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This drill is split grip club throw.

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So one of the key concepts for getting good with your wedge play is making sure that you're

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not creating a lot of lag in the downswing, so building on your cast sequence.

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So one of the ways that you can cast sequence is typically when I'm moving the extremities

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faster than I'm moving my core, the proximal part.

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Well one way to strengthen and give the arms more power is to split your hands.

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And so that's where in a lot of other sports like hockey you get a lot of powerful movement

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from the arms not quite as much from the body because the hands are further apart.

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So we're going to adopt that to help us get the feeling of either the club dropping or

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even throwing it.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring the club back with very little grip travel.

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And then from here I'm just going to drop or throw the club down towards the ground.

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Some people feel more of an active throw and some people feel more of a kind of passive drop.

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But once it's down towards the end of this drop then your body is going to continue moving with it

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as it comes through.

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So it's going to have a look of here and then through or.

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So I'm I'm almost riding the momentum or coasting with the momentum in order to bring it through

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and sometimes the split grip drill is very good for helping you feel that.

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So we're going to bring it back.

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And now get that drop happening first and then bring the club through.

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See if we can do one that was pretty good.

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We'll see if we can do it a little bit better.

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So drop and then through pretty comparable.

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So if that feels drastically different then what you can do is pause where you think it would

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feel different and then bring your hands together.

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And you may feel like normally I have the club with a lot more angle or the club is higher

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off the ground.

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Oftentimes when you're feeling this drop move it gets the club load of the ground.

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And then but it doesn't hit the leading edge so I'm able to then even though the club is

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low to the ground I'm still just skimming the ground for that good 4 to 6 inch zone down near the

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bottom.

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If you have the club too high because you haven't released the hands then it's going to

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tend to come into the ground a little bit too steep for a lot of golfers.

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I save that one but oftentimes if you have any rotation if you're coming in steep like that

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you can tend to get low point problems.

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So feel a little bit earlier drop from the arms and combine that with a feeling of the body bringing

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the club on coasting on the way through.

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So basically use the arms early and then don't use them through impact and that will help you

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with your overall ground contact and likely help you improve controlling your trajectory

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and distance control.