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The drill is pelvis to hands at impact.

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So I try to give you many different ways to kind of feel or visualize or kind of experience

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the different movements of the golf swing.

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Well getting a good impact position is one of the faster ways to improve consistency

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your contact.

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And one of the images that I've used with a number of players is the relationship of the

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hands to the pelvis.

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Now I talk a lot about the relationship of the hands to the chest.

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The more that your body is rotated, the more that you can have shaft lean and the more

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that you can motor cycle or the less that your body is rotated, the more you're going

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to tend to have a tendency to flip or scoot.

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Well, it kind of relates to that but gives you a different area to visualize.

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So we're going to use my belt buckle here and if my hands are facing the camera and the

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belt buckle is facing the camera, I'm going to call this perpendicular because my belt

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buckle is kind of like this and my the club is like that.

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Where if I have my hands like so I would say that they're now parallel.

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You can see the shaft of the club and where my hips or my belt buckle are pointing are

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parallel.

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Well at impact we know that your forms are going to be slightly closed compared to the golf

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ball or from the down the line you would tend to still be able to see just a slight amount

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of that left arm.

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But the pelvis is going to be somewhere around 40 degrees, 45 degrees open.

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So what that means is that compared to my pelvis, my hands are going to be more like this

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at impact.

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So using that as an image can really help a lot of players.

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So basically what I'll have them do is we'll go to about waist height and I'll say, okay,

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right now, your hands are parallel to your belt buckle.

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Can you find a way to make contact where your hands stay parallel to the belt buckle

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or are they going to have to release to be more perpendicular?

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So hands getting parallel to the belt buckle and then basically staying there until I come

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through and make contact.

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For a lot of players this is going to feel like I've rotated a ton like my belt buckle

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is almost facing the target as I make contact with it or that I'm hitting it and kind

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of powering it with my lower body.

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Now the really important thing when you're doing this is that you're not just spinning your

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hips but that I'm pushing through the ground and I'm kind of connecting this movement

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to how I'm pulling on the club or how I'm speeding up the club.

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So what I'll frequently do is I'll have the player get in there and I'll come and

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I'll grab the grip and I'll say, okay, now try to get your hips facing the target but

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can you feel that all the way through the leg and all the way through the feet?

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So I'm not just kind of spinning on top of the ground.

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So you can do either nine to three and then once you have kind of that feeling, you can

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try and take four swings where that pelvis is getting open well before the arms end up

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extending.

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It's a visual alignment drill but it really helps with the sequencing and the timing of

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when those arms extend, similar to kind of the leave the arms behind your drill.

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So let's take a quick look from the down the line and point out one little thing.

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So from the down the line, if my hands are going to be more parallel to my belt buckle

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as I come through kind of like so then that means that at waist height because my hips

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are continuing to lead they're actually going to be slightly more than parallel as opposed

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to more perpendicular.

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If I don't get a ton of rotation then I'm going to tend to have this get perpendicular

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very quickly and it'll just kind of come through more like that.

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So if you're struggling with getting your body a little bit more open or getting more of

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a kind of toward looking impact position and getting that really good arm extension on

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the way through, try this one where you're going to get your hands feeling like they're

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following or like they're parallel to your belt buckle all the way through impact.

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That'll help you delay the time of the arms getting a better body impact position ultimately

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get more arm extension and hopefully improve your consistency of contact.