Face Spray

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This drill is face awareness with the Dr. Scholl's foot spray. So hitting the

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ball in the center of the club is a combination of seals but largely

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related to path control. Low point control, path control is how you make

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solid contact and then getting that to fly straight is a result of how well

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you're able to control the face-to-path relationship. So many golfers are

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simply

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unaware of where they're making contact on the face and so this is one of the

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tried-and-true methods of identifying where you're making contact with the

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club face. If you start to see a pattern and that pattern is not in the center

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of

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the club then you can either make some simple setup changes or take that as a

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diagnostic tool that something in your swing is a little bit off and if you're

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working long-term you can try to balance that in order to create better face

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awareness. However, face awareness is a skill. As I demonstrate with my

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students when you know what you're doing you can hit it on the toe, hit it on

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the

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heel, hit it on the center deliberately and so sometimes when I ask students to

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move their contact point around they have quite a bit of trouble doing so but

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anyway this is just to help you gain awareness of where you're making contact

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on the face. It's very simple you could do this either with a driver or with an

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iron but you're going to spray the face so that the space the face becomes nice

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and white. It doesn't take very long for it to dry and you can see that it'll

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look just like that and then what we're going to do is we're going to make a

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swing and we're just going to see where we made contact on the face and make

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either some conscious or some unconscious adjustments to that. Now the reason I

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like to use spray instead of those stickers is one it's I find it's even

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more convenient those stickers and two the stickers will change the flight

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pattern a little bit where the doctor shall spray doesn't change it very much.

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So now we're going to take a swing so that was a little low on the face but you

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can see contact wise that was pretty close to the center there. Now when you do

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this on grass especially if it's a little bit wet what you'll find is the

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blades

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of grass will tend to mask or hide where you're making contact after you've

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done a handful. So you will have to reapply this every you know three to five

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swings or so.

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So there was a little bit more clear pattern the first one was right there a

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little bit low that one is more just above the bottom groove close to the

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middle maybe even a touch on the heel but I would take that as far as center

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face contact. So now my goal is to try to duplicate that same contact but just

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for our human say let's say we were able to do that let's say we now wanted to

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do

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a little bit more of a challenge drill. I'm going to try and move it a couple

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millimeters more towards the heel just by changing my setup slightly.

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Unfortunately it looks like that was pretty close to the same spot so we'll

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call that a failure we've got to try it again this is getting pretty close to

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last one we can do before I'm going to need to spray it again. So I'm going to

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play it just a little bit towards the heel and see if I can trust myself to

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make the same swing.

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Nope had a hard time getting it in the in the heel that's in the center as well

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Alright so you can see at this point it's very hard to tell where I would be

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making contact so I'm going to quickly reapply. For me striking it on the toe

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is much easier than striking it on the heel so I like to use the heel as a

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challenge game for me as far as feeling the weight of the club. So we'll do

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that

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one more time try not to shank it but try to hit it on the heel and we can see

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where I'm stuck today. It's a little bit more towards the heel than where it

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was

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on the first couple but I was hoping to get one in this heel space. We'll try

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it

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one more time. Especially if I'm doing this with a driver what I may find is if

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I'm consistently hitting it on a certain spot on the club then I just need to

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factor that into my expected ball flight. So it's not necessarily a bad

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thing if you can't constantly hit the sweet spot or what I'm struggling it

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with today is hitting it away from the sweet spot. The all that means is you

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have

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to with the driver or three would you would have to understand how that would

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impact your swing. So let's say you were hitting it constantly on the toe that

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means that if you hit a straight ball where you hit it on the toe your path

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was a little bit outside in and the face was a little bit open in order to get

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that straight shot. So it could throw you off if you're not quite comfortable

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with

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reading the ball flight but ultimately it's a great tool to understand where

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you're making contact. So let's see if we can get that heel contact one time.

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That felt more heel. Alright so it was a little high on the face but I was able

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move it pretty close to the end of the score lines there. So I'll take that but

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the ultimate thing is just using the Dr. Scholl's foot spray to identify your

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pattern. A skill game is playing around with how well you can refine it.

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Whether

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you control that with your upper body or your arms is a little bit up to you

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but

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ultimately it's great to have technique where you can hit it in the center but

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it's better to have skill where you're able to adjust whether you want to hit

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it

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on the heel or whether on the toe or whether in the center. Alright for a fun

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little bonus. Freshly sprayed. Let's hit it on the toe. So I'm very comfortable

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hitting it anywhere from the toe to the center. Not very comfortable hitting it

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on the heel. That's important for me especially with the woods if I wanted to

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understand where my likely missed patterns or tend to show up.