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In this content video, we're going to discuss the primary causes of heel

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contact.

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So in this kind of contact series, we're going to talk about the major issues

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associated

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with hitting it on different parts of the club or the ground.

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In this one, we're going to talk about heel contact.

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In general, heel contact comes from wherever I got set up, the club is going to

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be further

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away from me than where I set up.

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It's either means that I set up in a good position and then the club move too

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far away

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or I set up too close to the golf ball.

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So let's rule at that first one where I set up too close to the golf ball and

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then the

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club comes back to a good spot.

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Typically, that will show up where my body stays relatively balanced.

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We'll talk about the body causes here in a second, but my body stays relatively

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balanced

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in the same space away from the golf ball, but from the down the line camera

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angle when

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I'm getting set up, my hands are a little bit too close.

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They're inside of the front of my shoulders or the middle of my neck.

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Ideally a good set up position is going to be a little bit more in front of the

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shoulders.

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If they're too close, then what will happen is simply making a normal swing,

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the club

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will get pulled further away and kind of in line with the shoulders and the

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golf ball,

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but because I started too close, it moves too far away and you hit it on the

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heel.

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Causes shank number one.

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So let's assume that you look from the down the line and your set up position

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is good.

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Now there's a couple main causes.

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The main causes are going to come from the body.

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The body has the biggest influence on a low point, especially the forward

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backward and

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the height location, but the arms can contribute if the body is still in a good

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position.

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So primarily from the body, the two main causes of heel contact are going to be

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moving too

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far down, basically moving in to the ground or into the golf ball like this or

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moving in.

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So moving more from my heels into my toes, but basically the center of my body

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is moving

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into the golf ball.

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The down one confuses people, often they think you would just hit it fat not on

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the heel,

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but because the club is a fixed length, what often happens is as I'm applying

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some of

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this downward motion of my body, in order to not slam the club into the ground,

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it ends

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up moving further away, kind of like that.

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So in my experience trying to get the center of the body or the bottom of the

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rib cage,

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kind of this space here, to move a little bit away and up, that helps control

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the space

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and has a big impact on our contact location.

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If you're moving down into it, then often happens, you'll hit a lot of good

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shots, but

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then you'll get into a phase where you're hitting a bunch of shanks and you may

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hit

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more diggy shots.

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The main causes of the body moving down into the golf ball are either going to

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be the rib

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cage, kind of staying more in extension and moving down, kind of like this, as

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opposed

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to getting into that crunch or that turtle shell.

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The weight distribution moving into your toes and kind of staying there during

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the downswing,

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rather than moving towards the heels during the release or towards the left cub

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oid, to

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be a little bit more specific, that kind of maintains the space.

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And potentially these can be good and what'll happen is if I'm really kind of

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like using

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my upper body and my shoulders to swing the club and I get kind of rounded,

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that pulls

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my upper body down and gets me closer to golf ball, that can also cause the sh

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ank.

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Now if the body isn't too far off, the arms can cause the shank, if they have a

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tendency

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to go more into out, they have a tendency to kind of really go out that way.

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That often will happen when the arms get pulled behind the body in transition,

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and then as

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they're catching up, the club tends to get thrown out that way or into out.

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If that's the case, then typically your good shots will have a pretty big draw

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to them,

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and then your bad shots can be on the heel or even the shank.

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But primarily I would look at the body first, that's the number one

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contributing factor

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or cause of hitting it too much on the heel.

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If that's not the case, then I'd look at the arm location.

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If you use this rubric and you kind of use a logical process of looking at

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impact and

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looking at your low point control, you'll quickly be able to identify the cause

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of your

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heel contact.

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And then it's just a matter of picking a few drills that help you dial in new

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feels to

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correct the part of your body that is causing your primary contact issue.

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So here I've got kind of a little setup station.

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So we'll do the one where if I'm too close to it, that will cause me to hit it

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on the

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heel.

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If I'm appropriate distance, but I'm sitting on my heels, and then I simply

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move into

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my toes, that also causes me to hit it on the heel.

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And if my weight distribution is okay, but then during the swing, I have a

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tendency to

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move down into the golf ball, that will also cause me to hit it on the heel.

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There's the primary causes of getting heel contact, fix those, and you'll have

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a different

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miss that you have to work on.

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But at least it won't be the heel contact, which is one of the most problematic

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.