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In this drill video, we're going to do 9-3 with the open trail hand.

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So it's a very simple drill, but it's hard to do.

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I like those.

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So you're going to take your normal grip and then you're going to completely open your

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right hand.

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I want no fingers gripping on the club.

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You are going to have to police yourself because when I do this in clinics, everybody tries

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they've wrapped the pinky and wrapped the index finger to give themselves a little bit more

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control.

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If you are pushing with the right part of this right hand, which would look something

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like this.

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If you're pushing with those two points, the heel pad and the kind of first joint of the index

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finger, you will still have plenty of leverage to keep your right hand in contact with the

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club.

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If all you are pushing with is your hand like you're flipping, like so, then what will happen

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is when you swing through the way to the club through impact will cause a separation between

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those two hands.

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So if you're practicing the right hand only swings and the left hand only swings, like

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so this is a very good intermediate step to bringing it back together.

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So you take your normal grip, open that right hand.

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And if you're pushing through the right parts in your right hand and rotating or letting

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the left forearm just kind of gently passively rotate, you will be able to hit these

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nine to three shots pretty solidly with that right hand open and just pushing on the

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club.

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So this is one of my favorite drills that help you get out of the pattern of holding

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off rotation like so and learning how to rotate so that the hands stay on top of the

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club.

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Because if I did it towards you, I can't actually hit a golf ball this way.

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But if I did it towards you, what you'll see is as I come through, I'm going to be continually

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putting pressure on top of the shaft as opposed to if I got here and got underneath it,

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then what happens is the weight of the club ends up causing a gap between those hands

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and that gap is a really strong feeling and gives you really good clear feedback.

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You'll also notice as I come through that this wrist tends to stay relatively straight

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or even cut in order to keep in contact where most flippers are going to stop that rotation

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and let it separate and the weight of the club is just going to cause that separation.

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So it's a great drill for learning feedback and then you can take that feeling, close your

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hand and try to recreate it as you do regular nine to three or even as you move into

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the full swing.