Low Point Chicken

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This drill is low point chicken.

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So low point chicken is a game that I'll use of basically seeing how close or

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how far away

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from the golf ball can I hit it and still get a reasonable shot.

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This varies a lot with the sand type that you're on.

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So we had some rain, this is kind of packed down.

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So I'm not going to have as big a margin as say if I was playing in some really

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sugary

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fine sand where I might be able to hit four or five inches behind the golf ball

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and still

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hit a good shot.

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This is going to be a little bit tougher but hopefully you'll get the gist of

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this game

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and you can experiment with it at your home course and then you'll have a

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reference for

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when you go and play at other courses.

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So I've got my low point lines, one in front, one behind.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to set up to the line and just get my

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base line.

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So that hit pretty close to the back edge of the line.

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I'm a little erred on behind it today.

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But now what I'm going to do is I'm going to set up just a little bit behind

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the line.

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Good.

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I'm just calibrating making sure that where I'm setting up is roughly where I'm

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making

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contact with the sand.

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So now my goal is to start as far back as I can and work my way up.

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Typically when I hit well behind the golf ball it's going to come out a little

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bit lower

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unless it's fluffy sand.

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It's going to come out a little bit lower and have more release to it.

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So here's where the contact line is.

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I'm going to try, we're going to start, there's my target.

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So with this firm sand I feel like I'm really going to have to stay down to get

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underneath

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it.

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If you have a tendency to kind of come up, this drill can kind of put you in a

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pressure

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situation where you feel like you're going to want to come up so you can

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overcome that

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tendency.

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That's one of the goals of practice is to kind of figure out mental triggers

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that you

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can use to avoid your most common tendencies.

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All right, so we're going to set up this line that's well behind the golf ball.

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Just kind of a normal bunker swing, normal bunker shot.

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So like we said, so I hit right at that line, that was pretty good.

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And like I said, that's going to come out a little bit lower and have a little

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bit more

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run.

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But I did still get the bottom of the swing just slightly ahead of the golf

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ball.

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That was a reasonable shot.

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So far past level one.

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Now I'm going to cut that in half.

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So I'm going to move it about a full bounce width or an inch closer to the golf

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ball.

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Try to make similar swing.

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So that's a lot closer to kind of my normal hitting two inches behind the golf

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ball.

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But now where this is where the scary stuff comes into play, now I'm going to

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try to get

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it right behind the golf ball as close as I can to the golf ball.

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And what I'm doing with this is I'm trying to use my setup to change the stroke

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and get

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really aware of where the sand contact is.

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I find a lot of amateur golfers when they're practicing, they're not really

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paying attention

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to where the club is hitting the sand.

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They're just focusing on if they hit a good shot or not.

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And so this can help you get more comfortable with what do you do if you're

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falling into

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a tendency where you're kind of having some low point issues.

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How can you find more of a comfortable zone and maybe play a safe shot to help

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you get

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through the round until you have time to work on it a little bit more.

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All right.

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That's enough stalling.

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Let's set up to this close line here, see if we can almost clip the ball.

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Let's see.

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So, and you'll see that's going to have the most spin.

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I still hit a tiny bit before.

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I didn't quite hear the ball.

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I was happy with the shot.

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Happy I didn't blade it.

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But let's see if we can push that even a little bit closer.

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I'm going to put that line right at the back edge of the ball.

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So, potentially this could be a pick shot.

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I might blade this.

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Eventually, you've got to push your comfort zone and get a little bit too close

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to the

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golf ball when you're playing low point chicken.

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Okay.

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Ah, whisked out.

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You probably saw I kind of fell back on it a little bit.

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So that's where I fall into maybe I'm not quite as comfortable trying to clip

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the ball or

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pick the ball.

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But now I have kind of like a goldy log zone where that made me a little too

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uncomfortable.

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Hey, that one where I played an inch behind it, maybe even two inches behind it

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, I felt

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pretty comfortable.

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And then when I was four inches behind, that also made me uncomfortable.

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So this can help you.

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This low point chicken game can kind of help you get more comfortable with a

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range you can

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place play from rather than just trying to do the optimal.

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I find that that if you have a range that gives you more day to day variability

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instead

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of trying to think of the perfect distance every single time you hit a bunker

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shot.

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All right, let's see, we'll try one more of those.

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See if we can kind of clip it.

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Oh, that hit really close to it.

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Not today.

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Can't make ball first.