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Towel Pulls - Feeling Body Power In Transition

Golfers have been told that they are all arms, but rarely is that explained. One of the hot trends on tour is to work on how you "power the swing" which is essentially the same thing. I use this drill for helping golfers feel what it's like to power the movement from the arms (in more of a vertical way) or from the body (in more of a rotational way).

Tags: Drill, Intermediate, Beginner

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The Stirl is Tauples.

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So Tauples is essentially using a towel-like object.

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So in this case, I've got my sweatshirt, but basically a cloth object that allow you

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to experience how you're actually putting force into this club.

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So for this drill, we're not actually going to use a club.

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This is a great drill that you can do at home, but you can also do it on the range to kind

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of get a sense of what's going on.

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What I'll have my students do frequently is I'll have them go to the top of this wing,

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and I'll take the club and take it out of their hands and put a towel in their hands.

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So essentially, you're going to go up to the top of the swing just like so.

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If you don't have somebody who can actually hold the towel for you at the top, then you can

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always take a band and attach it into a door, kind of.

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So the door would be right here.

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The band would be pulling over my shoulder and I'd be grabbing it like that.

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So what I'll do is I will take them up to the top of the swing and I will grab onto the

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one end of the towel, and I'll say, okay, now I want to

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you to imagine you're going to start your downswing.

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And I will basically feel for how they're going to pull.

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Are they going to pull along the towel, which would basically be, if I'm starting with my

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body, what I'll feel is it'll feel like they're trying to pull the towel out of my

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hands, or are they going to pull mostly with their arms, and I'm going to feel that

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they're pulling straight down towards the golf ball just like so.

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So a few of my students have gravitated towards this feeling of wrapping yourself in the

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towel.

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So if you get up to the top of the swing and somebody is holding that towel, I'm going

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to basically wrap myself in the towel before those arms would actually release an

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extent.

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There's two major components to this.

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One is the direction that I'm pulling, and two is the rate in timing that I'm pulling

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in it.

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So for the first piece, the direction, the more that I'm kind of wrapping myself in the

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towel, the more that I'm going to be working in more of a rotational fashion, the more

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that I'm pulling kind of straight down with my arms, the more I'm using more my lats

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and my shoulders.

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That part's easy.

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The timing is the second piece.

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So the timing is going to be, if I'm wrapping myself in the towel, I basically want to

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have a real gradual build up to it.

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So if you watch me actually take a swing with this, you'll see that because it's a super

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super soft shaft, I'm essentially going to have to build it up even slower than I would

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normally.

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What, typically what happens is if they're pulling more straight down towards the golf

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ball, kind of like so, it will be more of a fast impulse and then kind of cruise through

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impact as opposed to a build all the way through so that the club really feels like

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I'm accelerating it through that release.

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So you can use a towel or a rubber band attached to a door or having a friend hold it to

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kind of get a big picture idea as far as how you are creating speed and how you're

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going to be applying for to that club.

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The more that we can get in this kind of rotational wrap myself along this swing plane

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or wrap myself in this towel, that feeling is going to lead towards more consistent contact

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a better tempo, more gears, those kind of things.

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The one caveat is with the wedges and the short game.

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If you're looking at the finesse wedges or the distance wedges, it's going to feel a lot

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more like that pulling straight down than it is like wrapping myself in the towel or

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in the blanket.