Lead Foot Low Point

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This drill is lead foot low point.

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So this is a way to kind of tie in a few different pieces down to the bottom of

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the swing.

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So if you've gotten lost either with how to feel where that merry-go-round body

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position

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is going to be, or the timing of where your arms are going to be, or if you're

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working

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on a specific release move, this is a good way to tie it together into more of

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an external

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focus for getting you ready to play on the course.

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So it's very similar to the impact fix, except we're going to go a little bit

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past impact.

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We're going to go to the lead foot low point.

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This is also very similar to the nine to low point drill.

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I'll oftentimes tie these together as a homework assignment.

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So as a kind of prep move, what I'm going to do is I'm going to get set up, and

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then

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I'm just going to kind of remind myself where I want to get to at impact.

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So I'm going to make my merry-go-round where my body has rotated, and side bent

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, and my

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head has stayed slightly behind the ball.

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But now I'm going to put the club on the ground with the club close to vertical

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or even leaning

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slightly ahead, but with the shaft even with my left foot.

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Now in the downswing, the order of movement of my body is my lower body goes

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first, and

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then my core, and then my shoulders, and then my elbows, and then finally the

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wrist.

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So if I was to back up from this lead foot low point, I'm just going to use my

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wrist

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to bring it back to impact.

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So I'm going to get in this position, and then I'm just going to use my wrist

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to bring

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the club back to where the golf club would be at impact.

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For most people, this is going to look like your hands are way forward.

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You're usually going to say, wow, my hands would probably be more like there,

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and I need

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to get them all the way to there.

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So it gives the brain a good reference of where I'm trying to get my hands if I

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want

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to have that shaft pretty vertical as it's passing my left foot or the lead

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foot low

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point.

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So then we can add a little rewind to this to kind of help dial in exactly how

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I'm going

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to get there.

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So I'm going to do that little merry-go-round, put the club there, and then I'm

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going to

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bring the club back to kind of a 9 to 3 position, but without moving my body,

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because again,

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by this point, my body has already gotten open, and the last thing to go is

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going to

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be my arms, and then my wrist to get me into that lead foot low point position.

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Now what most people will feel at that point is if I get into this position and

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work my

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way back, you'll usually feel like either A, my hands are much further ahead, I

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'm used

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to them being back here, which would be more of kind of a scoot pattern, or

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they'll say

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that I'm not used to having my body like that, I'm used to having my body like

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this,

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and that would be more of kind of the force going more vertically.

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So if I get that merry-go-round, that lead foot low point, back it up, now I'm

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in pretty

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good position, where if all I do is extend my arms, I'm going to get the bottom

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of the

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swing ahead of the golf ball, and this can help dial in some of the timings and

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some

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of the visuals on where I want to be down at impact.

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So I use this a lot for a variety of different reasons, whether it's an early

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extension move

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or a slide move or upper body lunge, I can use this to train the body and the

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arm relationship

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kind of into one, more of a playing thought.

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So this can often be a really good feel for golfers, to as a kind of a warm-up

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move when

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you're getting ready to play, to kind of dial in what does the swing feel like

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or what

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does impact feel like on that day.

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Once I've then got that position kind of ingrained in my mind, at least

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temporarily,

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now I can start to take my nine to threes, my ten to twos and just try and get

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back

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to that position to make more solid contact.

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So if you find that you have a hard time taking your impact position from the

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range to the

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course, maybe dialing in the lead foot low point is a good way for you to do

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that.

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Or where I most commonly use this is if you have a little bit more of an early

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release

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pattern that you have a hard time building your reference around and your

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wrists are

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just always, the shaft is more vertical and your wrists are always more in this

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position

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at impact, try that lead foot low point reference that'll help dial things into

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one kind of

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clear feel of where you want to get the handle as you're approaching impact.

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Go to impact, lead foot low point, that's where it's vertical, come back, I'm

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trying

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to get my hands all the way to there before they release, pretty good.