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Fast Turn of a Cast Pattern

The cast pattern usually involves pulling with your upper body aggressively in transition. This pull from the upper body is usually driven by the latissimus dorsi and the left side shoulder blade area. When you pull quickly, you'll have a tendency for the club to be thrown away from you early. That releases your angular speed too early in the downswing.

Tags: Not Enough Distance, Cast, Transition, Concept, Intermediate

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In this concept video, we'll talk about the fast turn of a cast pattern.

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So when it comes to a cast pattern, there's a couple different categories or there's

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a couple different driving forces.

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One can be, what are you doing with the arms?

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If you get up to the top of the swing and you have a tendency to push with the arms, especially

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straightening that right wrist, straightening that right elbow or pulling down with that left

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shoulder, those can all cause the club to cast away from you.

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But one common pattern or one common component is an early spin of the shoulders.

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So if I imagine that I had a cable machine here and I was holding onto this cable and I

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pulled with my shoulder blades kind of like this, that can feel quite powerful and it's

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in a rotational movement towards the target.

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But what will happen is if I separate my hands, you'll get an exaggerated look of how

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this movement for a couple different reasons tends to cause the club to fly away from

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me.

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So if all I do is I go up to the top of the swing and then I fire my shoulders really

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hard and let the arms kind of come along for the ride, you will see that there's a little

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bit of this early width and it feels like I'm kind of decelerating as I get close to

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impact.

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We'll do that again.

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So I get up and I turn really fast with my shoulders, it causes this to throw out

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and I'll tend to have some low point issues commonly that would be solved by swinging

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outside in or lunging forward.

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So one of the harder components for a lot of it offers coming out of the cast pattern

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is learning to be patient or learning to wait, especially with this feel of that left arm

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pulling.

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One of the classic thoughts is keep your back to the target longer but sometimes that causes

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you to keep your hips quiet as well.

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So I think that it's this feeling of kind of creating this stretch or the lower body

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getting ahead of the upper body while you're doing that the arms can shallow or drop

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into position.

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So if I demonstrate that one here we can take a look at these.

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So from the top of the swing now I'm going to keep my feeling of the shoulder staying

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close to the golf ball instead of spinning away but still get my hips open.

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Kind of like that and with perception-wise that felt like it had a lot less effort to

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it and it flew about 40 yards further than the one where I felt like I was swinging hard.

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But the timing of the first one felt like a really quick flash right away and the timing

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of the second one felt like I didn't do anything hard with my arms until I got close

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to about belly button height.

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Now I felt like I was building up speed in the club.

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I just wasn't applying it with the arms yet.

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So this can be kind of a rhythm or a tempo thing to work on or I should say most golfers

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are either sensitive to positions or rhythm and tempo.

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And so this is more of a rhythm and tempo thing where I need to feel like my shoulders

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are a little bit later or my arms are not quite as early.

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A lot of golfers do well feeling like they slow things down.

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That helps prevent this early pull or they feel like the arms drop before they then

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fire.

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For the golfers who are more sensitive to positions this will feel like my upper body

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stays a little bit more closed as my arms get in front and as my lower body gets out.

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So I might feel more of a stretch on this left side when I might feel a little bit more

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softness in the arms as I'm doing it.

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So real quick if you're a caster you're typically going at it too hard too fast and usually

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in a spinning fashion that will look more kind of like this where all I did was turn

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and now if I do a better one you will see rhythm wise.

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There's a much later it feels like the downswing probably took in my mind felt like the

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downswing took twice as long in that second version compared to the first one.

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That's just because in the first version I fired my arms really early with a big shoulder

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pull straight from the top.

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