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This drill is backswing width with a towel.

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Um, so many golfers struggle with width in the backswing.

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Um, they tend to kind of create more of an, a lift

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of the arms and that can create some timing problems

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and some, uh, contact problems.

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If we, if we were to just kind of like take a big picture

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and we, we looked at your upper body being somewhat the

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center of your swing, then your arms are the radius.

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And while changing that radius can potentially add power

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because you're using some arm muscles, um, it tends

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to create some problems with consistency.

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The other big thing is when the arms bend, it tends

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to encourage your body staying flexed.

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So you actually, even though the club gets into a high

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position, you haven't loaded a lot of your core muscles.

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You've mostly loaded your arm and shoulder muscles.

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So this drill is gonna help us keep the right arm a little

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bit more straight and build a little bit more connection.

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So this only works for 10 to two and nine to threes

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'cause it does get, uh, become a little bit of a problem

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as you go to the top of your swing.

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Um, but we're gonna, we're gonna use it to kind

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of gain the feel of using my body

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to drive this back swing a little bit more.

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So we're gonna take the towel, place it

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in your right armpit.

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Um, and this just works.

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Um, I, I like a little longer towel

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so I have a little bit more kind of, uh,

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meat in the towel to kind of grab onto.

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Then I'm gonna take my normal left hand grip

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and I'm gonna place the towel on top of the right thumb.

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So some golfers who tend to kind of like pick up the,

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the club by bending the arms also lose

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that connection of that right hand.

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Um, where if I have the pressure there, then in order

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to keep it taut, I'm gonna have to feel like I maintain

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that pressure and maintain that width.

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So I've got that, this, uh, connection through

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that right armpit.

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Um, I've done this with, uh, band

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and uh, usually I like to wrap the band

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around, uh, to the left shoulder.

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So this one's a little bit more user friendly.

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Um, and it's, it's kind of easier to feel that tension

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where the dynamic push of the band, uh,

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sometimes you might lose it a little bit,

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especially in transition.

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So this is a way of kind of feeling the

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triangle connection or,

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or feeling, um, more of a body driven hit.

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Uh, this will, um, be a little bit more of an exaggeration

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of what we would want to do in that full swing.

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Okay, so we're gonna start with a nine to three.

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So I've got my connection.

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I'm going to try

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and maintain that connection all the way

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through into the three o'clock finished position.

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It's probably gonna make you feel like you have

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to use your hips, um,

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or your core a whole lot more than you're used to.

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Now we're gonna take it up to a 10 o'clock swing.

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Um, and this is where a lot

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of golfers going from nine o'clock up to 10 o'clock tend

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to just bend the arms and you can see

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that I've lost all that slack.

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I've lost that tension.

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So now I'm going to try and recreate that tension

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and that's gonna feel like I've done more movement here,

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possibly even getting a little bit extension,

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but more movement here in my chest, in my rib cage,

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and less movement just in my arms.

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So now we're gonna do that 10 o'clock swing, kind

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of maintaining

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nice little 10 to two.

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This will help you with your punch shots.

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This can help you with your distance wedges, um,

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and overall it can help with the consistency

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and quality of your low point

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by putting a towel under your armpit in your back swing.