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This drill is the trail arm corkscrew.

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Um, so the trail arm corkscrew is a way

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of integrating the arm rotation.

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Uh, during the downswing, especially during the release,

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a lot of golfers struggle with getting

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some internal rotation of the shoulder that usually shows up

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as the club getting steep in the

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early part of the downswing.

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Oftentimes while behind it gets behind the body kind

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of like this and then it has more of a catch up

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and kind of a, uh, a flip move

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where you'll see the elbow pointing at the camera

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or the face on camera very quickly in the follow through.

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It'll kind of go more like that if I was exaggerating.

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And you'll see it can cause poles, it can cause thin shots,

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toe shots, um, down

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regulates the power you can create with your body.

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Whole host of problems. So we wanna try

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to build a good quality tor release.

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Um, we're gonna work on the trail arm corkscrew,

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which is basically rotating your arm

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and your forearm in opposite directions.

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So when we do the trail arm kind of shoulder blade lock,

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we're gonna feel like the, the arm rotates into more

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of an external rotation.

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Now as we come through,

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we're gonna feel like the elbow stays pointing behind you

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or towards the road there,

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but now we're gonna feel like that forearm gets into

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that stop sign position.

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So the corkscrew feel is basically the forearm rotating one

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way and the shoulder rotating the opposite way,

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getting more connected.

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Kind of like a feeling like this, which you can see

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as I rotate through,

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helps keep the elbow pit pointing more up as opposed

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to the shoulder pointing down.

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That way when the shoulder is pointing down that way,

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the palm actually hasn't really, uh, rotated

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or the forearm hasn't really rotated.

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So this, uh, corkscrew feel is

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for getting this kind of fuller release of the arm,

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but not by releasing the shoulder.

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So we will work on it mostly in nine to threes.

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Uh, but then once we have it, we want to apply it into 10

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to twos full swing as quick as possible.

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So first one I'm gonna do is just right hand only version

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and I'm gonna put my left hand underneath here to support.

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And then I'm going to feel like I get into this position

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where the elbow is still pointed down,

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But the forearm has rotated so that the,

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it's in the nice shake hands with the target line,

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uh, finished position.

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So hand underneath this will help elbow staying down

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and the forearm is rotating.

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If you have trouble, uh,

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rotating your forearm independently, then I recommend doing

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a couple different little awareness drills.

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Where here I'm basically trying not to rotate the elbow

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and there I'm rotating the forearm.

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The next one, I'm now gonna try to rotate the shoulder.

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So now the forearm isn't moving.

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So now the advanced version would be, can I rotate

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them in opposite directions?

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Can I rotate the shoulder one way

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and the forearm in the opposite way?

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Not super easy, but that right there

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where I rotate the shoulder in,

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rotate the forearm the opposite way while doing a little

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bit of ulnar deviation.

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That's the corkscrew feel that we're trying to get

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to at the end of the follow through position.

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And just by doing those repetitions, I can feel a lot

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of heat in my shoulder, um,

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'cause I'm working some different muscles.

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So through there elbow pointing down.

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Okay, now we're gonna put both hands on

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and if you, this falls in the torture drill category.

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So if you had trouble making contact there,

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don't worry When you put the second hand on,

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sometimes the magic happens

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and the contact will be way better

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'cause you'll have both hands to support the club.

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Okay, so now we're gonna bring the club back

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and we're gonna get into this kind of corkscrew follow

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through position there.

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Elbow down, but forearm rotated with some ulnar deviation.

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There's some pretty good checkpoints right there.

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Okay, that looks good. So now I'm going to graduate

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and go a little bit bigger up.

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Same position there. It really helps, uh,

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by keeping the elbow turned this way,

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it really helps take away the pull miss.

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Um, and then the second half of the corkscrew.

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Getting the forearm to cover can really help

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with getting some compression.

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Um, if you tend to hit the ball really high,

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sometimes you're lacking that forearm rotation as well.

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Okay, so now let's tie it together with more

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of a full swing feel, full swing tempo.

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So we're going up to the top

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and we can check that one will be

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a little bit harder to feel.

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'cause once you go past this position here for the club

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to come around, the shoulder's naturally gonna have some

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rotation, so you can't really check it at the finish.

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Um, that's why I mostly do kind

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of abbreviated finishes when working

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on this release drill timing.

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Uh, but in doing so, you'll get some feels

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that then you can apply to your full swing.

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So if you're struggling with a little bit

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of trail arm mechanics, sometimes learning

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to get the corkscrew rotation is the breakthrough you need.