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.

Improve Your Swing Transition with the Water Bottle Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the correct pressure distribution in your hands during the swing
  • Practice a smooth transition by simulating the pouring motion
  • Understand how to achieve proper forearm rotation for improved ball contact

Learn how to enhance your swing transition using a simple water bottle drill. This exercise will help you develop better forearm rotation and body alignment for more consistent ball striking.

Video Transcript
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This drill video is the water bottle transition. Now I have to give credit to

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this drill. I saw it on TV with Michael Breed. Normally I think a lot of his

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stuff is kind of crazy, but I really liked the kind of kinesthetic or the

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feeling awareness that this water bottle creates. So you're gonna take a

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water bottle and just make sure it's at the most halfway full. Because what'll

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happen is if I hold this straight up and down you can see all the water is

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collecting at the bottom of the water bottle. If I were to turn it

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horizontally, it would, I can feel the pressure in my palm and it would

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basically

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evenly distribute throughout the body. If I rotate it as far as I can, it's

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actually a little bit more towards the bottle end. So as we're practicing this

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delivery position, you can use a water bottle instead of a remote control,

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which

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will give you this feeling and this little noise of almost like I was pouring

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water out the back this way. Now this looks very crazy, right? Has a lot of

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forearm rotation. Well if I did it this way, yeah that looks like I rotate my

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forearms a lot, right? Well if I get down into golf posture and then rotate in

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my

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body, it's no longer looks that crazy. This actually looks like someone like

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Sergio Garcia or Graham McDowell or Jason Duffner. It's starting to look like

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this

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delivery position that most of these good ball strikers are getting into. So

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you

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can practice it just doing the delivery position drill or you can practice

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going

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to the top of your swing and then trying to feel like that water bottle pours

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out the back side as you're doing that left side bend. So it kind of be like I

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'm

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pouring water over my forearm this way and it gives you a great feeling of

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these

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forearms rotating which will allow you to steepen with the body which prepares

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you for the release pretty much in the best way we can create. So get a water

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bottle fill it up halfway with water and it'll help you get the feeling of what

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it's like to let these forearms rotate as you get into a good delivery position

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00:02:08.700 --> 00:02:12.000
during transition.

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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.

Improve Your Swing Transition with the Water Bottle Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Feel the correct pressure distribution in your hands during the swing
  • Practice a smooth transition by simulating the pouring motion
  • Understand how to achieve proper forearm rotation for improved ball contact

Learn how to enhance your swing transition using a simple water bottle drill. This exercise will help you develop better forearm rotation and body alignment for more consistent ball striking.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
This drill video is the water bottle transition. Now I have to give credit to

2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:10.800
this drill. I saw it on TV with Michael Breed. Normally I think a lot of his

3
00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:17.640
stuff is kind of crazy, but I really liked the kind of kinesthetic or the

4
00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.560
feeling awareness that this water bottle creates. So you're gonna take a

5
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.280
water bottle and just make sure it's at the most halfway full. Because what'll

6
00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:29.360
happen is if I hold this straight up and down you can see all the water is

7
00:00:29.360 --> 00:00:32.880
collecting at the bottom of the water bottle. If I were to turn it

8
00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:37.470
horizontally, it would, I can feel the pressure in my palm and it would

9
00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:38.280
basically

10
00:00:38.280 --> 00:00:42.760
evenly distribute throughout the body. If I rotate it as far as I can, it's

11
00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:47.920
actually a little bit more towards the bottle end. So as we're practicing this

12
00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.850
delivery position, you can use a water bottle instead of a remote control,

13
00:00:52.850 --> 00:00:53.600
which

14
00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:58.000
will give you this feeling and this little noise of almost like I was pouring

15
00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:03.200
water out the back this way. Now this looks very crazy, right? Has a lot of

16
00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:08.600
forearm rotation. Well if I did it this way, yeah that looks like I rotate my

17
00:01:08.600 --> 00:01:12.870
forearms a lot, right? Well if I get down into golf posture and then rotate in

18
00:01:12.870 --> 00:01:13.000
my

19
00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:19.080
body, it's no longer looks that crazy. This actually looks like someone like

20
00:01:19.080 --> 00:01:24.800
Sergio Garcia or Graham McDowell or Jason Duffner. It's starting to look like

21
00:01:24.800 --> 00:01:25.000
this

22
00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:29.080
delivery position that most of these good ball strikers are getting into. So

23
00:01:29.080 --> 00:01:30.040
you

24
00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.110
can practice it just doing the delivery position drill or you can practice

25
00:01:34.110 --> 00:01:34.400
going

26
00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.000
to the top of your swing and then trying to feel like that water bottle pours

27
00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:44.440
out the back side as you're doing that left side bend. So it kind of be like I

28
00:01:44.440 --> 00:01:44.520
'm

29
00:01:44.520 --> 00:01:49.070
pouring water over my forearm this way and it gives you a great feeling of

30
00:01:49.070 --> 00:01:49.160
these

31
00:01:49.160 --> 00:01:54.600
forearms rotating which will allow you to steepen with the body which prepares

32
00:01:54.600 --> 00:01:59.960
you for the release pretty much in the best way we can create. So get a water

33
00:01:59.960 --> 00:02:03.840
bottle fill it up halfway with water and it'll help you get the feeling of what

34
00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.700
it's like to let these forearms rotate as you get into a good delivery position

35
00:02:08.700 --> 00:02:12.000
during transition.

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