the top

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of the backswing and going into transition.

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That's where most of the time golfers get away from this shoulder movement.

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And most common is they tend to elevate or raise the shoulder kind of like this

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, which

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tends to kick the arm, what looks like internal rotation, but it's really more

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of a shoulder

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movement.

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And that tends to steepen the club kind of like this, feels powerful, but

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creates a

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whole host of timing and consistency issues.

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So first, we're going to work on the feeling of transition.

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So we're going to do a single arm drill, we're going to hold on with the right

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arm,

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we're going to lock in at setup, and we're just going to feel like that

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shoulder stays

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connected all the way through, especially there in transition.

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In fact, what I like to coach the students to do is to feel like you turn it

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and then

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in transition, we're going to feel like you turn it more.

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Now remember, if I have a laser beam pointing out on my chest, I'm turning it

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kind of like

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this.

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I'm not turning it like that where it's getting left behind.

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And yes, that's going in external rotation, but the shoulder is also disconnect

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ing when

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the left arm is on the club, and you add speed, it's going to almost always go

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into

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that movement.

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So we're going to feel this transition movement, where it rotates a little bit,

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but stays in

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front.

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So this is kind of that shark's fin idea that I like to do on the release, kind

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of feeling

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that in transition.

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Okay, second piece we're going to do is at the top of the swing.

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So notice on those, I was doing 10 to 2, we're a little bit bigger than 9 to 3,

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where this

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really comes into play is up here at the top of the swing.

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Oftentimes golfers who have a hard time getting that shoulder to kind of lock

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in will tend

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to be a little bit more flexed.

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So there's a relationship between being able to lock in that shoulder and being

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able to

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get into a good extension position at the top of the swing.

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If your body is more flexed, then you'll tend to do more of the second half or

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more

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of the lift with the shoulder kind of flying away or getting disconnected.

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So now we're going to do a right arm only backswing because that right arm only

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, by

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holding it with just one arm, the shoulder has to work harder and it's easier

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to pack

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it in.

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So we're going to get that shoulder packed and then bring that left arm up and

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that's

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going to feel like you have a lot more body rotation than you're used to.

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So now we're going to do a top of backswing and a feel where you're going to

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feel like

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as you get up towards the top, it tends to slow down and pack.

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So often in a lot of sports you can stretch your arm muscles really quickly,

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but if you

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try to stretch your core, it tends to feel like it takes more time.

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It tends to feel slower.

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So if the shoulder stays more packed and you're ending the backswing with your

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core,

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the last part of the downswing in the first part of the, or sorry, the last

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part of the

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backswing in the first part of the downswing is going to feel slower.

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It's going to feel smoother.

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So we're going to emphasize a little bit more of this slow, smooth tempo to try

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to give us

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time to feel like we turn the doorknob up at the top of the swing.

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Like I said, this seems to work a little bit better than say the jazzy Jeff or

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the lose

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at arm wrestling for a lot of golfers because it engages more of the shoulder

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muscles or

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the shoulder blade muscles.

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Okay.

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So we're going to get that sense up at the top and now we're going to feel like

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we recreate

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that position there.

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That will often help with getting the arms in front during transition because

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that shoulder

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connection is one of the things that will prevent the arms getting behind the

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feeling

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stuck.

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So you can use the turning the doorknob image for connecting the shoulder to

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help with two

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key points where that shoulder can really disrupt your swing and mess up your

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timing,

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causing fat shots, thin shots, or most commonly pull shots.