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In this concept video, we're going to discuss the fat shot.

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So oftentimes in your pattern, you'll get stuck where you're having a common

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miss and

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you have to work through that miss.

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The fat shot typically shows up with irons where you're hitting the ground

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before the

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golf ball.

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You're, I'm going to show you a couple things to look for at impact, two body

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causes, one

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arm cause and one kind of sequencing cause that can contribute to a tendency to

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hit more

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fat shots.

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The first objective is to figure out are you hitting a fat shot because the

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bottom of the

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swing is too far back or because the bottom of the swing is too far down or too

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deep into

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the ground.

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The obvious one is I'm hitting the ground because I'm too far back and the club

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is actually

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coming up into the golf ball.

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The less obvious one is the bottom of the swing is ahead of the golf ball, but

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because

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the bottom of the swing is too deep, the club is striking the ground before the

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golf ball.

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In both cases, you'll get debris caught in between the golf club and the golf

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ball and

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the ball won't go as far and it'll, it won't feel very good.

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It'll often feel kind of jarring or diggy.

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So let's talk through the major causes here with the, with the fat shot with

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the body.

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The primary two that you want to look for are you too far down, basically is

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the center

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of your body right here too close to the golf ball.

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That would tend to cause more of the deep shot or is everything too far back.

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If everything is too far back, then you'll tend to fluctuate between fat and

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thin, but

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if the body is in a good position and just too close to the ground, then you'll

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typically

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struggle or you'll go back and forth between solid shots and fat shots.

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Not absolutely, but that's the general tendency.

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From the arm perspective, the main cause of the fat shots would be the arms

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being a little

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bit too far behind the body.

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Either the right arm lengthening, especially that trail wrist too soon, you'll

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see kind

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of a gap between the shoulder and the body, or that left arm kind of pulling

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down and

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in kind of pulling more like this, that can cause the radius of the swing or

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the arms

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to lengthen the club too soon.

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Now if it looks like the arms are in front of the body, the body is maintaining

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a good

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distance, it's not too far back and you're still getting a little bit too much

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lengthening

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of the arm too soon, but the divot isn't too deep, it's just a little back,

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then I would

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look at sequencing and looking at making sure that my body is getting open

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before my arms

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or getting into impact, that would typically show up if you're hitting fat

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shots and you

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look at the camera and the shaft would look like it's pretty much even with the

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golf ball.

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So oftentimes a little station like this where you have a second stick

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indicating your ball

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position, that'll help you see or doing something like the classic line drill,

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that will help

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you see where contact is, so is it too far back or is it just too deep?

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If it's too deep, you'll want to look at the major causes of your upper body

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moving in

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towards the golf ball, especially the middle of your body.

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This could either be the legs kind of buckling down, this could be like a

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little bit too

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much kind of extension in the back, not enough turtle shell, or the upper body

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kind of diving

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down and doing too much of an upper body driven crunch.

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All those can lower the swing and cause some pesky fat shot problems.

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If it's too far back, you want to look at pivot location, whether it's just the

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upper

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body getting too far back or everything getting too far back, you want to look

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at the timing

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of is it getting back in the backswing or the downswing, same thing with the

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body getting

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too close, but that's a bigger issue for looking if the swing is getting back.

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And with the arms, you want to look at are they widening too early, like a cast

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in transition,

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or is it more of an early release down to the bottom?

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If all those things look okay and you're still hitting it fat, then you want to

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look at kind

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of that core and pelvis rotation and make sure that your body is getting open.

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Use that rubric, you can usually identify what's causing you to hit the ball

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fat, and

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then you can click on some of the drills to focus your on the body part that is

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causing

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your main miss, rather than just jumping around hoping to fit the fat shot.

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So quick demo, when in doubt, you can always go to something like the line

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drill and just

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use more of a constraint led, like as long as I get the bottom of the swing not

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too deep

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and ahead of this stick, I'm probably not going to hit it too fat.

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Good divot location there, ahead of the stick, we'll take that one.