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This drill is lead arm shallow.

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So lead arm shallow has become one of my more go-to drills for helping golfers feel

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what it's like to shallow the club in transition.

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Most of the steepening movements, at least from the arms perspective, comes from the trail

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arm.

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So lead arm shallow is pretty simple on paper.

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Basically, you're going to go to the top of your swing and then I'm going to have you

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take your trail hand off the club and then you're going to come down about a foot or so

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and put your trail hand back on the club.

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For most of you, you're going to feel like either that trail arm, the forearm is pointing

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more up or the elbow is more in.

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If you're feeling more of the club, you will feel more of the button to the club is pointing

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out there or the club head is far behind you.

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And you may feel like the club is kind of more parallel or horizontal instead of vertical.

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All those things are a feeling of the arm shallowing.

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And so what happens for most golfers is when we get up to the top of the swing, you will

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tend to steepen with that trail arm rotating this way.

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Well, if you use just your lead arm, we can experiment on what happens down at the bottom

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if we do that.

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So if we go up to the top of the swing and we're just going to give it a little push and

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swing through and we'll feel kind of this like the tendency of the club head to want

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to hold off and come through or if it does close down it feels like it would go way

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left.

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Even if that steep movement is not online, it feels kind of jarring.

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It feels like you're running, you're fighting yourself down at the bottom.

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And if we go up to the top of the swing and we let that drop and then come through,

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we'll feel that it wants to kind of swing through and extend the arm as opposed to hold

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off rotation and cause the arm to want to bend.

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So there's a couple places where I see golfers do this drill wrong.

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And I just want to make sure that you're paying attention to when you're doing your

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drills at home.

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So what I want you to do, you're going to go up to the top of the swing.

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You're going to take your trailhand off the club and then you're going to bring the club

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down about a foot.

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Two things happen when I did this.

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One, I rotated my body.

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I didn't just bring the arms down kind of like this.

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And then two, the hand stayed at about the same height compared to my chest and the pitch

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of the shaft or the angle of the shaft changed.

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What I see a lot of golfers try to do is try to pull those arms down.

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And when you pull those arms down, oftentimes, if you're not careful, that trail arm

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causes the club to internally rotate.

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Or sorry, causes the trail arm goes into internal rotation and it causes the club to

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steep it.

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So when we're doing this trail arm, or sorry, lead arm shallowing, we're going to go up

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to the top and we're going to feel that lead arm get into this position.

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And then from here, we're just going to try and do a release movement with a little bit

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of lower body extension, trying to make context with the golf ball.

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So we're going to go up to the top, bring it down.

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I didn't take my hand off the club.

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Hopefully you caught that.

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Go up to the top, relax.

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There I felt it shallow.

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This feels like it's a good bit behind me, but my lower body is rotated.

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And then I'm going to release from there.

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Then the next goal is I'm going to do more of a broken transition style move.

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So I'm going to go up to the top of this wing.

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I'm going to get down into that same position and then try and release from there.

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And so now I'm getting a sense.

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I'm feeling that orientation of the club being a little bit more in the shallow position.

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So I find that this is a really powerful drill for a lot of golfers who shallow the

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club.

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One last point I forgot to mention in the do's and don'ts or the troubleshooting.

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What I want you to watch out for.

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Some golfers will go to shallow the club more by doing this with the body.

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So you might want to practice just feeling the arm rotating.

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So going up to the top and feeling that movement there instead of that movement there.

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It is much harder to do with just the arm holding on to the club.

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It's much easier to shallow the body with either the trailhand or both hands on the club.

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So once you have a feeling of this shallow movement, then you can work on not so much

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nine to three but ten to two is enough to into full swings.

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I would think of this one less about working the nine to three ten to two range.

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But more ramping up intensity as you get more comfortable with the movement.

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So I would start slow up to the top, feel it, drop, feel it get into that shallow position.

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And then start adding a little bit more speed.

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More and more speed until you're feeling like it has close to your full speed.

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So try this one if you're struggling with steep arms in transition up to the top there.

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And now we're going to feel that in one movement.

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Well, almost lost the microphone.

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So hopefully this gives you a few ideas of how you can use your lead arm to help you feel

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that trail arm shallowing.