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This drill is the pelvic punch. This drill is one of my favorite drills for working on

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power in the golf swing and specifically power from your lower body. So whenever I'm

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talking about power I'm mostly talking about lag if you remember from the overview video

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and lag is essentially moving the part that's closer to the ground before you move the

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part that's closer to the club. So we're going to do a specialized version of the nine to

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three drill trying to hit the ball quite far getting the power from the lower body. So

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this what makes this special is you're going to swing back to this waist height position and you're

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going to stop. So from a dead stop you're going to use your lower body to initiate the downswing

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and what you're going to feel is as the lower body initiates you're going to get this stretch

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through your left side. You're going to then transfer that stretch into the shoulder,

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let the hands work just in front and then finally your hands are going to release.

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If you're the type of player who's the ball very straight but doesn't have a lot of power,

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there's a good chance you'll do this drill by releasing your arms first and then kind of timing

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everything together through the ball instead of having the sequencing of going lower body arms

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and then club. So this is a very challenging drill to do correctly because contact is going to be a

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little bit of an issue going from a dead stop and exaggerating this lag on such a short shot.

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As you'll see in the short game section lag can actually be counterproductive when you're hitting

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short shots but for this drill you're going to try to get as much as you can. So you're going to go

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to waist height you're going to relax your arms and relax your grip because you want your lower

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body to initiate this movement. So you're going to try and keep the club in the 3D space that's

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in while your body gets into this position, gets into that impact position. So I'll do a couple.

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Again just for demonstration purposes but your goal is to hit the ball quite far or as far as you

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can comfortably while maintaining good impact and follow through alignments.

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I don't think I can do much better than that. One of the things that you'll see is if you have the

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tendency to stand up which we'll get into in the early extension section but if you have the tendency

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to stand up on this movement you're going to tend to kind of pick the ball or top it or catch it a

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little thin. So this can be a great drill for learning how to stay down and cover the ball with

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your upper body through the impact zone as well. So there's one of the best lag drills for learning

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how to use your lower body. It's called a pelvic punch.