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This concept video is discussing the two low points.

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So the two low points are basically referring to the low point of the path of

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the hands

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and the low point of the path of the club.

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If you follow some of the golf science, then you may already be aware, but if

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you don't,

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the low point of the handle is roughly going to be even with about the right

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thigh or a

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little bit before the golf ball, kind of right about here.

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The low point of the club head for an iron shot is going to be somewhere around

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three

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to four inches in front of the golf ball.

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So you would think that if I was swinging this just like a pendulum, then the

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low points

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would coincide.

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But how can I have the low point of the grip there and then the low point of

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the club there?

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For some, that can be a little bit of a puzzle.

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The simplest answer is that what you're going to do with the body and how you

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're going

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to pull on the club is going to create this relationship.

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It's not something that you actively have to force.

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But what can happen is some golfers, when they try to get the handle lower so

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that it

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can then come up through impact, they tend to hit the ball poorly because they

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're doing

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it mostly with their arms instead of with the body.

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And that's really the key to this pattern of getting the low point of the hands

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low before

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the ball and club low after the ball is making sure that the body is powering

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the pivot or

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the release pattern.

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So in order to do that, one drill that I like that we have on the site is the

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low to high

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release.

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So if let's imagine that I'm going to, you're going to get set up and I'm going

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to have

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you go to impact position.

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Now if the club is coming up into impact position, then if I pressed rewind, I

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'm going to bring

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the middle of the grip.

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So this point here down a couple inches.

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So you can see there it is an impact.

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Now I'm going to try and get it lower to the ground through there.

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So then if I came through and I just released the hands because my grip is low,

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I'm going

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to really bottom out before the golf ball, even with where that low point of

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the grip

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is.

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But if I get back, there's impact, if I get back there, and then my body

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rotation brings

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the handle around and through more so than my hand action, then I can have the

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grip low

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to the ground and still make contact with the golf ball first.

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And because of the arm extension complimenting my body, that will put the

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bottom of the swing

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out in front of the golf ball, basically when the club catches up with my body.

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So what I find is some golfers trying to get the hands to come to get low

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before the ball,

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do so all by straightening the arms, kind of like this, instead of using the

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body to

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bring the hands down low, they just use the arms.

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And if you just use the arms, then your body is typically going to be out of

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position to

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be able to bring it up on the way through.

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And so you will tend to catch behind the ball like I did there.

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So if you are working on getting a little bit flatter hand path, or oftentimes

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these

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golfers, the golfers who need this are trying to get out of more of a hook

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pattern.

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So if you are trying to get more body rotation on the way through, trying to

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get the grip

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to go more up and around the plane, instead of kind of down and out, then you

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need to

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make sure that you use your body more in transition and practicing that

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delivery position, or

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the delivery and go, or the delivery pump, those all help create the

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relationship of

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the grip being lower to the ground.

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Once you then have a sense of the body bringing the club lower to the ground,

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then you can

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try to add a little bit of arm speed down at the bottom.

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I caution golfers who are doing this because usually when you are getting out

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of that arm

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pattern, any time you try to add speed, it is not so much that you swing harder

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, it is

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that the arms get involved earlier.

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So oftentimes when you first start doing this, you are going to have to feel

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like the arms

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do very little.

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The analogy I give is imagine that you were throwing punches just all like a

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jab, and

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then I wanted you to try to get your body involved.

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So to do that, you now threw no punch with the arm.

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Ideally you would start to blend it so that you went body and then arm, but if

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every time

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you thought about body, you went just with your arm, it wouldn't be worth

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training in

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the pattern.

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So you may have to feel like your arms do very little, they are just in that

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delivery

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position all the way through with very little arm action and more of a sawed

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off or hold

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off move before you can really feel active arm action on the way through.

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But with some practice and with some training, you should be able to blend the

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body powering

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that transition and then the arms releasing or extending or transferring all of

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that energy

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into the golf ball during the release.

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So if you are struggling conceptually with the hands getting low before the

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club gets

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low, or if you are struggling practically on how to do it, hopefully this video

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clarifies

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why we teach some of the key movements in transition, how to get the grip low

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beforehand

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because of what the body is doing and then how to release the club with

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continued body

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rotation, all of that creates the general shape of the grip reaching its low

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point even

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with the right thigh and the club head reaching its low point more even with

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the left foot

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or out in front of the golf ball.