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This video is revisiting the Hogan Towel drill. Um,

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so the Hogan Towel drill is kind of the original connection drill. Um,

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connection drills are trying to get either your core, your core, um,

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or your shoulders to be a little bit more engaged so that when you move one part

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of your body, um, another part moves with it.

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In this particular case with the Hogan Towel drill, the goal is to get your, uh,

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the inside of your shoulder blades to, uh,

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stay a little bit more active or connected, um,

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so that when you move your trunk in your core, your shoulders with move with it.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with inconsistency, um,

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especially poles and especially, uh, low point fat thin, um,

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tend to get a little bit more disconnected and kind of throwy from the arms.

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So the, the classic Hogan Towel drill of placing an arm, uh,

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a towel under your armpits can be a great way to get an exposure of this. Now,

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if you're really disconnected, I promise you the first couple, uh,

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sessions that you do with it, it's gonna feel very restrictive.

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But if you stick with it, um, it is going to kind of, uh, help you uncover,

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um, some of this, uh, efficient or ease of, uh,

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golf swing where people look like they're swinging easy,

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but creating a lot more speed. Okay,

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so we're gonna walk through how to set this up and what you can kinda look for

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and how this drill, uh, is really designed to work.

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So we're gonna take the towel and the main thing here is you're gonna place it

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as high up in your armpits as you can. So I like kind of a little bit long,

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like not one of the huge bath towels, um, seeing people using 'em,

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but I like a little bit more of kind of hand towel size.

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So we're gonna place it up as high as we can in the armpit and then pin that,

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uh, right arm. And then we're gonna place it as high as we can in the armpit.

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And now we're gonna pin the left arm. And the part,

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the reason we want it high up in the armpit is I don't want my elbows to be

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totally fixed to my side.

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I wanna still be able to create a little bit of this impact window of having

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the right arm down and the left arm up, um,

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while still keeping the tower, still keeping that connection.

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Now the trick will be can we pick up the club without dropping the towel?

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Perfect. Okay.

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So I would recommend starting with nine to threes. Uh, but, um,

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and in the past I've kind of stopped there and used this primarily as a release

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drill. Uh, but I actually think it works really well as a 10 to two drill. Um,

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and I'll talk through a couple key points there. So as a nine to three drill,

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this towel is basically going to reinforce that my

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arms and my body are moving together.

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So it's gonna feel like the grip stays a little bit more, um,

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out in front of my body during the whole swing.

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So a little nine to three kind of feeling the towel. Um,

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it can help with creating some good consistent radius.

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So it can help with either a backswing that is pulled too much with the arms

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or a chicken wing because the follow through is,

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or the release is pulled too much with the arms. Um,

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it can cause you to hit a bunch of right shots if you use this disconnect

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to the arms as one of your main club face closing.

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So this can be a good compliment when we're doing this nine to three version of

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feeling a little bit more of the motorcycle in order to get that kind of low,

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um, kind of driving trajectory.

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Were to get a little bit more shaft lean,

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but here's where in the past I've kind of stopped there, um,

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but I'm actually a bigger fan of doing, uh, some bigger swings.

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Now you will get to a point where the left arm will limit the backswing a little

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bit, um, but I think it's worth trying to fight through it.

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So we're gonna get to the top of the swing. And, uh, the,

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the player that this becomes really helpful for is ERs who have very little arm

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rotation. So when I try to get into this good, um,

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kind of top of backswing position,

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a lot of golfers kind of pull it across and then lift up.

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And if the dominant ending of my back swing is more of a lifting up,

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then the towel's gonna feel very restricted.

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But if I have more of this jazzy Jeff move or arm rotation or top corner of the

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strike zone, if I have more of this arm rotation,

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then it will feel like I can stop my swing a little bit short and it's not gonna

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be the end of the world. So it helps with the scalability, um,

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or the ability to take different length swings, uh, and the, um,

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the arm position, uh, relate, uh,

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in relation to your body during those different length swings.

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So we're gonna focus on the backswing here of getting into a little bit more

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three quarter swing. And then on the follow through side,

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what'll happen is a lot of golfers tend to absorb everything in attempt

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to not break down the wrist.

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They'll create a lot of stiffness in the wrist and then kind of hold off.

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And what'll happen is they'll get to a point kind of here in the three where it

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looks pretty good, but then it's kind of stuck. They don't really, uh,

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know what to do. So with the towel while keeping it connected,

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you're gonna feel a little bit more of the release happening in the forearms

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and wrists and a lot less in the shoulder.

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So this is going to have a little bit of a feel of the club working

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a little bit more up, but staying in front, um, it can be kind of turned over.

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You can feel some of that forearm rotation, some of the, um,

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kinda like handcuff release type stuff. But it has a,

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a really profound effect on stopping this motion here where the elbows are

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flying apart. Um, the, the wrists aren't really moving or turning over,

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and that tends to pull the path left.

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So it requires some type of body shallowing. Um, and, uh,

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it, it tends to, um,

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make the widest point of the swing on the backside of the ball.

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So it causes contact issues like fat and thin shots.

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So we did a couple of those nine to threes.

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Now we're gonna take the towel into the higher, uh,

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level where now we're gonna focus a little bit on the arm rotation in the

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backswing as well as the release and the follow through. And if it feels really,

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really restricted, like I said the first couple times it's gonna, or the first,

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uh, couple sessions probably, it's going to feel extremely restricted. Um,

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but with practice it will feel like you can release it and it'll feel like the

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arms Are just a little bit more synced up with the body.

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Um, so those two felt pretty good there.

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They did feel like they were a little bit on the shorter side, um,

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but they felt like they were connected. And, um,

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I hit it more with my body and less with the arms.

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Now without trying to lengthen it.

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The next step is I'm gonna try to add some speed.

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'cause I wanna make sure that this arm pole or the arm lift is, uh,

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is not one of my dominant speed things. I find this is really helpful for, um,

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some style of athletes, baseball players who tend to get,

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who tend to stay a little bit more forward,

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shift off the ball and have a big arm lift to create speed. This can, uh,

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be a good compliment to getting more chest extension to create the height.

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And then on the way through kind of, uh,

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golfers who tend to get more of the hit by pulling with the arms, uh,

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kind of big arm throws rather than, uh, hitting it more with your hips,

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your core, um, and your trunk.

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So let's try that same length swing that we just did, but try to hit it maybe,

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uh, 15, 20 yards further by adding a little bit more speed.

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So up to the three-quarter position,

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And you'll see it still has kind of a,

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a softness or a coasting as it's getting into the finish position. Um,

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but if I was to do this really hard and kind of try to hold my arms from

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rotating, you would see I'd let go of the towel and it would look very awkward.

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It would feel very restricted and very stiff. So if it feels stiff, it's a good,

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it's a good sign that you wanna do a little bit of practice with this. Um,

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and it means that your arms aren't quite rotating enough or staying more

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connected with their body.

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But there's no better way to start exploring connection than with the Hogan

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Towel drill.