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This drill is the help you with your alignment, which is one part of the fundamental

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about setup posture or the layer about setup posture.

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So in addition to learning how to hinge from the hips and kind of have the arms hanging

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and grip the club from the right way, you can use this as a check with your alignment to

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make sure that you're in a good setup position for starting the ball for whatever direction

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you want.

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With the golf smart academy swing, we're tending towards a bias of either a draw or

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a straight shot or a slight fade.

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We teach you how to adjust that to hit big hooks and big slices, but for the most part,

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it's going to be a very neutral, controllable shot.

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In order to set up for that, you're going to take your normal hip hinge posture with your

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arm hang and you just want to use a mirror or a camera and you can check a few things.

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The closer the alignment is to the clubhead and your hands, the more impactful it's going

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to be on the starting direction or the pat.

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So if your feet are a little bit off like so, but your shoulders are aligned pretty close

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to this yellow line on the ground and your forearms, which is virtually impossible, but

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you can see right so that if you had a line through my forearms, they'd be pointing just

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right.

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This would be a fine setup for hitting a draw as so with this.

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So I don't want you to get too picky about your toe lines and exactly how square they

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are, but you do want to make sure that your forearms are relatively square and that

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your shoulders are relatively square.

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Those are the big two that I look at when I'm double checking aligned.

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As we get better and more advanced, you can start looking at the pelvis and possibly the

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feet, but the feet are the last thing to look at for alignment.

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So don't even worry about putting the club along your heels or anything like that, just

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make sure your forearms and your shoulders are aligned and you'll be set up for having

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the proper path on the downswing.

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The problem is if you were to set up where see how this position makes my shoulders

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point to the left and my forearms point to the left.

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Now when they come into their natural position, based on this setup, the club is going

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to be wanting to come steep and across the line.

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Same thing if I set up kind of like so, the club is going to want to have the tendency

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to want to swing very, very much from the inside, which is going to make me prone to blocks

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and pull hooks, or sorry, blocks and snap hooks.

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So very quickly, you can check your forearms and if you're looking from the down

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the line, you should see a very slight amount of the left forearm above the right forearm

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as opposed to you this.

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You see the difference between the two, but your shoulders will be relatively square

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to this yellow stick on the ground.

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The way that you'll accomplish having the forearms in that position is essentially when you

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take your grip, what the 3D shows us is that this arm is going to be relatively close

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to straight, or let's say only, you know, 10 degrees bent, where this arm is going to

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have about 15-20 degrees bent.

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What that's going to do is put this right shoulder slightly lower, but the bend makes

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sure that even though this shoulder goes lower, it doesn't point in the wrong direction.

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I'll show you what I mean.

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So if I were to bend this right arm slightly, see how that gets my shoulders pretty

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square.

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If I had them both straight, now in the exact same spine position, my shoulder blades are

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going to be out of alignment.

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So by having a little bit more bend in that right arm, it gets your right arm closer to

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where it's going to be going in delivery position, which will help make transition and

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release, which are going to learn down the road much, much easier to execute.

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So double check your alignment of the forearms and the shoulders when you are working on

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this hip hinge and getting in good setup posture, and that will help you control the path

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when we get into the downswing.