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This drill is closed shoulder setup. Um,

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so many golfers struggle with, uh, getting steep with the shoulders.

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I'd say that's one of the number one biggest culprits that causes a whole host

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of poor body pivot or poor body shallowing, um,

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actions down through the release. Um,

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but oftentimes you can see a sign of it at setup. In fact,

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some pros do this and then they just compensate for it, or,

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or overly shallow as a good shoulder movement.

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So what I'm talking about here is the classic setup where, um,

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golfers get their stance out to the right,

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but then their shoulders pointed to the left. So kind of looks like this. Now,

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it's somewhat natural to want to get into that position because if I take my

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normal golf grip, the trail hand, in this case,

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my right hand is lower on the club.

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And so by rotating it more out there,

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it's easier to get my hand lower like this. But you'll see if I do that,

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my shoulders are now pointing way to the left and that's not a trait that we see

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with really good ball strikers. Um, there's a couple reasons why we'll,

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we'll discuss in this video. So to counteract that,

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what we're gonna do is we're gonna work backwards from where do we want our

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shoulder blades at impact. At impact,

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we want our trail shoulder slightly lower and back,

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and our lead shoulder slightly up and forward. If I bring my hands together,

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that would put the club kind of back in this position here,

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and I would then be able to balance that by covering and turning

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my lower body.

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So now my shoulders are pretty close to square compared to the golf ball, um,

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but closed compared to my, um, compared to my body or compared to my chest.

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So by setting,

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by starting with that right shoulder a little bit back and that lead shoulder a

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little bit up,

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that gives me a easier reference and an easier connection that also can allow

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me to cover without feeling like I'm gonna be too steep.

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If you tend to get more of that right shoulder up and you get forward,

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you're gonna have this feeling like the club's gonna come really steep

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vertically down into the ground, where if that trail shoulder is back like this,

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it feels like I'm coming more almost horizontally across the ground and that's

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gonna encourage me to cover and turn.

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So it helps with shallowing by getting the shoulder blades there.

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That's one of the number one arm shallowing movements. Um,

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it helps with sequence because having the shoulders closed is a

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component to being able to rotate my body, um,

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while still being shallow and getting the low point forward. Um,

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and it tends to help with the wipe when the trail arm gets high. Um,

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oftentimes that peck is gonna rotate that elbow backward, um, like this.

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So your elbow, when this gets this way,

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is gonna get more behind the body and the arms are going to throw.

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And even if I'm hitting a good shot like that,

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you could see my overall flat spot in consistency, um, is gonna be,

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uh, suspect. So one of the most common times where I'll,

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you have golfers preset, some of this is if you really struggle with poles. If,

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um, if we see it on video and this somewhere during the downswing,

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that right shoulder is getting high,

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you'll see that that often either closes the face or gets the path to go too

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much to the left.

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And oftentimes that's balanced by then si some type of shallowing,

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but it often results in that pull draw or that kind of nasty little left

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start line. If on the other hand,

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I train myself so that that right shoulder is staying more back and down,

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that right shoulder blade is staying more back and down,

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you'll see that if anything,

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that's gonna encourage me to get more of a right start line.

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So oftentimes for golfers, it's easy to just feel like you, um,

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do it a little bit at set up, and more often than not, I would say it's,

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it's a hard one to overdo unless when you bring it back,

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you're also tilting backward if you just bring it back kind of like this and

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your upper body shifts a little bit forward. Um, so I'll demonstrate it, uh,

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facing the target line so they can see from the down the line cameras.

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If when I bring it back I shift this way as opposed to bringing it back and

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shifting that way.

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What you'll see from the face on view is if I do that one that just helps me get

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into this shallow position,

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but also helps me put more of my weight properly on that front foot for irons,

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that has a double effect of giving me much better low point control.

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So if you struggle with, with some of this arm shallowing, um,

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there's no harm in presetting. Some of it at set up that'll make it, uh,

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feel like you have to do less shoulder movement during the backswing and

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transition. It will help with sequencing, it will help with the wipe,

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it will help with low point control, your merry-go-round.

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Lots of good things will happen if you get your shoulder blade alignment taken

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care of. And an easy place to start with that is that setup. So quick demo.

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I'm a big fan of exaggerating, seeing how much I could do. Um, so if I,

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again, the careful thing is not to make sure that I'm tilting too much back,

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but then I'm just bringing that right shoulder back and that left shoulder

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forward. Now to me this feels like I'm aimed way out to the right,

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but as I put the stick there, I can see it is out to the right.

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But you'll see from the down the lo down the line camera, it's not crazy.

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This will also allow me to feel like I can stack a little bit more

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in my backswing. Uh, came out of it a little bit,

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but that often happens when I'm doing exaggeration drills.

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We'll see if we can get a little bit better release with that.

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So I'm gonna exaggerate, but still feel stacked. Maybe not slide as much.

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There we go. So that was a pretty good one. Um,

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started at the flag I was aimed at. Had a nice little draw to it. Um,

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so overall it's a hard one to overdo, especially if you have a really big, um,

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over the top move. But you can monitor it with the face on video,

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make sure you're not tilting too much, um, down the line.

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It's gonna be really hard for you to get too close with just the shoulders. Um,

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the only way you would get too closed is if you were cheating and doing it more

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from the pelvis or the knees or something like that.

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So hopefully this helps you with your setup position to set up for a more body

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driven downswing.