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This drill is alignment stick loading for the low to high release.

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So a common good player problem, so typically this shows up in golfers who are

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in the low

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to mid single digit handicap, is that because they tend to get a little bit

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early with their

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arms and a little bit more of a cast coming down into the golf ball, they tend

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to have

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a fair amount of the club passing the grip.

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And if you're a student what you're looking at, you'll tend to see that the

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grip is working

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down during the release instead of working from a low position up more to high

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position.

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This tends to cause more of a pull or overdraw pattern, so more of a left miss

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and you might

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struggle with fat and thin shots.

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So having a low to high release is one of the best ways for good players to

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work out of

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a hook pattern.

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So what we're going to do is I'm going to use an alignment stick to exaggerate

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this low

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to high release pattern.

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So now the lowest point of your hands is typically around right thigh somewhere

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along like that.

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And the shaft has a fixed length, so here I've got a stick that has a fixed

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length.

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We're going to bring it to where it is here where it would be at impact.

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And now I'm going to bring it lower than where it was at impact.

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And what I'm going to do is I'm going to flex this alignment stick.

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So I'm going to put it in line, my hands in line with my right thigh, and I'm

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going

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to flex that alignment stick.

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And then I'm basically going to use body rotation to bring my hands away from

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where this stick

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is loading.

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So I'm loading it down there.

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And then I'm going to feel the club basically drag through as it's going up and

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around.

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So I get this feeling of being down and this feeling of releasing the energy

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more at the

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target instead of, if I try to release it at the golf ball, I can't really do

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anything.

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It's kind of already, it's too far in the ground and I can't let it kick out.

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The only way I'm going to let it kick out is by pulling up and around and away

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from the

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ground.

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And that's only going to happen if I've got my hands low enough to begin with.

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Now the lowering of the hands isn't going to come from throwing my hands.

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It's going to come from a proper lower body core driven transition, kind of

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getting down

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into this good delivery.

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And then that will set me up for having the hands work a little bit more up

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because the

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hands working up is just going to be a natural reaction to the hands following

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the rotation

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and side bend of my left shoulder and upper body through the release like so.

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So then once you have that feeling with the alignment stick, golf club is going

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to feel

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very heavy but I'm going to get down into that same position just like it was

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up against

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the ground.

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Now here if I released like a stall scooper, I'm going to tend to hit it fat

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unless I stood

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up.

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So what I'm going to have to do is I'm going to get down into that position and

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then I'm

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going to have to feel my arms and hands working more up around and through in

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order to avoid

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hitting it fat.

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As I said, getting the hands going a little bit more up around and through

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causes a delayed

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release, the combination of those two is one of the best ways for good players

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to eliminate

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a big left over draw or hook pull hook pattern.

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So get pretty solid at being able to do the nine to three version and then you

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can start

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to go into more of a three quarter pattern.

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So you're going to bring it here, drop it down low and then keep it going

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around on the

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way through.

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Once you can do it in kind of a step by step fashion, then you can add a little

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bit more

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tempo or continuity to your shots.

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So now we're going to try a little bit more continuity and by having the hands

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come up

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through there, you'll still be able to get it to draw but you should avoid the

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big pulls

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and the big over draw patterns which is a common good player miss.