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This drill is nine to low point. So nine to low point is a great drill for

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working on your low point control. Many golfers struggle with the club kind of

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bottoming out behind the golf ball and either picking the ball or chicken

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winging or hitting fat shots, thin shots, and typically this will show up as

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poor

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contact especially with the irons. So nine to low point helps you connect that

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delivery position to where you're trying to get ultimately get the club at its

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lowest point brushing the ground. So to do it we're going to use our impact fix

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as a kind of awareness drill. So you're going to get into your setup set up

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position, then you're going to get into your good impact position, then you're

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going to move the club ahead of the golf ball about six, eight inches or so and

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you're going to feel like you've just pushed just slightly into the ground. Now

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at this point technically because of what my body is doing the club is going to

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be or the handle is going to be coming up but I'm also going to be extending

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the

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arm so I'll feel that club pushing down into the ground. So for this drill

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impact

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fix we're going to impact position and then put the club at low point. Now I'm

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going to move the ball just so that you can see what the keys are for this

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drill.

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The key for this drill is when I get into this low point position the key is to

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make a straight line with the club head where it's working gradually downward

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into low point. What a lot of you are going to try to do especially the first

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few times that you try this is you're going to get into your delivery position

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and then you're going to get the club on the ground let's say just behind the

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middle of your stance or even middle of your stance and then you're going to

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try

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to keep it low all the way through there. So it's going to end up looking like

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that. Now the problem is when you get body speed involved it'll end up getting

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more exaggerated where the bottom of the swing is going to move a little bit

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further backward and that's going to tend to cause the club to come more from

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this low to high position. So when you're doing this drill the key is to feel

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the

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club a little bit higher longer so that then when you go to extend it's

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extending out into that low point position instead of behind it and kind of

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dragging through because there are really only two ways that I can move that

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bottom of the swing forward like this. One would be if I take the swing path or

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the shape of the hula hoop and I make it come way over the top so if I'm

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facing this way right now that hula hoop is bottoming out right at the golf

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ball

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now if I go like this now it's going to bottom out ahead of the golf ball

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but you can see it's way over the top. If I was to create a shallow path

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that's going to cause the swing to bottom out behind the golf ball.

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So the other option instead of tilting the whole shape of the circle

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is to take this and basically shift it like so. Now the two ways that I could

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do

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that would be either shifting my hole upper body which isn't going to work

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very well for anything longer than like a distance wedge or pitch shot

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or I could use the white movement where even though my body is going to stay

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behind and angle a little bit backward my arm timing and direction is going to

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move the whole circle or hula hoop forward. That's the

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option that we're trying to get here. So we'll demonstrate a few but keep in

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mind kind of the overall concept of trying to get it from a straight line

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here to brushing the ground out in front of the golf ball and then we're just

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going to let the the golf ball get in the way. So from a face-on view

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you're going to do the impact fix boom you're going to put the

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club roughly even with your left foot six you know eight inches in front of the

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golf ball and feel like that's where it's going to be

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reaching its low point go back to waist height and then in one fluid movement

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get the club the bottom out ahead of the golf ball so not letting it

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bottom out and then trying to keep it low if it's already low to the ground

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before the golf ball you got no chance of keeping it low to the ground on the

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other side. So from down the line I'm going to

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do my impact fix preset where the club is going to be pushing in the ground

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pump that a couple times go back to waist height and then in one movement

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try to get the golf club to brush or hit the ground

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and just let the ball get in the way. Now if you're if you're new to this

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it's very normal to hit these a little thin it's also normal to hit these a

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little bit to the right you can any of these stop drills

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you want to be a little bit patient with yourself as far as contact goes

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but then once you get a feeling for it so here's my drill

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good then I do one let the ball get in the way

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once I get a feeling for it I can go ahead and try to recreate that same

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type of contact and feeling in a normal kind of fluid 9 to 3 drill

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once I have a normal fluid 9 to 3 drill feeling

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and I've got something I want to test now I can go bigger

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either more intense or I can work it closer and closer into the full swing

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so if you're struggling with a little bit more of a scoopy type contact

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and you're struggling with iron consistency this is a great drill for

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help you to focus on low point which is one of the

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key factors for hitting side solid iron shots