Driver Killers

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In this video, we're going to take a look at the driver killers.

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So if you struggle with your driver, then it's likely one of a few main issues.

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Typically, it comes down to either a steepness where it's either the upper body

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dominant

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or I'm just in a position where the club is traveling too much high to low,

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kind of traveling

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in more of this V-shaped pattern down into the ball.

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Or the club face is being closed too late and that creates a lot of contact or

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direction

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issues.

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If you tend to be more of the steep pattern, it tends to be more predictable,

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but you typically

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complain of some big misses, especially flares off to the right, like slices or

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pulls to

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the left, as well as a lack of distance.

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Oftentimes, you'll say that you hit your three wood as far as you hit your

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driver.

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That can often be related to this steep issue, not always, but a lot of the

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time.

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If you struggle more with consistency where the flight is pretty good, but I

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have some

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big pushes to the right and some big overdraws to the left, that's typically

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more the club

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face is squaring or closing late.

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When you're looking at it on video, you want to start with the impact line and

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you want

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to start with where is the club compared to the height of the ball when it's

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about even

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with the right foot.

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If my upper body is on top, you'll see that the club is still high up off the

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ground compared

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to the golf ball when it's even with my right foot.

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This is going to be coming more down into the golf ball or it's going to

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require a quick

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shallowing which would happen with the arm bend.

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First position is looking at this impact line with the driver, making sure that

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the upper

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body is a good distance behind that left foot so that your head is somewhere in

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the

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six inch, four to six inches behind the golf ball or more over your right leg,

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kind of like

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this.

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This tends to get the club low to the ground so then when you extend the arms

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and you keep

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the body pivoting, that tends to create the more of the sweeping or brushing or

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flat bottom

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of the swing.

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The second piece to look at is the club face so if we're looking at that same

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checkpoint,

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you can see here I left the club face pointing at the camera wide open here,

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now I'm going

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to have to snap my wrists or let the club pass very quickly in order to then

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square

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it up so that would look more club faces wide open and kind of flicking the

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wrist kind

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of like this.

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Now you'll see that I hit that relatively straight but I'm going to be limited

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in how

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much speed I can create and consistency wise my contact is typically going to

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go all over

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the face so I'm not going to be very consistent.

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If that's the case then I have to do more of these motorcycle drills and

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getting used

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to the club face being more rotated earlier and the feeling of everything

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coming through

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together on the way through as opposed to just hitting it with a flick of the

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wrist.

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So the good news is I deal with driver issues all the time and if it is the

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case where you're

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struggling with the driver it's usually solved by either hitting it more with

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the body or

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by closing the face and swinging a little bit more shallow or from the inside.

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So it's usually only one of two solutions it's just figuring out what's going

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to get

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you into that pattern the fastest and that's where looking at the video and

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working your

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way backward from impact will help you figure out is it more of a body or tilt

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issue is

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it more of a sequence issue I'm swinging too much with my arms is it more of a

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path and

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face issue once you know that then there's only a handful of drills you'll need

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to do

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in order to quickly dial it in.

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So let's look at what a couple of those look like so if I get more on top of it

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almost

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like I'm going to hit an iron and I get steep you'll see that's going to give

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me that classic

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low low slice pattern now I didn't swing too hard at it because I don't like

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the way swinging

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hard and steep feels.

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But what I'm going to do now is I'm going to swing it about the same effort

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about the

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same speed but I'm going to be in a better body position and you'll see launch

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wise that's

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going to carry a good 40 50 yards further and then run in an additional 30 40 I

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mean

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that ball probably went 80 yards further than the first one without putting a

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whole

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lot more effort in just by getting more of the speed coming from my body while

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being

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in this shallow position and squaring the face a little bit earlier so I didn't

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have

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to time it quite as much down at the bottom.

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So like I said the driver typically if you're struggling with it it's only one

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of a couple

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issues it's just figuring out which drills will help you kind of change the

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picture or

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dial in the concepts the fastest.

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All right just for fun we'll do a good body pivot good driver swing.

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Close.

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All right didn't square the face on that first one so put in the right rough we

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'll do a

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good one here that was pretty good.