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this game is dialing in your alignment so dialing in your alignment is one of

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my

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favorite kind of bridge games it's a game that I use more for taking a swing

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that I'm feeling pretty comfortable with and and working it into a routine that

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I can take to the course so on paper it's pretty simple a lot of people

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practice with an alignment stick down I highly recommend it we have different

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stations working on start line things like that but this just helps you get

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calibrated with a target so let's say I've got the stick on the ground and I'm

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just hitting some shots this kind of a little push there but just kind of

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dialing in my ball flight once I get my ball flight to a place that I like

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there where it's finishing fairly close to the target then I'm gonna see how

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well I can take that same ball flight and just change where it's going on

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camera by or change where it's going by adjusting my setup now what I want to

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do there's a couple different ways that I like to use it one I'm going to do it

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by guessing where the ball is gonna go so what I mean by that I find that a lot

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of my students have a hard time taking their swings to the course if they're

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overly focused on the target out there rather than the space that they're

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swinging at the club ideally the goal is I'm gonna be swinging the club around

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my body in a predictable way that gets my path somewhere close to where my my

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body is aimed and a face that's fairly square to that path and then all I'm

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gonna do is as I go around the course I'm gonna practice or I'm going to take

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the opportunities to aim that swing and then swing along my feet or

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compared to my body what I find is that a lot of students get overly focused on

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the target and then they kind of change their swing to guide the ball to the

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target rather than swing it compared to their stance so if we go back to this

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little start line game or this little alignment game what I want to do is all

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all hit kind of we'll call it a stock shot for today and I think was fairly

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good as far as direction goes for where I have the stick aim now I'm gonna try

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and

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adjust where the ball is going to go by just changing my stance so there

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hopefully

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my ball position is the same compared to where it was when I was square to the

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stick but now I'm close to the stick or pointing say five or eight degrees out

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to the right so now I'm going to swing without looking at where I aimed and I'm

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going to guess basically where the ball should aim just based on how many

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degrees I changed compared to the stick now one of the big benefits that this

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does is it gets you used to having something on the ground that's visually

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disturbing it makes a lot of my students uncomfortable to swing when

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they're not aimed perfectly square to the stick that is a really good skill to

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start addressing because how many times do you get on a hole where you have

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either a visual that you don't like or the T boxes and aim perfectly down the

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middle and you have these visual disturbances I find that a lot of my

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students hit some of their worst shots in that scenario so here was my square

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stance now I'm gonna aim slightly to the right and then try to duplicate my

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normal ball flight and swing and that should go let's say eight to ten degrees

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depending on how much I adjusted now I'm gonna do the same thing to the left so

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normal stance I'm gonna change my baseline starting position slightly and

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now normally I would look out as part of my pre-shot routine but we'll say that

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for step two so now I'm just gonna swing compared to my stance and that was

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left

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of the target as well so so far I'd say I got past step one which is getting a

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similar ball flight by just changing my my stance now what I'm gonna do is I'm

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gonna deliberately walk in and set up to a target but I'm gonna think of it in

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terms of my setup position rather than visualizing the target so I could use an

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intermediate spot I can use the stick on the ground but now if I want to target

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say the the flag to the right of the stick now I'm getting set up a certain

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amount compared to the stick and then I'm gonna try and trust that swing

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feeling

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a few raindrops will distract it for the camera we'll give myself a mulligan

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but

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again this is one of the the beauties of this game is it's really hard to

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recreate that visual alignment issue on the range

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that was a little better that one's all over the flag what I mean it's it's

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very

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hard to kind of create that sensation of I'm a little bit uncomfortable over

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the

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golf ball but having the stick on the ground as a reference visually can become

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a little disturbing and ultimately put a little bit of extra pressure on you so

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I find this is a great station to set up when you're comfortable with your

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swing

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you have you know three to five keys that are helping making your swing work

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and

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create a fairly repeatable ball flight and then you want to practice putting

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in reps practice your pre-shot routine so that you're delivering the message

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you're reciting your keys in the right order at the right time so that you can

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get the same ball flight regardless of where you're pointing I find that that

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can help you become kind of connect the swing and the alignment to a target

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through where you're aligned here so getting really comfortable with this

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space and just aiming my swing based on this space here I find that that

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becomes

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a really useful skill for getting your your game to transfer to the course