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A great way to work on sequencing is to make a backswing, pause and collect your thoughts of what you want to do and then execute that movement. In this case, the normal thing to work on with the hit from the top is starting the downswing with the lower body. This drill is especially challenging for golfers who want to pull hard on the handle with their arms because typically they won't have the same amount of lunge to balance the pull.
hit from the top is also a great way to work on specific movements of the arms. If your sequencing is good, you should have no problem hitting it solidly from a dead stop. The part of your swing that will typically suffer in this form of training is your distance.
Playlists: Keys To Transition
Tags: Backswing, Transition, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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The drill is hit from the top.
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Now hit from the top is a great transition and sequencing drill.
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We're basically you make your backswing freeze there.
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Take a look, make sure everything is the way that you want it.
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And then try and initiate the downswing from the lower body, making your good transition
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pieces.
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Now it's very, very challenging if you are a more of a rhythm golfer.
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But if you're feel or visual, this can be a very good drill for you to work on that
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sequencing and some of the fine movements of transition.
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Because it gives you a chance to go from a dead stop, organize your thoughts and just
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work your way from there.
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I do think it can be good for rhythm golfers to do, just recognize that it will be, it'll
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feel a little bit more uncomfortable to go from a dead stop at first.
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So essentially, you're going to set up to the golf wall, focus on making that good backswing,
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whatever pieces you're necessarily working on.
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And then from there, I'm going to basically start down.
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Now I can do this at a variety of different speeds, working my way up to hitting full shots.
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I remember doing this a bunch in college and I believe Tiger Woods, this was one of his drills
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that he originally did with Boacharmann.
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It can be really good for working on that transition sequencing timing.
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So here we go again, you're going to go up to the top of your swing and then from here,
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you're basically going to start your way down.
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Now again, it's going to be very challenging in order to hit the ball as far as you normally
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do, but it's possible to get pretty close.
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I would say 90% of how far you can hit with your full swing, you should be able to hit
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with this drill.
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One of the challenges, especially if you tend to be one of those hit early from the top,
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is this is going to force you to really build up that speed during the downswing as opposed
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to kind of that pull and then just kind of cruise through impact.
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So this can be a great drill for working on that transition timing.
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And then what you can do is you can have one or two balls ready and you can go from hitting
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the ball using this drill to try and to recreate that same feeling, hitting the ball quickly
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while you still have it fresh in your month.
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So essentially from the top of the swing with a dead stop and then start with that lower
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body and then get set up to the ball and try and recreate that same movement.
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So hopefully that helps you with your transition, either movements or timing and connecting
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the top of the backswing to transition, both of those are very helpful for developing
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your consistent and repeatable stocks swing.
