When doing this drill remember to have very soft hands on the club. The lighter your grip the better you will feel the drag and the path.

Make your set up as normal, then place the club on the ground behind you on the feet line. From there you are going to slowly drag the club to where your ball would be.

This is going to give you the feeling of the club coming from an inside path (exaggerated) and will help you lag the club into a good impact position.

The impact position will have the weight on the left foot, the club shaft will be forward leaning, club face square and the hips turned towards the target.

Make sure to drag the club with the body motion as well as the hands and arms so as to get into the correct position.

I like to feel like the belt buckle is what starts the move by turning towards the ball and then past it. This will move everything else in sequence.

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This is a great way to get people to turn their shoulders fully on the backswing.

Derek himself has a habit of getting tight and short with his backswing when under pressure or not feeling confident.

By getting Derek and our pupils to look at something or someone directly behind them in a practice swing it just seems to release some of the tension and frees up their turn.

Just make sure to take the same feelings from the practice drill into the real swing, but keep your eye on the ball.

With juniors we call this the pantomime drill as we will have a coach standing behind them and shout he’s behind you!

Turning the shoulders fully helps to fix a slice and is a great source of extra power if the pupil makes solid contact with the ball.

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This is a good drill to use when learning to keep the spine angle through impact. This allows you to be hitting balls and feeling the right side fire through the impact area.

Start off by hitting softer shots or pitches before moving up onto full shots. The idea with this drill is to learn to move the body more efficiently through impact, not to hit perfect shots.

After a short while you should be able to hit nice crisp iron shots to the target.

When you get to this stage it can be a good idea to hit 4 balls with the right foot back as shown, 3 balls with the right foot slightly back but not as far and followed by 2 balls in normal set up.

Repeat this over and over remembering to FEEL the same sensations as you are getting with the foot pulled back.

Have someone check that you are doing as intended or video yourself to make sure your practice is effective.

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If you look at the best ball strikers on tour and especially the longer hitters, you will find that they are very good at keeping the spine angle constant through impact.

Ice hockey players seem to be very good at this same thing both when playing hockey and when they play golf.

Keeping the spine angle in a consistent position throughout the swing helps with balance, swing path and plane along with angle of attack.

It is because of the similarities between the golf swing and the slap shot in hockey that we use this drill.

Having the hands split on the shaft really help to exaggerate the feeling of the right side extending down towards the ball while the left side is cleared backwards away from the ball.

Once you start to develop a feeling for these positions start to reduce the gap between the hands until you are back to a normal golf set up.

Try to exaggerate the feeling as you go, as what you feel you do and what you actually do are often different. You often need to feel like you move a mile to actually move an inch in the golfswing.

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Grip pressure is a personal thing. Some people are stronger than others and therefore some people need to hold the club tighter than others.

My own feelings are that on a scale of 1-10 (1 softest-10 tightest) I know I play my best when at 7 for full swing and 5 or below for the shots inside 100 yards.

I have know very strong men who have needed to feel like they were holding the club at 4 on the scale to be able to allow the club to swing without throttling it.

The only real way to find what’s best for your game is to test and experiment with all the possibilities.

We use the above test as a way to measure the grip pressure and then be able to go back to it during play.

So get out there and do this test, find out what works best for you for different shots and take some notes. Test this out a number of times and then you will have something to check when on the course.

One of the first things that happens when you get nervous is your grip pressure increases. Not that you know what pressure you want for each shot, you now have a way of getting back your feel when playing in competition.

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