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This drill is the lead arm elbow strike.

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This drill is the complimentary drill to the cross body upper cut.

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So the cross body upper cut is feeling that right side getting through. Um,

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one of the downsides to it is oftentimes golfers are really pulling with that,

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uh, lead side to bring that trail side through into the uppercut movement.

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So one of the ways that I've adapted it to do more of a lead side drill, um,

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is a elbow strike with the back of the lead arm. So for setup,

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we're going to take the elbow or take the hand and place it on your opposite

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shoulder or your trail shoulder. So for me,

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my left hand goes on my right shoulder and then I'm gonna feel like I reach my

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shoulder blade across my body so that the elbow is in line with the shoulder.

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So it's not just here. This would be on like, just reaching with the arm.

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I wanna reach with the shoulder so that my shoulders are now closed to the

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target. Now keeping my arm in that position,

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I'm gonna do that cross body upper cut.

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So I'm gonna feel like I would be hitting something here with my elbow.

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If you are more of a steep arm pull,

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what you'll often feel is you'll feel your hand slide,

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cuz you'll feel like you're pulling that arm in order to rotate.

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This helps you feel that I'm going to get the rotation happening more

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here from my core, um,

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and here from my legs and hips without pulling from that uh,

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trail arm. If I really want to combo it with the upper cut,

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what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna place it underneath here.

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And so by placing it under this arm,

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I can use that lead arm to really help bring that trail shoulder down.

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So you'll see that that trail shoulder is going down,

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lead shoulder is up and forward,

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and now I can feel like I'm getting some rotation while maintaining the

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shoulders in this good alignment. To do that, I feel a lot of core action,

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a lot of hip action, but very little shoulder action.

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That's a great feeling for what it's like to feel hitting it from

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the core kind of like that versus pulling the arms across the body

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and driving the rotation more with my shoulders and my upper spine like that.

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So then once I have that feel,

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I normally do a guided nine to three where I'm gonna feel like I

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stay in that upper cut position kind of like this and

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just rotate my body through. Um,

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and I wouldn't normally do this on the driving range, but for teaching purposes,

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if I got to here, dropped it without changing my shoulder, nope.

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Could have been a little bit better. That shoulder had just pulled.

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I like to see if you can get to that nine to three position,

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that three position or follow through position without having any pull of that,

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um, lead shoulder. So it's primarily a nine to three drill.

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Once you have that kind of dialed in,

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then you can go up to bigger and bigger swings.

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But this will help you get out of a big arm pole pattern on the way through. Um,

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one of my favorite compliments to the cross body feeling that right side come

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through is the left side being more in this blocking position or not pulling

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on the way through.