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This drill is three times closer. So this drill is specifically designed for

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golfers

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who tend to shank the ball because golfers who are specific golfers who shank

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the ball,

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when you get set up, the club is contacting the ground further and further away

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from you.

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That tends to move the club from the middle of the ball to hitting it on the

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hosel. And

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so one drill, just as a kind of feeling drill or an awareness drill, as a I don

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't really

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care too much how you do it, just figure out a way to do it, we're going to

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practice hitting

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the ground closer to us. So the most common ways that golfers are going to get

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the club

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to hit the ground closer, it's either going to be from a weight distribution,

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from a body

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position or an arm timing. So I've got the yoga block here just to give me a

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little bit

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of a of reference because if I got set up here and then I hit the ground

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further away,

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I would hit that yoga block. So now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get

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set up with

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the toe of the club up against the yoga block. And then I'm going to do a

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couple kind of

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rhythmic swings. And I'm going to try and move my body more towards my heels,

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my body

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away and kind of delay my arm timing so that I hit the ground closer to me

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three times

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in a row. Now the super important thing is that I don't want my low point to

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start moving

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backward. Oftentimes when golfers start moving away, they go earlier with the

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arms and they

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start hitting fat thin shots because the low point moves backward. So I want to

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get the

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same low point position compared to the ball even though I'm moving away. So

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three times

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closer. I'm going to start off with an exaggeration where I'm going to try to

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move my contact

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point a couple inches each time. As I get better with this, I'm going to try to

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refine

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it. So now I'm going to get set up and I'm going to try to hit the ground just

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slightly,

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slightly, slightly. So on each one of those, I was trying to move it maybe a

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half inch

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as I get more refined with my low point control. I can adjust more subtly. So

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now when I start

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to put the ball in place, I'm not going to be able to hit the ground three

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times, or

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I can, but I'm not going to hit the ball three times. So now that I have the

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ball in

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play, I'm going to move the yoga block out of the way so that we can see this a

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little

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bit more obviously. I'm going to set up with the ball on the hustle and then I

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'm going

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to try and move my low point so that I make contact with the middle of the club

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. So again,

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I'm going to set up with it on the hustle, and we'll do the kind of the full

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version.

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So I'm going to set up with it on the hustle, low point, closer, three times

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closer. I feel

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it mostly in my body moving more towards my heels and my body moving away from

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the golf

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ball. This can, a lot of golfers who struggle with chanking the ball, they tend

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to have

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more of this lunge into their toes or this lunge downward so that when they

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extend the

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arms, you can see that one made contact on the heel and it made contact with

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the ground

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further away. So this is a really good drill for golfers who shank the ball to

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get more

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aware of this ground contact. And sometimes I'll challenge them to have it as

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far away

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as possible and now we're going to try to jump to that third closest. So I'm

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going to

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bring it back. Not bad. So if I can make contact more or less in the middle of

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the club but

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starting with the ball further out there, as I get more confident with it, I

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can do this

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on a very subtle version. If the club contacts the ground closer to me than

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where I set up,

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I'm virtually eliminating any chance of shanking the ball unless I set up

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really far on the

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heel. So if you're struggling with shanking ball, I highly recommend recalibr

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ating and

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this is one of my favorite kind of go-to ways to use it on the course because

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it's more

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of just a general feel and a super technical feel that's helping you control

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your low point.

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When you take it to the course, if you find that you've lost it and you've

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fallen into

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your shank pattern again, you can go to the edge of the tee box or go to the

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edge of

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the fairway. Like, we'll put the stick here and we'll imagine that this is the

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cut line

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between the fairway and the rough. If I start there, if I start with the club

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up against

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that cut line, that'll give me my reference for making the proper ground

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contact. If I

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find that that first time I take the swing and I hit that rough line, I know I

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'm flirting

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with shanking the ball and I need to recalibrate. So this is one of my favorite

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ways for getting

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people out of the most frustrating shank pattern.