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The drill is looking at alignment stick loading.

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So we're going to use an alignment stick to exaggerate the feel of the hands and the risk

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on the club.

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Because as you can see, if I step on this club and apply some force, you can see that the

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stick actually bends.

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So when we take a golf swing, what will happen is in transition, you're going to create

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some speed in the handle that's going to cause the club to lag behind and then you're

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going to do some things in the release that cause it to kick out.

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And the goal is to get it to kick down at the bottom.

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Well, the way you push on your on the club can change the way it kicks and change the

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way that you'll control the low point and club face down at the bottom of the swing.

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So to exaggerate this, we're going to use an alignment stick because you can see that

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I can bend this a whole lot easier.

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So first we're going to do the left hand.

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So left hand we're going to use the left thumb and we're going to use the right hand

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to kind of push against it like so.

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Now I'm not trying to stretch my wrist back as much as possible.

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I'm going to push almost like I'm using a hammer, but at the same time I'm going to

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be pulling back with that right wrist.

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Now that would make my wrist want to extend.

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So the only little caveat is I'm going to make sure that I keep it a little bit more

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bold kind of like this.

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Now I'm going to do that at about this point in time over here.

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So this right arm is going to pull in and that left arm is going to resist.

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You're going to get down to about delivery position like so.

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And then I'm going to let it snap out and as it snaps out, I'm going to let it rotate.

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So I'm going to let this hand basically do the single arm release training.

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So I'm going to load and then let it rotate.

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And one thing you may experience is if you're used to having a really long thumb or

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gripping it in the palm, it'll be very weak when you go to push against this.

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So right now I've got a lot of range of motion, but it feels very weak and it's going

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to snap out in a slower manner.

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So as part of the reason why I'm an advocate of at least a medium thumb or at the very

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or possibly even a shorter thumb.

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You rarely see long hitters who have the thumb well down the shaft.

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There are hand-foil of them, but most of them are going to have the shaft or the thumb

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in a position where you can apply more of this resistance.

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So left hand's pretty simple, feeling that load and then just do the good single arm release

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movements to control the width of the swing and the bottom of swing as you unload it.

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Now looking at the trail hand.

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So the trail hand, what we're going to do here is I'm going to put the club up against

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the ground, kind of like this.

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And I'm going to take this joint right here, just underneath my first knuckle and I'm going

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to place that on top of the club so I can we're on top of the alignment stick so I can push

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it like so.

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So now I've got this gripped so that I've got that whole first joint of the index finger

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as my pressure.

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Now I'm going to push and at the same time I'm going to kind of cover it so I'm going

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to feel that right there.

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Now the timing of when that happens is right about here as the left wrist is really

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taking over with that unhinged that right wrist is going to push and rotate and kind of

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cover and you can see that those two work together hand in hand.

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So if I'm doing it just right wrist rotation, I'll anchor it down there, kind of feel that

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push.

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Now I'm going to push on top of it and having a little bit of rotation.

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What I will frequently do is I will come in a ply a little bit of resistance so that they

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can feel the energy and the connection between that part right there of the index finger

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going all the way up into the shoulder and trying to get that kind of rotation through.

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So this works pretty well.

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Getting that rotation through kind of like that.

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So I'm taking my grip.

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What I'm not doing with the right hand is I'm not pushing on it with the thumb a whole

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lot like I'm using a hammer.

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That's more of the left hand's job.

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So I see a lot of higher hand you have golfers who have the thumb kind of like this and

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they're really pushing on it with the thumb.

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That's not the trail hands goal or roll.

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The trail hands should be pushing more with this part of the hand more like that.

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Once you've got that exaggerated feeling you can then do 9-3s and 3-4 drills just kind

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of emphasizing the feelings of either the right hand or the left hand and how they're

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pushing on the club.

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That'll help you control the club face as well as the width and flat spot a whole lot easier

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and it'll provide a little bit more clarity if you're lost and confused on what's going

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on down here.

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I find that many golfers once they get a clear sense of what the hand should feel it's

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a whole lot easier to do it especially when you start applying more speed.

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So using the alignment stick at home is a great way to exaggerate those feelings of the

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load of the club and the unload so then it'll be a little bit easier when you're

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practicing working on those arm and hand movements on the range.

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We've got pushing you can see the close up of the thumb in the last 3 fingers.

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You can see it really bend the shaft there as opposed to if it's narrow like that and it

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doesn't really bend too well.

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Now here's that shaft 45 view or even closer.

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Here's that shaft 45 view instead of pushing or like this pushing right through.

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There we'll get this this is how I normally demonstrate it just like that.

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So just like that where this is pushing and twisting in order to bend the shaft.