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In this analysis video, we're going to take a look at comparing shaft lean and

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set up

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to shaft lean impact.

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So as we work through the program, we're going to paint a picture of what we

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want the

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club to do and how the body is going to do it.

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So this video is hopefully going to help you see where we want the club to be

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different

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at impact than it was at set up.

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So to give us some references, I've got a vertical line drawn on the outside of

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Adam

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Scott's hip on the outside edge of his hand and the back of the ball.

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And the ball is really just to give a reference because very few videos are

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taken with tripods

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anymore.

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So you'll typically see a little bit of movement just from the camera.

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So you'll see that as he comes back down towards impact, his lower body is

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shifted

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about a half to a third of a pelvis or somewhere in that four to six inch range

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You can see that his hands have gone possibly even a little bit further ahead

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compared to

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how much his hips have moved, even though the golf ball stayed the same.

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So you can take a little snapshot and you can see that he's got his hands

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significantly

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ahead of where they were at set up.

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But if I play it forward, you can see that the club is just barely brushing the

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ground.

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Now the way that he's accomplishing this is by having his hands working fairly

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flat

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or even slightly up through the hitting area.

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We'll look at some amateurs later and we'll see how that movement there is

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going to have

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a big impact on how much shaft lean a golfer is going to be able to have.

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So now over on the right, we have Jordan's speed hitting an iron.

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And you can see as a little forward press moves, so just to be fair, I'll put

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that extra

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line in.

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And we will see that the camera moves tiny bit, but the back of the line stayed

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on the

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golf ball, most of the movement was more in the up and down direction.

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So you'll see that if we get Jordan just to impact, you'll see that his hands

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have moved

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significantly more ahead of where they were at start, especially when we

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compare them to

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the hip movement.

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So this white movement that we teach during the release is how we get the hands

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to actually

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be ahead of where they were compared to the body at set up, while the hip

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movement accounts

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for some of the shaft lean, the arm movements are going to account for some of

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the other.

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And again, in order to not take a really, really deep divot and have the club

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working

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in an extremely steep fashion, what we'll see is through impact, the hands are

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working

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slightly up, as you can see, as the hands are moving slightly away from this

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line.

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That's what gets the club to just brush against the ground instead of slamming

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down into it

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when the hands are that far forward, but having the hands that far forward is

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what helps us

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hit get compression, basically hit the ball higher up on the face and utilize

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the sweet

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spot.

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So now we can take a look at someone like Graham McDowell, and it's hard to see

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the golf ball

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on this left one, so I'm just going to put a line on the edge of the bag.

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You can see that that line on the edge of the bag stayed about the same, but

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you can

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see that his hands are significantly more forward compared to where they

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started as his hips

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are as well.

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Now the amount of hip rotation is going to make that linear movement a little

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bit tricky

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to interpret.

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So we're just using it to get a general reference, not really an exact amount.

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Now over on the right, we're going to take a look at a driver so that we can

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see that

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this pattern is not just iron dependent.

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So over here on the right, you'll see that his hands compared to where they

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were at setup,

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which was this line here, are actually a little bit further ahead.

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Part of the reason why is that white movement that we teach in the release is

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really critical

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for getting a side bend, and when you have a little wider stance with the

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driver in your

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upper body, more behind the golf ball, your arms working a little bit more

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ahead will

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help prevent you from drop kicking it or hitting the ground behind it.

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If we draw that line in the hands, you can see that they are working

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significantly up

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through the hitting area in order to not have the club slam into the ground

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with having

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shaft lean in the hands that far ahead compared to where it's at.

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So now let's take a look at a few amateurs to see the general tendency for them

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to bring

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the hands back to the same location, which may be a concept or it may just be a

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technical

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error, but we'll demonstrate or we'll look at amateurs demonstrating it in a

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couple

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of different ways.

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Okay, so over on the left, we have a higher handicap, and we'll see that one of

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the general

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tendencies with the higher handicap is they're not going to have nearly as much

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lower body

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shift so you can see that that's already going to make it harder for him to get

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his

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hands ahead, but even though the lower body has shifted a little bit ahead, you

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can see

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that the back of the left hand for all intent and purposes pretty much comes

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back to the

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same place.

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So part of this is a concept issue of the golfer believing that the hand should

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come

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back to where they were at set up, where the professional golfers are

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demonstrating that

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that is not one of the trademarks that they're using to hit the ball well.

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Now if we compare the hands kind of working up and through, you can see that

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his hands

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are actually approaching that line and they're not starting to work up kind of

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right up until

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there.

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So what you'll see is his hands are a little bit higher in this position and

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then they're

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working more gradually down into the hitting area, and so if he did have his

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hands ahead

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with that hands moving down descent, the club would slam into the ground and he

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would have

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a lot of contact trouble.

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And then over on the right, we have a lower handicap golfer, but someone who

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also has

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this cast pattern and isn't going to have nearly as much chaffling, so

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complaints of

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compression, distance, complaints of not being able to hit the driver well.

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So what we'll be able to see from this is this golfer is trying to get more ch

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affling

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or was when he came to see me and so he would tend to set up with his hands

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well in front

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of the golf ball.

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So if we imagine it more in a kind of neutral position compared to his body, it

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would probably

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be closer to that line there.

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And what we'll see is as he comes back down, his lower body has shifted ahead

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of the golf

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ball, but because of his club face squaring ideas, you can see that his hands

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kind of

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get roughly back to where they started or even a little bit behind where they

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started.

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Now again, he started them significantly more forward than a tour pro, but you

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can see that

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compared to the amount of hip rotation, his arms are not working as much across

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his body

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and creating that chaffling, he's kind of having this cast release and coming

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in with

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the shaft a little bit more vertical.

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So if we put that line as just a reference, you can see that his hands will be

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working

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pretty much down until just before impacts right around here, where the tour

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pros were

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working a little bit flatter.

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In order to have the hands work flat, that's where we get this good kind of

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rotation side

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bend that we teach in the merry-go-round drill.

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So one more example over on the right of a higher handicap golfer, and he had

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that same

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symptom of setting up with the hands well ahead.

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And so what you'll see is even though the hips have had about the right amount

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of lateral

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movement because of his cast pattern, because of his release, you'll see that

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his hands

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are coming in forward.

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If we put that little reference line, we can see that it would be not doing too

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bad here,

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working a little bit more up, but he's one who tends to struggle with clubface

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issues.

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So he uses the straightening of the shaft more as a way to get the clubface

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pointed at the

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target as opposed to not hit really, really steep, because he actually still

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gets fairly

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steep.

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And now we have a very low handicap golfer who had a typical reaction of

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basically, you

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know, I have a flip and kind of a scoop through impact, and so they'll tend to

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think that

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their swing doesn't look nearly as well as it does.

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But if we use some of these kind of big picture criteria, you can see that his

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hands are well

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ahead of where they were at set up, very good white movement and arm extension.

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If we put the little line in there, we can see that they're working pretty

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straight across.

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So even if he doesn't have all the pivot things that a twer pro does, you can

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see that

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he has the general shape and he has the right impact conditions to hit the ball

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fairly well.

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So if you're struggling with your impact position, hopefully this video gives

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you a visual to

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help you understand how some of these drills are designed to help you create

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shaft lean

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without creating a really steep angle of attack.