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This drill is the alignment stick takeaway.

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So this drill is inspired by a good golf coach in front of mine, Ryan and Cheney.

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So you showed this to me a little way back.

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And I use it for golfers who tend to have more of a disconnected arm action, especially if

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they start going into this kind of internal rotation or shrug very early.

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So if you see yourself doing this from down the line or from the face on camera, then this

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drill can help.

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The first version of the drill is choking up to about six inches from the club head, just

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like this.

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And then you're going to get set up in your normal angle, but you're going to feel the

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club up against the bottom of your ribs.

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So you're just that little space in between your ribs and your pelvis.

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Or essentially if I took this angle and then drove it up, if you're right here on kind of

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the bottom of my ribs.

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And now I'm going to apply just a little bit of pressure into the my side this way and

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I'm going to keep that pressure all the way through until I get the club to about parallel.

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So keeping that pressure just like this.

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I find when some golfers start to do it, they get that pressure and then they lose it,

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because old habits tend to die hard.

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So keeping that pressure, that will help you control this initial movement more with the

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hips and the chest rotating, instead of doing it all with the arms.

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Now the second phase is you're going to take the alignment stick and you're going to hold

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it on the bottom of the grip.

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So the stick sticks out far enough so that you can set up to the ball and basically keep

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the pressure the same way you were just doing.

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Now it will force you to start with a little bit more angle, so you're not going to be

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able to start with the shaft vertical.

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It's going to have a little bit of an angle, but this does allow you to hit little waist

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height 9 to 3 swings, keeping that pressure and just kind of really feeling like your arms

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you're doing almost nothing and that you're doing your controlling majority of the

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hit with the hips and the chest.

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So hitting these shots very much like a triangle drill hitting the shots with the pelvis.

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Then in your takeaway it will force you to keep that connection and you may feel like

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the club is a little bit more outside the hands especially if you're used to loading the

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wrists early or loading the shoulders early and whipping the club inside.

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Then once you have a feeling you can either drop the club or drop the alignment stick

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as I did and move on to duplicating the shot with the golf club or you can take three

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cool quarter shots.

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Knowing that the club is going to disconnect when it leaves there and then it'll feel

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almost like it reconnects on the way through or if you're really good you can disconnect

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and then keep the disconnect as long as you can through finish.

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It may hit you especially if you go past waist height but it shouldn't hit you down right

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as you're making contact.

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Once you have that feeling then you can try and duplicate keeping that pressure to help

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create that one piece takeaway where the club stays a little bit more outside and on

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plane and then hitting it more with your triangle.

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This is a great drill.

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If you struggle with getting the club a little bit more disconnected inside which usually

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creates either if I stay there more of a fat or low point behind the ball pattern

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or sometimes it will cause more of a lunge and some steep chicken wing patterns.

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But ultimately refining your takeaway so that it's a little bit more hip, cord, driven

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should help control low point especially when it comes to the shorter irons or the scoring

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clubs.

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And we'll do a quick little demo of the full swing.

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Keep that pressure all the way through.