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This drill is arm pit connection.

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So arm pit connection is a drill that's kind of stood the test of time.

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The current most popular teaching method that uses this a lot is the stack until.

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So Mike and Andy have a good version of it where they use T's, but Jimmy Ballard has been

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hooking, would put a towel underneath their arms.

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VJ Singh was famous for putting the glove under his left hand a lot of guys have used this.

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Basically keeping the connection between your arm pit and your body.

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So I like the stack until version which is basically taking two T's, one under each

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arm pit.

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So by putting the T's on the arm pits I basically can't use my shoulders and extend away

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like this because if I do I'm going to drop the T's.

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So this is very helpful for working on a cast pattern and can also be helpful for working

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on an early extension pattern.

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If I was to summarize what it does is basically it forces you to use your trunk as more

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of a power source than your shoulders.

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So if you're very upper body dominant you use your shoulders a lot, this can be a great

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drill.

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I like to start by doing kind of nine to three type swings and focusing on keeping that

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connection with this little effort as possible.

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So I don't want you kind of gearing down and really squeezing as hard as you can.

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I'll tell my students just imagine there's kind of a baby's finger in your armpit and

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you just want to hold it there.

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And then you can do, I'll lose that T for a second.

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You can do nine to three and you can work up to full swings.

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You can do any club, whether you're doing driver, half wedges, full iron shots, everything

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works pretty well with this.

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I will say when you get to the full swing so when you go past that kind of nine position

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in the backswing you're going to have a tendency to lose that right arm.

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In fact I think it's okay if you lose the right arm T but your preference as VJ seeing

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demonstrated it is to make sure that you keep that left arm T.

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Because what'll happen is if you lose that right arm T, what most good players who have

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kind of a little bit more of the shoulder load like say a Fred Couples or Jack Nicholas

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is they will just kind of reconnect it on the downswing.

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Problem is a lot of amateurs, I'll drop that.

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A lot of amateurs will get up to the top of the swing and they'll completely disconnect

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like so and use just those arms to create speed as opposed to letting the trunk continue

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through.

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So this is a great drill for helping you feel the power coming more from the rib cage and

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you'll feel like your arms basically act as ropes that more or less transfer that power.

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So you can do it in the nine to three version.

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Kind of like so where the body is controlling the turn or you can go all the way up to a full

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swing.

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And the T's may fall out in the follow-through but you should be able to make a relatively

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full swing and just power it with the rib cage.

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This will help you change the power source from your shoulders which is going to be common

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in either the cast pattern or the early extension pattern.

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So one last little piece of advice, a lot of players when they go from doing this arm

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dominant swing and kind of having those shoulders disconnect from the body, when they do

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this they will feel like they kind of saw off or they will feel like their upper body

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is turning a lot through the shot.

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Use video and use ball flight to make sure that that's not actually the case.

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What most people do and what you'll see, I can keep that connection and still have the

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club coming through well from the inside and if I add the little Zoro move, I can definitely

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hit little draw shots doing this movement.

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So don't think that just because the body is turning the path is going to the left,

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oftentimes that's a barrier that you're going to have to get over.

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But I've seen this really help with consistency contact, especially consistency a turf

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contact and I think it'll help you with your game.