Check your impact line

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The struggle is training your local life.

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So, I've got a pool noodle here

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to help you build a little bit of spatial awareness

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of where you are down at impact.

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A lot of golfers struggle with their pivot

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or their handle location,

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and just having a wall would be ideal,

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but in this case, a pool noodle can help your brain

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figure out where you wanna get to in space.

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With an iron, just past impact,

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we talk about that low point being at about the left foot.

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Well, one good reference or good checkpoint

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is basically at that point,

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having the club, the hand, the shoulder,

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and the hip kind of all in line.

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The two most common problems would be either

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the upper body is back and I've slid a little bit,

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which could cause the hands to flip a little bit

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and cause me to hit that in thin shots.

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Or the lower body stays back

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and the upper body gets kind of forward,

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and then again, the handle is back.

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But I can use this as a common or as a checkpoint

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to help with my spatial awareness.

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If I can go, I'll start first with the merry-go-round version.

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So basically, I'll just look at my pivot,

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and can I get to a position where my shoulder,

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hip, and foot are in line?

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That would be great for getting low point in front

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with an iron.

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If I wanted to then adapt this

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and train it more with a driver,

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I would make sure that I've got about a fist width

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between my shoulder and the wall,

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even though my lower body is up against the wall.

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So iron, I'm gonna be more on top of it.

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Driver, I'm gonna be more behind it.

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Lower body is in the same position,

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but the upper body difference creates that axis tilt

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that adjusts our angle of attack.

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So the hands are basically going to be in line with it,

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whether I'm with an iron or with a driver.

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So this can help, again, heighten that spatial awareness.

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So now I've got this here,

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and I'm going to set it up so that it's behind me,

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but kind of in line with the outer edge of my foot.

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So now, if I get into a good impact position,

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this will feel like my body is turned facing the target,

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and it's pretty much flush up against this wall

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when I get into my finished position.

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This will help me if I'm kind of staying back like this,

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or if I'm sliding too much and breaking through the wall.

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In the finished position,

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I don't mind if your upper body is a little bit more away

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because of the bracing pattern,

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but when I get to impact,

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I wanna make sure that I'm pretty close to that position,

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especially if I struggle with fat thin contact.

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So like most of the things I do,

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I would start with getting into a little bit of a nine to three,

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and then I would progress to 10 to two's

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and up to full swings.

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Now, you wanna be careful.

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If I go too far back here,

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this is actually gonna get in the way of my hand.

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So I want it to be set up so that it's more of kind of

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a visual that I can check at the end.

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So it was just a touch behind,

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it might have been just a little hair shallow on that one,

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but this allows me to kind of dial in that low point position.

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So if you struggle with your upper body too far forward,

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your hips too back, your hands too far back,

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you can use a wall or some type of vertical reference

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to help you retrain that impact position.

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