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Many golfers struggle with creating speed in the golf swing in the way they want. If you struggle with the way you pull on the club in transition this video will help you understand what should happen.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Member Question, Concept, Advanced, Intermediate
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This video is explaining the quiver pull.
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So there's a common phrase that's been around
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golf for a little while and I've used it a few times
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on the site from the top of the swing feeling
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like you're pulling an arrow out of the quiver.
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I'll use the whiteboard here in a bit to kind of draw
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where the force should be going, but roughly the force
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should be working in the general direction of where the grip
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is pointing during the entire downswing.
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So at the top of the swing, if the shaft is pretty close
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to parallel, I want to basically be pulling along the grip
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that way.
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Now that doesn't mean that I want to throw my arms
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and kind of get the whole grip moving this way.
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What it means is that if that's at the top of the circle,
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if I rotate my body, you could see how the force would
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be going more in the direction of where that grip is pointing.
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But by the time it's here, I'm no longer pulling out
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that way.
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I'm now pulling more in the direction of the grip.
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When it's straight up and down, now I'm pulling kind of there.
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When it's at in delivery position, kind of like this,
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now I'm pulling out in front of the golf wall.
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When it's here, I'm pulling towards the target.
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As it releases, now I'm pulling a little bit more
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in the direction of my body.
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So I just kind of think of it as more working around my body
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as opposed to pulling straight down, where you can get in trouble
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as if you get to the top of the swing and you're basically
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instead of pulling around kind of like so by using your body.
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If you get to the top of the swing and you're basically pulling
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more down kind of like this, it's going to create some awkward
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flat spot control.
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That's usually going to lead into a little bit more
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of a flip roll style release, which can hit the ball
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plenty straight, but tends to have very limited contact with the ground
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or flat spot down at the bottom.
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So the arc width that I talk about will tend to get
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come start getting narrow too quickly after impact.
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And that tends to cause some inconsistency.
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So in order to get that feeling of a little bit more of that
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pulling around your body, you just want to make sure that you're
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using your body to initiate transition as opposed to pulling down
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with your arms.
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It's really not that complicated to get the force going
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in the right direction.
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If you use your body, your obliques, your back, your hips,
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your legs, that's going to tend to create the right pattern
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as opposed to arbitrarily just trying to throw those arms out.
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So I've seen that misinterpreted.
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I thought it'd be helpful to clarify.
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I'll draw it on the whiteboard, which hopefully will help you
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be able to visualize it even more.
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So here we've got my crude Franken golfer at the top of this wing.
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So you can see here's that club position.
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And then this is roughly the direction that the force will be being
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applied.
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So the danger here is that if you were to pull down with your arms
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and really narrow, like so, some people have described
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as pulling down on the chain, I don't think you were actually
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pulled down.
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It would lead to good mechanics down here at the bottom.
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So what'll happen is if you're just rotating your body.
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So if your body is rotating around that way,
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you can see that because of where it is at the top of the swing,
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that force is going to be much more out along this way
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as opposed to straight down.
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Then when you get to about waist height,
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if you're continuing to rotate with your body, it's down.
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And now, as the body starts bracing right around here,
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the body is now going to start pushing that way.
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That's going to cause the club to want to line up and fly out.
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So now by this point, I'm kind of pulling a little bit more
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in my direction.
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And then at impact, I'm bracing away from here.
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And I'm actually the forces going back up towards me,
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even though the club is moving, or sorry, the club head is moving
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down out in a way.
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As the handle is moving just slightly up and in,
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kind of like so.
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So in order to get that transition movement,
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going in the right direction, you want to pull with your body.
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For some people, it's very helpful to feel
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that initial pull a little bit more along the axis of the club.
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As opposed to if it's more of kind of an arm pull,
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it will feel like it's pulling a little bit more straight down.
