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This drill is retract the lead shoulder, not the lead elbow.

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So this is a drill to help with golfers who tend to have more of a chicken wing or more

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of a really strong arm shoulder pull on the way through.

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So that will typically look like on the way through, the elbow is going to bend the wrist

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might re-hinge or it might not, but the arc narrow is very quickly on the way through.

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That can be a company of variety of different pivot issues, but what it almost always does

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is it causes the club face to close and the path to get left.

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So you'll hit a lot of pull shots and you'll tend to hit a lot of thin fat shots.

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You'll have some contact issues and oftentimes you'll have a lot of toe shots because you're

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narrowing everything.

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So to get used to this arm staying straight, we're going to work on some shoulder blade retractions.

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I'm going to turn this way so that you can kind of see from this perspective here.

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So now I'm just going to practice reaching my shoulder blade and then retracting my shoulder blade.

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And I want to do it, that was a bad one where the elbow bent.

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I want to do it without bending the elbow and without moving my spine.

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So I don't want to do this.

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They're getting initiation or getting momentum from the body.

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So I'm going to try to not move my body.

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I could actually have some players do it seated at first.

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And then I'm just feeling that shoulder blade retract.

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Now the advanced version I'm going to add a little thumb pointing to it as I'm retracting like that.

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So now what I'm going to try to do, I've got this feeling of the shoulder blade retracting

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all that elbow stays straight.

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Now I'm going to do it wall the thumb points and I'm going to add some body rotation.

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So that's going to help me get into this L position.

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Now it's not going to be retracted maybe as much as I possibly can so that the shoulder blades are

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squeezing all the way into the spine.

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But it's just moving from a place where I've been kind of reaching,

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to pulling back more towards the neutral or a little bit past that.

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My big emphasis there is I don't want you to feel like it's the maximum shoulder squeeze that you

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could do.

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It's just more of learning to move the shoulder without moving the elbow.

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Okay, so now let's demonstrate few working through kind of some tenditudes and into four swings.

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I'm going to focus on this elbow staying straight.

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I'll often have golfers do this as a single arm if they're okay with doing a left arm

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only swing.

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So now I'm going to do a 9-3 where I focus on that shoulder pulling, but the elbow staying

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straight and the thumb pointing out.

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So it's a combo movement.

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We'll do another one there.

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That was a pretty good one.

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And then I'll have them put the trail arm on and they'll usually say, wow it feels like I got a ton of

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width, but hopefully that shoulder pull helps it feel like it's somewhat connected or stable.

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So now we'll do both hands on the club trying to get kind of a similar feel.

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Kind of like that.

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And this is just emphasizing that the shoulder can move while the elbow stays straight.

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If you are used to having more of a chicken wing pattern, then oftentimes even on the short ones,

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you will want to pull the arms in or pull on the grip.

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Usually to throw the club head down at the ball, kind of like that.

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So this gets much more quiet or even stiff feeling in the arms.

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While more of the movement is happening in the body pivot or in the hips and in the shoulder blade.

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So we can add more and more speed to it until we get it closer to the full swing.

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So let's do a 10 to 2.

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Kind of feeling there.

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And once you get past, I usually say chest height.

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Then you're going to have some arm or some elbow bend.

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But the goal, the intention here is that the shoulder is moving

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independent of the elbow bend.

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So I'll try to do a better 10 to 2 where I keep that going even later.

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So there, kept it all the way up until hands were pretty close to the head height.

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I don't think I could have gone into much more of a finish without letting the elbow bend a little bit there.

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So this is a really powerful drill for golfers who tend to have more of that arm pull.

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That could either be more of a chicken wing issue or that could be more of a stall issue where the body

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appears to stop it impact. This drill is really helpful for smoothing out and keeping with

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during the release and into the follow-through.