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this challenge drill is extreme face awareness so extreme face awareness is

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applying the I'm gonna hit a straight shot a draw and a fade but what I'm going

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to do here is I'm going to create an uncomfortable situation so I'm going to

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use the wrong grip in order to challenge myself in order to feel the wrist

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mechanics so I'm going to hit my fade with a stronger grip and I'm going to hit

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my draw with a very weak grip I'm going to work on 9-3s or 10-2s but not full

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swings but I'm going to exaggerate these movements so I'm going to put my hands

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in a very weak position and try to hit a draw which means I've got to on the

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way

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down really motorcycle really bow that wrist really get that right hand on top

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feel almost the extremes of these motions in order to get that club closed

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enough to then get it to draw on the way through so I'm actually going to do a

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stop version at first so I'm just going to bring it there get that super close

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and then try and get it what was very thin but you did see the draw happening

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so then we'll try to do it without the stop action so very weak I've got my

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thumb all the way on the left side this is the one that I tend to do good got a

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nice little draw from that position this is the one that I tend to use the

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most for golfers for better golfers oftentimes with juniors who have time and

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are willing to work through these struggle drills a little bit because it

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really forces you to exaggerate the wrist closing mechanics just like so so

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we'll do a little bit bigger didn't quite get it closed enough when you do the

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bigger swing with the weak grip it is harder to then get it to draw so if you

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notice that that's one thing that you can draw them pretty well on nine to

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threes but then have trouble when you take it to full swing it is possible that

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it's mostly because of the weakness of your grip and so when you set the wrist

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becomes harder to then square the face more on the way down okay so now we're

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going to go for the opposite we're going to work on we're going to take a

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stronger grip and we're going to really work on feeling the body rotation help

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hold the face off so that I can get more of a fade so with this grip if I was

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to

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just let stop and let my arms pass you see that that club face would come in

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very close but if it instead I hold the hands back and let most of my

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delivery come more from the body rotation instead of from from the arms

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then I should be able to still hit a fade even with an extremely strong grip

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just like so and that's how some golfers some good elite level ball strikers

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actually hit their fade is more with a strong grip and just requiring excessive

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body rotation so if you tend to have more of a kind of a stall foot pattern

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this

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one can really help with getting the feeling of the body rotating didn't quite

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it's trying to fade I was trying I was just more of a little bit of a pull so

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we'll do one more try to really feel like that body gets open and holds those

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hands off there we go that's clearly fading back so to really challenge your

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ability to control the club face I recommend tweaking with your grip to

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require you to feel a little bit different waiting and exaggerate these

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wrist motions that help you control the club face once you have the feeling

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then

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you can go and do the standard nine-shot drill just using your normal grip and

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some of these subtle feelings that you picked up in this extreme face closing

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so if you want to adventure go practice this for 20 minutes it will really

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elevate your ability to control the club face with whatever challenge or

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whatever grip you choose the hardest ones are always trying to hit it dead

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straight so I'll put my neutral grip on and try to feel somewhere in between a

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little bit more draw than I wanted there but now I have a good feeling of which

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one I need to apply in order to balance that out so now we're going to try for

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the dead straight ball that's pretty close there very very little curve to

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that and I did that by applying more of that body rotation feel fade feel in

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order to help take away the natural draw of my swing