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This drill is stir the pasta. Um,

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so stir the pasta is one of the phrases that I'll use for golfers, um,

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to help them avoid getting steep at the bottom. Uh,

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so many golfers get to into,

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we'll say a decent delivery position and then have the look of getting on top at

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the bottom, usually comboed by kind of breaking down. Um,

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oftentimes causes either diggy contact or toe contact or poles.

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Um, the classic kind of steep at the bottom, um, mist patterns.

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So stir the pasta is basically a,

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a drill that I'll give as a homework assignment.

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So ultimately this is going to be a drill that I want you to do in the kitchen,

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um, to kinda reinforce the shoulder position. So I've got the wooden, uh,

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wooden spoon here. And most of you, if you were going, you know,

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if you had a pot right here and you're gonna stir the pasta,

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you would do it in efficient way, a really strong way and put it like this.

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Now this is really bad golf mechanics. I've got my shoulder, um,

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elevated, disconnected internal rotation, radial deviation, um, going like this.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna try to stir the pasta in more of a golf

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way where we're gonna hold it out and we're going to try and stir the pasta

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this way. Now I'm gonna feel like my shoulder is back.

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My tricep is kind of connected. The arm is in more external rotation. Um,

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and I can even add a little extension kinda like this.

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And you'll feel some different muscles as you're doing this and you might get

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tired pretty quickly. Um,

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this is a much more efficient way from the shoulder position,

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but if I got in this shoulder position,

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it's kind of disconnected if I go to rotate my core,

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where if I'm in this position as I move my core and my pelvis,

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my arm tends to follow along. So this can be a easy, uh,

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everyday practice that you can do. Um,

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and it's become a phrase for some of my students to stir the pasta.

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Now where that would show up is as I'm coming down right around now,

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I'm gonna have more of a feel of this kind of dumping this way as my

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body is turning to get down to impact. So a little more, uh,

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dynamic or advanced version is now we're going to have

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a really big pasta spoon and we're gonna try and make some contact with the

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impact bag with the club upside down. But back in this space here.

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So I'll use the description of stirring the pasta of being kind of the,

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the club head being behind or down behind the arm rather

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than more on top of it or in front of it. So, uh,

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golfers who tend to get steep at the bottom or kind of letting that club head

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catch up, where if I'm doing more of this stir the pasta model, um,

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it's gonna feel weak at the arm,

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but it's gonna be more powerful in terms of the core and the rotation.

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And it really helps shallow things out at the bottom and preserve arc width on

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the way through. Both of those are really helpful for consistency,

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especially in avoiding the pull shot.

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So now I can kind of put the other hand on and get a little bit of this

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kind of feel where now it feels like that left arm is a little bit up and the

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club is way down here.

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This might be a challenging drill if you are used to being really steep and ret

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retaining that wrist hinge really long into the downswing. From here,

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you're gonna be more extending that way where stirring the pasta,

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that wrist movement is gonna feel like it kind of starts earlier,

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but the arm and the shoulder movement is gonna happen later.

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So now I'll turn it around and I'm gonna get things kind of stirring

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similar to like a zoro loop feel where I'm going to get the,

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the club moving in this back space,

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this space behind the shoulder and down.

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But the arms are still getting in front, kind of like that.

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So now I can turn this into more of a release style pump

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where I'm gonna bring it to kind of a delivery position and I'm gonna feel like

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I get into that, um, release space or stir the pasta space.

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And at the same time I'm going to turn,

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rotate and add a little bit of bracing.

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So I'm gonna get it up into kind of a parallel position. Get into that,

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stir the pasta feel.

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So get up and then stir the pasta feel and you'll,

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you'll hear and you'll see that it really shallows things out and it's not gonna

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look no anywhere near as dramatic as what I was uh,

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doing with the soup spoon,

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but the feeling of my shoulder being a little bit more kind of locked in,

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kinda like that doorknob shoulder lock, um,

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is gonna be quite strong now because I've rehearsed it a couple different ways

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with the pasta store and with the impact bag.

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So we will do one more that's not a pump, we'll just do it kind of dynamically.

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We're gonna make a backswing and it'll feel like it kind of

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falls behind, stays behind longer, and my body rotates through.

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The timing of when that happens is gonna be the same regardless of whether I

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take a full swing. So as I take a full swing,

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I'm just gonna have to wait a little bit and then feel that stirring the pasta

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there, uh, later during the release. But if you do that,

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that should really help with shallowing out the bottom of the swing and creating

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some good consistency of arc width and club face control on the way through.

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So pasta in the pocket. Let's see if we can get a good stir.

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The pasta feel,

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I don't like that. Really shallow bottom of the bottom of the swing.

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Didn't even take a divot. Hit a nice little draw at the target.

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Solid shot.