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Trail Wrist Release- place a golf ball between the trail arm and the grip and keep it there as you take putts. Once you have developed a feel using the golf ball, remove the golf ball and simply focus on trying to keep the space between your forearm and the grip the same. This is especially useful for trail arm dominant putter who flip the wrist through impact. If you flip your wrist, you will see the space between your forearm and your grip narrow. Make sure that you are using the trail arm and feeling your pec get involved. That will keep your shoulder moving longer which will prevent the wrist from flipping.
Lead Arm Release - the most important key for this component is the maintain the con- nection. Most golfers, when they first try this move, will let the trail arm disconnect in an attempt to keep the clubface square to the intended path. There is also a tendency to let the lower body rotate on the through stroke. Be sure to keep your connection and your lower body stability. It is common for there to be a sense of a shorter stroke with more rotation. Just make sure that the right and the left arms match up and you can’t really go wrong.
Tags: Putt, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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Now we're going to go through the how-to's of the each arm release.
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So you may have already practiced them, you may not, but this will give you the details of what I want you to feel,
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which is more or less letting your shoulders and your chest control the stroke instead of your arms and your hands,
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or your forearms in your hands.
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So for the trail arm, so I'm right hand in my trail arm as my right hand,
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I'm going to take my good grip and I'm going to place a golf ball right there
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between my forearm and my hand, or between my forearm and the grip.
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You can see that.
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Now one of the tendencies that a lot of players will have is that they will release with the trail hand,
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the right hand in my case, and you will see that that space, clothes, or change, change, right?
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So what we're going to do is we're going to put an object there so that it can't change.
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And now if I were to set up to a golf ball, right?
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This should basically be able to stay there while I hit the stroke.
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And then if I were to take that golf ball away, I could double check and say, yeah, okay, that's about the same
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that putter face looks like it rotate a little bit more.
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So for me to keep my, for me to use my trail arm properly,
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it now is going to look like it rotates a little bit more.
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I'm not going to manipulate it, but I'm going to just take note of that.
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One of the general things that I tend to see with this trail arm only and what this is designed to address
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is if you are using the bigger muscles in your core and your shoulders, this wrist will stay the same
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and you'll actually feel your pet get a little bit engaged.
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You can see how my arm is working across my body just like so instead of working this way in which
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case there would be no pecking moment, right?
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So this is a great drill when I'm here.
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The only way I'm going to get the putter to go past my body would be either to break down
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my lower body, which we know that's the rule number one we can't do, or to release my hands and
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flip this way.
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So by locking that out, the only way I can get it to go over there is to actually have my right side
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push a little bit more and put with kind of this shoulder area over here.
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Okay, so that's the trail arm.
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Now the lead arm is actually a whole lot easier.
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What I typically see with the lead arm is a disconnected stroke, where basically the lead arm will drift towards the
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putter or towards the target like so.
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So the only thing I say to do with the lead arm is to make sure that it stays connected to your body.
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Right?
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We talked about this connection.
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Over here we talked about this connected move.
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Notice how this stays in contact the whole time.
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So if you place your arm there, you can hit some strokes focusing on your arm staying connected.
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I should just put left hand at the whole time.
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So keeping that left arm there, keeping the golf ball between the right arm so that you can feel more of the
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pecking volumant and you'll get this general feeling of your shoulders and your body hitting the
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putt instead of your hands.
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So give that a try.
