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This drill is the scapular triangle. Uh,

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so the scapular triangle is a drill for helping you work on using your shoulder

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blades in the backswing and in transition. Um, and it's a pretty easy drill.

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We're gonna put down the club. Uh,

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we're gonna bring our hands together to form the triangle.

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And now what we're gonna do is we're gonna feel the scapula movement or the

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shoulder blade movement is going to control the movement of my body.

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So in this standing just kind of horizontal position,

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I'm going to pull my right shoulder blade back,

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and as I pull that right shoulder, black, uh, shoulder blade back,

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it's going to rotate my body to the right just like this.

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And you'll see just from feeling a pull of that shoulder blade,

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I'm able to get quite a bit of body rotation. Um,

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'cause it's driven by the shoulder blade,

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so it's not quite just like I'm locking my body down and just pulling the

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shoulder blade back like this, but more,

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I'm pulling that shoulder blade back and I'm letting my body rotate with it.

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So then we're gonna add the transition component.

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So now I'm gonna do that scapular backswing. So I've turned almost 90 degrees,

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and now what I'm gonna do is I'm going to start by turning down with the lower

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body, um,

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which is basically going to be pulling the shoulder blade back.

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Because I'm turning this way. It's kind of like if,

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if the glove hand is my rib cage, I'm pulling it back.

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And then as I start to rotate this way effectively the shoulder blade rotates

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even further back. Um, so if I do one where I face this way,

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you'll probably be able to see from the back camera there,

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I'm going to pull that back. And now as I start down right there,

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I'm gonna feel pretty much like a maximum contraction of that right shoulder

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blade pulling in towards the spine. So now we're gonna add it into,

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or we're gonna add golf posture in the mix.

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So we're gonna get down in our golf posture and now we're going to, uh,

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put our hands together.

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The tricky thing here is now when we do the scapular backswing,

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we're gonna have a little bit of, uh, arm rotation.

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So it would look, if I did it up here, it would look more like this,

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where it rotates, you know, 40, 45 degrees or so. Um,

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as opposed to just doing it, uh,

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kind of while keeping the arms in the exact same orientation. All right,

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so now scapular backswing,

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I'm going to pull that shoulder blade back and let those arms rotate.

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If I put my hands in grip position,

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that would be pretty close to where I'd want to be at the top of the swing. Um,

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with, uh, maybe a little extra hip motion, a little extra spine extension, um,

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and maybe a little bit more, um, forearm wrist set.

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But let's get that shoulder blade working in the correct fashion.

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So we're going to make this backswing pivot driven by that shoulder blade,

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and we'll have that little rotation.

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And now we're gonna go into that transition move. And if I wanted to keep going,

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I just feel like that shoulder blade stays engaged and my pelvis is bringing it

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down in position. And then I could let the shoulder blade go, um,

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after impact or on the follow through side of the ball.

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So let's do one more of those. Um,

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I think of this as more of like a good tai chi exercise that you can do at home

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or during your workout in between sets. Um, or to break, uh,

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some of the repetitiveness of hitting ball after ball after ball.

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It's gonna be a really good isolation drill. So here we go again.

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We're gonna try to blend it. So up to the top with a little bit of rotation,

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feeling mostly shoulder blade movement. Good.

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Now we're gonna lock that in and now we're gonna keep that locked in all the way

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down to impact. And then we can let it come around and through, um,

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as we go forward. So now we'll try to tie that feeling, uh,

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to some slow motion golf swings. So scapular movement here.

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So we're gonna get into our set of posture, preset,

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a little bit of that shoulder blade back.

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Now I'm gonna feel like I pull that shoulder blade back,

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pull it a little bit more there in transition. And I'm going to go through,

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into that follow through position, trying to feel like that shoulder blade, um,

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stays back.

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So I think of this one as kind of like more of a tai chi or slow motion drill,

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really emphasizing that shoulder way back. Um, so to challenge it,

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we're not really gonna lengthen the swing 'cause it's already a full length

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swing.

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We're gonna ramp up the speed or decrease the time of those little pauses for

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the each of the checkpoints.

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So next one we're gonna go just a little bit faster.

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So we're gonna go scapular up to the top,

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pull it down and a little bit faster. Feels like a pretty good nine to three.

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And then kind of the,

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the last version would be doing it in more of a fluid

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complete drill. Maybe not quite full speed, but fluid drill.

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So we're gonna feel shoulder blade back, kinda like that. And it, it,

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what you'll usually feel is a lot more activity or some stretching going on

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in your lower ribs kind of in this area.

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This band of your body is gonna be doing a lot more movement, um,

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than you're used to if you're, if you're the type who does more of kind of, um,

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lifting the arms and keeping that shoulder blade forward from the down the line

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camera,

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it makes that shoulder look like it's really high and it has a tendency to get

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those arms steep. Um, but by pulling that shoulder blade back,

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it's gonna aid rotation and transmit some of that rotation nicely to your arms,

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getting you set up for some really good, uh, impact position angles.

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So try that if you're struggling to get your shoulder blades working correctly

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in the golf swing. So usually after doing that,

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the next swing feels very body driven and very smooth,

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kinda like that.