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In this golf smart insight, we're going to talk about the three drivers of the

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golf

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swing.

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And I don't mean the golf club, the driver, your number one would.

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Talking about the three kind of organizers of movement.

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So I've talked about this with a number of other teaching professionals and

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kind of amateurs

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that really study the swing, and it seems to help clarify things a lot.

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There are three major things that you're going to try to do when you play golf.

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One, you're going to try to create speed, right?

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Two, you're going to try and direct the path of this club.

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So wherever this club is kind of swinging around is going to get controlled

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somehow.

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And then three, you're going to try to organize the club head to that path.

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So you got power, you got path, and you got face.

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Those are the three major, major contributors to the golf swing.

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And everything that you do in your body is either going to add power, affect

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the path,

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or affect the face.

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Now the major ones that affect the face are going to be your hands and your

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forearms,

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because that's the only thing that's going to change that orientation there.

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But there are a lot of things that we do with either our power sources or the

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way we control

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our path that kind of play off each other or compete with each other.

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Let's take the example of, say, I'm trying to create power from my legs, right?

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So the more that I create power from my legs, pretty much in any direction, it

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's going to

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tend to cause the path to get a little bit more shallow.

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So this can be good to a certain point, right?

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If I do too much and I get too shallow, now I'm going to have some struggles

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with consistent

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contact out of fairways, short wedge shots, I might be great off the tee, but I

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'm going

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to have some issues.

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Conversely, someone that doesn't use their lower body for power at all will

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tend to have

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a little bit more steep swing or they're going to have to create that shallown

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ess of the

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path from somewhere else.

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So what I like to do is think of every movement as trying to balance the scales

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The scales of steep and shallow, of as much power as I can create, versus

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getting this

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path correct, and then the last kind of little wild card is the clubface

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alignment.

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Because sometimes the only way you know how to align the face is if your path

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is wrong.

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Or let's put it instead of wrong, let's say, the only way you know how to get

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the face pointing

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in the direction of the target is if the path is coming across like so, versus

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if it's coming

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from the inside and you have to apply some of this rotational, or gamutwork, or

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screwdriver

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motorcycle force.

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So this wheel around the axle.

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So if you break it down that way, you can learn how to create speed from the

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body, how

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to not limit that speed with your arms, or how to delay the release of the arms

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, how to

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control the path both with the body and the arms, and how to control the face

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with the

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hands.

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It ends up being about, you know, a handful of very key movements, and so that

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's what

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I've tried to break the golf swing down to.

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You can do as much or as little of these movements as you need, but you'll see

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how these

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movements contribute to both speed, the path, and the face, which is ultimately

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how we develop

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that long consistent shot from either the fairway or off the tee.