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This release drill is grip-throw. So I'm going to use a grip and you can use an old

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grip. Those work really well. Or you can use any type of household object whether

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it's a ruler or kitchen utensil, big sharpie, just something you can kind of

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hold on. So what we're going to do is this is building off of the

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throes but getting me to feel more of the kind of club position. So if I had

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the ball I'd be doing more of this bounce pass wipe or I'd be doing the

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single arm throes but getting the goal of kind of throwing this thing out in this

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30 degree angle. So if I was facing the golf ball I'm kind of throwing this

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thing out there. Now I'm not going to do it just by turning and throwing because

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this would be a terrible shoulder position. So I'm going to feel like I'm kind of

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in good body positions working in a good shoulder plane almost feeling like I'm a

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little bit more under but then I'm going to use my arms to throw it out in that

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direction in front of the golf ball. So to really simple drill you're just

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going to get set up and then take a little backswing and just feel like you're

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going to throw it out kind of out in front of the golf ball. The reason I want an

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object ball there is because a lot of golfers will change where their arms would

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throw based on if a ball's in front or not. So using a ball it'll be helpful.

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I'm going to keep my focus on the golf ball kind of feeling like I'm making a

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swing and then feeling as if my arms are extending out there. If you're used to

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feeling like your arms extend at the golf ball then this is going to feel

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very weird to you. And if you feel like your arms extend at the golf ball that would

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end up looking more like this where I'm actually throwing it kind of right out of

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the golf ball instead of in that 30, 40 degrees out in front. Once you have this

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feel you can then recreate that timing and arm extension with an actual

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club. If when you do that you start hitting the ball off to the right or you're

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starting to hit it really thin then it could be more of a club-based closure

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method that you need to work on and that's why you're struggling with the arm

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extending too much at the golf ball. So this is a useful drill and once you

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understand the drill and kind of get that feeling that feeling can be a very good

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diagnostic because that diagnostic can help you see why your arms are extending

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too soon and your body's not rotating instead of just trying to train something

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that you think you need to do. So then now I've got this feeling of those arms

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kind of extending more out there and then I can try and kind of recreate that

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feeling of those arms extending out in front of the golf ball. That one wasn't too

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bad but I'm even better so that was more those arms really kind of extending out

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in that zone instead of extending straight at the golf ball. So let's think a

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quick look at how the drill works in action. So here I have two low single

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digit handicap golfers. Very good golfers but have a little bit of flipping

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their release and so they have the typical kind of contact and mispedern

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associated with it. In this all I did was give them the directions I want you

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to extend your arms and I kind of put my foot out somewhere around here. So I

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said I want you to extend your arms in that general direction. And so what I want

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you to see is that both of these golfers when I asked them what direction they

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were extending their arms they said that they were extending it around or in

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that general direction. Now here the golfer on the left you'll see especially

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that right arm kind of extending more in line with just behind the golf ball

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over here on the right. You'll see this golfer again is trying to extend the

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arm especially that right arm along this line. So now here I am over on the

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left and I had a student film me trying to do the same thing of basically

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extending the arms out along that line. And so you can see the timing and the

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direction of that right arm looks as if my arms are extending over there.

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Again this golfer over here on the right swore that he was extending his arms

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out in that direction. So he may feel like he's extending that in front of the

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golf ball but you can see that that right arm is clearly extending behind the

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golf ball. This is why it's important to kind of calibrate your movements and

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make sure that when you feel like you're doing something it's actually matching

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what's happening in reality. So this is pre-imposed for the second gentleman. So

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pre-over here on the left and again this is a very good golfer he can control

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his low point but you can see that there's a little bit more of the club face

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passing the hands kind of through the release. Granted this is in a drill but this

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is after he had kind of the light bulb of his arms extending more out in front

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of the target. And so you'll see that the arm movement through the ball has a

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lot more of that continued body rotation a lot more of that white movement and

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the arm arms extending on the way through. So the timing and the direction that

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the arms extend have a big influence on the low point control the path control

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how solidly you're going to hit the golf ball and it's important to calibrate

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those movements and this drill of throwing the grip can really help you

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understand the general direction of the arm movement during the downswing.