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The story is what ends your backswing.

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So often when I'm getting a golfer to start working on this backswing position and how

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they're going to transition into their downswing, one of the questions that I'll frequently

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ask is how do you notice stop?

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Why don't you keep going?

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Why don't you turn a million degrees?

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Obviously, that's not possible.

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But what I'm looking for is there's usually a sensation and there's usually a place in your

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body that signifies that you are at the end of your swing.

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And what I frequently see is that it's going to be the left shoulder for a lot of golfers,

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especially if you're more of an arm's kind of dominant swing.

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So the way that that works is basically, I'm in my setup position, I go towards the back

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of the swing and I go up to the top of the swing and I kind of feel like there's a stretch

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as this arm is working across my body.

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So one of the things that I will challenge golfers is as you're working on getting a little

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bit better pivot is to change the location of where the end of your swing is.

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So instead of you feeling like it's either that left shoulder reaching across or that

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right shoulder externally rotating, although that one's not as bad to feel it kind of in

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the backside of that right shoulder.

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The place where I want you to try to feel it is almost as if you were taking a baseball

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swing and I'll use that for a lot of golfers, especially if they've played baseball

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in the past.

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So if I was making a baseball swing, I kind of feel this coil and stretch during that

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transition more in my obliques and in my core.

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So if these arms basically stay in front of me and then I was to turn my body until it

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reaches this coil, that's essentially going to tell me and trigger that I've reached

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the end of my swing.

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Now hopefully I can time kind of what my arms do so that now it's connected to this body

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coil instead of completely stretching the capsule of that shoulder because the problem

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is if I overstretch that shoulder at the top of the swing then I'm not going to have anything

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to really stretch on the downswing and so my body is going to want to get out of that

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position and my arms are typically going to trigger too soon.

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So what that may look like is if I was making kind of this more armsy swing where the

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club kind of goes around me there I feel stretching my shoulder.

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If I was to make what I think is a little bit better pivot, there I feel the stretch

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more kind of a long this band in both sides but figuring out what you use as kind of that

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trigger for the top of the swing ultimately can make transition a little bit easier, especially

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if you can shift it from feeling it up in your shoulders to feeling it more in your core

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in your hips.