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Side Arm Throw

Tags: Early Extension, Standing Up, Cast, Iron, Driver, Fairway Wood, Impact, Release, Drill

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The drill is sidearm throw under the left arm.

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So this is a old classic drill for getting the Jackson 5 and the side tilt or the axis tilt.

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So many golfers who struggle with their driver or three would in this case get too much on top of the ball.

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Requiring a big arm shallowing movement late that can create club-based control problems,

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low point problems, spin problems, whole host of problems for the longer clubs.

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So what we're going to do here is we'll curl in a couple more golf balls.

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You're going to get set up and then you're going to take your left arm and place it on top of the

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the golf club like this. So the golf club straight up and down in front of the left left foot.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to throw sidearm underneath this underneath my left arm.

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Now this is roughly where I would be when the club is out here.

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And what would happen is if I got in front, if I lunge and got my upper body on top of my left hip,

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I'd have to throw underhand because if I threw sidearm, I would throw it more down towards the ground.

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So this is a feeling of not getting this tilt from hanging backward, but getting this tilt

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from getting my lower body forward just like so. So one more time, I mean my setup posture,

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I'm throwing underneath or sidearm kind of like this. And then that's pretty much where I want to be

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in this follow through position. Oftentimes I'll combo this with a upper body awareness drill.

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So now I can kind of create that side bend feel just like I was throwing underneath my shaft.

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That will help clean up some of the ground contact, create a little bit longer, uh, brushing pattern.

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It should help you not sky the ball. So if you're used to popping it up or hitting it on high

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on the club, it should help out with that as well. So it's a really good kind of feel or rhythm type

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sequencing drill for getting the lower body to lead and getting the the body to turn through the shot.

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So you can see I'm using my hips and my core without lunging. If you tend to be more of a

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upper body lunge or too much upper body spin, this is a great drill for feeling that disconnect.

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It's also good if you tend to pull too much with that left arm because by having the arm

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anchored out here, it really helps you feel that shoulder stay a little bit more closed on the

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way through as opposed to pulling in kind of like this. So it has a really good kind of feel benefit

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for a couple of different of a couple of the major problems that sabotage and prevent people from

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doing well with the driver three would even the hybrids.

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