Hit From The Top

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This content video is revisiting the pause of the top drill or hit from the top

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So earlier on, I've created a video called hit from the top.

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That was paying homage to Tiger's old drill that Butch Harmon had him working

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on.

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And it's really good for working on changing the top of your backswing

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positions because

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it gives you a little bit more time to experience what's going on.

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And it gives you, because of that time, you can kind of check things where oft

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entimes once

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the club and the arms go out of view, a lot of golfers have a hard time feeling

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what's

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going on.

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So this can help really refine the top of the backswing.

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Well, I've since heard both Fred Couples and Xander Schofle talk about how that

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was one

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of their big drills as well.

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So we've got three golfers who say that they used to do a lot of this drill

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where you go

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to the top, stop, and then swing down from there.

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Tiger Woods, Fred Couples, Xander Schofle.

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I'd say that's a pretty good cluster of ball strikers to model after.

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Now in addition to helping you work on kind of the top of the backswing, it

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really helps

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with taking away some automatic triggers and working on your downswing

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sequencing.

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I find that some golfers who get really armsy or kind of pull down or spin with

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the shoulders,

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when you do more of this hit from the top drill, you get your lower body to

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initiate

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the downswing without a whole lot of conscious thought, because typically when

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you do this

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backswing position and you stop there, you'll be a little bit more over that

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trail side.

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And so if you were to then just fire really hard, you'll tend to have low point

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issues

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or you'll tend to have paths coming too much outside in.

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So if you get to that position, we're up at the top of the swing, stop, and

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then from

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there, we're going to try and get to our good follow through position.

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You'll see that in order to do that, you'll tend to have to have a pretty good

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initiation

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from the lower body.

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Now I do think this drill can be a problem for some golfers who don't connect

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the lower

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body into the swing very well, in which case may be stopping at more 3/4 and

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then kind of

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making that pause just before the top of the backswing instead of truly at the

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top of the

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backswing.

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That can help prevent getting too armsy if you're more one of these upper body

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spin guys.

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But if you look at yourself on video and you don't like either the arms

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collapsing or

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the body kind of going up or like an excessive trail leg straightening or a

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little sway,

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one of these kind of like trigger moves that are often subconscious and really

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hard to

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get out of.

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This is an ultimate torture drill, but it can really help clean up both that

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top of the

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backswing as well as that sequencing and that feeling of a proper transition.

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So it's a simple drill.

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You just go up to the top of the swing, wait longer than you think is

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comfortable.

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So usually I say two or three seconds and then from here, you're going to try

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and get

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into your good downswing delivery and then into your follow through position.

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So if you haven't tried it and you want a challenge and you want a sequencing

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drill,

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I highly recommend you check it out.

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Maybe it will become one of your go-tos for resetting some of your sequencing

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or top

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of the backswing positions just like Tiger, Fred or Xander.

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And we'll have to play that way.