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Fix Your Flip
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Having a clear picture of what you want the club to do during the release will help you stick with the training of this key component to the swing. If you flip your wrists before impact, then frequently if I ask you to show me a slow motion swing you will speed it up after impact. This speed up is a clear sign that the brain doesn't really know what the club should do here and that confusion can cause breakdowns. By getting a feeling of a smooth rotation and extension of the arms, you will have a more consistent low point control than if you use a flip and that means better contact, especially with the irons.
Playlists: Fix Your Flip
Tags: Poor Contact, Impact, Follow Through, Release, Drill, Intermediate
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The sterile is now what? So in the release, I frequently see golfer struggling with this
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kind of little transition point after they've hit the ball and kind of feel like they get
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that arm extension. They're not really sure where the club should go and so I have this drill
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called now what? Which is basically, if you're working on getting a little bit more of that
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motorcycle movement and then getting a little bit more of that shaft lean and kind of getting to
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about here, there seems to be a now what I don't know what to do. So I like to have golfer's
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train what's going to happen from impact all the way to the follow-through position. So what'll
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happen is you should have the club kind of smoothly rotate kind of like so as a way to absorb
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the force. What'll happen is a lot of golfer's who are used to flipping will get to kind of about here
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and then when I say okay go to follow through they'll kind of do this movement so they'll train
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that same flip pattern they'll just do it later. So what ends up happening is it doesn't really
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retrain the pattern to a little bit more of a arm extension pattern where the club is working away
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from you and having a little bit more face rotation. It ends up being the flip pattern just kind of
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delayed and then what ends up happening is that either turns into more of a breakdown of the lead arm
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or when you start going back to full swings it's because it's the same pattern just with a
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different timing you just go back to your old pattern. So if you're having trouble getting
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you're released to have that good look of that those arms straight in the arm extending try to work
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through how the club is going to look from impact to follow through. So from right about here you'll
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see that there's a pretty smooth rotation of the club as your hands are working kind of up the
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plane line like so. If you get that pattern then what'll happen is you'll be able to rotate more
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with your body without fear of the club actually or without fear of hitting it fat or without
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fear of hitting it way left. So training this release is really good for allowing you to power the
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body with that rotational pivot that tends to hold up a little bit better on your pressure.
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One of the common places where the release will break down for a lot of golfers is not really
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right here at impact but through here just after impact not knowing how to let it just kind of
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rotate let that lead form supinate as Ben Hogan described. So if you're struggling with your release
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I challenge you to find a really clear pattern of what you want the club to do between
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there and there. If you do that then you will stop seeing the flip occurring kind of through there.
