Low Point and Solid Contact - Advanced Breakdown

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Okay, so now let's jump into round two.

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We're going to go through some of the details of how to influence these things.

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So in round one, when we went through low point or face control or path control

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, I was

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staying pretty general and I wanted you to be able to explore the ideas.

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Because if you come up with your own answer of how to control path, how to

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control face,

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how to get solid contact, oftentimes that can have a bigger influence on your

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confidence

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and your ability to really own the ideas and own the concepts.

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But you might be working on something and you're really struggling with it.

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Let's say you just keep hitting the ball fat or you keep topping it or you keep

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shanking

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it.

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That's where having the knowledge of the big ideas of how we can influence the

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skill that

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you're working on is really going to come in handy.

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So let's jump into revisiting low point control.

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So now this is an overhead view.

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Let's say I'm hitting a shot in that direction.

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Low point control is looking at where the club is making contact with the

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ground.

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And essentially if you want to master low point control, then I want you to be

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able to influence

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where the club hits the ground, either hitting back here, hitting the ground

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there, or along

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this stick, hitting more inside, hitting more outside, kind of like that.

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So I want to be able to use my skills to move around contact and I want to get

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really pretty

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precise.

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I want to get good control of how the club hits the ground.

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So on this first slide, we're going to take a look at moving it more, let's say

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the target

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is that way, so a little different than when I have on the slide, target is

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that way.

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How do I move it forward, backward?

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So the main things, and sometimes I will draw that, that's very similar to the

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four square

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idea we did in the path control and I'll look at how can you move, or I'll have

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my students

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try and move the contact with the ground around on that grid.

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If you get stuck, in order to move it more forward, in order to move the

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contact point

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more ahead of the golf ball, some of these are going to be desirable, things

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that you

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really can't overdo, some of these are going to be more sensitive, like if you

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overdo it,

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it's going to cause some problems, or it's going to limit how well you can do

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another

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aspect, let's put it that way.

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So I want you to understand how to move it forward, how to move it backward,

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but understand

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that you'll ideally blend some of those to create this really gradual, shallow

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brushing

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of the ground, some four inches in front of the golf ball.

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Okay, so the ones that move it forward, in this, in the stock tour swing

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program, the

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big things that move it forward, outside in path, I'm going to start with that

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one.

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The more that you, you can see if I have a contact point here, the more that I

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move this

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outside in, if the center of the circle stays in the same place, it's going to

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tend to move

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that contact point forward.

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That's what a lot of golfers do, is they have the center of their swing behind

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the ball,

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and then to avoid hitting it fat, they swing outside in.

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That helps them with solid contact, but it limits power, and it limits club

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face control.

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So we don't want a lot of this one, let's look at some of the things that we do

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more of.

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So the wipe, the wipe is more of a shifting of the circle forward, but really

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the wipe

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is more of getting the force along or more rotational.

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So it's using my body to pull along the club as opposed to just throwing the

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club, or the

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club head at the golf ball.

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So we talk about how the shoulders work in the wipe, how the core works in the

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wipe.

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Those can be great, like really big movers of this low point in getting it

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forward.

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A lot of common low handicap golfers who struggle with getting a little bit

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better

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contact, this is one of their major issues.

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Getting the body more open helps move the low point forward, keeping your

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posture angle,

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so staying, avoiding early extension, and remember your posture angle changes

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as you

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rotate through, so it goes from being flexed forwards to turning into more side

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bend,

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but that helps move the bottom of the swing forward.

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The one that I'm seeing that I don't have on here is actually having your

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weight more

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forward or more on the front foot helps move the low point forward, so I'll

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make sure to

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add that later in edit.

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More lag is similar to the wipe or what we talked about in the first level,

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which was

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delaying the timing of the arm straightening.

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So you can have lag more from the shoulder, you can have lag more from the

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elbow, you

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can have lag more in the wrist, but the more that you're delaying the straight

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ening of

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the arms, that's going to move the low point more forward.

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We'll get into, when we look at some of my favorite drills for working on this,

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we'll

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talk about some of the specifics of the wrist movements that move the low point

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forward.

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But in general, if I move the wrist back this way, I'm delaying the widest

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point of the

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circle, so anything that is going to move the club further back along the arc

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is going

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to have the ability to move the low point forward, anything that moves the club

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further

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down the arc is going to have the opposite effect.

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So let's talk about the big movements that move the club backward.

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They tend to be more shallowing movements, so if I had a path that was too far

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into out,

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that will tend to move the low point backward.

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In fact, a lot of golfers who have kind of the classic slice pattern where the

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clubface

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is open, swinging outside in, as they start to improve their swing plane and

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move more

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inside out, they can struggle with getting fat contact simply because of

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changing that

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outside in to inside out path.

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And they're not balancing it by either more leg or more weight shift or

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something else.

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So the key movements that move it backward are going to be more of this axis

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tilt or

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the Jackson 5 movement where the upper body gets behind the lower body.

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We'll talk about it, but don't confuse that just with side bend of the spine.

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You can side bend of the spine and not have a lot of axis tilt or you can side

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bend more

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from the hips and have a lot of this axis tilt.

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Early extension is the other big body shallowing movement, so the more that my

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body stands up,

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that widens the circle which creates more of a flat or shallow bottom.

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And then from the arms perspective, there's a few things that will tend to

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shallow it,

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looping or letting the club pass like this tends to shallow it out.

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Getting the club more behind, creating more shallowness, getting the club stuck

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behind

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you can shallow things out.

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If you balance that with a good body steepener, sometimes that can work, but

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oftentimes that

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can cause some problems when everything catches up.

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A phrase that I tend to use is if you build too much of this lag, especially

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with your

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short game shots, then when all that lag catches up, it can be hard to control

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the timing

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and the precision of contact or club-based control.

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And then the last big arm movement that shallows is the unhinging of the wrist.

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A lot of golfers, especially golfers who took lessons more in the 80s, 90s were

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really hammered

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into holding on to this vertical wrist angle and that can make it really hard

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to create

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enough shallowness.

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So this is looking at the big picture of how we move that contact in front of

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or behind

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the golf ball.

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Now let's take a look at toe and heel.

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So now as we look at toe and heel contact, that would be more, let's say I'm

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still hitting

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in that direction.

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You can see if I make contact with the toe of the club, then I'm making contact

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closer

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to me than where the golf ball was.

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If I make contact with the heel of the club, then if this hit the ground, it

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would be making

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contact further away.

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So fat and thin shots are controlled by making contact in this direction

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compared to the golf

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ball, and toe and heel contact is controlled by making contact in this

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direction here.

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So there are some major things that we'll explore in some of these drills, but

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major

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things that move more towards toe contact.

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So in general, something that moves me more towards toe contact, if I start

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here, is going

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to be pulling in closer to me.

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I'm going to be moving the club closer to me than where it started.

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The big ones standing up, so early extensions, so upper body getting further

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away from the

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golf ball.

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That can also happen if your upper body goes too far back that way, that

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increases the

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distance between you and the golf ball, that can make it more toe contact.

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The other big one is more of the chicken wing or the arms bending, because when

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the arms

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bend, they tend to pull the club in closer to me.

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A cousin of that is the outside in path.

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If I start to get outside in, if I kept things lengthening, the club would go

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too far deep

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into the ground, so oftentimes I'm going to narrow the radius to avoid getting

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too deep

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into the ground, and it's going to cut across and hit it on the toe.

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And then, similar to the standing up, I just wanted to add, you can be in a

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good posture,

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but if you start way on your toes and then you really fall backward into the

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heels, that

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pulls away and you can get onto the toe.

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I'd say that's the least common, but that is one that you could look at if you

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're really

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struggling with toe contact.

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Usually, it's one of these first three.

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Okay, when it comes to heel contact, it's pretty much the opposite, which would

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be the

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upper body getting either too down or moving into the toes.

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Those are two of the more pesky causes of the shank, because oftentimes you don

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't feel

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it.

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You have to look at on video and then do some awareness training or put some

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stations to

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help you get more aware that you're moving closer to the golf ball.

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That can be a powerful movement, especially in transition, but if you don't

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back up out

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of it, it causes that contact problem.

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If you get too much into out, that can cause heel contact.

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So this is where the standing up or early extension is tricky.

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If I stay in place and I early extend, or if I keep my pelvis in the same area

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and I

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early extend, that makes it more toe contact.

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But if I shift into the toes and early extend, that shallows out the path, gets

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it coming

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too much inside out and that can encourage heel contact.

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So the stand up, part of the reason why we don't like it is it can cause a

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variety of

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different contact problems.

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Okay, so too much inside out, often from standing up.

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And then the last one that's quite common is if I have too much of a hit of

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this arm,

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especially if the arms are working well away from my body, if the arms stay

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close and they

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hit, it's usually not as big a problem, but if the arms get disconnected and

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really reach

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out towards the golf ball, then that tends to throw the club head further out

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this way,

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causing heel or shank contact.

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And usually that's an issue with kind of powering this wing and using too much

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of the

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shoulders and not enough of the core.

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In this class, we're going to go over some of my favorite drills that will get

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into more

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of the advanced ideas as far as how to influence timing of your arms and the

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position of your

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body.

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And remember, when it comes to, I break the drills into a couple different

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ideas, we've

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got combo drills which more work on the pivot, work on that body being kind of

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dynamic, but

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staying in a good centered location.

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And then we have the arm drills.

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Let's start with the arm drills because those tend to be some of the bigger aha

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moments

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for a lot of my students.

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One of the reasons I would go to an arm drill is if you are really, if you're

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struggling

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with contact with every swing.

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So full swings, 10 to 2s, 9 to 3s, it's typically a release movement that's

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causing the problem.

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Even more common issue is if you'd hit better contact with the full length

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swing rather than

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a 9 to 3, it's almost always you've got some arm issues going on.

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And because both hands are holding the club, they can fight each other.

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So I do the single arm so that I can see which arm is actually causing your

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problem.

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If you train both arms to work well individually and to work well together, it

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gives you a really

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high level of consistency with your release, your arm action.

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So we go through my favorite arm drills.

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These don't fix every problem, but I'd say 90% of them.

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If you put some effort into these drills, they tend to really work up or

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improve the pattern.

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And you'll see that I've got a little asterisk next to the lead arm.

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If you only did one, just practicing 9 to 3s, a little lead arm only.

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If you get that to where you can make solid contact, it has a really big impact

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on improving

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your release.

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Then we've got combo drills, which is more, these are the easy ones to kind of

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up.

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There's a lot of full length single arm drills, but these drills, you can work

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your way up

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closer to your full swing.

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If you do fall into that pattern where now you are making more solid contact

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with your

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9 to 3s, 10 to 2s, but then as you go to take full swings, it breaks down.

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That's where we might have to revisit or we might have to dig into your

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transition.

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And the easiest way to train the arms and the pivot together in transition is

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working

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on this delivery position.

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Lots of good ball strikers, Ben Hogan, Mo Norman, many golfers have

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demonstrated kind of getting

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into this delivery position before the release happens.

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I highly recommend golfers getting aware of what their delivery position is and

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it.

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So these are my favorite more detailed drills for working on improving your low

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point control,

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either from the arm perspective or the pivot perspective or blending the two of

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them together.

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So quick summary, if you want to get solid contact, you have to master low

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point control,

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how the club and where the club is contacting the ground.

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The two big influences are your pivot location, where is your upper body in

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space, and then

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the timing or what your arm movements are.

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The geometry of this low point is all it really takes to make solid contact.

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You might not hit it far, you might not hit it exactly as straight as you want,

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but if

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you control the geometry elements, you will make solid contact.

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So in the next class, we're going to revisit the other big satisfying thing in

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golf, which

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is hitting the ball straight, so we're going to dig into the face to path and

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the path control

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required to be a really elite ball striker that complements this low point

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control.

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One quick point, if you are still continuing with the low point control and

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your ball has

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a lot of curve to it, then part of why you're struggling with low point control

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could be

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the fact that your path and your face are not aligned up for having a really

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good low

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point control.

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So typically improving your club face control, your path control, will help

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with your low

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point control, and you'll learn that in the next class.