Woodchopper Drill

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This is the wood chopper drill.

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So the wood chopper drill is a great drill for blending the pivot in the arm

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motion.

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A lot of bad bunker players tend to get too much tilt back this way.

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They get behind the ball and then the arms kind of lift on the way through.

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So the wood chopper drill combines a more of a feeling of a level shoulder turn

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It's not totally level, but it has a feeling of more of a level turn and more

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of a vertical

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arm action or more of a steep arm action.

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So the wood chopper drill on paper is pretty simple.

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You're going to place the club on top of your shoulder just like this and we're

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going to

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turn away from the golf ball like this so that your back is to the target.

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Now what we're going to do is we're going to pivot so that we face the target

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just like

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this and at the same time we're going to swing the club down so it finishes

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behind your back.

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So if I was doing it here so that you could see from this camera I'm going to

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turn and

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I'm going to swing down and finish well low and almost behind my back kind of

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like this.

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Now my brain is not going to let me actually do that when I'm trying to hit the

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golf ball,

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but that will have more of a feeling of the upper body being stacked on top

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instead of

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getting tilted behind.

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Stack centers is one of the real big keys for being a good bunker player and

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this will

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help with releasing the club down and left.

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That release down and left has a big impact on moving the low point far enough

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forward.

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Remember a lot of bad bunker players get this tilt low point behind the ball

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and kind of

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either blade or they make contact with the sand and chunk it.

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So we're going to try to combo that into one feeling where we do a complete

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opposite.

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You may chunk some of these, but you definitely shouldn't blade it.

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You might puzzle them, but you definitely shouldn't blade it.

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So you might have to use some down the line feedback to look at or draw the

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checkerboard

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so that you can see where your contact is.

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Okay, so now let's go through a little demonstration.

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We'll put our normal bunker lines, the two lines, one front, one behind.

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We're going to pick the club up on our shoulder, make a little turn, had a

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great sound, contact

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in in a good position.

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It's a little tricky to do as a ISO drill, but we'll do it anyway.

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So we're going to pick it up, we're going to turn and we're going to feel like

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we throw

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the club down and turn and finish there.

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Now my path got a little bit outside in, but the contact location and the depth

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was pretty

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good.

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I ended up hitting a nice shot, just a little bit more of a kind of a cut feel

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to it.

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So if I like that feel, then now I can hit some regular shots, trying to just

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make a

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normal backswing and feel a little bit more level or over the top with the

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shoulders.

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Again, this is primarily for golfers who get too tilted behind, too much axis

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tilt and

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that axis tilt is causing low point control as far as the location of where it

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enters

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the sand as well as the path on the way through.

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So let's try to do one where we're just feeling a little bit more of that wood

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chopper pivot

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idea.

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And it's really good for helping create speed as well as height.

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So this can be really helpful for getting the torso to turn and getting the

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arms to

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finish in that really good follow through position.

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So try that if you're getting a little bit too much axis tilt and that's

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messing up your

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contact with your bunker shots.

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Super high, really good.