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This drill is the advanced line drill. So as it says in the title, this is

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tricky.

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This is an advanced drill, but it builds off of the line drill. So if you

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remember,

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I'm going to grab a T. If you remember from the line drill, basically what you

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're going to do,

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is you're going to take a T and carve a line in the ground so that you have a

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reference point

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for where the club is making contact with the ground. You're then going to set

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up so that

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the line is about an inch in front of the golf club, just like so.

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Now in the regular line drill, what we were going to have you do was take

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swings and then

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look down and you should see that the divot started just at the line or even

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after it,

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but they should not start behind it. This is an advanced drill because I'm

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going to have

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you intentionally do things incorrectly to learn better the difference between

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good and bad.

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So in the advanced line drill, our goal is to make the bottom of our swing move

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around

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all over the place. So you're going to find out, well what happens if I take a

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power,

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you know, a really aggressive swing, but I keep my weight back? Or what happens

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if my upper body

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dives forward? What happens if I cast my hands? Okay, that moved its way back.

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What happens if I come a little bit more steep? Okay, that moved it forward.

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Everybody's going to have little different adjustments they can make, but this

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is a great

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little hand-eye coordination drill to start paying attention to where the club

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makes

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contact with the ground because there's two things that you can focus on as far

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as contact.

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One is contact between the golf ball and the club, and two is contact between

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the golf

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club and the ground, assuming you're not hitting a driver or putter.

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Well, by focusing on the golf club with the ground, then if you're just getting

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ready

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for a tournament or, you know, you're using this as a warm-up, you can simply

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adjust

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the ball position to where the club is making contact with the ground, and we

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know that

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we're going to have a relatively solid strike. The other thing this can do is

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it can reinforce

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some of these movements. So if my normal swing, all right, that hit just in

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front of the ground

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and went about four inches. Well, what if I was to add a little bit more side

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bend?

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Well, now it actually moved a little bit behind the golf ball, so there's a

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good indication

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that I changed my release or something else in order to account for the fact

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that my upper

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body was going back. So then what happens if my lower body goes forward, and

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now I moved

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it inch in front of the golf ball. So I can make these adjustments and use the

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line on

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the ground to fine-tune, and my goal is to intentionally move some back and

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move some

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forward so that I can figure out my spectrum of how I control where the bottom

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of my swing

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is. The hints I'm going to give you is that most of it is going to be

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controlled by where

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this is, the angle of your sternum or your upper body, and what your arms are

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doing.

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If you can figure out how to dial those two in, you're going to learn how to

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become very

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consistent with where the club enters the ground.