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This video is the driver flat spot starter kit so a lot of golfers kind of

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struggle with

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their driver consistency and I'll identify on video that the big reason that

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they're

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struggling with their driver consistency is they don't have very much of a flat

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spot.

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Meaning that if I look at it in very slow-mo from the face-on camera angle, the

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club will

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be pointing out towards the camera kind of like this and high and then it will

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close

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very quickly and come back up.

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This is all a result of hitting it too much with the arms and the hands

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compared to what

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the elite drivers of the golf ball do where the elite drivers of the golf ball

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will see

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a much more kind of flat height of the club as well as a club face that isn't

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changing

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very much from about right foot to left foot.

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So I've got some other videos that kind of show that and dig into that.

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But this is a common issue and this is one of my more consistent starter little

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circuits

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that I have people do.

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So basically in order to get used to this flat spot where you've got to get

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used to feeling

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a little bit more of the body bringing the club through instead of the wrist

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and we probably

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have to get used to feeling the club face changing less down at the bottom as a

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result.

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So the first version that I'll usually do is just dragging the club along the

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ground,

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kind of like the alignment stick loading concept idea.

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So I'm going to put the club on the ground with a club face that's relatively

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square.

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So the club's going to be on the ground about even with my right foot with a

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club face that's

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not quite pointing down at the ground but here I've got a little gate and it's

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pointing pretty

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close to that white tee.

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So now from here I'm going to try and use my body to drag the club along the

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ground and

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I'll feel like it's extending out there as opposed to using the arms and the

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hands kind

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of through this or making sure that I'm not lending my body.

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So I'm dragging the club kind of through there.

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Then I'm going to do a practice swing where I'm skimming or hovering.

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And I don't even mind if you hit the ground as long as it's a very gentle

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strike of the

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ground.

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What I don't want to see is if you're in good position and then you release the

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hands you'll

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see the club kind of bounces off the ground.

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That means that I'm hitting it too hard.

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I'm using too much wrist and I'm doing that kind of down at the bottom instead

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of feeling

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more of the body kind of driving in the arms extending later and later.

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So the second step that I'll do for this little drill is I'll add the impact

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bag where I'm

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going to try to now drag it along here and basically strike the impact bag as

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low as I

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can with a club face that's still square.

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If I'm used to throwing the wrist it will hit it like this and some people will

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start

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trying to hold off and do it too much with the arms and it'll be open kind of

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like that.

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So I've got it closed and now I'm feeling like the club drags through.

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Now I'm going to do some just kind of practice swings where basically I'm

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trying to get the

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club to skim along the ground from mostly my body movement while the club is

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square because

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of what I'm doing with the wrist as opposed to using the arm movement to apply

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the force

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I'm using my body instead of closing the face by releasing those arms I'm

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closing the face

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with a little bit more of the motorcycle move or shaft twist.

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In general with the driver compared to the iron swing the club face is going to

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start

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the motorcycle movement a little bit sooner and the arm extension is going to

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be a little

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bit later.

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That's a tough combination for a lot of golfers who struggle with an open club

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face because

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they tend to use the arm straightening as their main mechanism for closing the

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club face.

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So now we've got this idea of where we've got this feeling of brushing,

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hovering, skimming

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the club along the ground that's kind of that driver flat spot.

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So next step we'll do a little bit of a work through where we're going to do 9-

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3 kind of

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gradually increase speed until we're feeling like the body is driving this wing

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even in

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our full stock swing.

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So 9-3 version we're just going to bring it back kind of get the club I'm

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pretending

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that basically I'm trying to get the club, this is the classic 3T set up, I'm

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trying

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to get the club to stay at around the same height with the same club face angle

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for that

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window kind of right in there.

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So we're going to bring it back 9-3 style close the face.

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That took off fairly straight felt like the club face stayed pretty stable for

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a long

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period of time.

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If I can do that on these little half shots then I can gradually add bigger and

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bigger

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swings and try to still get that same feeling of what the body is doing in

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order to keep

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a more stable club face.

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That will help you dial in your misses and hopefully eliminate the two way miss

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.

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In general this pattern of getting more down and more body should help

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eliminate the big

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curve left but you still might miss it right if you're not closing the face

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early but at

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least this will give you a little bit of a starter kit where you can start

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working on

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building this flat spot and then you can use face on video in order to refine

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where

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and how you need to work on your individual pattern.

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So that was the 9-3 let's go a little bit bigger.