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The drill is left arm swings right arm shadow.

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So I'd like to do a lot of these splitting hands

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when we're doing the release training.

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And you can typically see when a person has a release issue,

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when either there's a lot of kind of bending narrowing

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or not really good bracing patterns.

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But a lot of golfers struggle with the release

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because they tend to be too much trailside dominant.

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There are many good golfers where the trailhand

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actually comes slightly off the grip during the hitting zone.

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And but I haven't seen any really good golfers

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where the lead hand comes off the grip.

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So at the very least, you need your hands to be working together

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at the other end of the spectrum.

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You could be almost lead side totally

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and still be a pretty good golfer.

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So this lead hand hitting with the trailhand being a shadow

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works really well for golfers who tend to have a little bit

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more of a right side release that gets into kind of this

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little chicken wing style finish look.

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Because you will rarely see when you're hitting these one arm

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left hand only, you'll rarely see that same amount of bending

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or bracing or kind of breaking the elbow or a chicken wing.

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So what we're going to do for this drill

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is you're going to take your right hand

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and you're going to put it within a couple inches of the grip

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but not actually on the grip.

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So this is kind of a cousin to the open trailhand

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where I'm working on how the right hand pushes against the grip.

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So I'm going to keep those in space

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and I'm just going to try to have that right hand

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follow the left hand very closely

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as I do some of these left arm single arm drills.

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Many golfers are going to feel either the right side

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continuing rotating a little bit more shoulder activity

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abective or you may struggle

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and you'll find that your body just wants to stall

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in order to let that right hand really square the club face.

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So this is a good kind of awareness drill

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for feeling how the weed arm can control the release

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and how the trail arm would have to support that

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or how the trail side of the body would have to support it

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if you're hitting more of these left arm only shots.

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So the way I would work through this drill,

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I'm going to hit a few just lead arm only.

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And then I'm going to take my trail hand and put it

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just off the grip.

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So I'm basically doing that lead hand only

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and then taking the trail hand and placing it just off the grip

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so I can get a sense of where I'm going to try

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to get in that follow through position.

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And then I can try and hit a lead hand only shot

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while letting the right hand kind of follow.

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And this is definitely a little bit more of a mental puzzle

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for a lot of you because you've got to coordinate both sides

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of your brain making the right movement

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while hitting a golf bar while you're letting a golf ball

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get in the way.

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But for a lot of you, that's actually a good challenge

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because it forces you to not really talk yourself through it

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but you just have to feel it and just kind of trust it

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and go with it.

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So I'm going to do the left hand open

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or sorry, the left hand, single arm with a right hand

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shot shadow where basically I'm trying to just let that right hand

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follow that left hand motion.

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Once I have a feeling or a concept of what it feels like

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to kind of lead it, now I'm going to put my right hand on

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but I'm going to put it on very softly

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and I'm going to feel like I hit this more

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with my left hand emphasis.

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What I tend to see when I have golfers do this

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is hitting more with this left hand emphasis,

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you'll almost never see someone go into a chicken wing style motion.

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You'll tend to see a really good arm extension

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and then the challenge is getting bigger swing

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so going from waist height to up to three quarter

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and then up to full swing and then adding intensity

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or at each position, adding intensity and feeling like I can swing hard

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from that with that left hand being a little bit more in control.

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So if you're struggling with your kind of chicken wing

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or the release and you're having trouble especially when you swing hard

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play around with this drill and put some of the intensity

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into what the lead hand is doing sometimes that helps overcome

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trying to control it with the trail hand.

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If that doesn't work, you can always try the trail hand

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only solid drills and really work on the control pattern

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but sometimes this is a much faster fix

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for being able to take it to the course.