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The Stirl is Tauples.

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So Tauples is essentially using a towel-like object.

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So in this case, I've got my sweatshirt, but basically a cloth object that allow you

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to experience how you're actually putting force into this club.

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So for this drill, we're not actually going to use a club.

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This is a great drill that you can do at home, but you can also do it on the range to kind

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of get a sense of what's going on.

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What I'll have my students do frequently is I'll have them go to the top of this wing,

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and I'll take the club and take it out of their hands and put a towel in their hands.

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So essentially, you're going to go up to the top of the swing just like so.

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If you don't have somebody who can actually hold the towel for you at the top, then you can

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always take a band and attach it into a door, kind of.

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So the door would be right here.

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The band would be pulling over my shoulder and I'd be grabbing it like that.

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So what I'll do is I will take them up to the top of the swing and I will grab onto the

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one end of the towel, and I'll say, okay, now I want to

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you to imagine you're going to start your downswing.

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And I will basically feel for how they're going to pull.

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Are they going to pull along the towel, which would basically be, if I'm starting with my

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body, what I'll feel is it'll feel like they're trying to pull the towel out of my

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hands, or are they going to pull mostly with their arms, and I'm going to feel that

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they're pulling straight down towards the golf ball just like so.

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So a few of my students have gravitated towards this feeling of wrapping yourself in the

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towel.

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So if you get up to the top of the swing and somebody is holding that towel, I'm going

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to basically wrap myself in the towel before those arms would actually release an

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extent.

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There's two major components to this.

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One is the direction that I'm pulling, and two is the rate in timing that I'm pulling

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in it.

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So for the first piece, the direction, the more that I'm kind of wrapping myself in the

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towel, the more that I'm going to be working in more of a rotational fashion, the more

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that I'm pulling kind of straight down with my arms, the more I'm using more my lats

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and my shoulders.

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That part's easy.

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The timing is the second piece.

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So the timing is going to be, if I'm wrapping myself in the towel, I basically want to

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have a real gradual build up to it.

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So if you watch me actually take a swing with this, you'll see that because it's a super

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super soft shaft, I'm essentially going to have to build it up even slower than I would

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normally.

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What, typically what happens is if they're pulling more straight down towards the golf

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ball, kind of like so, it will be more of a fast impulse and then kind of cruise through

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impact as opposed to a build all the way through so that the club really feels like

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I'm accelerating it through that release.

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So you can use a towel or a rubber band attached to a door or having a friend hold it to

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kind of get a big picture idea as far as how you are creating speed and how you're

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going to be applying for to that club.

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The more that we can get in this kind of rotational wrap myself along this swing plane

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or wrap myself in this towel, that feeling is going to lead towards more consistent contact

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a better tempo, more gears, those kind of things.

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The one caveat is with the wedges and the short game.

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If you're looking at the finesse wedges or the distance wedges, it's going to feel a lot

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more like that pulling straight down than it is like wrapping myself in the towel or

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in the blanket.