Paintbrush — Golf Drill

Learn the paintbrush drill with step-by-step video demonstrations from expert golf instructors.

How each of them teaches it

Coaches who demonstrate the paintbrush drill, each linked at the second they start.

  1. Paul Wilson Golf: Effortless Golf Swing: This Crazy Drill Loosens Your Arms! #golftips #golf #short (from 0:58). A takeaway drill where you imagine the clubhead is a paintbrush brushing the grass, leading with the hands to relax tension in the arms.
  2. Scratch Golf Academy: Drill For Irons (Do This Today). Using a long paintbrush or broom to simulate the feeling of squaring the clubface and striking the ground on the target side of the ball.
  3. Scratch Golf Academy: Fix Your Irons Instantly - Most Golfers Get This Wrong (from 5:22). Using a paintbrush on a desk to feel how the handle must lean forward to bend the bristles, mimicking the forward shaft lean needed for iron compression.