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There is a common misconception that golfers want to "hold" the angle or hinge of their wrists for as long as possible in the downswing. The idea is that this will increase lag, power, and consistency, but we know from the 3D data of touring professionals that the club starts unhinging, or ulnar deviating, much earlier than what we have been told. In my teaching, I have found that many golfers benefit from actively training this unhinge, or ulnar deviation pattern, especially if they are struggling with fat shots or have a tendency to hit pulls. You can visually check to see if you are unhinging early enough from both the down-the-line and face-on views. If you are ulnar deviating at the proper time, from the down-the-line view, you will see that the club has shallowed considerably by the time it is waist high or at 9 o'clock. From the face-on view, you can check your follow through to make sure that you have close to a straight line relationship between your arms and the shaft at again, waist high or 3'clock. This straight line relationship would indicate that you have fully unhinged and released the club. Ultimately, you can do some great training on this pattern by working on some "9 to 3" swings, especially if you have been taught to "hold the angle" and struggle with being overly steep.
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Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Iron, Driver, Transition, Concept, Intermediate
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This drill is two checks for owner deviation.
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So owner deviation is the unhinging of the wrists, kind of like this.
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And many golfers benefit from training active owner deviation and then learning how to
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put it into the swing a little bit more passively.
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But a couple common swing problems result from trying to keep this radial deviation or
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keeping the hinge too long in the swing.
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But I see on 3D and you can see it on video is that somewhere around here is when
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you'll start to see golfers really unhinging in order to get the club come from a shallow
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inside path as well as to get the club low to the ground which compliments more the body
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rotation on the way through.
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So when I'm looking at video there's usually two checkpoints that I'm looking for to see
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if we need to add a little bit more owner deviation.
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One is from the face on camera and one is from the downline camera.
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From the downline camera we're going to look at the club when it's about shaft parallel
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and then just a few frames after it.
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So basically from here through there you'll see if I keep my hinge or my radial deviation
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so the club is going to get pretty high during that little phase there.
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So then I would have to really excessively side bend in order to try to get the club
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down low.
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But even when I do that often times if I keep that hinge you'll see that it looks like
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the club is coming into the ball from a steeper path or you'll see that there's a pretty
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pronounced angle between the club shaft and my arms.
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As opposed to if I own or deviate at the proper time so now it's down there when I come in
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it will be closer to in line with my forearms and the club will typically be sitting a
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little bit flatter.
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One hallmark, one trait that you'll see is if you do more of this style of release you
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will tend to complain about poles and you will tend to complain about diggy contact.
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So your bad misses will be released of your chunks not just a little fat.
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I can also be a sign that you might potentially need to do a little bit of only deviation
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training or unhinged training.
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The second piece from the face on camera is looking more at the follow through.
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So a great time to see if there was full on hinge is looking at this follow through position.
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Now with the iron it may happen just before parallel and with the driver it may happen even
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later and later.
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Some guys late Jason Day don't start re-hinging they keep that on hinge until the club
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is almost vertical.
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But oftentimes if a golfer is steep from that down the line or they didn't unhing early
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enough then on the way through you'll tend to have a narrow distance here and you'll
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tend to have a pretty pronounced angle or if you look at the wrist you'll be able to see
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a little bit angle here instead of having more of an angle down compared to my forearm.
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So if you are struggling with getting a little bit more shalowness into your downswing
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or with into your follow through it's very likely that you need to do a little bit of unhinged
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training.
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Two key checkpoints are again from this down the line right about there making sure that
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you can see the club getting into more of a shallower path and then into the finished position
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checking it wide there.
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So you can do this as pump style or 9 to 3 style drills and basically what you'll see
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is if you look at those two checkpoints you'll get the unhinged at the right time you'll
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tend to have really shallow ground contact which tends to give you a much bigger margin
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of air.
