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This video we're going to talk about adjusting the stock full swing

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specifically for the driver.

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So, let's start with what do we want the club to do that's slightly different

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with this than with the iron.

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With an iron we're trying to hit slightly down on the ball.

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Three, four, maybe five degrees. We're trying to have slightly descending blow.

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As it works more towards the driver, you'll see that it becomes more and more

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flat.

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Now part of that is just going to be I'm standing further away and my stance is

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a little bit wider.

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But part of that is going to be the engine or powering things more from my

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lower body.

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So, the club is going to be swinging on more of a flat angle of attack.

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With the PGA to where average is about one degree down, but the LPGA is three

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degrees up and the long drives five degrees up.

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So, I think that guys like Rory are proving that if you can have this three

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degree upward angle of attack

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and still be very, very consistent as far as direction goes.

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So, if you struggle hitting the ball straight when you start adding, trying to

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hit up on the ball,

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it's more how you're hitting up on the ball, not the fact that you're hitting

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up on it.

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So, now the second fact is because I have more of this flat or even positive

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angle of attack,

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because the club is sweeping and working up, that means that I'm going to

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naturally have more of a fade bias to it.

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So, because the path is going to be a little bit more left than it would be if

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I was hitting down,

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I have to close the club face and actually adjust the direction I'm swinging

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the path more out to the right to hit the same quality shot.

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So, the two bay things are I'm going to be hitting more low to high and I'm

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going to be swinging more into out with a closed club face

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in order to succeed with a driver.

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So, now what movements help me make those all that possible?

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Well, there's a couple key ones.

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The main one, or let's start with setup, because that's first.

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So, your stance width is going to be a little bit outside of driver width and I

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'm going to side bend a little bit more in order to get my hands to the golf

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ball.

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So, if I'm here and then I side bent, now my hands are even with the golf ball.

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Instead of getting here and then rotating, now I'm actually still kind of pred

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isposed to having more of this downward angle of attack.

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So, I'm going to have a little bit more tilt.

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Now, when I get to this end of my swing, if I was to draw a line down or if I

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was to use 3D and look at the center of your pelvis compared to the center of

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your chest,

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very good drivers of the golf ball are going to have a tilt away from the golf

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ball of somewhere around six, seven, even up to eight inches.

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So, again, using my pelvis is about, that means that my upper body is going to

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be significantly further back compared to what I'm going to do with an iron.

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So, all the movements that get me to use this lower body properly to keep my

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upper body a little bit more behind are going to help with that path.

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Now, a lot of golfers struggle with if I have that path, I don't know how to

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close the club face, and so that's why the motorcycle movement and having this

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shallow but closing club face is much more important for the driver than it is

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for any of kind of the mid-irons.

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Now, the other thing to notice is, what can I get away with?

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So, when it comes to the driver, because my, because the ball is teed up and I

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can have a little bit more disparity high to low,

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the swing faults that cause my ground contact misses aren't going to be as

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critical.

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So, I can get away with a little bit of a sway.

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In fact, it's not always the worst thing.

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There's a lot of really good drivers of the golf ball who have a one or two

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inch little sway off the ball in order to get more of their pressure right and

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in order to get that upper body behind so that they don't have to make as major

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a kind of fallback move during the release.

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The other swing fault that you can kind of get away with is a little bit more

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of that early extension.

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Remember, early extension is going to shallow out the path.

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So, with the driver, I want to have a shallow path.

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Now, the problem is if it gets too much, I'm going to tend to struggle with big

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blocks and hooks,

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or if I don't know how to throttle it back with the irons, I'm going to tend to

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have contact misses, especially with the shorter clubs.

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So, there are better ways to get that kind of shallow path, but you can use

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early extension.

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The other one would be kind of the hangback pattern.

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So, if I tend to hang back on my right, but I can still get the club to come

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from the inside, that's a great way to get that positive angle of attack.

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And if I know how to kind of get the club face square from the inside while

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staying back there, I'll do great.

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The problem is a lot of golfers who hang back also tend to kind of spin and

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have the club face open and come way outside to end.

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That pattern doesn't work too well for the driver.

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So, while we're talking about what doesn't work for the driver, let's talk

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about the three major killers that I see.

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One is going to be the forward lunge or the upper body getting more on top of

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the golf ball.

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Two is going to be the arms getting active too soon in the downswing, and then

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three is going to be the arms getting too steep too soon in the downswing.

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So, the lunge is essentially, when I get up towards the top of the swing, that

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upper body getting either passed or staying on top of my lower body.

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Now, we talked about how we want to have, especially with the driver, we want

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to have this six, seven, eight degree difference between where my lower body is

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and where my upper body is as I go through.

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Well, if I lunge on top, that makes it virtually impossible, and so my angle of

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attack is going to be really steep and I'm going to tend to almost use my arms

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and hands to create all the loft.

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The second one is that arms too active too soon.

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So, if I get up to the top of the swing and I extend my arms for creating speed

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, it is possible that I can use my body for support of that, and I can hit

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decent drives as far as direction.

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It's very hard to be extremely powerful if I'm using only my arms as my major

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power source or if they're getting too active too soon.

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Because what will happen is, when I use my lower body properly, it's going to

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create a lot of this tilt or this rotation behind the golf ball instead of more

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on top like so.

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Now, if I did that and my arms got involved too soon, you could see that that's

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going to tend to make contact to good 18 inches behind the golf ball.

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So, what happens is, if my brain knows that my arms are going to get active, I

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'll tend to do more of that pattern where I'm going to tend to kind of stall

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with my body and let it just kind of position my arms for my release position.

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Now, the last one is that arms getting too steep, so if I get up to the top of

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the swing and I tend to pull down, even if they're not getting wide, which is

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very, very common.

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If I tend to pull down and I go into internal rotation of that trail arm and I

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get the club steep like this, there's very little that I can do.

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I'm going to tend to have more of an open club face, but there's very little I

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can do to not have a steep left path, which is just killer for the driver where

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I already am swinging a little bit more left because I'm hitting flat or even

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up on the ball.

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So, it's important for you to understand that there are some differences

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between what happens with kind of the mid-irons, what happens with the long

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clubs and what happens with the wedges.

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This whole section is to help you understand what are the different adjustments

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and where the higher priorities when we're talking about the driver.