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This backswing drill is top corner of the strike zone.

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So this is more of a visual of where I want your hands to move when your arms are making

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a really good backswing.

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So I have other drills where I kind of break through rotating the arms in this direction,

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but I've had a visual that I use for a number of students that seem to help when you're

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practicing the backswing of just the arms.

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I want you to imagine your playing baseball and you've got the strike zone.

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So we've got the kind of the box, the strike zone from about your knees to your shoulders

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kind of like that.

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We are going to move our hands in a slight rotation up towards the top corner of the backswing

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while keeping that right arm in front of the body.

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So it tends to be more like this.

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Two common patterns that I see in takeaways are basically doing all of the linear and

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then all of the vertical in one order of the other.

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So the most common, poor backswing pattern is you bring your arms across and then you

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lift them up.

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That often is accompanied with flying elbow and getting really steep and across the line.

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But that takeaway was across and then up.

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The less common one but the one that I'll still see is a little bit of up and then rotate.

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So it's kind of a straight up almost over.

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Like I said, it usually that second one is definitely less common but it happens more with

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golfers who are really kind of knee dominant knee active.

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So let's look through those couple examples and then the good one that we like.

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So the first one is going to be bring it over and then bring it up.

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If I turn especially with a flat shoulder plane if I do that, if I bring it over that

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brings the club way inside, if I bring it up now it's getting across the line and

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steep and so now when I turn to come down and pull down this club is in a very steep position.

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So even though it's going to shallow, it's almost vertical when I get into arm parallel

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or P5 and from there I'm going to have to do some type of major body shallowing to make

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contact.

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So you'll see if I if I demonstrate that one, if we go across and

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then up, I'll have a lot of trouble making contact.

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That's kind of where the classic over the top steep pattern and I tried to re-arrow it but

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wasn't able to do that made really poor contact.

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So the second one would be usually no real rotation at first but kind of a pickup move

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more like this and then sometimes some rotation but often times it's just a pickup and

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then pull the arms down typically hits a really weak slice like I did there.

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So again that would be compared to the straight zone.

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I'm just basically lifting the hands straight up and then having a little bit of body rotation.

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That one's hard for me to ignore or exaggerate because I'm such a body dominant player.

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Okay so then the last one which would be the one that we want is a little bit more of a

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blend of up and out so I'm going to move up towards this corner of the straight zone and

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I'm going to feel like my left arm does a little bit of a barrel roll or a little bit

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of a rotation this way so that the elbow is pointing more away from me and I'm going to

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feel like the trail arm does a little bit of that jazzy Jeff move or the shoulder external

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rotation.

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So if I do those two together in one movement it'll end up looking kind of like that.

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So if I if I control the club face and get it into that position that tends the set

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me up where I can have a pretty neutral transition I could hit draw hit a fade arms

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were in position to drop in shallow body is in position to power the swing.

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So if you're struggling with your backswing off season is a good time to clean it up you

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can tell by the weather here it's off season in California.

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So working a little bit on the backswing I thought share with you a visual that's helped

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a number of students who struggle with the arms getting a little bit out of sorts during

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their backswing.

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It's one more good one for the down the line.

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Just like that.