Right Shoulder - Right Forearm Drill

[Bagger Lance]

Yoda showed this to me in my last lesson.

This drill will help with the right shoulder and right forearm motion and alignment.

Take a ball in your right hand. A nerf ball if indoors. Get into your impact fix position with your right hand below your left. Keeping your left hand still, move your right arm to the top of your backstroke.

While you are there, look at your right hand. The back of the right hand should be parallel to the planeline and your right wrist should be bent but not cocked.

Now throw the ball under the left hand about where a golf ball would be on the ground along the plane line. Pay close attention to the movement of your pivot and right shoulder motion.

The key is to throw just slightly under your left arm without making contact with it.

[comdpa]

Yoda showed this to me in my last lesson.

This drill will help with the right shoulder and right forearm motion and alignment.

Take a ball in your right hand. A nerf ball if indoors. Get into your impact fix position with your right hand below your left. Keeping your left hand still, move your right arm to the top of your backstroke.

While you are there, look at your right hand. The back of the right hand should be parallel to the planeline and your right wrist should be bent but not cocked.

Now throw the ball under the left hand where a golf ball would be on the ground along the plane line. Pay close attention to the movement of your pivot and right shoulder motion.

The key is to throw just slightly under your left arm without making contact with it.

Hi Bagger...

This is beautiful...2-N-0 in motion.

"There must be an Underhand Pitch motion and feel."

[landshark]

is this drill similar to the old standby where you would hold a club or stick in your left hand vertical and then with the right hand/arm throw and keep inside the vertical shaft?
thanks

[jimmydean]

bagger,
how do you avoid a pull or hook from the position you describe? is there some manipulation you must make to avoid closing the club? do you set up with the clubhead open?
am i missing something?
jimmy

[Bagger Lance]

bagger,
how do you avoid a pull or hook from the position you describe? is there some manipulation you must make to avoid closing the club? do you set up with the clubhead open?
am i missing something?
jimmy

You mean too much inside/out?
Keep in mind that the left wrist controls the clubface and the right forearm is tracing the planeline. It's always a down and out stroke.

Make sure you aren't leaving your left hand in a low address position when doing this drill. Your left hand needs to be at impact fix with whatever degree of #3 accumulator you've built into your motion. (To accomdate the motion of the drill, your left hand will need to be slightly higher than impact fix to accomdate throwing under it with the right hand, otherwise the two hands collide...as they should )

From the top or end of your backstroke, you are throwing/tossing down and out. At the impact position, your right hand should be bent, level and vertical to the plane line. Where the right arm is straight, the wrist wrist will have rolled as it continues up the plane if you are a swinger.

A clubhead pull would indicate you aren't tracing the planeline.

Watch this video to get an idea of how to aim the right forearm. The right shoulder goes along for the ride.

http://www.lynnblakegolf.com/gallery...els_wedges.wmv

This is one of the best videos on the site. There is another video that shows Lynn throwing a golfball at a ball on the ground and nails it first time.

[jimmydean]

bagger,
thanks for the explanation. i will try and report back,
jimmy