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This is the Impact Bag Pop.

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So the Impact Bag Pop is a drill for working on delivery position down to impact.

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I find a number of different swing patterns cause golfers to feel weak in doing delivery

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position drills.

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Specifically when my students all tend to find golfers get into this position and when they

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do that on their own they tend to fire quickly and I'll ask them do you feel like you're

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like ready to strike from there or do you feel like you've slammed on the brakes and they'll

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usually say I feel like I slammed on the brakes I got nothing left to hit with.

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So if we take a step backward that issue usually comes up when you've already when you're

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used to hitting it with more kind of linear push against the club as a poor more of an angular

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swing down to the bottom.

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What I mean by that is there's two big ways that I can move the club.

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I can move the club linearly in space or I can rotate it.

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If I'm, let's say, early with my arms and more of a cast pattern, if I go like this I

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release all the angular and so now all I have left to put do is push on the club linearly.

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And so what will happen is you need space to be able to apply that linear movement where

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if we're looking at the angle here I still have a pretty significant angle with my arm.

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So from here I can deliver the club anguly but if I wanted to try to push the club linearly

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it feels very, very weak.

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So the delivery pop is helping get the timing of the angular change happening much later.

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Basically not throwing the club with your arms getting it down late and then delivering

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the speed down into the impact zone.

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So I'm going to take a old shaft here and we're going to do the delivery pop.

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So we're going to get into this delivery position and then from here we're basically

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going to strike the bag like I was hitting a old carpet trying to knock dust off it.

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So I'm in this delivery position and then I'm going to extend the legs to help pull and

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I'm going to extend the right arm and wrist to help push and that creates more of this

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angular movement instead of more of a linear hit.

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You can see if you're used to getting the arms way back here that's usually a sign that

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I'm trying to do a linear hit and you can hear the difference between that and that's

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second one.

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That's second one has a lot more pop to it which is why it is called the impact bag

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pop.

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And you'll notice one other trend that you'll tend to see is if you're more of a linear

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guy then when you get down to this position when you go through you'll see that your

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arms have a fair amount of drift after impact kind of like this where if I'm more of

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this angular pattern you'll see that my hands tend to stop rated impact.

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In fact, if I'm doing this really well I can strike the bag and bring the club back

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because I'm not really pushing towards the target.

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I'm releasing the angles down into the golf ball.

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Kind of like this.

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One other thing that I will do is I will do this one arm or the other so I will do this

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left arm getting down into position and I will do this right arm to see if the pattern

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is kind of matching up on both sides.

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Sometimes that left arm would be pulling in in the bad pattern or the right arm would

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be way behind the golfer in the bad pattern.

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So once I have this feel then we can go into drills like delivery and go in the delivery

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pump and we'll feel like we have a little bit more to hit with down to impact.

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Let's give that a try.

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We're not going to do the hit and recoil with the golf ball because the club

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pedal have too much momentum but I do like to do more of a breaking style swing where I'm

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going to get into this good delivery position and then from here I'm going to release

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and kind of stop the club soon after impact.

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So we'll do that again.

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I'm going to get into that delivery position and then pop just like I'm hitting the

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bag and so you'll see I'm still able to hit this from a relatively short swing close

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through about 100 yards or so with this eight iron.

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So into this position a little pop feel.

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So that is a feeling of releasing the club angiolary where in contrast if I tried to do

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this more back in this cast you'll see A, I tend to hit those fat and B even if I make

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contact this is probably going to go no more than about 50 yards.

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I'm down there.

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So that's easily going maybe up to 60 yards.

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So almost half as as far as the angiolary version with a lot more effort.

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So now that I have this feeling of the pop down at the bottom I can work on getting into

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that delivery position and now hopefully I'll feel like I'm spring loaded where before

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if I needed to push on the club I would feel like I missed the window and I'm actually

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already slowing the club down.

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So now let's do a nice little delivery pump up to the top into position, into position

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and then release that angle down to the bottom.

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That is a pretty good strike with very little perceived effort.

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This is where one of the feelings of effortless power versus powerful effort can be developed

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in the hands on the wrist.

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Alright so now we'll do one without the pump but this will just have a later firing

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pattern if I'm used to that push.

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I don't know like that.

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So if we do one quick comparison this would be more that earlier pattern where I feel like

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I'm pushing the club through impact and then this would be more of that pop pattern where

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I feel like I'm getting the arms into position and then releasing all the energy with

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speed at the bottom.