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This is a tip that has been used, with success, for a long time. When the upper body spins too soon, it creates a major steepening and leftward path of the club. It also creates a force that makes the arms want to fly away from the body. If you do this during transition then you are likely to struggle with the longer clubs, with distance, and with hitting a draw. A common feeling of keeping the left shoulder closed and your back to the target will help keep the club swinging more in-to-out. A lot of golfers use this movement to compliment a weak grip and open clubface, so make sure that your hands and wrists are doing the right things in transition as well.
Tags: Cast, Transition, Drill, Beginner
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This drill is called don't spin the shoulders and it's for the cast or upper body
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dominant swinger. So if you recall from the overview in the cast or upper body
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dominant swing you're going to extend your right arm and right hand and often
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this is accompanied with the left shoulder spinning or clearing out of the way. So
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it would almost look kind of like that. In order to overcome this pattern you're
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going to have to get used to keeping your back facing the target for very much
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longer in the downswing. And if you've played golf for any length of time you've
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probably heard that as a famous kind of tip that works for a lot of people
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is keeping your back facing the target. So if you remember from the transition
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sequence section the transition sequence should be getting into that left heel
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and that left shoulder going down. Well if you spin your upper body that left
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shoulder is going to tend to get up very very quickly and almost like a merry
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go round where you spin the center really fast and the kids on the end go flying.
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When this left shoulder goes spinning it causes your arms in your hands to
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extend out. Right? So these two movements happen together. What you'll feel if you do
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this back to the target drill correctly is you're going to keep that left
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shoulder that's hard to get as long as you can and then from here you're just
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going to let your arms drop and hit the ball with a very close stance. So
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obviously you're not going to hit this more than about 30 yards or so but it
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will get you to feel what it's like to start applying force towards the
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golf ball with your back still facing the target. This is one of the more
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successful drills that I have for helping people overcome this upper body
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dominant swing and if you battled a slice this could be the miracle drill that
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finally helps you overcome and get that nice little soft draw. So give it a try
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for learning this proper transition sequence and toning down the rate of your
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upper body spinning. It should happen much later in the downswing. The upper
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body spinning does not actually happen until somewhere in this phase during the
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release phase when that left shoulder in the spine kind of starts to extend. So
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don't do it too soon you want to wait until the proper time to let that
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left shoulder spin out of the way.
