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Full Swing · Drill

Rehearse the trail arm in a platter position

The coach recounts Martin Chuck using right-hand-only backswings that bring the trail hand to the top as though serving a platter and keep it there. He adds a ball-holder variation: keep the ball in during the backswing, then throw it out.

Channel: stayhandsy

Watch official source at 8:58

Try it

  1. just right hand only and just kind of get it up to the top
  2. serve the platter and then keep it that way
  3. try to keep it in there and then like throw it out