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Trail Arm Pull

Many golfers struggle with consistency because of a "flip". That flip can originate from the wrist or the shoulder. When it comes more from the shoulder, I often call it a trail arm throw. The throw motion involves the shoulder going into internal rotation and abduction creating that common gap between the trail arm and the body. The trail arm pull involves staying in external rotation and moving into more adduction. This drill helps you get that feeling long enough into the downswing to really make progress with your stall flip release.

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This drill is Trail arm pull. So Trail arm

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pull is a way to kind of help combat some of that throw

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that plagues a lot of golfers with

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either chunky contact Diggy contact or

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pulls as the most common it can

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also cause really big pull hooks. So that typically

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looks like somewhere around here that the arms

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kind of release more like this way shoulder gets high club

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is overly closed and it tends the

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have some really nasty pull characteristics and

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some really big left shot oftentimes in

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that pattern. You'll have a feeling more of kind of pushing or

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throwing the club head down to the golf ball. So I

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use the trail arm pull is kind of a breakthrough feel

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of what the opposite might be like,

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So Trail arm pulls you're gonna take the club and you're

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gonna hold it in kind of a delivery position like this with your

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right hand and now I'm not going to show you yet. But

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I'm gonna tell you what I want you to do. I want you to just pull this around your

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body so that the club stays behind you. I'll give

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you a couple seconds to try or at least visualize it

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and then I'll demonstrate how I like to see it done.

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So most people when they do it, they're going to do it more as kind

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of a small little golf move but to really get the feel of

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it.

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If you have any vertigo be careful with this, but if you

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don't get dizzy, then what I want you to do is I'm

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going to pull and I'm gonna keep spinning and

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I'm gonna try to pull as fast as I can

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until I start to get a little dizzy like I did right there, but I'm

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getting this feeling of this constant pull

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along the club rather than a throw

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of the club head.

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So in the in kind of the Stock

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Tour swing where the arm is more in

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this position here and I'm using my

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core. I'm pulling along the club later. So

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I think a lot of golfers actually have a feel or

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a lot of good golfers have a feel

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of that pull actually happening all the

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way through into follow through it doesn't

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actually happen there but pulling as long as you can until you

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get into your bracing movements will help take away some of this throw.

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So first version we're gonna do is with

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that trail arm. We're just gonna feel like we pull through

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and we're gonna use enough side Bend

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so that we brush the ground. So you'll see if

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I do that here with an actual golf

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ball. I can make contact and it should look

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like it's fairly fluid like

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my arms didn't really have any stop and

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throw in order to get the club all the way down there.

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I'll do it one more time where I'm gonna feel that pull

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pull all the way through and you'll notice

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probably have to close the clubface a little bit more.

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while doing this pull

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all the way through kind of like that. And now if I get into that follow

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through or if I put my left hand on I can

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get a sense of what it might feel like in order

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to pull through more with

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your core and with your body and keeping that shoulder

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in more of a kind of packed or talk to

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position.

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That's more of a sign that I'm using. My core is

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the power source as instead of using the shoulders and kind of

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using that throw as a power source.

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So now it'll feel a little bit more natural if I put my left

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hand on and I'm going to try and basically

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get that same feeling of pulling

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it through almost trying to just skim

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the ground on these nine to

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threes. So it's back in this position and then

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I'm pulling all the way through feeling like no

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arm throw whatsoever. Just like I did

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when I did that full pure wet where I was going around and

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around in circles, it gives this exaggerated feel

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of the lag or the club being

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behind my body as I'm pulling on it rather than

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pushing on it with the shoulder in the arm. So if

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you see a really big stall flip

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down to the bottom or from the down the line you see a

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really big widening of the arm try this little

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Trail arm pull to get a feeling of pulling along

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the club longer working into your nine to three

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ten to two and ultimately into full swings. So let's go full swing

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feeling a little bit longer pull.

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Kind of like that.

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