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Use a rod near your hands to stay on the shaft plane

To keep the hands down near the original shaft plane, Craig Hanson uses a training aid placed close to the hands so they can't move up in the downswing; keeping the hands down where they started with the butt back makes the release easier. The at-home version is to jam an alignment stick into the ground about a fist-width from the hands and swing to get the feel.

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Watch official source at 1:24

Try it

  1. get your alignment rod, your alignment stick, your tool stick and jam it into the ground
  2. position it maybe a fist width away here from your hands
  3. get a feel from that

Why this context matters

Craig improvises a training aid (a foam swim noodle on a microphone stand); the at-home version uses an alignment stick placed a fist-width from the hands.