Adjusting Trajectory With Set Up

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In this video we're going to demonstrate adjusting your trajectory with setup.

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So we can adjust our trajectory either with our setup or with changing our

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stroke.

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For most golfers I find that the easiest place to start is setup.

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So I've got this line as kind of our intended target and I've got my ball

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position kind

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of somewhere here in the middle as my standard.

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Now if I want to try to hit it lower what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring

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the ball

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closer to me and further back.

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So closer to my right foot.

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If I'm going to try to hit this higher then I'm going to bring it forward and

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further

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away from me.

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So from the down the line view you can see that it has a ball position kind of

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angle

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something like this.

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Sometimes I see golfers struggle with especially when they move it forward that

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sometimes they'll

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even move it closer and so that encourages more of kind of a chopping or a

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cutting type

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stroke which is the opposite of what we're trying to go for here.

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So if my standard shot we'll see if I can miss this back ball good.

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So if my standard shot kind of has a trajectory like that if I don't change my

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stance and

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just put the ball by this further back one where it's now kind of towards the

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back half

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of my foot and a good three four inches closer to me.

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Now the club is much more vertical.

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If I make a similar stroke I'm going to hit the ball much earlier in the arc

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and I'm going

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to hit more down on him and hit ball first and you'll see that for a shorter

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shot that

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landed closer to me and had a lot more roll out to it.

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Now the only thing that I'm going to have to do differently for the higher shot

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is I'm

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typically going to widen my stance a little bit and I'm going to do that by

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moving my

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back foot forward so that the ball position is still kind of even with the

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inside of my

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left foot or the left toe kind of like this.

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I'm also going to typically lower the club because it's a little bit further

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away.

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By having the ball position forward you'll see that that naturally gets the

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shaft more

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vertical.

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The big things that I can do to adjust the trajectory are either play with how

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much shaft

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lean I have or play with how much face openness I have.

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When I put the ball back and kept my hands in the middle that increased the

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shaft lean

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and to get the club face square I ended up closing it a little bit.

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Here when the ball is forward that's going to naturally make the club stand up

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a little

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bit more straight and so that's going to tend to bring the club with less shaft

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lean

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and more loft and therefore I'm going to hit it higher.

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So that goes higher has more spin so those three balls ended up kind of in a

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rough area.

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You'll see that when the ball was back I took the shortest swing when it was in

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my middle

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position that was a little bit further and when I went higher I had to take a

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much bigger

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swing.

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Keep that in mind that when you're practicing this you will have to put more

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effort into

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the higher shot but it oftentimes if you make sure you don't blade it if you

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make sure you

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get underneath it it's the easiest one to use the bounce so you have a pretty

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good margin

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of error as far as your contact location.

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So this is the simplest option for playing around with your trajectory.

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If you want you can dig into some more advanced ways if we end up changing your

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setup or sorry

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if we end up changing your stroke in addition to changing your setup.