Can your THUMBS help you SHALLOW the club ⁉️

Struggling to shallow the club? It *might* be because of your takeaway, how the forearms are moving, and how that momentum carries over into your downswing. Enjoy 🔥

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All right golfers I want to talk a little bit about momentum to you guys you know you’ll often hear this idea that the golf swing is not a game of positions but rather it’s one Dynamic movement and that stands true in one particular case that I come across far

Beyond the others and that’s when the club gets too far inside with not enough wrist set and then there’s a lot of late hinging happening and that kind of motion carries into the transition and I see this from golfers of all skill levels obviously the higher handic cers

Typically will struggle with it more than others but basically it’s when the forums will rotate really open the club will get very inside and then in reaction to that there’s either a change of forearm Direction a separation of the trail elbow or something to try to get

The club up in the air but the problem is this club when it starts going there obviously there’s momentum being done right because of gravity you’ll see how this club will keep kind of traveling in that fashion so the problem is if that club starts to tip over as you are

Transitioning and starting your downswing look at how the momentum wants to carry the club steeper on the way down because of the fact that it’s getting a lot steeper late in the back swing that it will carry over into the transition especially if you’re somebody who transitions really quickly into the

Ball and so the problem is you’ll see that right it’s like inside up and then it carries over into the transition as I’m turning because the club is still getting vertical as I start down and so at the top of the back swing in theory it might look like a pretty good spot

But you don’t see the fact that the club is going this way and the body is going to help carry it into a steeper position and then either the higher handicapper will rotate really well and cut across it the better player usually from there will react in some fashion with a lot of

Trail side bend a lot of early extension to try to make it work then you have to save it with the hands and it kind of snowballs into other problems and so in this situation what we would want to do is we would want to try to get the club

Leveraged up in the air a little earlier with some hinge so that we can actually set the club at the top and let the momentum carry it back behind you and even if it doesn’t organically happen you can certainly influence in that way because now the weight of the club is a

Lot more upright early to drop back later as opposed to really inside early where it’s standing up really late that carries into the transition for many of you and so there’s one particular feel I like to give people which is basically referencing the thumbs so what ises that

Mean it means that if the club goes back really flat where are my thumbs going to point really early they’re going to point behind my body if I stand this club up really late where are the thumbs going late in my back swing well they’re going from being pointed behind me to

Point it very upright and then on the way down still pointing either very upright or in front of my body right and so you’ll look at it like this thumbs now point up and then the thumbs are going to be staying pointed up late in my downswing where I then have to react

To it so instead if we’re trying to get the club hinged upwards well we want to actually get the thumbs pointed more vertical early in the back swing so that we can then drop and point the thumbs behind the body into the transition literally as simple as simple as a

Visual cue of the the thumbs can really help golfers to trace out a better pattern with the club right of course there’s you know pressing down on the handle with the lead wrist which I’ve talked about or just trying to hinge it more vertically through the wrist joints

Themselves right but if you just think about where your thumbs are in space throughout the gulf swing you can actually get this club standing up earlier to then point the thumbs more back behind the body and transition and now all of a sudden you’re actually going to get the club dropping in the

Correct fashion at the start of your down swing instead of getting it really penalized early where you then have to react to it and bear in mind not every single inside takeaway is a problem I’ve said this numerous times before if your Club gets inside early but the top of

The back swing doesn’t get compromised by it and the transition doesn’t get compromised by it you can fully leave the inside takeaway or the flatter takeaway alone there’s countless examples of this one of my own players on the corn fairy tour does this really well but if you’re somebody who if you

Actually Trace back the root of the problem it stems from the fact that you don’t hinge it very well and the club goes inside and it’s creating the Snowball Effect then of course there’s a reason to change the takeaway in that fashion or in that scenario that’s where

We would clean it up so set up to the ball still making a nice big turn use your thumbs to hinge the club up point the thumbs to the sky early as you set the club and then point the thumbs behind you in transition all of a sudden

You’re going to start to shallow this club which will incentivize your body to start rotating so using the thumbs as a visual Quee can be super helpful for many of you