In this episode of Ask Malaska Golf, Certified Coach Matt Baker from Manchester Golf Club in England answers a question from R. about the popular Look Cool Drill – how it compares to drills like Chop and Throw, and how it connects to real swing mechanics.
Matt explains that while the drill might not look like a full swing move in slow motion, it’s not meant to. It’s a feel-based drill designed to train one of the most critical components of the M-System: how the club pivots in your hands. That includes wrist hinge, unhinge, rehinge, and how your left and right hands coordinate through impact.
The key, Matt emphasizes, is understanding the difference between feel and real. You might feel like you’re “throwing” the club with your trail hand – but that’s what creates the correct instinctive movement, even if it doesn’t match a technical breakdown frame-by-frame.
Matt walks through how the Look Cool Drill, L-to-L, and hand-specific feels all help players build that instinct. Whether working on takeaway, downswing, or follow-through, your hands are your only connection to the club, and building feel in that connection is essential.

What You’ll Learn in This Video:
• How the Look Cool Drill trains club pivot and hand awareness
• Why feel doesn’t need to be technically perfect to be effective
• How your trail hand creates a throw sensation through impact
• Why drills like L-to-L and Chop and Throw support the same pivoting concept

Key Insights
•    The Look Cool Drill is designed to build feel, not form – it trains the pivot of the club through your hands, even if it doesn’t look like a textbook swing in slow motion.
•    One of the biggest breakthroughs in the M-System is understanding that feel and real are different – what you feel might not look technically perfect, but it creates the correct motion instinctively.
•    This drill develops how the wrist hinge, unhinge, and rehinge naturally occur, which is essential for efficient power and consistent ball striking.
•    The trail hand’s throwing sensation in the drill helps train proper release and clubface control without manipulating positions consciously.
•    Drills like L-to-L, Chop and Throw, and Look Cool all reinforce the same M-System foundation: training your hands to work with the club, not against it.
•    Building awareness in the hands and wrists improves pivot, face control, and swing sequence – the core of mastering the M-System through feel-first training.

“It doesn’t have to be technically perfect. It just needs to give you the right feel, and that’s what creates motion.”
– Matt Baker