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This drill is closed shoulder set up.

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So many golfers struggle with getting steep with the shoulders.

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I'd say that's one of the number one biggest culprits that causes a whole host

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of poor

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body pivot or poor body shallowing actions down through the release.

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But oftentimes you can see a sign of it at set up.

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In fact, some pros do this and then they just compensate for it or overly

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shallow as a good

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shoulder movement.

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So what I'm talking about here is the classic setup where golfers get their

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stance out to

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the right, but then their shoulders pointed to the left.

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So it kind of looks like this.

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Now it's somewhat natural to want to get into that position because if I take

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my normal golf

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grip, the trail hand, in this case my right hand, is lower on the club and so

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by rotating

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it more out there, it's easier to get my hand lower like this.

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But you'll see if I do that, my shoulders are now pointing way to the left and

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that's

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not a trait that we see with really good ball strikers.

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There's a couple of reasons why we'll discuss in this video.

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So to counteract that, what we're going to do is we're going to work backwards

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from where

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do we want our shoulder blades at impact?

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At impact, we want our trail shoulder slightly lower and back and our lead

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shoulder slightly

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up and forward.

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If I bring my hands together, that would put the club kind of back in this

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position here

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and I would then be able to balance that by covering and turning my lower body.

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So now my shoulders are pretty close to square compared to the golf ball, but

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closed compared

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to my body or compared to my chest.

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So by setting, by starting with that right shoulder a little bit back and that

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lead shoulder

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a little bit up, that gives me a easier reference and easier connection.

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That also can allow me to cover without feeling like I'm going to be too steep.

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If you tend to get more of that right shoulder up and you get forward, you're

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going to have

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this feeling like the club's going to come really steep, vertically down into

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the ground

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where if that trail shoulder is back like this, it feels like I'm coming more

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almost

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horizontally across the ground and that's going to encourage me to cover and

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turn.

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So it helps with shallowing by getting the shoulder blades there.

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That's one of the number one arm shallowing movement.

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It helps with sequence because having the shoulders close is a component to

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being able

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to rotate my body while still being shallow and getting the low point forward

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and it tends

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to help with the wipe when the trail arm gets high.

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Oftentimes that peck is going to rotate that elbow backward like this.

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So your elbow, when this gets this way, is going to get more behind the body

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and the

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arms are going to throw and even if I'm hitting a good shot like that, you can

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see my overall

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flat spot and consistency is going to be suspect.

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So one of the most common times where all you have golfers preset some of this

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is if

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you really struggle with poles, if we see it on video and this somewhere during

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the down

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swing that right shoulder is getting high you'll see that that often either

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closes the face

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or gets the path to go too much to the left and oftentimes that's balanced by

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then some

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type of shallowing but it often results in that pull draw or that kind of nasty

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little

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left start line.

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If on the other hand I train myself so that that right shoulder is staying more

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back and

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down, that right shoulder blade is staying more back and down, you'll see that

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if anything

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that's going to encourage me to get more of a right start line.

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So oftentimes for golfers it's easy to just feel like you do it a little bit at

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setup.

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And more often than not, I would say it's a hard one to overdo unless when you

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bring

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it back you're also tilting backward.

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If you just bring it back kind of like this and your upper body shifts a little

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bit forward.

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So I'll demonstrate it facing the target line so they can see from the down the

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line cameras.

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If when I bring it back I shift this way as opposed to bringing it back and

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shifting

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that way.

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What you'll see from the face on view is if I do that one that just helps me

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get into

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this shallow position but also helps me put more of my weight properly on that

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front foot

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for irons that has a double effect of giving me much better low point control.

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So if you struggle with some of this arm shallowing there's no harm in pre-

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setting some of it

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set up that'll make it feel like you have to do less shoulder movement during

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the backswing

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in transition.

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It will help with sequencing, it will help with the wipe, it will help with low

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point

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control, your merry go round, lots of good things will happen if you get your

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shoulder

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blade alignment taken care of and an easy place to start with that is at setup.

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So quick demo, I'm a big fan of exaggerating seeing how much I could do.

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So if I again the careful thing is not to make sure that I'm tilting too much

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back but

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then I'm just bringing that right shoulder back and that left shoulder forward.

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Now to me this feels like I'm aimed way out to the right but as I put the stick

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there

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I can see it is out to the right but you'll see from the down the line camera

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it's not

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crazy.

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This will also allow me to feel like I can stack a little bit more in my back

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swing, came

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out of it a little bit but that often happens when I'm doing exaggeration

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drills.

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We'll see if we can get a little bit better release with that.

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So I'm going to exaggerate but still feel stacked, maybe not slide as much,

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there we

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go.

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So that was a pretty good one, started at the flag I was aimed at and nice

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little draw

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to it.

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So overall it's a hard one to overdo especially if you have a really big over

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the top move

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but you can monitor it with the face on video, make sure you're not tilting too

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much down

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the line, it's going to be really hard for you to get too close with just the

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shoulders.

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The only way you get too close is if you were cheating in doing it more from

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the pelvis

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or the knees or something like that.

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So hopefully this helps you with your setup position to setup for a more body

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driven downswing.