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I want to help you shoulder some responsibility in other words I want you to think about how the shoulders work you’ll see that in the back swing my left shoulder locates under my throat if I stand up it would look like a pretty good baseball or axe movement but
Let’s just break it down for you and you can use this to help you swing but use it as a drill at the driving range to warm up or even before you play if you’re going to invest half a day in a round of golf it’s always worth hitting
30 or 40 balls to warm up but if you push for time or there isn’t the capacity to hit golf balls then how about this for a drill let’s learn to get the shoulders turning so I stand properly upright let my arms extend I’m like a human wheel and the first thing
To do is to allow my shoulders to turn through 90° can you see the wheel is moving backwards and forwards so I go 90° to my right my left shoulders under my throat and I come through 180° so this motion is the key motor skill the problem is in golf of course
These two spokes are glued together and the arms roll as the body turns but if you understand the shoulder turn then the forearms and the wrist and the hands tend to behave themselves so here’s a simple drill to use with your driver and again if you can do this in front of a
Mirror reflection and let’s see if we can get the club across the shoulders so the first skill is to rotate the shoulder my left shoulder goes under my throat and I call through 90° I go back through 180 now you need a mirror to know that you’re not tilting or
Swaying or lifting you want to ensure that you’re actually rotating so the shoulders are turning 90 Dees in the back swing and 180 on the way through as I just said when we hold a golf club the arms limit that but the shoulders turn on the same plane but they turn and they
Twist so again the second phase a horizontal swing in front of the mirror load the club should be level with the ground swing through the club should be level with the ground we don’t want to be up or down we want to turn across the throat and swing in the horizontal mode
So I’ll do this with a six on I can feel feel the drill working I can feel the shoulders working backwards and forwards so when I go to hit the shot the fitting of the drill is evident in the back swing left shoulder to the throat there’s the key motion now I can
Hit it so there we go as I said earlier shoulder some responsibility
