This drill would reinforce or demsonstrate Ben Doyle's comment that impact doesn't end at the ball, but lasts until followthrough.
If one is striking balls after practicing this drill, should one think of impact in terms of followthrough? Thinking of impact in terms of...well..impact...causes throwing as you say.
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DDL,
1. The Clubhead Lag has no Release Point (6-C-2-A).
2. Take all Strokes to the Both Arms Straight Position (6-H-0-C).
My problem when doing TGM stuff is an ARCHED left wrist.
But I'll start whacking away at the impact bag.
The old Arched Left Wrist problem, eh?
At the Top? At Impact? Hitting or Swinging or both?
Get on over to the Emergency Room, tell'em your problem and see what the Swing Docs have to say. No reason to endure this pain by yourself. Besides, a cyber-cure might be immediately available!
The snow can also be used to replace the impact bag that you dont have.
With your feet on the dry cement walkway, just move some snow with a shovel so its high enough. Swing away and feel the lag and the flat left wrist as your shaft hits the snow and plows through!!!!.
A Historic Moment In TGM History -- The Swing Of The Master
Originally Posted by rgkeller
What am I trying to learn with this drill?
Back again, rg, as promised in my first reply above (Dragging Baby Brother). This time I'm bringing photos illustrating the fact that my Follow-Through alignments in the Impact Bag demonstration are virtually identical with those of the great Champions of history. The only reason they appear somewhat exaggerated is that I was Following Through with the Arms and Hands (No Quitting!) while the dowel could only remain buried in the Bag. With several hundred times more mass than that of an actual golf ball, the Bag would barely move (much less rebound resiliently off the dowel and into the air!). Imagine the photos below if the Clubshafts were not permitted to move further forward than the Impact Bag's location.
I'll begin with a still from my video; follow with a series of five photos (the last an LBG Classic); and then link to a very special, indeed historically significant, video. Here we go:
Yoda At Impact Bag Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight)
Byron Nelson At Impact
Lee Trevino At Immediately Post-Impact
Ben Hogan at Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight)
Gary Player at Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight)
Homer Kelley at Follow-Through (Both Arms Straight)
And now, for a very special, first time in history treat, click on:
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