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The drill is trail arm pronation in the backswing.
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So some golfers make a really good one piece, take away, keep in that right elbow wide,
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focusing, you know, keeping it with the core.
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But then end up getting really flat during their setting phase.
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So it's a less common problem, I don't see it at a time.
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But if you struggle with it, usually the key is going to be more in this trail wrist.
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So on 3D it's one of those weird graphs that you look at it and it seems like it should
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be going the other way, but there's a fairly common pattern.
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So the golfers who tend to get a little bit flatter will tend to have not as much pronation
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or rotation this way of this trail arm.
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So once you get into that setting phase, feeling like this lead form is rotating as it sets
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around that fixed shoulder kind of gives the verticality.
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So if I were to keep supinating and it'll go like this, but if I were to now add pronation
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it stands the club up.
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I tend to see it more with that and less with restricting the movement of the lead arm,
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but potentially it could be the left shoulder as well.
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So if you get here and the right arm is trying to do this, but the left arm kind of really
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comes off your body, you can still get flat.
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That's rare, but the more common one would be you get to here and you just let that
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form rotate as opposed to letting it rotate.
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The opposite direction almost says if I was doing a throwing movement.
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So it gets to here and then it pronates and that helps create some of the verticality,
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which helps keep the club out in front of you so that when you initiate transition you
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can let it drop, still get into that good position before your good release.
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So if you're struggling with getting a little bit too flat or laid off at the top,
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it's usually this trail arm rotation.
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The tour average is somewhere around 40 degrees and I've seen amateurs as low as 10.
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So when you get really flat it is possible that it's purely this one movement.
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So you hold your arm out in front of you, you basically rotate so that palm is facing
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down and then extend the wrist.
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Just like we talk about in the backswing step by step.
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So now we're going to make the good one piece take away and now start starting right
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about here really feeling that arm rotate as I go to set.
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That's going to make it feel very upright, but that will allow you to then shallow during
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transition where often what can happen is if I get too far behind, I won't actually shallow
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the club.
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What I'll end up doing is have more vertical drop and often potentially steepening the path
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of the club.
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So if you're struggling with getting the setting phase of your backswing, focus on that
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trail arm rotating or pronating to help steepen the shaft so that you can then execute
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good shallow movements during your transition.
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So it looks kind of one and then let it rotate as you go to set.
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And you can do it in one movement and then you can do it in one movement making contact.