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This video is looking at factors of heel and toe contact.

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So factors of heel and toe contact is basically looking at what do we do in the

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swing that

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makes us either hit it more towards this part of the club or more towards this

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part of

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the club, not so much in the middle.

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So heel shots with a driver will tend to have a little bit more slice to them.

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With the irons they can feel a little clunky and they can lead to shanks or

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shots that

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go way off to the right.

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So toe shots tend to feel a little bit dead with the driver.

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They will draw a little bit more.

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And you can also get toe shanks where it goes way off to the right.

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But frequently toe shots will just kind of feel weak.

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They'll feel powerless.

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So there are a couple of different factors both from the arms and from the body

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that

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relate to heel and toe contact.

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So it's not quite as simple as just, hey, is your path more outside, you're

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probably

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going to hit it on the toe, is the path more inside, you're probably going to

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hit it more

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on the heel.

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So in this video we'll go over those factors.

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Looking at the body, there's two main factors.

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One is looking at the amount of thrust, so the more that my body moves in

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towards the

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golf ball, the more I'm going to tend to hit it on the heel, especially if my

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upper body

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is moving in towards the golf ball.

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So if my upper body is kind of going in that way, or during the downswing, if

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my body is

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going in that way, that's going to move my hands closer to the golf ball, which

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are going

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to bring it more towards heel contact.

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So one is that thrust, and then two is side bend.

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So the more that I get a lot of side bend, the more that it will tend to

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shallow out the

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club and it will tend to get the club to swing more in towards the heel.

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Now with the body, or sorry, with the arms, the two things that will make it

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move more

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towards the heel are either earlier arm extension.

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So the more I keep this kind of loaded and bent, the more that I'll hit it on

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the toe,

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the more that I really straighten that arm early before impact, the more that

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that will

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tend to get the club out away from me.

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This can happen either coming from the inside and get it on the heel or from

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the outside

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and get it on the heel.

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In fact, that's one of the big culprits for golfers who get outside and still

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shank the

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ball.

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The other one with the arms is looking at club face rotation.

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So I like to talk about the club face having a gradual and consistent closing

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during the

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whole downswing.

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If you tend to have more of a really late closing or not a whole lot of

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rotation, you

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can hit it.

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You can be more heel biased and you can hit it on the heel.

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If you have early club face rotation, you'll tend to hit it less on the heel or

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more towards

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the toe.

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So those are the four major influencers for the club moving more out towards

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the heel.

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If I demonstrate a few of those, if I move forward, you'll see that that was

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pretty much

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heel contact and that one I also comboed with the early arm extension because I

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was going

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to fall over.

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So the early arm extension, if I tend to get my arm to straighten, kind of like

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that,

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you can see that's one of the ways that you can deliberately shank the ball,

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which is

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one of the things that I mentioned, especially if you come from the outside and

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you're shanking

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it.

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And then too much side bend would look a whole lot of access tilt.

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There's another one, you can see that contact right there more in the heel and

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then the last

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one will be a little tricky, but the last one is late, late, late, late club

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face rotation.

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So we'll try to really hold that open late into the downswing and snap it

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closed down

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to the bottom.

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So we've got, nope, hit it on the top, nope, hit it more in the middle.

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But that's the last one because I did get it to close.

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Some golfers will go late, late, late, late and never get it closed and it

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tends to hit

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more on the heel.

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Okay, so those are the four heel contributors.

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Now let's look at the toe.

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So the toe tends to be more of the opposite, the more that I reverse thrust or

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pull my

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upper body specifically away from the golf ball.

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So if I tend to kind of stand up, if I tend to move away from the golf ball

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during the

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downswing, that'll pull the club in closer, which will tend to get me to hit it

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more on

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the toe.

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Now the opposite of the side bend is golfers who tend to hit it on the toe tend

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to have

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more of this upper body lunge or upper body lean.

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So they'll tend to get more kind of this way where the upper body gets well in

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front

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of the golf ball.

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That one is usually accompanied by the arm motion.

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But even in cases where I've seen that they don't really bend their arms, they

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just lunge

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more in front, they will tend to have more of a strong toe contact like I did

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there.

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So then the two arm motions, they get it more on the toe, would be bending the

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arms or chicken

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wing.

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Most golfers who tend to bend those arms on the way through, that shortens the

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radius which

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pulls the heel in closer, which tends to give more toe contact, kind of like

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that.

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So even though I hit it pretty straight, you can see on there, I hit it towards

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the far

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side of those grooves.

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So then the last one for the arm motion would actually be letting the club pass

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, which tends

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to get the path going more outside and starts the radius coming back in, which

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tends to

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get it more on the toe.

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So it'll look more like a scoop.

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Now that doesn't have to happen, you can see I scoop there without chicken wing

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ing and

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hit that way on the toe.

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So it doesn't have to be a chicken wing when I've got a scoop.

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It could just be a wrist movement of letting the club pass.

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And so in order to control heel toe contact, you want to make sure that your

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upper body

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stays in a good place, doesn't drift too far forward, backward, too much side

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bend, too

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much forward, kind of stays in more of a centered position.

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And you rotate the club enough and you delay your arm straightening by having

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good sequencing.

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You do all those and you'll tend to hit it more in the middle of the club.

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If you're struggling with heel contact or toe contact, review the causes for

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each of

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them.

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It's likely that you're falling into one of those four different categories for

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either

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toe or heel contact.

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So to hit it in the center, I'm going to control my upper body pivot.

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I'm going to rotate the club and I'll make sure that my arms extend through the

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ball

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instead of before it.

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And that you'll see was hit pretty close to the center.