Delivery Path Drills

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This series is visual training with the foam noodles so on the site I have lots

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of detailed field drills and frequently golfers are able to overcome their

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barriers by finally feeling what a key part of their body is supposed to do

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during a key phase of the swing but some golfers are not too in tune with their

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feel so if you have a hard time paying attention to your feel you've got to

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use a different system of feedback until you can get that feel.

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Frequently I'll use foam noodles to use visual feedback to help ensure that a

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golfer is kind of doing it correctly and give them a chance to kind of

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spatially create the image of what they think it should look like in their mind

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Once they've done that for let's say a week, two weeks, typically what happens

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is then they'll be able to finally feel the difference between the good and the

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bad. So if you struggle with creating feels or you try to make changes and

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they don't really show up on video because you're just trying you haven't

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confirmed a feel that can actually create the change then experiment with

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using some of the visual feedback whether it's a foam noodle or a position

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checkpoint to make sure that you're doing it correctly. In this pool noodle

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drill

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we're gonna work on getting the right word club path so I've got the do it

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yourself set up we'll go over that here in a second but basically imagine if

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I'm hitting it straight away from the camera kind of like so. I may not be able

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to feel some of these arm shallowings or some of the you know Jackson five or

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body position stuff. If I'm trying to train my visual sense I want to

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experiment

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with where is the club in this space and I lose focus of it when I'm when I'm

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looking at the golf ball sometimes it's hard to see exactly where the club is

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here. So what I'll frequently do in the lessons I'll go up to the top of the

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swing and then I'll take the club and kind of put it roughly on that angle so

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it'll be coming in sort of like this and then I'll ask them to make some

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practice moves trying to get the club to swing on the inside of it. Then I can

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go to the follow through side and put the club a little bit outside like this

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and say I want you to try to swing the club to the outside through here. Now

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that may feel and then I'll ask how does that relate to the target you may

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feel like either it's more body rotation but the club is still out you may feel

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like the club is swinging way out to the right of where the target is but what

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will happen is when you start to work with the visual space your brain will

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start to associate some fields. So here's the little do-it-yourself version.

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Basically here I've got my target line right and again with all these I don't

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like to use this as a physical barrier that prevents me from swinging I prefer

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to use it as a visual training station. So I imagine that the golf ball's here

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I'm going to go up to the top of my swing and I'm going to try to get the

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club either parallel or inside parallel as I come down. I'm going to do it with

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a little bit of speed and just kind of associate where is that spatially. Try

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to

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create like a visual map of where that's swinging. Now the good thing about

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this

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one is you can put it at roughly the same angle on the follow through

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position you just have to experiment with the height. So now if I'm moving to

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the

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other side of the ball I can get set up. Move that there. I've got this going a

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little bit more out to the right and I can practice swinging getting it to

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miss to the outside through there. If I'm used to getting a little bit more of

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a

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role-release this is going to feel very restrictive but once I get over that I

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now have some spatial awareness. If I stand here I can kind of visualize okay

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that one was going here that one was going there. How do I get the club to

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swing? Okay so now I'm going to try doing that and I'm just going to see what

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happens. If I try to swing a little bit more from the inside there to a little

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bit

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more of the outside there I'll get this shallowness to the contact and the ball

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may go off to the right. If it goes off to the right then what I can do is I

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can

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try to experiment with rolling the the clubface or or rotating the shaft in

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order to square the clubface because what frequently happens is this path is

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now out to the right but the clubface may not be open if I didn't roll it. If I

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didn't rotate the shaft in square the clubface using more of the motorcycle.

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So what I may do is in my mind think that I have to get the club out there in

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order to square it. So that would be using the path to square the face and this

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gives me a visual spatial representation of what I'm doing. So this is how it

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looks from the down the line roughly 10 degrees in out compared to the target

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line at about hip height. So I can use my eyes to kind of start training some

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of

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these fields so you can see that from there that looks relatively normal

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compared to the camera but to me that may look if I then move from looking at

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the

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club to looking back at the ball may look like it's coming weighted from the

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inside. That may look to me like more normal but now I have this reference that

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I can use to start building the fields. Once I have this kind of in my mind

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this

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visual of where I want it to swing I can try and take a few reps recreating

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that

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map in my head or recreating that barrier in my head. Secondly with this one

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you

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can do it on the opposite side of the ball. So I can take some swings again

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this is about 10 degrees in the out and I can take some swings just letting the

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club swing out there again looking at the ball looking at the club looking at

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the

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target going back and forth and kind of creating the visual map of where I want

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this to actually swing. Once I have that idea in place I can step up to the

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ball

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and take a few reps.