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This drill is rolling the forearms to fix your slice.

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So rolling the forearms to fix your slice is one of those things that has

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become trendy

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to say as kind of a stupid swing tip, right?

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That basically, you don't want to roll the club face in order to hit a draw.

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We know that the draw is going to come from having the club face close to the

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path, not

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from the club face rotating.

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Okay?

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I'll buy into that.

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And a lot of golfers who have tried to roll the forearms end up slicing worse,

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so that

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rolling of the forearms doesn't really create the draw.

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But a lot of good players have described this feeling of forearm rotation down

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at the bottom.

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So whenever there's a mismatch of good players describe it and instructors say

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it's stupid,

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we want to try to marry those and figure out what's going on.

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So what I want to help clarify is the difference between forearm rotation and

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shoulder rotation

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and why forearm rotation is very helpful for hitting a draw, for hitting any

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shot, really.

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So if I'm facing the golf ball kind of like this and I get to this shaft

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parallel here

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in the downswing, there's two ways that I could square the club face.

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One would be using that motorcycle, which hopefully I would have already done

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by here.

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And then I'd continue it and I'd allow that forearm to rotate.

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Now I stress that the forearm would rotate, not necessarily the shoulder.

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When a lot of golfers try to rotate the forearm, they lack the ability to dis

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associate and

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so they end up rotating the whole shoulder.

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Once you get here, if you start rotating that whole shoulder, now that's going

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to tend to

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tumble everything in a steep fashion.

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If I get here and I just rotate my forearm, it doesn't prevent the club from

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coming from

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the inside and because of the forearm rotation, it's going to continue the club

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working away

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from me, so I'm going to hit it more down the descending part of the circle,

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which is

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going to move the path even further to the right.

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So rolling the forearm may actually have more of an impact on the path of the

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club than

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the actual club face.

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And that's the important takeaway of why it does help create the draw is if you

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let that

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forearm rotate the way it naturally should, it'll help continue the club to

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work out away

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from you.

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On the trail side, what ends up happening is if you don't let that forearm

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rotate kind

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of like this and you go into more shoulder rotation, it has the same effect of

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the left

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arm going into external rotation, it will tend to get the club working steeply

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and you

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can see that that pattern that I'm practicing right there has no chance of

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hitting a draw

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unless I early extended and control and time the low point just perfectly,

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which isn't

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a very sustainable model.

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So letting that forearm rotate, I like to at first do it without letting any

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shoulder motion

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happen, so I'll grab onto the elbow and just let the forearm rotate over.

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That can be very helpful, more so for controlling the path than for controlling

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the face, but

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it does help with that draw pattern.

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And it's the main reason why having a little bit of a shallowing movement or

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having the

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club's center mass or weight get underneath my hand path actually makes sense

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because

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then it gives me something that I can then supinate against more powerfully.

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So as a quick summary, this rolling of the forearm is going to have a bigger

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impact in

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the path of the club, not so much the squaring of the club face, the squaring

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of the club

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face is going to happen more from the motorcycle movement earlier in the swing.

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So whenever you hear an instructor basically say that something is terrible,

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but you hear

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a lot of good players describe it as something that they feel, investigate it

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further, there's

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probably some misconnection in the dialogue, and once you get that cleared up,

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it'll ultimately

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help you understand the mechanics of your swing even greater.

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If you're struggling trying to get the path to continue going out to the right

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so that

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you can draw the ball allowing more of that forearm rotation could be the

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missing piece

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that you're lacking and one of the main reasons why you still are battling with

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poles and slices.