4 Club Circuit

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This is the four-club practice circuit. So this is one of my favorite ways to

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add

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random practice into a golf program that where golfers tend to struggle with

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hitting more block stuff. So basically if you fall into the pattern of hitting

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10,

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7 irons, 15, 7 irons in a row, I'd recommend adopting the four-club practice

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session. So basically it's a really simple game or a really simple strategy

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you work on any mechanics that you want but the rule is you're gonna have four

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clubs from different parts of your bag. For example, I've got a driver and then

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I've got a 7, 8 iron. I've got something in between those so whether it's a

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four

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iron, five iron or in this case a hybrid and then I've got a wedge. So I've got

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a

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pretty broad spectrum and one from each of kind of the four quadrants. Now the

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rule is I can't hit the same one twice and the more advanced I'm playing I've

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got a very some of my backswing lengths, my tempos, the shot shape I'm hitting.

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I've got to create more variety. But simply by having these four different

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clubs you'll avoid falling into the self hypnosis and thinking that you've

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got it or that you've owned your swing just from hitting a handful of good

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7 irons in a row. So there's a couple different ways that you can benefit from

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doing this type of training. One would be biasing yourself to your swing miss

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and what I mean that by that is let's say you're a very good driver of the

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golf ball but you struggle with wedges. So you hit let's say you know 10 or a

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dozen wedges and kind of towards the end you get into a pretty good groove

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where

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you're having more of a cast pivot and less of a real drive of the club right

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less of a real body pull. So you're making solid contact but really because

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you've just found this rhythm. So then what you can do is you can hit the

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longer

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end of the club and you can go back and forth a few times because I said you

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can't

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hit the same one twice but that doesn't mean you have to hit each one in

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succession. So maybe you'll go driver hybrid driver hybrid driver hybrid wedge

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and just by doing that what you'll find is that if you naturally have more of a

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driver-based swing where you get more of that arm pull on the or the pull along

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the grip you get more of this axis tilt by hitting a handful of these longer

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clubs in a row you're gonna bias yourself to make your swing miss with

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your scoring club and it's going to force you to use a good pre-shot routine

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and

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a clear focus to overcome that. The opposite can happen if you're really good

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with your wedges you can do wedge seven iron wedge seven iron wedge seven iron

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driver and it'll prevent you from just getting into a good groove. Now if you

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struggle mightily with just making solid contact or hitting a solid driver I

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would recommend doing more block practice until you have that kind of as part

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of

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your repertoire but as soon as you get it you want to start testing it by doing

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these four club challenges this will help you prepare for getting on to the

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course. Okay so we'll go through it one or two times as you know I'm a big

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believer that there's some differences between the driver and the iron swing so

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I'm just gonna start with a seven iron and I'm going to try and kind of groove

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my low point control by staying a little bit more on top kind of taking a

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pretty

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good swing there and now I'm gonna work my way up one notch at a time so I'm

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gonna do a hybrid and see if my iron swing if I can make a little

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adaption to what's going on so now I've got to get a little bit more behind it

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maybe a touch wider stance make my hybrid adjustments and then see if I can get

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them to hold up. Now I'm going to step up one more notch so we'll go to the

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driver. Now with the driver I'm trying to avoid getting spinny contact so I'm

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gonna try to get a little bit more of that kind of falling back style weight

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shift maybe a touch more shaft rotation whatever your driver keys are you'll go

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through it with your pre-shot routine got my target now all along I've been

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gearing myself and setting myself up for testing the wedges it's a pretty good

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one there so by starting in the middle and then coming to the wedge last now

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I'm setting myself up because my body wants to get into that driver pattern

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and I'm gonna have to do a little bit more of a good cast wedge pattern so it

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was a little bit I can feel myself hanging back so it launched a little

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higher than I wanted but overall pretty good clear you know 15 feet short I can

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take that so then I would jump back and forth I can pretend I'm playing on the

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course but adding this style of random practice to whatever mechanics you're

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working on whether it's transition release setup will ultimately help you

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transfer it from the range to the course faster