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Water bucket feel to wind up the backswing

A feel for the backswing wind-up: imagine the club is a bucket you are filling with water. As you take the club to the takeaway you gather all the water in the bucket, then throw that water up and back over the trail shoulder. Doing this produces the full 90 degrees between shoulder and elbow at the top.

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Watch official source at 8:21

Try it

  1. as we go to the takeaway we've kind of gathered all the water in the bucket
  2. throw it up and back over that trail shoulder