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In this finesse swing drill video, we're going to go over the single arm releases.

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So just like in the full swing and in putting, we're going to break the release down into

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what the right arm is going to do and what the left arm is going to do.

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So for the right arm or the trail arm for a right hand golfer,

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you're going to take your normal setup position,

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paying attention to what we talked about in the overview video,

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and you're then going to take your left hand off the club and place it on your right thigh.

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From here, you're just going to do a little backswing and then kind of let the club drop

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and when it gets down towards the bottom, let your body turn with it.

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What you'll pay attention to is two things.

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Because the right arm is connected over here,

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behind the golf ball, it will be very easy to get the shaft leaning vertical or closer to vertical

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than when we do the left hand.

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The other thing is because of the weight of the club and the relatively weak position

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my right arm is in, I'm going to encourage me to allow the arm or allow the club to initiate

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transition. So if you remember one of the big issues that we tend to see with short game shots

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is getting to here and then creating a lot of this shaft lean or creating a lot of this

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lower body dynamics from having the lower body lead the swing like in the full swing.

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As you saw, that will cause a lot of fat shots because you're not going to hold on to the angle

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the way that you would in the full swing. So right arm again is just going to come back until the

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club is about 90 degrees and toe up and then from there it's just going to drop and brush the ground.

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One of the things that you may see in the follow-through position is that this arm is actually

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going to be close to my side as opposed to fully extended like when we were doing the single arm

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releases in the full swing. So second piece is looking at the lead arm or the left arm for

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right hand golfers. So the left arm we're going to focus on the back of this left wrist because

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what's typically going to happen with bad wedge players is they're going to get the club shut

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and probably inside. So they will take it back low and inside like so and then if they just came

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down that leading edge is very much exposed and so what they'll typically do is stand up and fall

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back in order to try to get the club to open back up. In this single arm release we're going to

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practice keeping that cup and keeping the club more out in front of my body. So the lead arm

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would look something like that. If I was to then put my trail arm in place that's still kind of

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in the same place. So just like we did in the putting and just like we did in the full swing when

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you're practicing each of these arms you want to make sure that they're taking the club through

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the same path. So you can take your right hand backswing switch-hands that has the same cup

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it's in the same place. If I now go through this still has the cup I put my right hand on it's in

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the right place. So use your hands to train each other on how to use the release for the finesse wing

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and this will help support the sequencing or the engine of the golf swing that we've talked about

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in some of the other videos.