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Keys To Transition
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In this drill, you can work on the transition sequence without a ball or club. Practice at home using a mirror so that you can see which piece of the movement feels the weirdest. With practice, you will be able to do all these movements simultaneously, but initially, you may have to work on one at a time.
The pieces in transition are a lateral bump of the hips to the left foot, while the left shoulder dips down slightly. I repeat, the left shoulder dips down. The greatest amount of side flexion for virtually all tour professionals I have ever seen on 3D happens just after the top of the swing, and the players do not move into right side bend until the hands are at delivery position. It is usually the left shoulder dipping down that feels weird if you have struggled with fat shots. You will feel “WAY TOO CLOSE” to the golf ball. This moving of the lower body will create space for your arms to move the club in to a NARROW position. In order to do this, bend the right arm, extend your right wrist, and flex your left wrist. Here’s the last piece, while practicing this movement of your arms, allow your forearms to rotate and flatten slightly.
Tags: Transition, Drill, Intermediate
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This is practicing just the transition sequence.
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So this is kind of a details of the pump.
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It's a great way to practice the three or four moves that you'll be working on in transition.
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The key movements in transition are going to be this bump for this lateral shift.
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The upper body getting closer to the ground or to the golf walls to help me kind of press in the ground and use the ground.
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That arms shallowing and getting narrower while the club face is starting to close.
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So each one of those pieces basically if I work on just the arms here I am kind of at the top of the swing.
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If I was to rotate so here I am at the top of the swing. The arm movements.
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It's going to the hands are going to stay relatively high and I'm going to let that club drop down.
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Like I talk about in the Zoro loops or in the delivery position.
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And at the same time you can see that I've already got the club face starting to close.
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So it gets kind of just like this.
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Now from the body it's going to be this lateral movement to get in line with my left heel and my upper body coming down towards the ground.
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So if I do that all at once it's basically going to look like that.
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So all at once it's going to look like that.
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Some of the issues you may have would be if your arms are pulling more down and kind of steepening or if your body tends to want to stand up.
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So this little details of the pump or practicing just the transition will help you feel where you want to be by the timing this transition ends.
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So I'm demonstrating a couple from the down the line.
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So up here I'm basically shallowing and getting into this good position.
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It's coming down while I'm getting my weight shift.
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And then I can try to recreate that same movement.
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So it's hard to work on the transition without doing full swings.
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But some of this kind of Tai Chi detail practice at home can help make what you're working on on the range or on the course a little bit more comfortable.
