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This drill is resisted wrist backswing.

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Um, so one of the kind of missing links for a lot of golfers

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to maintain good arm tension, um,

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comes from the movement of the wrist.

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Uh, oftentimes what a lot

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of golfers do is they have a really

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strong, uh, forearm tension.

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So the wrist is kinda locked

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and they do, they do more

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of the backswing movement here at the shoulder.

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And so if you start

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to work on getting a little bit more connection in the

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shoulder, then what happens is they uh,

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they feel like it's only a half swing

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'cause they haven't figured out how

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to create any movement of the wrist.

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And that movement of the wrist helps to build

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that tension all the way into the shoulder,

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mostly the trail arm.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take our towel

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and we're gonna get into our golf posture,

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and we're going to hold the towel pretty close

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to the way we would have our normal, normal grip as far as,

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you know, the v's kind of pointing this way.

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But we're gonna create some tension

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by pulling apart, kinda like this.

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So you wanna grip it pretty close so

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that your hands are close together.

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Um, you don't wanna be gripping it too far apart like this,

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so we're gripping it close together,

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but our thumbs are pointing away kinda like that.

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And now what we're gonna do is you can feel,

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you can see if I try to extend the wrist, so if I try

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to do this motion like this, I can resist it

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by pulling this way.

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I don't wanna resist it by going into extension more.

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I want to resist it by feeling like this left shoulder

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is the anchor and I'm kind of pulling it away there.

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So now I've got those two pulling.

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I can feel like my arms

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and shoulders are much more connected,

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and now I'm going to make a backswing where I feel like

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that wrist is going to make this motion here

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and I'm gonna feel some different muscles

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in my shoulders getting active.

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So I'm gonna get set up, create that tension,

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increase that tension as I'm making my back swing.

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Now I'm gonna do one where I look at the golf wall

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'cause that'll challenge my neck flexibility.

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Um, or it'll make my swing my drill a

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little bit more realistic.

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Sometimes if you're focusing on your hands,

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you'll end up kind of like moving way off the ball

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or just having a, an abnormal pivot.

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So now I'm gonna look at the golf ball

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and I'm gonna make that pivot.

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Now I've got a feel, I've got a visual,

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I've got kind of a checkpoint.

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Um, whenever I'm doing kind of an exaggeration uh,

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drill like this, I would tend to like to start

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with a little bit more of a freezer

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drill or a hit from the top.

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So I'm gonna go up to the top, get into that position

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that still feels the same.

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I've got a really strong sense in this right arm, uh,

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that I got from that, that little towel drill.

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So I'm up to there

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and then I'm going to swing through.

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One of the benefits of a pause drill is it gives you time

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to kind of collect and really work on your sequencing

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for leading transition.

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Um, so at combos, getting your,

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your backswing into a certain position,

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but it also combos initiating

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that transition with your lower body.

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So I highly recommend, uh, pause drills at some point

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during the year as part of your backswing training.

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Okay, so we'll do that one more time.

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And the goal would be to, as I practice it more

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and more to still pause, but decrease the amount of pause.

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So I'm gonna create that tension in the wrist.

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There's my feel, so now tension in the wrist, pause

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and then good transition.

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Let my body bring it through

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and just get into a good follow through position.

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So try that if you're struggling with getting, uh,

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feeling connection and getting your body

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and your arms to sink up at the top of the swing,

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if you have a little bit more of an arm dominant swing

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or a little bit too much upper body sway off the ball, uh,

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this resisted, uh, wrist backswing drill can help clean

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that up.