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Keys To Transition
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During transition, the arms work on a path that has an angle (or swing plane). This path is a blend of down and out. By focusing on the down, many golfers cause inadvertent effects on the club. Many pros are having success these days by focussing on more of the "out".
Tags: Transition, Concept, Drill, Intermediate
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This video is downverse out in transition.
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So there's a fair amount of confusion as to what the arms need to do during transition.
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Do I pull them down in order to get the club behind me?
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Do I kind of rotate them to flatten them?
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Where should they go?
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Well, I like to kind of simplify it and I'll turn sideways so that we can look at what we're trying to see.
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So when we get up to the top of the swing, there's kind of this path that's pointed somewhere out
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around where the golf ball would be.
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So if I got set up like so, right around here there's kind of this path or this angle that the club would be on.
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If I work my hands straight down or if I work my hands straight across, that's going to have different effects on what's happening to the club.
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Well, we want your arms to feel like they're falling.
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That's been a common kind of pattern that a lot of tour pros have talked about that's worked well for them.
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But I don't want you to feel like you're pulling your arms down.
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There are some players who have said that that works for them, but let me show you why I think that something you should be cautious about.
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It's very hard to have this right arm going to external rotation like so with my hands dropping straight down like so.
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So what'll usually happen is if your hands work straight down, the club will actually work more vertically like so.
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Where if my hands feel like they go just slightly out, that will allow the club to somewhat shallow.
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So when you get up to the top of your swing, our biggest priorities having this club shallow slightly compared to the path that the hands are going on.
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And that's largely going to come from this external rotation and what's called add functions.
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So this right arm working across my chest like so.
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If you're working on that movement, then what'll happen is that'll cause the club to flatten if you just try and pull your arms down frequently the club will stand up or get more vertical and then you'll have to stand up to kind of balance it out.
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So if you're struggling with getting this feeling of the elbow working more across your body.
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Oftentimes by feeling like it works a little bit more flatter and almost out, you know, pass the golf ball or towards the horizon can help you exaggerate that movement, which will get us the little bit of shaft flattening that we're looking for in transition.
