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If you have a lot of tension and grip pressure down at the bottom then you will have a difficult time letting go of the club before shaft parallel (three position). The tension is a way for your body to prevent club rotation and poor low point, but ultimately it limits your arcwidth and follow through. This has a big affect on consistency.
Tags: Poor Contact, Chicken Wing, Impact, Follow Through, Drill, Advanced, Intermediate
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The cereal is 9 to throw. So this is a 9 to 3 drill to help you work on good soft arm
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tension. 9 to 3's are great ways for working on the bottom of swing or the release.
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And many golfers, if you're coming out of more of a cast pattern, if you've got more of
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a scoop, are going to have a lot of arm tension down at the bottom to help prevent the club
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from moving or help prevent it from rotating. But if you're going to have your arms ahead,
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you do want to have some good softness and arm rotation to it. So a good way to kind of
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feel that is doing a 9 to 3 where you're going to release the club at the bottom. Now,
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I usually start this by doing left arm only and you're basically going to let go of the club
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just after making contact. If you're used to having a lot of grip pressure, then you'll find
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that it's virtually impossible. So making solid contact and then letting go of the club. On that
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one, I stole my body just a little bit so I didn't make great direction, but we'll see
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we can do a little bit better. So you'll see that by getting into a relatively good
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finish position or sorry, by using good mechanics and having soft grip pressure, you'll be able
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to let go of the club before you get all the way up to here. All the way before you get to that
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3. Then you can recreate that same feeling with the two hand version and you'll usually make
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relatively solid contact. It also helps you encourage getting the arms and the club extending
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out towards the target instead of really pulling it up and in on the way through. Because the promise
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if you're pulling it up and in, there's no way you're going to be able to let go of it before you reach
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waste height. So 9 to 3, we'll do it one more time. 9 to 3 left hand only, you're going to have a little
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bit of club face closing right as it's making contact and as you're pointing that thumb away,
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you're going to let go. And you want to be a little bit more lenient with yourself as far as
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direction and quality of contact. It's really for feeling that tension, but then you can do it with both hands.
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Again, you shouldn't throw it too far and definitely not behind you. That would be an
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indication that you're having more grip pressure. You should really be releasing it just after impact.
