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The Stirl is hand-high club low in transition.

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So a lot of golfers struggle with this concept of shallowing out the club in transition.

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And from the arms point of view, shallowing out the club in transition

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does a whole lot of really good things for the golf swing.

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Chris Como, Dr. Kwon, but Chris Como is the first person who kind of explained it to me.

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He has a great video on YouTube with Sasha McKenzie.

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He's talking about this hand-path that we talk about.

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So in order to set up that hand-path, you need to have this shallowing move from the arms in transition.

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And all that means is let's say that my hands are going to be pulling kind of on a line like this.

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Right? Well, so if I have this club here, my hands were going like this,

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then the club head would be on a slightly shallower line like so.

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And what'll happen is if this club is on a slightly shallower line,

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and you build up all this speed, and then you pull in, or your body goes into that bracing that I talk about,

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it will cause that club to want to line up, and it actually helps square the club face.

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So if you're having a trouble with getting steep in transition and hitting poles or fades or fat shots,

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this can be a big piece of the puzzle.

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So a lot of golfers struggle with these arms basically going like this.

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If I take my body out of it, the arms basically going like this in transition.

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So what we're trying to do is have them go more like this.

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Now, if you notice when I do so, my hands pretty much stay in place,

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and the club head drops closer to the ground or low.

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As opposed to if I was to pull my hands down, the club head stayed high, and my hands got low.

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So this is kind of the sister drill to the down versus out,

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because a lot of golfers have been taught or told to pull down on the handle,

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and unfortunately that can create the steepening of the arm path,

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and then you'll have to do some stuff with your body in order to try to shallow it out,

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whether that would be kind of standing up or releasing your wrists.

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Those are two big kind of shallowing moves that will accompany usually this steep transition.

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So similar to a pump drill, I'm just going to let the club almost try to get horizontal.

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And a lot of golfers have a travel kind of visualizing this, because it doesn't look like a golfer does that.

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Now, if I do that same movement, but so there's the hand staying high,

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and I'm basically just taking my left arm and dumping it like this,

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or I'm taking my right shoulder and bringing it more in front of my chest.

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Kind of like that.

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So a lot of golfers will say, well, it doesn't look like they do that on TV,

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and I'll say yes, but the reason it doesn't look like that is because their pivot is very different.

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So because they're increasing their flex, they're kind of bringing their chest slightly closer to the ground

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as they go into this kind of rotational phase, right?

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If I was to have my arms steeped during that, it would bring the club way out here.

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So if I do that movement and have a very good body movement, the club ends up looking like it's moving on plane.

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So the club itself may not look that different compared to the golf ball,

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but it'll look very different compared to your body.

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So the way that I tend to have golfers start with this is using more of a broken transition.

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So they'll go up, drop it down to there, and then see if they can find a way to make somewhat solid contact from there.

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And it's going to take five or ten balls just to even find the ground.

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In fact, before hitting the golf ball, I would recommend trying to hit the ground.

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If you're used to kind of a clunky contact like this, and then you start adding this piece,

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oftentimes what you'll find is you'll have a hard time hitting the ground if you're still standing up.

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So it's a good kind of bridge drill for working on getting this really good transition,

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and then requiring you to stay in better posture through the hit.

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So you can do it with or without balls, and your goal is to kind of do this broken transition and then go,

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and then work your way into making it as one movement as you can.

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This has been one of my more helpful drills for helping people really learn how to shallow up this club during transition.

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So you're going to keep your hands up high as the club goes low.

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And most of this lowering is going to come from what the body is doing, not by pulling down with the arms.

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So hopefully that helps you with your transition issues.