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Pull...then Push - Feeling Downswing Sequence

When the golf club is at the top of the swing, it has resistance to movement. If you were to apply your arms to soon, they wouldn't add much speed. Once the body gets the club moving, then the club has less resistance, and so when the arms apply force, they are able to contribute much more speed. Use the body to get the club moving during transition, and then learn to push with the legs and the arms during the release phase. This is another way of thinking about not spinning from the shoulders.

Playlists: Pivot Drills

Tags: Not Enough Distance, Transition, Drill, Intermediate

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The drill is pulled and pushed with the driver.

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So pulled and pushed is a concept of kind of the feeling of sequencing or the feeling of

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timing in the golf swing.

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So basically what should happen is when you get up towards the top of the swing, you're

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going to use your body to pull on the club until you get to about delivery position.

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Once you get to delivery position, your goal is to then transfer all that speed that you've

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built in the handle down into the club.

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That's why we call that the release.

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I like the analogy of pulling like a boulder or a stubborn dog where you've got kind of a

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heavy object on a leash and then you're going to pull it and eventually you get it kind

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of moving and it starts building up momentum and then there's not much else you can do

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to it as far as creating speed.

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Your job is now to make sure it doesn't pull you over a cliff.

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So you pull it and then you have to go from pulling to letting your arms kind of go out

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to get into that bracing position.

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I like to use kind of the metaphor of you're going to pull for that first part and then

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you're going to let your arms kind of push and it's more of a passive push but you're

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going to let your arms kind of extend as you turn it into transferring and bracing.

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Now the big difference between the driver and the irons as far as the pull and push sequencing

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is the arms are going to get involved a little bit earlier with the irons compared to

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the driver and the direction of where your body kind of extends out to brace is going

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to be different with the driver than the iron.

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Because I have this stance width that's a little bit wider and my upper body is a good

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6, 7, 8 inches behind where my lower body is is it's still rotating that push is going

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to extend more in line with the target where with an iron if I'm going to be having my

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stance width kind of shoulder width and I'm going to be a little bit more on top so

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when I get into that release position my upper body is just slightly behind my lower

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body a couple inches then when my arms go to extend they're going to extend more down.

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So I like to use that bracing analogy especially with the driver of this is where if I was

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playing tug of war right and I wanted to get into a position where I could pull from.

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Those arms would be kind of extended like this with an iron I'd be pulling kind of down

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on that line where with the driver I'd be pulling more on that line there.

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So you can use this as kind of an image and metaphor for helping you kind of feel a good

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rhythm of I'm just going to be pulling from here and then I'm going to turn that into

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more of the push of the leg and the push or extension of the arms right about that midpoint.

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