9 To 3 - Four Square Version
The nine to three drill is simply practicing hitting shots from waist height in the backswing to waist height in the follow through. In this version, you are going to set up a grid to give you visual feedback of the path of the club.
You can rehearse practice swings that brush the grass just slightly from square 1 to square 3 and then quickly step up and hit a ball recreating the same motion. If you do it correctly, the ball will feel like it jumps off the face and the swing will feel very easy.
The nine to three drill is simply practicing hitting shots from waist height in the backswing to waist height in the follow through. In this version, you are going to set up a grid to give you visual feedback of the path of the club.
You can rehearse practice swings that brush the grass just slightly from square 1 to square 3 and then quickly step up and hit a ball recreating the same motion. If you do it correctly, the ball will feel like it jumps off the face and the swing will feel very easy.
Video Transcript
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This drill is the 9 to 3 drill using the 4 square feedback, so while you're
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working on your 9 to 3 in your impact position, you can also start thinking
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about path.
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Now, you're not going to get into the movements of what create path until you
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do transition and release, but you can at least start trying to play around and
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understand the feedback that path gives you.
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So, in this 4 square model, basically, if you were to draw a line from the
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white T to a white T and brown T to brown T, we'd have 4 grid, or a grid with 4
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squares.
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So, we've got square 1, square 2, square 3, square 4. As long as the club is
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going from square 1 to 3, or staying in odds, I'm going to have a little bit of
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an end out path.
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If it's going from 2 to 4, that's an outside end path. So, you can work on
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these 9 to 3 drills, trying to exaggerate some of the path changes, or path
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ideas, of trying to go from square 1 to 3, and getting a visual of, well, if I
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get here and I come over, oh no, I'm going from square 2 to 4.
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So, I'll do it, hitting, kind of out in the weeds.
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So, in this direction, I'd be trying to get my impact alignment like so, and
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you can see that that club would be coming inside that T to outside that T,
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instead of like so if I got that right arm high, or instead of like so if I got
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that right arm high.
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So, 9 to 3, you're basically going waist tight to waist tight, just like so,
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working on those impact alignments, and this is a great way to give you some
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visual feedback of the path while you do it.
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The nine to three drill is simply practicing hitting shots from waist height in the backswing to waist height in the follow through. In this version, you are going to set up a grid to give you visual feedback of the path of the club.
You can rehearse practice swings that brush the grass just slightly from square 1 to square 3 and then quickly step up and hit a ball recreating the same motion. If you do it correctly, the ball will feel like it jumps off the face and the swing will feel very easy.
The nine to three drill is simply practicing hitting shots from waist height in the backswing to waist height in the follow through. In this version, you are going to set up a grid to give you visual feedback of the path of the club.
You can rehearse practice swings that brush the grass just slightly from square 1 to square 3 and then quickly step up and hit a ball recreating the same motion. If you do it correctly, the ball will feel like it jumps off the face and the swing will feel very easy.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.700
This drill is the 9 to 3 drill using the 4 square feedback, so while you're
2
00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:10.500
working on your 9 to 3 in your impact position, you can also start thinking
3
00:00:10.500 --> 00:00:11.000
about path.
4
00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:14.700
Now, you're not going to get into the movements of what create path until you
5
00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:19.170
do transition and release, but you can at least start trying to play around and
6
00:00:19.170 --> 00:00:22.000
understand the feedback that path gives you.
7
00:00:22.000 --> 00:00:26.500
So, in this 4 square model, basically, if you were to draw a line from the
8
00:00:26.500 --> 00:00:31.050
white T to a white T and brown T to brown T, we'd have 4 grid, or a grid with 4
9
00:00:31.050 --> 00:00:32.000
squares.
10
00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:36.220
So, we've got square 1, square 2, square 3, square 4. As long as the club is
11
00:00:36.220 --> 00:00:40.850
going from square 1 to 3, or staying in odds, I'm going to have a little bit of
12
00:00:40.850 --> 00:00:42.000
an end out path.
13
00:00:42.000 --> 00:00:48.360
If it's going from 2 to 4, that's an outside end path. So, you can work on
14
00:00:48.360 --> 00:00:54.820
these 9 to 3 drills, trying to exaggerate some of the path changes, or path
15
00:00:54.820 --> 00:01:02.350
ideas, of trying to go from square 1 to 3, and getting a visual of, well, if I
16
00:01:02.350 --> 00:01:06.000
get here and I come over, oh no, I'm going from square 2 to 4.
17
00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:12.000
So, I'll do it, hitting, kind of out in the weeds.
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00:01:12.000 --> 00:01:18.310
So, in this direction, I'd be trying to get my impact alignment like so, and
19
00:01:18.310 --> 00:01:22.040
you can see that that club would be coming inside that T to outside that T,
20
00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:28.690
instead of like so if I got that right arm high, or instead of like so if I got
21
00:01:28.690 --> 00:01:30.000
that right arm high.
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00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:35.110
So, 9 to 3, you're basically going waist tight to waist tight, just like so,
23
00:01:35.110 --> 00:01:38.790
working on those impact alignments, and this is a great way to give you some
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00:01:38.790 --> 00:01:41.000
visual feedback of the path while you do it.
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