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This drill is called understanding right shoulder flexibility, obviously for a right hand

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golfer. So I'm going to talk about it in two different places. This can fit in the back

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swing or this can fit in transition. And it's important to understand how this flexibility

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applies to your swing so that you don't get frustrated if the swing doesn't look exactly

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like Tiger Woods. Remember we're trying to swing as efficiently as we can and do the right

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movements with what your body is comfortable doing. So the right shoulder flexibility is basically

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looking at how much of this movement that we call external rotation you have. And if you see if

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I had this up against the wall, I can get roughly 20, 30 degrees past zero, which is about the

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tour average. The tour average from here would be about 110, 115 degree angle or so. Now where that

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shows up is if I went to the top of my swing, you can see that this elbow is pretty vertical or

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pointed, you know, close to the ground. It's not pointed way out here. Well, if you were to check your

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right shoulder flexibility and this is as far as you can go, then if you got into your

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good golf posture and turned, you can see how that would create what would appear like a flying

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elbow or slightly across the line. Understand that that is more of your flexibility than a swing fall.

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And the problem is what a lot of players will do to fix that is they will lose their posture and

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stand up. So now I have the arm vertical, but I completely lost my body angles and lost the

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engine of my golf swing. So if your right shoulder is a little tight, don't worry if that arm

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feels like it's kind of drifting away. Same thing with transition, getting into that delivery

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shot put position. If you have a hard time getting that elbow in front of your body, it could simply

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be that you have a limitation in this right shoulder. In which case you can let that right arm

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work more along the side, the way someone like Jim Furik might do. Yes, it's not as powerful,

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but it can get the club to come in from the proper angle, so you can make solid contact

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and improve your distance from hitting closer to the center of percussion. So don't get too caught up

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with having the exact perfect looking positions like you see in the models. We're going to work

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with what your body is capable of doing. And if the right shoulder is a little tight, you may

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you may struggle with what you see in the top of the swing or in transition.