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This drill is pool noodle bracing. Um,

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so pool noodle bracing is one of the one of the few drills that I really love to

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use to work on your finished position. Um, oftentimes golfers who, uh,

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kind of struggle with some of their contact, their low point, um,

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happens because on the way through they get into a pretty good looking impact

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position.

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But then on the way through their upper body kind of has more of a chase move

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kind of like this,

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where it stays flexed forward and it has more of a upper body rotation,

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usually driven by the scapula, um, and the, the body staying in,

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um,

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flexion as opposed to going into more rotation combined

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with extension, which is a term called torsion or negative torsion.

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So basically the upper cut move would help your, your head,

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the center of your upper body,

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stay more in line with the golf ball instead of moving forward backward.

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Oftentimes golfers who have a big forward movement during the

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follow through side of the ball or during the release will tend to have a hard

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time, um, getting the upper body far enough forward during transition.

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So they'll tend to get more back here and get into a position where then it can

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go forward. But that requires a fair amount of timing. It can cause, um,

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some low point issues, especially with the wedges. Um, and it can cause some,

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some thin shots and some hook shots and things like that.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take a pool noodle to give us a little bit

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more spatial awareness,

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and we're gonna place it so that it's in line with your left shoulder. Um,

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and we're primarily gonna do this with irons. Uh,

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you could do this with a driver, um, but uh,

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I would probably err on doing it more with the iron, especially short irons.

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You'll see why. What we're gonna do now is during the backswing,

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we're gonna try to exaggerate it.

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So we're gonna try to get our upper body closer to the pool middle,

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almost a reverse pivot. We're gonna try to really, um, cover that lead side.

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So if I cover that lead side,

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what would happen is if I'm going to stay inflection,

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I'm gonna feel really stuck, really steep, really diggy,

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and I'm typically gonna feel kind of like stall. Like I,

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I've got nowhere to go and I'm gonna really bend and collapse the arms on the

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way through. Instead from this position,

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we've got it in line with our left shoulder.

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We're gonna get close to it towards the top of the swing,

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and then we're gonna feel like we stay the same distance away as

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we go through.

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And that has this feeling of this upper cut move or going into some extension

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with the upper body as you're turning through.

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This also helps with lengthening your follow through.

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A lot of golfers who tend to have a really short follow through, uh,

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lack some of this extension movement.

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So they tend to get more kind of there where you could see if I extend

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that magically makes the, uh, golf swing much longer. So I can do this, um,

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on shorter shots, nine to three. Uh, but I actually love doing this, um,

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as a kind of minimum doing more, um,

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10 to twos now because this is kind of a connecting drill. Like I said,

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the goal here since we're using more shorter irons,

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is to feel like I'm on top of it or ahead of it so that I

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can then use that extension move to avoid getting too steep or,

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or too diggy. One of the other exaggerations that I'll do, um,

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and this is similar to kind of getting the handle the low to high release idea.

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Um, if I was to get way ahead of the golf ball and create a ton of,

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of lag and lead and get way ahead of it,

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if I just released this would come into the ground very steep.

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But if I was to get into this position and then come up

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out of it by not hitting the pool new, going into extension, um,

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it allows me to not get too diggy, kind of shallow it out late,

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but create this flat spot that we're searching for. Um,

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so if you're struggling with your finish,

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sometimes a little station like the pool noodle is just the right visual spatial

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guide you need. Place it.

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So it's just about in line with your shoulder and try to get your upper

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body to finish forward towards that front foot,

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but your head slightly back so you have a nice hip extension,

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your abs are still tight, chest extension, and then, uh,

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arms finishing kind of more in front.

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That'll help you get that classic finished position. One last point I should,

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uh, make. A lot of golfers when I first put this here, uh,

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will tend to get everything back so they'll almost have more of kind of like a,

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a reverse pivot where I'm actually faking it. I'm still flex forward,

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I just kept everything back.

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So that's why I wanna make sure I can get over the front foot, use my glutes,

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and then get into that more golfie spine extension here.

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So if you're struggling with your finish,

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especially if you were maybe an ex baseball player, try the pool noodle, um,

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uh, pool noodle bracing to really hone in that classic golf finish position.

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Look.