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This drill is face closing with the impact bag. Many golfers struggle with

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closing the

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clubface during the downswing or getting the club to rotate through the down

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swing. They tend to

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want to hold the face pre-square and then square it more by straightening the

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arms as opposed to

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rotating the face. The problem with that method is if you straighten it more by

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straightening your

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arms then it's very hard to have any amount of shaft lean because shaft lean as

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you can see opens

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the clubface. So what the better golfers tend to do is they have this rotation

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of the clubface

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to match that shaft lean. That's part of the reason why you don't see that with

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wedges where

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wedges you want the bottom of the swing a little bit more in line with the golf

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ball. Okay so to

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work on face rotation early enough in the downswing we're going to use the

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impact bag. So again I'm

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not a huge fan of using the impact bag to actually train impact but it's a good

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way to stop the club

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at various points during the swing and give you a little checkpoint. So and it

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's something that

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I've done in the past with using just a bag or pillow type thing but this is a

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easy way for you

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to do it at home. So I've got the ball roughly in the middle of alignment stick

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and this is

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somewhere pretty close to the toe line. Now what I'm going to do or another way

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you could look at

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it's about chef 30 degrees 45 degrees back about kind of like so. Now what I'm

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going to do is I'm

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going to try and stick the toe into the club or into the impact bag kind of

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like this and I'm just

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going to get the feeling of closing that down and turning that toe down. Many

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golfers when they

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first try to do the motorcycle and when they're trying to close the face more

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will end up doing

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it more like this. They'll do it more with shaft rotation and getting the club

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well outside. So

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having this position deep enough forces you to use that ulnar deviation and

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forces you to do it

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in a way where you'll still be coming from the inside. So this kind of gives

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you a reference of

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what it's like to get that club face closed early. The other thing it gives you

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a feeling of or

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a sensation of is instead of hitting the ball with more of the club passing the

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hands you kind of

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get the sense of hitting the ball more with this rotation or that palm press or

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palm strike feeling.

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So I get the feeling that I'm basically going like this and then what I'm going

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to do is I'm

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going to try to make there's my release and I'm going to try to use my body

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rotation so that that

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release there gets the impact. I'm going to try to use my body rotation to move

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impact from there

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to there. I'm not going to use my hands and arms to move the impact from there

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to there.

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That's a little tricky concept but hopefully you can follow what I'm describing

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there.

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Now if I was going to adapt this for a driver the question is what I make it

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happen earlier

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or later? Well what we really want to have happen is we're going to move this

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up so I'm going to

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grab a chair and it's going to happen earlier. So if I was doing this with a

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driver I would be

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basically getting that same amount of rotation right around there. Actually

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probably a little

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bit below that but I'm limited in the chair I've got here. So right around

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there and then now

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same rules. I'm closing it to that position and I'm going to use body rotation

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so that

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what my arms feel like they're doing there is happening until there. So you can

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see that if I do

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that facing the camera so if I get that position let's bring this back just a

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touch so it's roughly

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in line with just inside a shaft parallel to the target line. So now if I close

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that down kind of

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like this and then I use my body rotation so that felt like I did the exact

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same arm movements to

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hit it there but that's ending down there at impact and you can see if I had

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driver I'd be well

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behind it um those would match up. So with an iron it happens a little bit

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lower to the ground

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kind of like there not quite as side bend and rotated with the iron as I would

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be with a driver

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but this gives you a sense of what are the arms going to feel like and where

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are they in space

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compared to your body and then gives you the challenge of how can I use my body

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to get that to

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impact. So then what you can do is you can set up a little circuit. So I've got

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the ball there

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here's my here's my station right so I'm set up to a golf ball right in line

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with the camera right

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about here I do a few hit that impact bag get it closed but make sure it's not

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coming outside

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and then use body rotation to get it to there and then I step forward with that

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same timing so I'm

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trying to kind of close it early to there and then that feeling of getting it

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closed through there

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I'm just going to use the body movements so that that happens at impact so we

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'll do that again

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so we get there so now I'm trying to hit there but watch my body makes it so

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now

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if I took my body away but if I add my body back in the body moves the contact

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from there to there

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the example would be okay there's just throwing a ball with my arm but now I've

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got a time it so

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that that movement matches what my body is doing that's what I'm trying to do

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here so I get that

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closing through the club face that motorcycle and ulnar

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and then let my body kind of bring that through pull that just a touch but

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overall pattern

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pretty close so if you're struggling with getting the club face or closed early

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enough

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you're not getting penetrating ball flight or you're not getting it to turn

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over a little bit

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this is a good way to check and make sure that you're getting that club face to

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close early enough

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and that usually transfers to that stronger ball flight or a little bit more of

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a draw

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once you sync it up with what's going on with the body