By now many of you have messed around with the drill I gave you in Thursday's post and decided that I am a total crackpot. Well, I have a confession to make: I only gave you a part of the first drill. Today I'll discuss why I did that and what it should have taught you, because you'll get more from the full drill once you understand these fundamentals.
As I stated in that post, how you THINK approximately your swing may be very critical, and the way your trailing elbow movements at some stage in your backswing is badly misunderstood by most gamers. I isolated that elbow move -- in addition to the lead shoulder circulate -- so that you would awareness on them. I put you in a function that truely all professionals get into -- the bent trailing elbow role -- and eliminated your frame rotation so you ought to see precisely what your palms and fingers are doing because the clubhead actions all the way down to strike the ball.
And DOWN is a key concept here. Many of you are trying to 'hit down' on the ball, and you've tried everything. But this drill should have shown you that your hands -- and therefore the club -- are moved down to strike the ball in large part by rolling your lead shoulder and straightening your trailing elbow.
UP is also a key concept. Your wrists don't cock away from the target; they cock upward. It's because many players don't understand this that they insist on using such strong lead hand grips. You may think that this 'upcock' makes your swing plane too vertical, but swing plane is created by a combination of factors that include the shoulder roll in addition to your shoulder coil, leg action and overall body movement. The upcock eliminates unwanted forearm twisting and actually makes it easier to square the clubface. I'll explain that more fully when we get to the full swing drill in the next couple of posts.
And let's not forget ACROSS. Given the modern emphasis on leg and body action, you may have gotten the idea that the club is dragged through the impact area totally by hip action. It's true that hip action plays a part, but the drill you've been doing should have shown you that your hands -- and therefore the club -- are moved across your body in large part, again, by rolling your lead shoulder and straightening your trailing elbow.
It's very possible that the whole idea of 'rolling your shoulder' seems a bit confusing. Have you ever cleared off a table by laying your forearm on it and dragging it across the tabletop in a huge arc to sweep things off into the floor? That's the result of rolling your shoulder, and that feels very similar to the move you should make during your downswing.
You may have noticed that many teachers -- and gamers, whilst they're asked approximately what they are trying to do after they swing -- have all started to speak extra about arm and hand movement. That's because they have got realized that something is getting lost in cutting-edge preparation -- the reality that a golf swing is a whole body motion. You do not immobilize one a part of your body at the same time as another component makes massive movements -- at least not at the same time as you are making a full motion swing. That's the way you get harm. (Exaggeration for the duration of a constrained-movement drill is exceptional. Every trainer uses that approach.) And the importance of arm and hand action has been disregarded due to the emphasis on lower frame motion.
Go returned to the drill I gave you within the first submit and attempt it once more, trying to feel the things I've discussed on this put up. This time you must have an 'A-HA!' second or . Tomorrow I'll provide you with the whole drill, that's a barely longer pitching motion entire with some brought shoulder flip and decrease frame movement. You'll get a whole lot greater out of it now which you higher recognize the partial model of the drill.
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