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This drill is the alignment stick takeaway so this drill is inspired by a good

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golf

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coach and friend of mine Ryan Cheney so he showed this to me a little way is

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back and I use it for golfers who tend to have more of a disconnected arm

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action

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especially if they start going into this kind of internal rotation or shrug

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very

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early so if you see yourself doing this from down the line or from the face on

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camera then this drill can help the first version of the drill is choking up to

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about six inches from the club head just like this and then you're gonna get

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set

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up in your normal angle but you're going to feel the club up against the bottom

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of your ribs so you're just that little space in between your ribs and your

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pelvis or essentially if I took this angle and then drove it up it be right

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here on kind of the bottom of my ribs so now I'm going to apply just a little

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bit

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of pressure into the my side this way and I'm going to keep that pressure all

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the way through until I get the club to about parallel so keeping that pressure

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just like this I find when some golfers start to do it they get that pressure

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and then they lose it because old habits tend to die hard so keeping that

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pressure

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that will help you control this initial movement more with the hips and the

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chest rotating instead of doing it all with the arms now the second phase is

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you're gonna take the alignment stick and you're gonna hold it on the bottom of

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the grip so that stick out sticks out far enough so that you can set up to the

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ball and basically keep the the pressure the same way you were just doing now

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it

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will force you to start with a little bit more angle so you're not going to be

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able to start with the shaft vertical it's going to have a little bit of an

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angle but this does allow you to hit little waist height nine to three swings

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keeping that pressure and just kind of really feeling like your arms you're

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doing almost nothing and that you're doing your controlling majority of the

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hit with the hips and the chest so hitting these shots very much like a

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triangle drill hitting the shots with the pelvis and in your takeaway it will

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force you to keep that connection and you may feel like the club is a little

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bit

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more outside the hands especially if you're used to loading the wrist early or

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loading the shoulders early and whipping the club inside then once you have a

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feeling you can either drop the club or drop the alignment stick as I did and

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move

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on to to duplicating the shot with the golf club or you can take three quarter

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shots knowing that the club is going to disconnect when it leaves there and

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then it'll feel almost like it reconnects on the way through or if you're

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really

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good you can disconnect and then keep the disconnection as long as you can

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through finish it may hit you especially if you go past waist height but it

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shouldn't hit you down right as you're making contact so once you have that

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feeling then you can try and duplicate keeping that pressure to help create

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that

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one-piece takeaway where the club stays a little bit more outside and on plane

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and then hitting it more with your triangle this is a great drill if you

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struggle with getting the club a little bit more disconnected inside which

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usually creates either if I stay there more of a fat or low point behind the

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ball pattern or sometimes it will cause more of a lunge and some steep chicken

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wing patterns but ultimately refining your takeaway so that it's a little bit

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more hip chord driven should help control low point especially when it comes to

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the shorter irons or the scoring clubs so now we'll do a quick little demo of

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the full swing keep that pressure all the way through