Driver vs Iron - Troubleshooting

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All right, in this class, we are going to go into the details of troubles

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hooting your

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driver versus your iron.

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So the first time we visited driver and iron, which have been a few classes ago

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, we talked

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about the bigger, the big issues of kind of having enough tilt or being behind

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and in

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general the shape of the swing.

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So with the driver, we are trying to have more of a flat kind of gradual

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movement kind

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of like this.

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With the iron, we are trying to have a little bit more of a downward and

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covering blow like

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that.

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Well, as a general shape, with the driver, we're trying to kind of squish this

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hula hoop.

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So we're trying to get this hula hoop or the shape down at the bottom to be

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more kind

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of flat like this, where with the iron, the more important thing is just making

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sure that

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the bottom of it is slightly ahead.

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So the irons, in general, are more sensitive to the low point control and just

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the face

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control.

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They're a little bit more forgiving on the overall path, where the driver is

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more sensitive

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to the sequencing or more sensitive to the path control.

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Yes, you still have to control the club face with the driver, but because you

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're doing

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it a little bit more gradually, I tend to think of it needing more work on the

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path control.

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So the major driver killers and the major iron killers, iron killers really

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relate to

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the low point as well as a little bit of face.

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Other killers relate to more of the path and sequencing with a little bit of

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face.

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So the big driver killers, if you get two upper body dominant that will tend to

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get your upper

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body on top, and it will tend to hit more down on the ball.

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Here's an example that I give as far as one of the big differences between

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driver and iron.

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So I tell the story a lot.

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Just looking at, let's say we were playing tennis or ping pong.

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To be a good driver of the golf ball, we essentially want to have very little

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change of the club

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head, having a gently moving path kind of like this through the ball.

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Poor drivers of the golf ball will tend to have the face open and kind of like

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closing

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a lot like this, or they will tend to have the club coming down and kind of

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sweeping up

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like this.

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Now you might think, well, why doesn't that cause any problems with their irons

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?

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So I use the ping pong paddle.

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The ping pong paddle is super light.

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I can, with a pretty high precision, I could do these quick changes last minute

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and hit

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the ball relatively towards my target.

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But if you change this, if this was a 20-pound object where I was holding it

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really heavy,

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or if it was a really long object, let's say that the club was five feet away

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from me,

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it would take a lot more effort for me to get the club face to change or to

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swing the

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club.

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As a result, I would want to get momentum working in my favor.

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I would want to get things kind of lined up sooner.

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The driver is a longer club, and it's one that we swing faster, so it tends to

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fall

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into that pattern of being heavier.

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It's got more inertia working with it.

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So all of the drills that we have over there on the right, they tend to get the

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driver

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head working a little bit more stable or less change both in the height and the

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path and

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in the club face.

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So if you're looking at your driver, you want to see about the path coming into

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the

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ball, as well as the club face, that'll help you identify what area you need to

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work on.

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And if you get it more powered from your hips and your core, that tends to

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double up on

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getting the less change of the path, as well as a little bit flatter path, or

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more of

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this kind of shallow arc or U-shaped swing.

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With the iron control, if I trade that out, with the iron control, we already

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talked about

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solid contact coming from this low point control.

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Well, the big things that influence low point are going to have be more of a

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scoop flip-type

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movement or narrowing in the arc.

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When we're looking at controlling low point, a lot of it is this radius control

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So how the timing of my arm straightening, as well as the location of my upper

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body.

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With the irons, the big thing is, if I'm too far behind, if I'm too far up, if

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I'm scooping

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and bending, that messes up my contact, makes it really hard to get consistent

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distance control,

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as well as lost control, if I'm not hitting the ground in the same spot each

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time.

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So you'll work on the big ones, we'll talk more about chicken wing and elbow

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bend, if

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you see that on video, scoop flip, that's a common one that you'll see, and

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then revisiting

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some of the big body problems, more of the early extension, too much side tilt,

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or kind

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of more of a hangback type movement.

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You can, we will discuss a little bit the path getting excessively into out or

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out to

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end, but as long as you're within four or five degrees of your target, you'll

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probably

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be fine as far as the path goes, the driver is a little bit more path sensitive

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Now because the driver relates to sequencing, if you try these drills and you

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're still having

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a little bit of trouble, like you're doing it maybe on 10 to 2s pretty well,

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but it breaks

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down on your full driver attempt, then fear not, it could be sequencing that is

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holding

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you back, and that's what we'll cover in the next class.