So if the sole of the club skips off the turf, then I'm going to get brilliant contact with the golf ball. So I'm going to give myself some nice momentum and then whip it along the turf to make it skip and boy oh boy, did that feel amazing Look at that Boom Mu that's long. That was just like, wow. Yeah. Hey everyone, Shawn, Sav & Mu at your service, once again and today, guys, we're talking about width in the backswing, which all of us have a ton of, and we're going to give you this awesome drill.
That's going to create amazing width for those of you who are collapsed in the backswing. Those of you feel you have too much of an overswing. We have the perfect drill for you to do, and it's skipping stones on water. You don't want to miss this show. But of course, we want you to be a member of wisdom in the golf family. It's free. Just subscribe to our channel, leave a comment or question down below and give us a thumbs up, and also hit that bell set on missing in future videos. A little context for many of you who are trying to keep, you know, the arms connected and you're, you're trying to keep that armpit connected to your rib cage in the backswing. That really doesn't bode very well for any other discipline, except for what you perceive as a good discipline for golf. Because we basically see these over-the-top swings an elbow sticking out, and, we feel the need to correct that and connect the armpit to the rib cage.
And now we're throwing like T-Rex, we just stepped out of the frying pan and we dove right into the fire. We don't want any part of that. And as far as you know, for those of you who are collapsing at the top of the backswing and getting to, you know, accordion, like we have one drill, that'll fix it once. And for all, I'm going to give you the drill for the right-hand dominant person playing right-handed golf or the four-hander, and that's skipping a stone. And then Sav is going to show you a fantastic for those of you who are lead hand dominant.
So if you're left-handed playing right-handed golf, or if you're right-handed playing left-handed golf like lefty Phil Mickelson, there is a wonderful drill. That's going to help you with that. Don't go away. We're going to show you that right after I show you this one. All right. So if I'm skipping a stone on water, I want to send that stone into the screen. Notice how wide my arm is. You can see it from back here and from down the line. So when I want to throw it, you'll notice that the elbow snaps forward, see how my, my brain's got to go get the ground, use the ground, to get my body out of the way.
And then notice how that elbow now is in front of me and in front of my hand. So it's wide narrow-wide, and we never have to think about that one. Do we? So we just throw that stone to skip it on water. So if I do the same thing with my golf club, so now imagine if I hold my club with just one arm, the sole of the club is the skipping stone. It's, it's tied to a nice extension, like a three-foot-long shaft, and goes into my right hand. So I'm going to go wide and I'm looking to skip the sole of the club along the ground into that direction.
You can flip it over if you feel that it's a little too heavy and hold it like a sword notice. Now, if I'm, if I've got a bamboo shoot and I'm slashing a sword through that bamboo shoot, notice how that elbow comes in first, then the hand, then the blade, then the tip of the blade. So when I'm throwing a stone on water, elbow leads and you notice how the last thing to come through is my index finger. So if you've got a really good grip on the club, notice how that index finger, that trigger finger is nicely hooked on to the club. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to throw the club underhand, like a shortstop throwing to first base.
And I'm slinging that clubhead along the ground to make it skip off the turf. So if the sole of the clubs skips off the turf, then I'm going to get brilliant contact with the golf ball. So I'm going to give myself some nice momentum and then whip it along the turf to make it skip and boy oh Boy, did that feel amazing Look at that Boom! Mu as long, that was just like, wow. Yeah, I'm ecstatic with that shot. That'll be the only shot I hit for you guys today. Right So one and done focused on whipping the club along the surface of the ground and the direction I want to start the ball.
And the only way to do that, there's no way I could do it from here. And there's no way that I could do it from the only way is from here. Notice how wide that arm is away from the body. Not trying to keep the elbow to my side, not trying to keep the armpit to my side, just stays wide and I'm going to whip it wide in the direction of my target.
So now let's look at our, our resident female lefty, and let's see how much width we can get in your backswing. If you're dominant from the lead hand and you can't skip a stone with that, see with, if I'm if I'm a lefty, I, you know, I can pretend to skip that stone, but it's not going to be not going to be pretty. So for those of you, this is important. Now Sav plays some pretty good tennis. She has a really good backhand in tennis. And if she played baseball, you would bat from the left side, and in golf, you're a lefty.
So a really good drill for her because she's, right-hand dominant hold your sword in your lead hand. Very nice. So imagine you got a bamboo shoot and you want to slash through that shoot. So do a backswing. Look at this. You guys look at her whole backside facing the target and from your angle, notice how her hand is right in front of her body. This is an unbelievable position. And don't worry about the elbow. You'll notice the elbows got a little bit of abandonment, but as soon as she goes into the slash it straightens out all on its own. So you're feeling that you can use the weight of that arm, sword unit to slash through. Let's see a couple of those with, you need to do the sword and you're going to slash it to the, you're doing a draw here.
So show me a draw slash that's it notice how her head stays behind as she slashing it through, because you're slashing to the left of that intermediate point, right So do you all see how her head was staying back there That was phenomenal. So she's hitting a nice draw into that flag. Nice. What a shot. So do one more of the drill. Yeah. And so realize, do the backswing and stop. I mean, the width only comes if you turn right, you feel like you're turning your whole back to the target.
So because you're turning fully notice how that lead hands coming behind the ball. And your the whole backsides facing the target. You get natural width. So not only are you going to get more heft coming through more momentum thgrough, but you also have more rotational momentum coming through. And that's why she's hitting her seven arms, basically the same distances as me. I mean, what you hit that, that was 190 yards. Carry to one, to my 195 yards carry that's phenomenal, phenomenal.
22 feet downhill. Give me a break. This is LA Jolla, right We're playing Torrey Pines. So Munashe once again is right in between the two. So he's ambidextrous. So we're going to have them skip some stones and we're going to have him slash the sword. We'll have him do both and then hit a shot. Alright. Alright, Mu. All right. So, so let's see, you start with a skipping of the stone. Take that in your left hand. Okay. Let's see you skip a couple toward the flag. Okay. Nice. You, you do like the overhand better in that one, right Yeah. See, notice even when he's, he's trying to skip the stone, he's still going kind of overhand on that. So the submarine pitch, you do better, right Hands.
See right here. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So you do skip a stone better with the right hand. That's just how weird I am. Okay. You're a beauty man. Come on. Look how beautiful this man is. So take you, you take your club now, and let's see this pretend. That's your bamboo shoot coming up. Okay. And let's give it that nice slash this is something you do really, really well. All right. Now do it lead hand. All right. Just like Sav. That's it. So turn your whole back. Boom. Look at that release. One, one of the things that many of you are having a hard time doing with the shot when you're skipping a stone on water, the sole of the club stays along the ground. Nice. Right Yeah. So to emphasize this, what you're going to do, we have these button teas that we use. So we don't pierce our screen, but you can put two teas along the ground about four inches apart.
So you see these. So what moves going to do is he's going to send those two tees into the screen with some nice momentum. Yeah, man. So you'll notice how he had to stay along the surface of the ground for a nice long period of time. Yeah. So if we put those two tees right beside, and we put the ball next to the first tee. Okay. Right. Yeah. So there are your two teas that you're going to sweep in that direction. Yeah. Can you picture how that's going to work Yeah? Good. So stay along the ground in that direction. Pressed, but the face was a little closed. Okay. Try that again. That swing actually looked pretty good. Drew a lot. Okay. All right. So along the ground, over that intermediate point felt better. Not bad. Get down. What club are you hitting man? Eight iron.
Eight iron?! Okay. So probably a nine would be safe here, right? Yes. I'd say nine iron is a safer club. I do one more with a nine iron. Okay. Let's see. Oh, does that ever sound good Holy mackerel. Okay. Let's you're there. So if you're going to draw it in, yeah. Started toward the bunker on the left.
Okay. Look at that. That's a flag. There's the shot. Yeah. There's a little fin, but yeah. For the wind, that's the flavor of them. Yeah, exactly. So see how that cuts down on your side. Spin big time. Yeah. It's like, all right. That is amazing. What a shot right on Mu. Thanks, Shawn. So you see how we use those teas to straighten things out, to keep you along the ground. Yeah. To stay along the ground, you can't come down from something that's super steep and super collapsed. If you collapse against your body, you got no other choice, but to slam down. Right. So when you're really nice and wide in the backswing, then you can stay along the surface of the ground. Yeah. And now you're moving beautifully in the direction of your target.
Yeah. So we hope you enjoyed that. Get wide, see you next week. Okay.
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