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Trail Hand Open - The Best Anti Flip Drill
This is one of the best anti-flip drills for feeling how the trail arm should work on top of the shaft as opposed to working underneath it. Take your normal set up, then open your trail hand (right hand for right handed golfer) and hit 9-3 shots. If you feel a gaping between your hands then you are flipping. Pay attention to your pinky, it will want to grip the club if you aren't aware of it.
This is one of the best anti-flip drills for feeling how the trail arm should work on top of the shaft as opposed to working underneath it. Take your normal set up, then open your trail hand (right hand for right handed golfer) and hit 9-3 shots. If you feel a gaping between your hands then you are flipping. Pay attention to your pinky, it will want to grip the club if you aren't aware of it.
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Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640
In this drill video, we're going to do 9 to 3 with the open trail hand.
2
00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:09.320
So it's a very simple drill, but it's hard to do.
3
00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.320
I like those.
4
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.360
So you're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to completely
5
00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:14.760
open your
6
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:15.760
right hand.
7
00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:19.000
I want no fingers gripping on the club.
8
00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.420
You are going to have to police yourself because when I do this in clinics,
9
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:22.920
everybody
10
00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.180
tries to wrap the pinky and wrap the index finger to give themselves a little
11
00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:27.800
bit more
12
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.100
control.
13
00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:32.550
If you are pushing with the right part of this right hand, which would look
14
00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:33.160
something
15
00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:39.190
like this, if you're pushing with those two points, the heel pad and the kind
16
00:00:39.190 --> 00:00:39.960
of first
17
00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.240
joint of the index finger, you will still have plenty of leverage to keep your
18
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right
19
00:00:44.660 --> 00:00:46.600
hand in contact with the club.
20
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If all you are pushing with is your hand like you're flipping like so, then
21
00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:51.900
what will happen
22
00:00:51.900 --> 00:00:55.580
is when you swing through, the weight of the club through impact will cause a
23
00:00:55.580 --> 00:00:56.280
separation
24
00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:57.920
between those two hands.
25
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.320
So if you're practicing the right hand only swings and the left hand only
26
00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:05.540
swings, like
27
00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:10.300
so, this is a very good intermediate step to bringing it back together.
28
00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:14.930
So you take your normal grip, open that right hand and if you're pushing
29
00:01:14.930 --> 00:01:16.180
through the right
30
00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:21.160
parts in your right hand and rotating or letting the left forearm just kind of
31
00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:22.340
gently, passively
32
00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:28.740
rotate, you will be able to hit these nine to three shots pretty solidly with
33
00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:29.500
that right
34
00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.980
hand open and just pushing on the club.
35
00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:37.460
So this is one of my favorite drills to help you get out of the pattern of
36
00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:38.080
holding off
37
00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:44.860
rotation like so and learning how to rotate so that the hands stay on top of
38
00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:45.740
the club.
39
00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:49.410
Because if I did it towards you, I can't actually hit a golf ball this way, but
40
00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:49.700
if I
41
00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:53.570
did it towards you, what you'll see is as I come through, I'm going to be
42
00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:54.340
continually
43
00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:59.940
putting pressure on top of the shaft as opposed to if I got here and got
44
00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:01.380
underneath it, then
45
00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:04.800
what happens is the weight of the club ends up causing a gap between those
46
00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:05.380
hands and that
47
00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:10.380
gap is a really strong feeling and gives you really good clear feedback.
48
00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:14.160
You'll also notice as I come through that this wrist tends to stay relatively
49
00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:14.700
straight
50
00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:22.740
or even cupped in order to keep in contact where most flippers are going to
51
00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:23.900
stop that
52
00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:27.330
rotation and let it separate and the weight of the club is just going to cause
53
00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:28.240
that separation.
54
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.460
So it's a great drill for learning feedback and then you can take that feeling,
55
00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:32.820
close
56
00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:36.550
your hand and try to recreate it as you do regular nine to threes or even as
57
00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:37.100
you move
58
00:02:37.100 --> 00:02:38.580
into the full swing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640
In this drill video, we're going to do 9 to 3 with the open trail hand.
2
00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:09.320
So it's a very simple drill, but it's hard to do.
3
00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.320
I like those.
4
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.360
So you're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to completely
5
00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:14.760
open your
6
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:15.760
right hand.
7
00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:19.000
I want no fingers gripping on the club.
8
00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.420
You are going to have to police yourself because when I do this in clinics,
9
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:22.920
everybody
10
00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.180
tries to wrap the pinky and wrap the index finger to give themselves a little
11
00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:27.800
bit more
12
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.100
control.
13
00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:32.550
If you are pushing with the right part of this right hand, which would look
14
00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:33.160
something
15
00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:39.190
like this, if you're pushing with those two points, the heel pad and the kind
16
00:00:39.190 --> 00:00:39.960
of first
17
00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.240
joint of the index finger, you will still have plenty of leverage to keep your
18
00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:44.660
right
19
00:00:44.660 --> 00:00:46.600
hand in contact with the club.
20
00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.940
If all you are pushing with is your hand like you're flipping like so, then
21
00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:51.900
what will happen
22
00:00:51.900 --> 00:00:55.580
is when you swing through, the weight of the club through impact will cause a
23
00:00:55.580 --> 00:00:56.280
separation
24
00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:57.920
between those two hands.
25
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.320
So if you're practicing the right hand only swings and the left hand only
26
00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:05.540
swings, like
27
00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:10.300
so, this is a very good intermediate step to bringing it back together.
28
00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:14.930
So you take your normal grip, open that right hand and if you're pushing
29
00:01:14.930 --> 00:01:16.180
through the right
30
00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:21.160
parts in your right hand and rotating or letting the left forearm just kind of
31
00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:22.340
gently, passively
32
00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:28.740
rotate, you will be able to hit these nine to three shots pretty solidly with
33
00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:29.500
that right
34
00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.980
hand open and just pushing on the club.
35
00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:37.460
So this is one of my favorite drills to help you get out of the pattern of
36
00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:38.080
holding off
37
00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:44.860
rotation like so and learning how to rotate so that the hands stay on top of
38
00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:45.740
the club.
39
00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:49.410
Because if I did it towards you, I can't actually hit a golf ball this way, but
40
00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:49.700
if I
41
00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:53.570
did it towards you, what you'll see is as I come through, I'm going to be
42
00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:54.340
continually
43
00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:59.940
putting pressure on top of the shaft as opposed to if I got here and got
44
00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:01.380
underneath it, then
45
00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:04.800
what happens is the weight of the club ends up causing a gap between those
46
00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:05.380
hands and that
47
00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:10.380
gap is a really strong feeling and gives you really good clear feedback.
48
00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:14.160
You'll also notice as I come through that this wrist tends to stay relatively
49
00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:14.700
straight
50
00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:22.740
or even cupped in order to keep in contact where most flippers are going to
51
00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:23.900
stop that
52
00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:27.330
rotation and let it separate and the weight of the club is just going to cause
53
00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:28.240
that separation.
54
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.460
So it's a great drill for learning feedback and then you can take that feeling,
55
00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:32.820
close
56
00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:36.550
your hand and try to recreate it as you do regular nine to threes or even as
57
00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:37.100
you move
58
00:02:37.100 --> 00:02:38.580
into the full swing.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Trail Hand Open - The Best Anti Flip Drill
This is one of the best anti-flip drills for feeling how the trail arm should work on top of the shaft as opposed to working underneath it. Take your normal set up, then open your trail hand (right hand for right handed golfer) and hit 9-3 shots. If you feel a gaping between your hands then you are flipping. Pay attention to your pinky, it will want to grip the club if you aren't aware of it.
This is one of the best anti-flip drills for feeling how the trail arm should work on top of the shaft as opposed to working underneath it. Take your normal set up, then open your trail hand (right hand for right handed golfer) and hit 9-3 shots. If you feel a gaping between your hands then you are flipping. Pay attention to your pinky, it will want to grip the club if you aren't aware of it.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640
In this drill video, we're going to do 9 to 3 with the open trail hand.
2
00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:09.320
So it's a very simple drill, but it's hard to do.
3
00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.320
I like those.
4
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.360
So you're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to completely
5
00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:14.760
open your
6
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:15.760
right hand.
7
00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:19.000
I want no fingers gripping on the club.
8
00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.420
You are going to have to police yourself because when I do this in clinics,
9
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:22.920
everybody
10
00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.180
tries to wrap the pinky and wrap the index finger to give themselves a little
11
00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:27.800
bit more
12
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.100
control.
13
00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:32.550
If you are pushing with the right part of this right hand, which would look
14
00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:33.160
something
15
00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:39.190
like this, if you're pushing with those two points, the heel pad and the kind
16
00:00:39.190 --> 00:00:39.960
of first
17
00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.240
joint of the index finger, you will still have plenty of leverage to keep your
18
00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:44.660
right
19
00:00:44.660 --> 00:00:46.600
hand in contact with the club.
20
00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.940
If all you are pushing with is your hand like you're flipping like so, then
21
00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:51.900
what will happen
22
00:00:51.900 --> 00:00:55.580
is when you swing through, the weight of the club through impact will cause a
23
00:00:55.580 --> 00:00:56.280
separation
24
00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:57.920
between those two hands.
25
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.320
So if you're practicing the right hand only swings and the left hand only
26
00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:05.540
swings, like
27
00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:10.300
so, this is a very good intermediate step to bringing it back together.
28
00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:14.930
So you take your normal grip, open that right hand and if you're pushing
29
00:01:14.930 --> 00:01:16.180
through the right
30
00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:21.160
parts in your right hand and rotating or letting the left forearm just kind of
31
00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:22.340
gently, passively
32
00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:28.740
rotate, you will be able to hit these nine to three shots pretty solidly with
33
00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:29.500
that right
34
00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.980
hand open and just pushing on the club.
35
00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:37.460
So this is one of my favorite drills to help you get out of the pattern of
36
00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:38.080
holding off
37
00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:44.860
rotation like so and learning how to rotate so that the hands stay on top of
38
00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:45.740
the club.
39
00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:49.410
Because if I did it towards you, I can't actually hit a golf ball this way, but
40
00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:49.700
if I
41
00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:53.570
did it towards you, what you'll see is as I come through, I'm going to be
42
00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:54.340
continually
43
00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:59.940
putting pressure on top of the shaft as opposed to if I got here and got
44
00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:01.380
underneath it, then
45
00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:04.800
what happens is the weight of the club ends up causing a gap between those
46
00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:05.380
hands and that
47
00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:10.380
gap is a really strong feeling and gives you really good clear feedback.
48
00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:14.160
You'll also notice as I come through that this wrist tends to stay relatively
49
00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:14.700
straight
50
00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:22.740
or even cupped in order to keep in contact where most flippers are going to
51
00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:23.900
stop that
52
00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:27.330
rotation and let it separate and the weight of the club is just going to cause
53
00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:28.240
that separation.
54
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.460
So it's a great drill for learning feedback and then you can take that feeling,
55
00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:32.820
close
56
00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:36.550
your hand and try to recreate it as you do regular nine to threes or even as
57
00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:37.100
you move
58
00:02:37.100 --> 00:02:38.580
into the full swing.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.640
In this drill video, we're going to do 9 to 3 with the open trail hand.
2
00:00:05.640 --> 00:00:09.320
So it's a very simple drill, but it's hard to do.
3
00:00:09.320 --> 00:00:10.320
I like those.
4
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.360
So you're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to completely
5
00:00:14.360 --> 00:00:14.760
open your
6
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:15.760
right hand.
7
00:00:15.760 --> 00:00:19.000
I want no fingers gripping on the club.
8
00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.420
You are going to have to police yourself because when I do this in clinics,
9
00:00:22.420 --> 00:00:22.920
everybody
10
00:00:22.920 --> 00:00:27.180
tries to wrap the pinky and wrap the index finger to give themselves a little
11
00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:27.800
bit more
12
00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.100
control.
13
00:00:29.100 --> 00:00:32.550
If you are pushing with the right part of this right hand, which would look
14
00:00:32.550 --> 00:00:33.160
something
15
00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:39.190
like this, if you're pushing with those two points, the heel pad and the kind
16
00:00:39.190 --> 00:00:39.960
of first
17
00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:44.240
joint of the index finger, you will still have plenty of leverage to keep your
18
00:00:44.240 --> 00:00:44.660
right
19
00:00:44.660 --> 00:00:46.600
hand in contact with the club.
20
00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:50.940
If all you are pushing with is your hand like you're flipping like so, then
21
00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:51.900
what will happen
22
00:00:51.900 --> 00:00:55.580
is when you swing through, the weight of the club through impact will cause a
23
00:00:55.580 --> 00:00:56.280
separation
24
00:00:56.280 --> 00:00:57.920
between those two hands.
25
00:00:57.920 --> 00:01:04.320
So if you're practicing the right hand only swings and the left hand only
26
00:01:04.320 --> 00:01:05.540
swings, like
27
00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:10.300
so, this is a very good intermediate step to bringing it back together.
28
00:01:10.300 --> 00:01:14.930
So you take your normal grip, open that right hand and if you're pushing
29
00:01:14.930 --> 00:01:16.180
through the right
30
00:01:16.180 --> 00:01:21.160
parts in your right hand and rotating or letting the left forearm just kind of
31
00:01:21.160 --> 00:01:22.340
gently, passively
32
00:01:22.340 --> 00:01:28.740
rotate, you will be able to hit these nine to three shots pretty solidly with
33
00:01:28.740 --> 00:01:29.500
that right
34
00:01:29.500 --> 00:01:33.980
hand open and just pushing on the club.
35
00:01:33.980 --> 00:01:37.460
So this is one of my favorite drills to help you get out of the pattern of
36
00:01:37.460 --> 00:01:38.080
holding off
37
00:01:38.080 --> 00:01:44.860
rotation like so and learning how to rotate so that the hands stay on top of
38
00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:45.740
the club.
39
00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:49.410
Because if I did it towards you, I can't actually hit a golf ball this way, but
40
00:01:49.410 --> 00:01:49.700
if I
41
00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:53.570
did it towards you, what you'll see is as I come through, I'm going to be
42
00:01:53.570 --> 00:01:54.340
continually
43
00:01:54.340 --> 00:01:59.940
putting pressure on top of the shaft as opposed to if I got here and got
44
00:01:59.940 --> 00:02:01.380
underneath it, then
45
00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:04.800
what happens is the weight of the club ends up causing a gap between those
46
00:02:04.800 --> 00:02:05.380
hands and that
47
00:02:05.380 --> 00:02:10.380
gap is a really strong feeling and gives you really good clear feedback.
48
00:02:10.380 --> 00:02:14.160
You'll also notice as I come through that this wrist tends to stay relatively
49
00:02:14.160 --> 00:02:14.700
straight
50
00:02:14.700 --> 00:02:22.740
or even cupped in order to keep in contact where most flippers are going to
51
00:02:22.740 --> 00:02:23.900
stop that
52
00:02:23.900 --> 00:02:27.330
rotation and let it separate and the weight of the club is just going to cause
53
00:02:27.330 --> 00:02:28.240
that separation.
54
00:02:28.240 --> 00:02:32.460
So it's a great drill for learning feedback and then you can take that feeling,
55
00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:32.820
close
56
00:02:32.820 --> 00:02:36.550
your hand and try to recreate it as you do regular nine to threes or even as
57
00:02:36.550 --> 00:02:37.100
you move
58
00:02:37.100 --> 00:02:38.580
into the full swing.
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