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This drill is stir the pasta.

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So stir the pasta is one of the phrases that I'll use for golfers to help them

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avoid getting

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steep at the bottom.

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So many golfers get into, we'll say, a decent delivery position and then have

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the look of

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getting on top at the bottom usually combo'd by kind of breaking down.

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One times cause is either diggy contact or toe contact or pulls.

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The classic kind of steep at the bottom mispatterns.

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So stir the pasta is basically a drill that I'll give as a homework assignment.

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So ultimately this is going to be a drill that I want you to do in the kitchen

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to kind

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of reinforce the shoulder position.

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So I've got the wooden spoon here and most of you, if you had a pot right here

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and you're

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going to stir the pasta, you would do it in an efficient way of really strongly

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and put

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it like this.

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Now this is really bad golf mechanics.

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I've got my shoulder elevated, disconnected internal rotation, radial deviation

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going like

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this.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to try to stir the pasta in more of a

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golf way

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where we're going to hold it out and we're going to try and stir the pasta this

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way.

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Now I'm going to feel like my shoulder is back, my tricep is kind of connected.

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The arm is in more external rotation and I can even add a little extension kind

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of like

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this and you'll feel some different muscles as you're doing this and you might

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get tired

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pretty quickly.

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This is a much more efficient way from the shoulder position, but if I got in

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this shoulder

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position, it's kind of disconnected if I go to rotate my core where if I'm in

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this position,

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as I move my core and my pelvis, my arm tends to follow along.

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So this can be an easy everyday practice that you can do and it's become a

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phrase for some

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of my students to stir the pasta.

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Now where that would show up is as I'm coming down right around now, I'm going

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to have more

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of a feel of this kind of dumping this way as my body is turning to get down to

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impact.

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So a little more dynamic or advanced version is now we're going to have a

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really big pasta

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spoon and we're going to try and make some contact with the impact bag with the

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club

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upside down, but back in this space here.

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So I'll use the description of stirring the pasta of being kind of the club

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head being

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behind or down behind the arm rather than more on top of it or in front of it.

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So golfers who tend to get steep at the bottom are kind of letting that club

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head catch up

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where if I'm doing more of this stir the pasta model, it's going to feel weak

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at the arm

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but it's going to be more powerful in terms of the core and the rotation and it

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really

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helps shallow things out at the bottom and preserve arc width on the way

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through.

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Both of those are really helpful for consistency, especially in avoiding the

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pull shot.

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So now I can kind of put the other hand on and get a little bit of this kind of

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feel

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where now it feels like that left arm is a little bit up and the club is way

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down here.

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This might be a challenging drill if you are used to being really steep and

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retaining that

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wrist hinge really long into the downswing.

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From here you're going to be more extending that way where stirring the pasta

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of that

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wrist movement is going to feel like it kind of starts earlier but the arm and

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the shoulder

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movement is going to happen later.

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So now I'll turn it around and I'm going to get things kind of stirring similar

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to like

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a Zorro loop feel where I'm going to get the club moving in this back space,

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this space

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behind the shoulder and down but the arms are still getting in front kind of

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like that.

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So now I can turn this into more of a release style pump where I'm going to

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bring it to

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kind of a delivery position and I'm going to feel like I get into that release

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space

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or stir the pasta space and at the same time I'm going to turn, rotate and add

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a little

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bit of bracing.

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So I'm going to get it up into kind of a parallel position, get into that stir

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the pasta feel.

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So get up and then stir the pasta feel and you'll hear and you'll see that it

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really

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shallows things out and it's not going to look anywhere near as dramatic as

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what I was

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doing with the soup spoon but the feeling of my shoulder being a little bit

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more kind

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of locked in kind of like that doorknob shoulder lock is going to be quite

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strong now because

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I've rehearsed it a couple different ways with the pasta stir and with the

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impact back.

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So we'll do one more that's not a pump, we'll just do it kind of dynamically.

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We're going to make a backswing and it'll feel like it kind of falls behind,

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stays behind

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longer and my body rotates through.

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The timing of when that happens is going to be the same regardless of whether I

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take

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a full swing.

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So as I take a full swing I'm just going to have to wait a little bit and then

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feel that

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stirring the pasta there later during the release but if you do that that

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should really

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help with shallowing out the bottom of the swing and creating some good

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consistency of

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arc width and club face control on the way through.

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So pasta in the pocket let's see if we can get a good stir the pasta feel and I

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like

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that really shallow bottom that bottom of the swing didn't even take a divot,

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hit a nice

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little draw at the target, solid shot.