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In this concept video, we're going to go over the overview of the difference

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between hitting an iron and hitting a driver. So you'll see that pieces of the

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stock full swing are going to be more applied when I'm hitting an iron and

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less applied when I'm hitting a driver or vice versa. So the the biggest

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difference is with an iron, I'm trying to hit a few degrees down, four, five,

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six

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degrees on the upper end. I'm trying to hit down on the golf ball. There are

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two

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major things that are going to adjust whether I'm hitting down or whether I'm

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hitting up. But with an iron, I'm trying to hit down with a driver I'm trying

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to

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hit relatively flat or a little bit up. If I'm erring more towards I want extra

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distance, I'm trying to hit more up. So the things that are going to adjust

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where

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the bottom of my swing is, is where this bone, which is called your sternum,

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where

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that is located in space and what my arms and hands are doing. Okay. So with an

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iron, I want to make sure that I'm hitting down, which means that on average,

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the

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upper body, if I were to hang this right from here, right, if I was to take

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this

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stick, if I got to a good impact position and drop it straight down from my

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sternum,

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you would see that that would be a little bit ahead of the golf ball. The

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interesting thing that I see on 3D is there's about this four to five inch

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lateral shift in a full swing. With the upper body, the best drivers of the

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golf

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ball are going to have their upper body compared to where they start, go about

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two inches backwards to impact where irons, they're going to go an inch to two

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forwards. It'd be the difference as if I was throwing a ball with driver, I

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kind of

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plant and stop versus with an iron, it would be more of a plant and go with it.

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So one of the things that, one of the first things that I check when someone

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is struggling with either hitting their irons or hitting the driver is the

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location of where that upper body is. With the driver, I'll show you in a

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second,

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so with an iron, you'll see that as I come down, my upper body is going to be

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more ahead of the golf ball so that when I make contact, the bottom of the

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swing is basically extending out in front of my sternum. Because my arms are

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going to be being pulled by this really heavy object, the golf club's moving a

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hundred miles an hour and has a significant amount of inertia at that

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point. So my arms are just going to get pulled out in front of my body like so.

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So they're roughly going to get pulled out in front of where this is. When I

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take

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a driver, if I was to tee that ball up, the impact position is going to be much

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more with my upper body behind where my lower body or behind the golf ball.

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With

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the iron, it would be more like this. With the driver, it's more like that. So

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there's a lot more of this Jackson 5 side bend and there's going to be a lot

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more of this elbow staying in towards my side with a driver. We'll go into the

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specifics of those in the iron video, in the driver video, but just as a

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general

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overview, making sure you understand where this upper body is is going to help

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control that low point. So if you're struggling with the driver, make sure that

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your upper body is not drifting forward. That's going to give you too much of

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an

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angle of attack down, which is going to be a kiss of death. An easy way to tell

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is

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if your upper body is getting forward, you're going to tend to have the option

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of either hitting low pulls or kind of a low kind of push fade. If you flip

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your

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wrist, then you'll hit it really high but it'll be weak. But it could be mostly

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because of this upper body drifting forward.