Step Swing, Step Swing

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This drill is Step Swing, Step Swing, and if you're going to save the name of

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the drill,

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you have to say it like that.

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There has to be a little pause because this is a rhythm drill.

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This is a sequencing drill.

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So the step drills have been around for a long time, but I've seen this

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particular

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version last year at the Open Forum from Rob Holding.

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I've used it with some pretty good success, especially with beginners, just

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kind of learning

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to feel the whole body swinging the club I think is really, really important,

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especially

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when it gets to the longer clubs.

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You can get away with using just your upper body as your power source to swing

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the club

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with, say, an eight iron to one of your wedges, but when you start getting into

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the seven

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iron and down, you got to start using more of your body and when you get to

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driver, you

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got to use your whole body.

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So the Step Swing, Step Swing, is basically doing a little bit, it's a play on

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the Step

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Change of Direction drill, which is a little bit more of kind of a one-time

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thing, where

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this is going to be more of a rhythm drill and then we're just going to kind of

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let the

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golf ball get in the way when we apply it.

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So you're going to get into your golf posture and you're basically going to

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have about half

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second to three-quarter second little timing in these little steps.

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And when you get real comfortable, you can kind of do it without having your

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upper body,

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so I didn't slam the mic there, but you can get kind of this little weight

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shift going

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almost like a salsa movement, where I'm just using my legs and kind of feeling

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the step.

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Now phase one of this drill is without using your arms, so I'm step, step, step

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, step, step.

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And I'm just going to connect my arms to this stepping movement.

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So I'm basically going to step and then swing, let my arms kind of swing, and

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then I'm going

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to step and then swing.

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So it becomes swing, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step, step

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What a lot of amateurs do when they first start playing golf is they're going

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to step

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and then as everything, when they go to the top of the swing with the club,

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basically everything

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is going to come down together instead of having this pronounced step and then

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arms.

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So this is a really good way to kind of feel this sequencing of the lower body

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and the

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core kind of leading the arms, both in the takeaway and the backswing as well

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as in the

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transition and the downswing.

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Once you have a good sense of this, then you can take some swings with your

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normal golf

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club.

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So step, and I'm just kind of feeling the weight of the club, I'm not going to

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do this

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too quick as far as the steps go, so it's not like a quick march as much as I

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can.

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I'm sure there's ways you can use that, but I like the rhythm of more kind of

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like so,

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and then I can do it bigger and bigger kind of keeping that same rhythm, but

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again, feeling

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the step in the lower body and the core leading the arms both in this takeaway

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in the backswing

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as well as in the downswing.

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So now to take it to actually hitting a golf ball, you can either do nine to

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three or you

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can do full swings, doesn't really matter, but I'm going to get that step in

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going.

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So I'm doing my little step on about that rhythm that I like, and then I'm just

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going

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to let the club and my arms swing as a result of the body movement, and then

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once I've kind

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of got a feeling going, I can just step forward so that that swinging motion

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hits the golf

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ball.

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Now if you're a really high handicapper and you have trouble making contact,

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just kind

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of get the sense of it, and then set up to the ball.

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So I'm going to be here.

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I'm going to get my step swing kind of rhythm, and then I'm going to step up to

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the ball,

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and I'm going to get kind of that step swing, step swing type rhythm and try to

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apply it

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that way.

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So if you're a lower handicap, I do like where you just kind of walk in place

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and just kind

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of really get a sense of it.

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Anytime you're trying to make changes, it's easier to kind of sneak up on it

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and do something

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that's a little different than your normal pre-shot routine, whatever that may

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be.

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If you have some nuances over the golf ball that your brain uses as your

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trigger, the

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more you get away from those, the easier it's going to be to transfer.

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So when you take it to the swing, start a little bit away from the ball and

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then just

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kind of gradually walk in, that'll give you this sense of this total body

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movement.

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One little point about this step swing that I forgot to mention.

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If you have a hard time, if you kind of do this step swing and the ball tends

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to shoot

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high and way off to the right, then it means that your body is being shut down

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to help

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you control the club face, and you should look at the club face control stuff

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or the

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arm motions in transition in the release.

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It's much more important for the longer clubs than for the shorter clubs,

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especially with

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the driver three with those kind of things, we want to make sure that it's the

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total body

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movement that's swinging in the club, not just the arms.

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Step swing helps you develop that feeling and then you can transfer that into

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your stock

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swing.