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Combo - 9 to 3 Four Square and Motorcycle
The motorcycle move works on rotating the shaft during the downswing. Rotating the shaft during the downswing is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. But, if you rotate the shaft you'll want to combine it with a shallower path. A shallower path also is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. This drill combination allows you to work on both at the same time. It also helps you clarify the feedback of reading ball flight curve.
The motorcycle move works on rotating the shaft during the downswing. Rotating the shaft during the downswing is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. But, if you rotate the shaft you'll want to combine it with a shallower path. A shallower path also is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. This drill combination allows you to work on both at the same time. It also helps you clarify the feedback of reading ball flight curve.
Video Transcript
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This drill is combining 9-3/4 square and 9-3 motorcycle. Many golfers need to
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work on their face-to-path relationship and when they do they tend to lose the
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path so one of the most common things that I see is golfers come in let's say
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with a clubface that's wide open kind of like this but not a whole lot of shaft
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rotation and a little bit from the outside and they hit weak shots but
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straight shots and with the driver it fades and they don't like how far it goes
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or how consistently they are. One of the first things that we need to work on
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is
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shaft rotation getting the clubface square to the path so after they've
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learned to read feedback they say all right I can see that the clubface is
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open to the path I need to get that more closed and then what they'll do is
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they will try to do the motorcycle move but frequently they will steep in the
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path like this in order to close the face and now they hit these massive
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poles so frequently what I do is while they're doing the shaft rotation or
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working on the motorcycle I'll just create the visual of four square so we
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won't get into any of the details of how they can shallow it out or get the
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club to swing more in out but I'll explain to them that when they close the
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face if the path stayed out to the left you're gonna hit big poles so they have
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to shallow it out a little bit more well everything that shallows the club
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tends to open the face so that puts a higher priority on now doing that shaft
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rotation and doing that motorcycle movement so what I've done here I've
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taken the spray paint and drawn four square there normally I just use a tee
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and mark it in the ground but you should be able to see that and then I'll
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usually start golfers with the ball teed up right in the center of it but I'll
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take away the ball I should say this is the the first step I do before I put
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the
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ball there and tee it up I'll have them go back to that nine o'clock position
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close the club face and then try to get the club to brush the ground going from
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square number one to square number three so basically back to here close the
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club face brush through there and then check in the finish the position to make
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sure that it stayed close so this forces them to pay attention to the path
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while
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focusing on the club face when they do them together it'll look something like
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close the club face little on the toe a little bit of a pole so I probably was
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straight and then into box four not quite enough one to three but it allows me
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to
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figure out what I need to work on it gives me a little bit better feedback
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than just doing that was better there so it gives me more feedback than just
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doing the nine to three with the motorcycle those two skills have to go
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hand-in-hand because if you change your face the path relationship your path
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will
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have to adjust as well this is a great way to work on it combining nine to
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threes or going into full swings but using the motorcycle with some type of
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path alignment like either the four square or the bowling alleys I really
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prefer doing nine to three in combination with the four square all right
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here we have the close-up view so again I'll normally just do this by carving a
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line like that like I showed in the in the four square drill but here we've got
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a spray paint to make that a little bit easier I'm gonna work on trying to get
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the club face closed but closed coming from here golfers tend to either come
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from the inside with it open or come from the outside with it closed it takes a
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little bit of training and getting used to coming from the inside while still
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having it closed so you get set up you can do this either off the ground or on
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the tee I usually prefer starting on the tee but we'll go for it so you're
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gonna
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go nine o'clock close the club face swinging through so that it launches
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pretty straight even though the club face stayed closed you can then work work
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this pattern up to four and four swings so we can do a little three quarter
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close the club face that one the ball launched left so now focus I'll get the
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club face set and then I'll shift my focus more to the path so club face
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closed that one was much better in terms of ball flight started a little right
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and then drew back but this is a great way to work on combining the face and
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path you just visualize the path and you focus on the feel of the club face
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00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.440
and together it allows you to get good feedback while you're putting in reps
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Ask Mulligan for helpCombo - 9 to 3 Four Square and Motorcycle
The motorcycle move works on rotating the shaft during the downswing. Rotating the shaft during the downswing is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. But, if you rotate the shaft you'll want to combine it with a shallower path. A shallower path also is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. This drill combination allows you to work on both at the same time. It also helps you clarify the feedback of reading ball flight curve.
The motorcycle move works on rotating the shaft during the downswing. Rotating the shaft during the downswing is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. But, if you rotate the shaft you'll want to combine it with a shallower path. A shallower path also is a hallmark of golfers with greater consistency. This drill combination allows you to work on both at the same time. It also helps you clarify the feedback of reading ball flight curve.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.160
This drill is combining 9-3/4 square and 9-3 motorcycle. Many golfers need to
2
00:00:07.160 --> 00:00:12.280
work on their face-to-path relationship and when they do they tend to lose the
3
00:00:12.280 --> 00:00:17.680
path so one of the most common things that I see is golfers come in let's say
4
00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:21.560
with a clubface that's wide open kind of like this but not a whole lot of shaft
5
00:00:21.560 --> 00:00:26.320
rotation and a little bit from the outside and they hit weak shots but
6
00:00:26.320 --> 00:00:31.520
straight shots and with the driver it fades and they don't like how far it goes
7
00:00:31.520 --> 00:00:34.720
or how consistently they are. One of the first things that we need to work on
8
00:00:34.720 --> 00:00:34.960
is
9
00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:39.760
shaft rotation getting the clubface square to the path so after they've
10
00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:43.320
learned to read feedback they say all right I can see that the clubface is
11
00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:47.680
open to the path I need to get that more closed and then what they'll do is
12
00:00:47.680 --> 00:00:52.320
they will try to do the motorcycle move but frequently they will steep in the
13
00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:56.520
path like this in order to close the face and now they hit these massive
14
00:00:56.520 --> 00:01:03.240
poles so frequently what I do is while they're doing the shaft rotation or
15
00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:09.080
working on the motorcycle I'll just create the visual of four square so we
16
00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:13.500
won't get into any of the details of how they can shallow it out or get the
17
00:01:13.500 --> 00:01:18.600
club to swing more in out but I'll explain to them that when they close the
18
00:01:18.600 --> 00:01:24.480
face if the path stayed out to the left you're gonna hit big poles so they have
19
00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:28.280
to shallow it out a little bit more well everything that shallows the club
20
00:01:28.280 --> 00:01:33.720
tends to open the face so that puts a higher priority on now doing that shaft
21
00:01:33.720 --> 00:01:38.960
rotation and doing that motorcycle movement so what I've done here I've
22
00:01:38.960 --> 00:01:43.960
taken the spray paint and drawn four square there normally I just use a tee
23
00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:47.040
and mark it in the ground but you should be able to see that and then I'll
24
00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:53.600
usually start golfers with the ball teed up right in the center of it but I'll
25
00:01:53.600 --> 00:01:57.840
take away the ball I should say this is the the first step I do before I put
26
00:01:57.840 --> 00:01:57.840
the
27
00:01:57.840 --> 00:02:02.020
ball there and tee it up I'll have them go back to that nine o'clock position
28
00:02:02.020 --> 00:02:09.760
close the club face and then try to get the club to brush the ground going from
29
00:02:09.760 --> 00:02:15.520
square number one to square number three so basically back to here close the
30
00:02:15.520 --> 00:02:20.080
club face brush through there and then check in the finish the position to make
31
00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:26.950
sure that it stayed close so this forces them to pay attention to the path
32
00:02:26.950 --> 00:02:27.520
while
33
00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:34.440
focusing on the club face when they do them together it'll look something like
34
00:02:34.440 --> 00:02:42.720
close the club face little on the toe a little bit of a pole so I probably was
35
00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.720
straight and then into box four not quite enough one to three but it allows me
36
00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:49.680
to
37
00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.680
figure out what I need to work on it gives me a little bit better feedback
38
00:02:54.680 --> 00:03:01.000
than just doing that was better there so it gives me more feedback than just
39
00:03:01.000 --> 00:03:06.960
doing the nine to three with the motorcycle those two skills have to go
40
00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:11.280
hand-in-hand because if you change your face the path relationship your path
41
00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:11.320
will
42
00:03:11.320 --> 00:03:15.280
have to adjust as well this is a great way to work on it combining nine to
43
00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.200
threes or going into full swings but using the motorcycle with some type of
44
00:03:20.200 --> 00:03:23.620
path alignment like either the four square or the bowling alleys I really
45
00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:28.560
prefer doing nine to three in combination with the four square all right
46
00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:33.840
here we have the close-up view so again I'll normally just do this by carving a
47
00:03:33.840 --> 00:03:38.600
line like that like I showed in the in the four square drill but here we've got
48
00:03:38.600 --> 00:03:42.400
a spray paint to make that a little bit easier I'm gonna work on trying to get
49
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:47.780
the club face closed but closed coming from here golfers tend to either come
50
00:03:47.780 --> 00:03:52.480
from the inside with it open or come from the outside with it closed it takes a
51
00:03:52.480 --> 00:03:56.800
little bit of training and getting used to coming from the inside while still
52
00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:01.720
having it closed so you get set up you can do this either off the ground or on
53
00:04:01.720 --> 00:04:06.510
the tee I usually prefer starting on the tee but we'll go for it so you're
54
00:04:06.510 --> 00:04:06.560
gonna
55
00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:12.580
go nine o'clock close the club face swinging through so that it launches
56
00:04:12.580 --> 00:04:16.880
pretty straight even though the club face stayed closed you can then work work
57
00:04:16.880 --> 00:04:23.120
this pattern up to four and four swings so we can do a little three quarter
58
00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:30.760
close the club face that one the ball launched left so now focus I'll get the
59
00:04:30.760 --> 00:04:35.800
club face set and then I'll shift my focus more to the path so club face
60
00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:41.880
closed that one was much better in terms of ball flight started a little right
61
00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:46.640
and then drew back but this is a great way to work on combining the face and
62
00:04:46.640 --> 00:04:51.040
path you just visualize the path and you focus on the feel of the club face
63
00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:56.440
and together it allows you to get good feedback while you're putting in reps
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