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This video is discussing the driver stinger.

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So I had a question from one of my students on how to hit a stinger with a

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driver or a

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really low kind of fairway finder.

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So I'm going to discuss it, but I'm also going to start with one big disclaimer

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or caveat.

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I don't think that making big changes to your driver swing is typically a good

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idea unless

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it's something that you really practice and you're really comfortable with.

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One way that you could kind of think about this is if you hit generally the

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same shot

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shape on every hole, then you're probably going to have a certain dispersion.

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If what happens is you start experimenting with different shot shapes or

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different adjustments,

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like we're going to do this driver version, potentially what can happen is your

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dispersion

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gets bigger as a hole because you're going back and forth from hitting your

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normal shot

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shape and hitting some of these specialty shots.

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Now that said, I do believe that a lot of tour pros have multiple T shots and

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one of

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them could be a lower fairway finder.

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So let's discuss how we're going to do it because his thought was, "Okay, why

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don't

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I just tee it up lower?"

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That is one way to hit kind of a fairway finder, but it tends to be a little

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bit too

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spinny to be more of a low, low bullet, low kind of stinger style.

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So let's discuss what we're trying to do and then we'll hit a few with the

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driver.

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So I've got an iron where I can get the kind of a loft and line angle tool to

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stick to

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the face because it doesn't stick to the driver.

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In general, when we're trying to hit this lower launching, lower spin golf ball

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, the

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stinger, we want to have a lower launch so we're going to try to get the hands

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a little

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bit ahead so that we can deal off the club, but we're also trying to maintain

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the spin.

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So spin is created from the difference between the loft we presented impact and

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the angle

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of attack.

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So if I hit down on a golf ball like this, this would create a gap between

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where the club

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is pointing and the angle of attack, that creates spin known as spin law.

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So the goal on this shot is to basically bring the angle of attack so that it's

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fairly flat,

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but also bring the loft down kind of like this.

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What a lot of people do when they start off trying to hit this shot is they

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just hit more

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down on it by moving the ball backward and potentially they hit it higher on

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the club.

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So they end up getting a high launch or they hit it low on the club and they

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end up getting

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high spin, both of which prevent you from keeping it low.

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So we're going to try to get contact in the middle or slightly above to get low

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, but we're

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going to try to deal off the club and kind of flatten out the bottom of the

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swing.

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So the, I think this can be a fun little training exercise for golfers because

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I rarely see

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golfers practice hitting less than full drivers.

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And so I would say that as a general rule, what we're going to do on this shot

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is we're

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going to tee the ball up normal height or even slightly high, I don't mind that

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, because

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I'm going to try to level out my shoulders almost like I was in a fairway

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bunker or hitting

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out off of hard pan.

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So I might lean a little bit more left, move the ball position slightly more

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back and feel

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like I kind of stay tall and like the bottom of the swing is very flat versus

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staying behind

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it and hitting more up on it.

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So the swing ends up feeling a lot more kind of like a 10 to 2 or like a little

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bit more

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of a punch style swing rather than a full rip with just the ball tee up lower

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and more

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back.

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So we'll walk through a few of these and see if we can give you some visuals

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that might

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help you kind of understand and decode what you should expect when you go to

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practice

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it yourself.

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So first we'll just hit kind of like a run of the mill standard stock driver.

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So a little more fade on that, but we'll just get a sense of about how high the

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ball went

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compared to the top of the trees there.

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We'll say that my standard is probably just under 100 feet if I'm looking at it

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on track

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man.

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And so now the next one we're going to demonstrate is if we just did kind of a

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tee the ball down

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a little bit lower, but still stay behind kind of like we did, what's going to

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happen

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is I'm going to hit this a little bit lower on the face.

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And so that goes slightly lower, but that has a lot more spin and so into the

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wind that

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might not be the singer where I'm hoping to get a whole lot of roll.

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I do think the the the the stinger, the low spinning shot can be helpful when

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you're into

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the wind and like link style, very firm fairways, especially if it's a slightly

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downhill downhill

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shot into a strong wind, potentially if you're comfortable with the shot, you

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can get a lot

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of run out of it.

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So now we're going to try and we're going to experiment with this three quarter

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shot

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where we're going to feel like the ball is just slightly back and we're on top

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of it,

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but we're trying to get a very kind of flat bottom of the swing with a little

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bit of

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shaft lean.

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If we do this, hopefully this will launch fairly low.

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Occasionally I'll choke up on it just because it feels a little bit to be feels

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a little

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bit odd to be more forward of the golf ball with a really long club, but let's

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just kind

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of test it and see where it goes.

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So we're going to get a little bit more forward kind of like this and then flat

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at the bottom.

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So a little bit of pull, but we'll do one or two more.

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So that you'll see stays very low.

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I mean, that was no more than about 10 feet off the ground.

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Probably trying to exaggerate.

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We'll try to do a little bit cleaner one with our body pivot.

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So that would be a little bit more of my comfortable height.

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That's probably about 20 feet in the air compared to my normal one that's close

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to 100.

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And that carries probably 30, 40 yard short, but has very little spin and very

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little height.

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So I end up getting a ton of roll in some link style, link style shots, link

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style holes.

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All right, now you can see the flags, the wind's kind of creeping up.

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We'll see if we can get the height of the first one with the direction of that

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second

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one.

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So we'll play it a little bit more back, but try not to get too spinning on it.

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So again, very happy with that ball flight on a tight fairway finder.

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It's fun to practice 10 to 2's that can really help you kind of like clean up

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some of your

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whether it's release face control or sequencing.

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I find that 10 to 2's can be really good in the how to play golf series.

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I talk about how when I was swinging really well with the driver, I would tend

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to get

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the same ball flight whether I swung full speed or my stock shot, whether I

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swung hard

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or whether I swung easy with my fairway finder, I'd pretty much have the same

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ball flight

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with all three of those.

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When I was a little bit more off than one or multiple of the speeds would be a

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little

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bit off.

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So this can be a nice diagnostic for how good is my driver swing feeling.

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And based on that, I might adjust my strategy, I might play a little bit more

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aggressive or

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I might play a little bit more conservative depending on how it's showing up.

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But it's a fun tool to have in your toolbox.

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Most people don't need it, but it's a fun one to have.

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It's better to have it and not use it rather than never know how to hit it and

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miss out

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on the benefits of what you can get from training it.

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All right, one more super low full swing.

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Happy with that one.