Set Up Overview

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In this concept video, we're going to talk about setup.

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And there are really three key components to your setup layer or setup position

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First is going to be your body position, so kind of your spine angle, knee flex

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, arm hang,

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all those things.

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The second thing is going to be your grip and how your hands are positioned on

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the club.

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And then the third thing is going to be where to locate the body compared to

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the golf ball

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or ball position.

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So let's go through each one of those pieces and then we'll set you up to go

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practice the

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drills to learn how to really do it or to train how it should feel.

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So the first thing that we discussed is posture, right?

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So posture can be looked at from two positions.

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The primary one that we look at is this down the line view.

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Now the reason posture is so important is because posture sets up your muscles

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so that

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the right ones are ready to be active where if you were to set up with

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incorrect posture

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then the wrong muscles are ready to be active.

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The right muscles that we want to get active are going to be your core muscles,

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your back

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muscles, your butt muscles.

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The wrong muscles that are going to get active will be primarily your quadrice

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ps, too much

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in kind of your upper neck, shoulder area like so.

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So our posture is going to be largely just a pretty neutral spine with a good

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hip hinge.

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So I teach you how to find your hips so that you can learn how to bend straight

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from your

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hips as opposed to bending from either your knees, bending from your upper

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spine, or bending

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from your lower spine.

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The reason we have to bend is obviously because the golf ball is on the ground

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and so I have

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to angle my body down towards it.

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So that first key of that posture is going to be hinging from the hips, letting

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your

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arms hang and just having a little bit of relaxation in your knees.

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So not a major knee flex, just kind of a relaxed knee flex.

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If you do this correctly, you can see that I can kind of wiggle my toes because

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my weight

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is a little bit more towards the heel side of my foot as opposed to out on the

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ball on

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my feet which would be more common in a lot of other sports.

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The reasons why in other sports you want to be on the balls of your feet is

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because that

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activates your quads which gives you really quick change directions.

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We don't really need a ton of reaction or change direction in golf because we

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're not

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really moving a whole lot.

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What we need instead is to anchor into our hips which will activate kind of our

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glutes

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and hamstrings which will provide for the engine on the downswing and provide

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pelvic

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stability during the backswing.

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So the last piece to this posture puzzle is looking at your arms kind of

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hanging naturally

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as opposed to being locked and rigid, being too close to you, too far away, et

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cetera.

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We've got drills that help you figure out the right distance and all those

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things.

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So then the second piece, or this brings us to the second piece, is when I'm in

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a good

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posture, now what?

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How do I hold this thing?

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How do I hold my tool?

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So you're going to take the golf club and the keys for finding a good grip are

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mostly

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to have it somewhat in the fingers, primarily in the fingers of both hands, and

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having the

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grip strength match your body movements.

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So I can't give you one absolute guarantee this is where your V should point,

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et cetera.

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I can give you guidelines and ways to adjust it because everybody's going to be

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a little

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bit different and when I look on 3D, I have about 45 degrees of range of motion

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or 45

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degrees of variance in grip strength between some of the weaker grips on tour

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and some

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of the stronger grips that I see.

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So how do we figure out where you should adjust yours?

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Well, you're going to use ball position because let me, or sorry, you're going

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to use ball

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flight, I should say.

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Here's why.

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When you take your grip, the purpose of having your hands somewhat turned to

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one side or

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the other is that when you extend your arms, the club face is going to be in a

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certain

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orientation, like so.

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The more that you turn your hands clockwise or to the right for a right-handed

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golfer,

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this creates a strong grip.

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It is called a strong grip because when your arms straighten, do the weight of

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the club,

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that club face is going to be pointed more down or more to the left.

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This will tend to launch the ball lower and create a little bit more of a draw

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spin because

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it will be, it will have the tendency to be close to the path.

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The opposite would be if I turned my hands counterclockwise or to the left on

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the grip

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for a right-handed golfer, now when I extend my arms, that club face is pointed

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more up

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or to the right, you can see that.

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This will tend to launch the ball higher with more spin, which will tend to

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create a weaker

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ball flight, so that's why we call this strong and why we call this weak.

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Now in general you want your hands to somewhat match up, but what you're going

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to do is rely

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on where your body is turned so that when your grip releases the club, it hits

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a relatively

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straight ball flight or the ball flight that you prefer.

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We have videos on how to determine what is a good kind of finger grip and how

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to adjust

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your grip strength based on your ball flight.

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The last section is going to be ball position, so ball position is roughly

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going to look

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at two different areas, where is the ball on the ground compared to my feet and

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where

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is the ball on the ground compared to my upper body?

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Because both of those have influence and the reason is, well if my feet are

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very narrow

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like so, but it's like, but my body's position like this, is that ball position

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forward or

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in the middle?

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Well it's in the middle compared to my feet, but it's forward compared to my

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upper body,

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so our terminology would get confused if we only looked at it from one

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perspective.

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So our stance width will be explained where we're going to have the ball

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position, those

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will all be explained, but the general key for ball position is your ball

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position for

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every shot should be, well for every shot except for your driver and your put

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ter should

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be just slightly behind where the low point is going to be, as much as a few

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inches.

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So if you were to take swings and see where the club bottoms out or brushes

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against the

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ground, if you were to position the ball just slightly back of where the club

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is entering

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the ground, then you will have more or less a solid strike on the golf ball.

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So these are the basic keys, we'll go over the details of them in the drill

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videos and

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how to get around them in the troubleshooting video.