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This drill is feeling the trail arm scapula in transition.

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So a lot of golfers struggle with getting that trail shoulder high or the trail

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shoulder

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blade going forward, the trail scapula kind of rotating around very early.

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That's one of the big causes of the hand path getting out and losing some of

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your depth.

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And what happens to the shoulder often that causes a steepening of the club in

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transition

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as well.

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So I've got videos on the shoulder blade shallowing and feeling like that trail

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shoulder's back.

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I've got a drill that I like to do that is helpful for feeling that combination

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of back

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and down.

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So what we're going to do is I'm going to sit on the ground just like this and

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then I'm

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going to take my trail arm, my right hand, and I'm going to place it behind my

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back

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and kind of lean onto it.

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Now what I want to feel is I'm going to try and kind of push through the ground

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as if

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I was trying to brace myself up instead of laying on the shoulder there.

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So this is going to feel like my shoulder is down and back and my leech

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shoulder is

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rotated more across my body.

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Now if I did that standing up, if I got up here and I pushed down like this,

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this gets

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my shoulders in this more closed position is basically where I want my shoulder

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blades

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to feel like they are half way down.

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So now if I can lock that shoulder in place and then bring the left arm and the

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right

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arm together, now I'm in a position where I've got a fair amount of depth and

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this shoulder

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is back instead of my shoulders already kind of spinning and getting the club

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out there.

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So I find this very useful for doing as part of release training as well as

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then we'll

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work it back from the top of the swing to transition.

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So if I wanted to do kind of a nine to three, I'd bring it back and then push

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that shoulder

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blade back and you can see how there I got even a little bit more hand depth.

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I'm going to feel like I have a lot of space to be able to come from into

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impact.

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I'm going to push that there, turn my lower body in kind of the opposite

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direction and

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then feel like I can rotate through there and I'm going to feel probably like

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the hands

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are coming from a much deeper position if I'm used to getting them out.

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If I'm used to looking from this down the line and seeing the hands get out

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either in

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line or past the shoulder early, that's usually a lack of shoulder blade

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challenge.

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So then the second component would be getting there in transition.

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So I'm going to go up to the top and then I'm going to push that down and you

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'll see

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that that creates a little bit of depth.

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I want to feel that movement of the shoulder blade happening as my pelvis is

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rotating in

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transition.

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It's kind of twisting my lower body and my upper body somewhat in opposite

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directions

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building this kind of sling or building this tension in my mid mid back mid

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body.

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So now we're going to do more of a 10 to two style.

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So we're going to go up, we're going to put that shoulder blade down and back,

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bring

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it to the opposite hand and then from here, we're going to pump down a few

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times.

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And it'll feel like the shoulder is in a much more stable position where you

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can see it

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takes some of the timing out that is normally associated with getting early

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with that shoulder.

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So if you struggle in transition of kind of getting out or getting steep, give

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the trail

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arm shoulder blade lock or feeling that trail shoulder depression that I'm

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showing here

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in the drill.

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You can also actually do the exercise where I was sitting down and feeling that

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shoulder

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blade working down and back.

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If you can work that into the pattern, that will help get things connected and

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help improve

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the depth that you'll be able to come from during your release.

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So we'll see if we can do one dynamically now if we go up to the top of the

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swing and

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we feel the shoulders kind of fall into that position.

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Kind of like that.