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Keys To Transition
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The blended transition drill is designed to help golfers who tend to really pull the club down in transition. Pulling down in transition can cause a steepening movement and contribute to a stall/flip pattern at impact. Remember that transition is different for different parts of your body. For golfers who feel a load and explode AND who also arm pull will benefit from this drill.
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The stroke is blended transition. So many golfers have a view of the swing of a
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pronounced backswing or a definite backswing with a little pause and then a start of
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the downswing. And that concept works really well for some golfers but it can become a
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problem for other golfers. So if you find that you have more of a really rapid
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acceleration in transition like you have very much an upper body pull or more of a
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right arm throw then you may benefit from feeling more of a blended transition.
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Now by the numbers transition happens differently for different parts of the body.
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So if you're looking at when the feet change direction that's different than when
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the club changes direction. If you're looking at when the torso changes direction
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that's different from when the arm changes direction. So in this drill you're going
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to feel more of a rhythmicle blend. The cue that I give golfers is I want you to
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feel as if the backswing the end of the backswing into the early downswing stays
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the same speed. The club never stops. It may even feel a little loopish sort of like a
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gym-fierreq especially if you're used to more of a pause and go kind of like a
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deque-matsuyama. At least you as most people most amateur is when they pause and go
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they tend to go really hard more with the upper body shoulders or arms.
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So to work through this drill you're going to take some practice wings and you're going
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to get to the shaft parallel in the backswing to kind of the nine position in the backswing.
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And then from there you're going to try to keep the club moving at the same speed until
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it gets back to where it was or back to that shaft parallel position.
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So it's between here and here that you're not allowed to change tempo and change intensity.
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It's got to be very smooth. So I call it a blended transition because you're feeling the backswing
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blend into the downswing. Let's take a look at how a few of those look.
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So again this works really well for golfers who struggle with more of a cast pattern,
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maybe even a kind of a drop in lunge. If you feel that there's a whole lot of energy
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starting that downswing instead of building gradually. So to work through it we're going
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to feel a little bit more of a constant speed as opposed to letting it really collect
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at the top and go. Now the key or one of the keys is to make sure that you're not just
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doing it with your arms that you're feeling that the whole body has a continuous flow
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from the backswing into the downswing. One more flow.
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So making sure that there is no pause and collect and explode from the top. If you struggle
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with more of an upper body lunge, more of a cast pattern, from the arm straightening to soon
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or more of a really upper body pronounced dive. All of those can be improved if you focus
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on having more of this blend and constant speed through your transition.
