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This drill is investigating your arm bracing.

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So down at the bottom there's a couple different swing issues that fall into the same category.

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Basically I'm pulling on the club with my arms instead of pulling on the club with the body.

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And I call how you pull on the club bracing.

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So the common thing would be down at the bottom, I could either pull with my shoulders.

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You'll see them, especially that left shoulder kind of retractable.

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I could pull with my elbows, that would be more of a left arm chicken wing or a right arm kind of bicep curl bending like this.

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Or I could pull with my wrist.

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These are all different ways to pull the club or pull on the grip, which does help speed up the club going down into the ball.

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But it also narrows the arc on the way through.

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Ideally I want to have the arc widening.

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I want my arms, my wrists and my shoulders all lengthening through impact, not bending and shortening.

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I want the pull on the club to come more from my body movement.

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So even though my arms are bringing the club away, my body is pulling the club away from the ground.

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That combination produces that more consistent flat spot.

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So sometimes golfers are unaware of their pulling and I'll have them all stand over there and grab on the club head.

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So if you don't have someone to play with, what I'm going to do is you can either hook the club into a bag or on a chair or something like this.

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So now first one I'm going to try and bend up.

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So I'm pulling into the club this way.

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Second one I'm going to bend with my arms and pull it towards me like this.

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This thing is a little light so I can't pull too hard.

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And then last one I'm going to pull with my shoulders.

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Okay so those are the different arm pull methods.

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Now I want to feel a body pull method.

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So I could bend backward almost like I'm doing a dead lift or a back bend.

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But that would be too much extension and that would still make it hard for me to create a good flat spot.

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So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to pull while turning my body.

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So I'm basically pulling on it that way instead of straight up at me.

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That's a little bit closer to what we want to feel down it impact.

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Because the club is going to be in a pretty much set position here.

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It impact.

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The club is a metal rod.

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It's got some bend and lead in it at impact.

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But it's a pretty much a fixed metal rod.

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So it's set at a certain angle.

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And I'm going to be pulling kind of in this direction kind of more back up away from it.

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So I could either get into a position like this and pull more with the body or I could

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get into a position like this where I would pull from my hands.

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Can be really useful.

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I'll stand on the club and have them pull a couple different ways and getting into this

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position to feel like I'm doing it more from the body helps them recreate a good impact

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alignment.

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So if you feel like it's more of a force thing that I'm just I feel like I'm hitting it too

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much with my hands.

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Play around with how you're pulling on the club until you find a position where you can

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pull strongly with your body but still have the arms being soft enough that they are

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lengthening or moving away from you.

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You solve that riddle and you'll be able to build a much more consistent flat spot.

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Have your chest more open in impact and get that classic follow through position that we're

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looking for.