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This drill is shallow wall slide.

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So I've got a wall behind me that I'm going to use to help me with my spatial awareness.

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Because my brain is not really going to fight that there's a wall here, but sometimes

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he gets lost into what shallow might feel like.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to get set up a little bit away from the wall and

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I'm going to go up to the top of my swing.

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And then I'm going to back up so that the club is up against the wall.

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So now I know about where I want to stand.

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I recommend using an older club, just in case you're already getting any scratches.

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If you're doing this at home, then put some type of cover like a sock or something around

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the club.

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But this wall is pretty slick enough that the club is going to slide on it.

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Because I'm going to go up to the top of the swing and then I'm going to start down

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until I get to about delivery position.

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And I'm going to try to keep the club up against the wall.

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Now you'll see once I get out past delivery position, the club would come off the wall.

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A lot of golfers who struggle with steepening in transition either pull their arms down

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kind of like this and the club will come off the wall instantly.

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Or they would spin their upper body and the club would get more out into this space.

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So I use this with it as a good little spatial awareness station for golfers who

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kind of lose feel of the club early in transition when you can't really see it.

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So one more time I'm going to go up to the top of the swing, slide it down.

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Now you'll notice as I'm doing this I'm trying to make a good lower body pivot and lower

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body rotation.

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And then from here I'm just going to swing through.

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Now I have to be really careful if I'm a golfer who tends to be kind of more of a type

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of a really aggressive on the way through.

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It's more likely I'm going to hit the wall on the follow-through side.

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So I recommend more of this as a position training or more of a Tai Chi type movement.

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But you can actually try and get some ground contact.

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You just have to feel comfortable that you are going to stop before you get into this

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9-3 position.

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Now you may notice this is kind of an exaggeration drill.

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You may notice as you're doing this if you're making contact with a mat or ground that

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the path is a little bit more into out.

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Well, the more that I turn my body and the more that my upper body kind of stays on top,

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the more that that is going to help balance that out.

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But again I want to be real careful with not hitting the wall in the follow-through.

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So if you're golfer who tends to get steep really early in transition, sometimes this early

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feeling of keeping the club on the wall is just enough to help you figure out the space of where

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you want to keep the club during transition.

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Apply that to the rest of your swing and it will help with your overall ground contact and consistency.