Glove under armpit drill ?

[modore]

Can someone fully explain the "glove under armpit" drill that Vijay has been using ?

Does he take full swings like this ?

1/2 swings ?

Has anyone personally tried this drill ?

[BDR444]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

Yes. It's a drill to make sure you are going back in your swing and keeping your right arm against you. This has been used numerous times by other people to stop and fix casting and to use more power in your swing by increasing your shoulder turn. Another alteration of this drill would be to use a towel.

I believe you can make full swings with this drill.

[garcia]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

Another drill:

Put a glove/headcover under your left armpit which helps promote a connected arm and body movement on the backswing and throughswing. This is a brilliant drill and has helped my swing enormously over the years. Give it a try, you will find it difficult at first but percevere. The glove or headcover should fall from your armpit as you complete your followthrough.

[gord962]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

A right handed golfer can not make a proper backswing with the glove/towel under their right arm. This will only allow for a half swing OR if a full swing is attempted, the left will break down.

[Ian Hancock]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

I have tried this tip a few times and it simply does not work for me, I make a really poor swing and must look very silly. Putting a glove of headcover under the left arm or right makes you swing very poor.

Unless someone can explain the benifits of this in detail I simply cannot see the point.

To help the arms and body stay in touch during the swing just concentrate on keeping your arm in to your sides, but they must release and not be restricted by a glove etc.

Sorry not for me.


Ian.

[duffgolf18]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

It is really quite a good drill and helps keep you connected during the backswing. The glove will fall out on the follow through, that is normal. I wouldn't recommend using a head cover for this drill.....use a glove or a small towel. You shouldn't have to swing much differently to keep the glove/towel in place until it comes out on your follow through.

[dlaville]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

Can someone fully explain the "glove under armpit" drill that Vijay has been using ?

Does he take full swings like this ?

1/2 swings ?

Has anyone personally tried this drill ?

Contrary to what others have said I do not recommend any drills where you keep anything under your arm pits. Here's why;

Glove under your right armpit - to keep the glove under your armpit you have to keep your right upper arm against your right side. This pulls in your hands wanting to bend your left arm, the opposite of what we want to do. We want to keep the right elbow away from our side so it gently wants to extend the right arm straight. This helps push and keep the left arm firm. Another advantage to this slight pushing action is that the right arm will evenly and smoothly straighting in the downswing to where it's fully entended in the follow through.

Glove under your left armpit - this never allows your left arm and hand to over take your left shoulder because your left upper arm remains attached to your left side. The golf swing is an over taking process. Just like the clubhead must over take your hands in the development of clubhead speed your left arm and hand must overtake your left shoulder in the developement of arm and hand speed. Never allowing the left arm to swing free of the chest and seperate from the left side is like trying to play golf never allowing the clubhead to pass your hands. It's counter productive.

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Vijay crack a rib doing one of these drills?

[cct]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

Vijay did crack a rib doing this drill, although I cant remember if it was the left armpit or right armpit he did. The reason the cracked a rib however was because he used a golf ball as opposed to a glove.

A drill I use is placing a head cover in my armpit and I only do it until the club is parallel to the ground. It stops my right arm getting out of position in the take away. You can do full swings, although I prefer to do just half swings with this drill and the headcover should fall after impact.

[TeachingPro]

Re: Glove under armpit drill ?

Take it from a sun-baked teacher - executing the drills those drills are a waste unless you execute them with the correct focus. If you're Veej and you thump 1000's of balls a week - cool.

You see, you always need to look at a drill from 2 different points of view:
1. What is drill trying to instill?
2. How does the drill relate to an "actual" golf movement.

Take the glove example. Veej used to 'disconnect' his arms during the backswing which required him to compensate on the downswing. The ball ended up everywhere but where he wanted it, which was a power fade.

He was trying to instill: the feeling of keeping his arms staying 'connected' to the rest of the swing. If his arms moved away from the body, the glove would drop.
It relates to an "actual" movement: by moving the arms in the same way as the shoulders and torso.

Like all drills, the keeping on the arm close to the body, is an exaggeration. Have you ever tried this drill and hit a golf ball? I have, many hundreds of times and the strike was ****py at best. But then again, I am not Vijay.

Most swing drills are focussed on building a movement or a feeling ... not the actual golf movement itself. The focus is not on the result of the executed swing with the drill.

So, Vijay used the drill to get used to keeping his arms moving with his torso and shoulders, not literally keeping his armpits closed during the swing!

By the way: Vijay used to hit 3/4 shots with this drill using a medium iron and always focussed on the result of the movement, not the result of the swing.