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This drill is fix the club face closed. So in this drill we're going to get

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used

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to having the club face closed to the shaft. So if you are working on the

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motorcycle, if you're working on getting the club face to rotate and feel more

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closed to the shaft and you're trying to hit a draw, but you're still just not

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quite getting that feeling, this is a drill that I usually use to overcome the

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barrier of closing the club face. Because basically what we're going to do is

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we

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are going to pre-close the club face to the shaft and then we're going to hit

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little 9 to 3s with that same feeling. So what that would look like is you'll

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take your normal grip and then you're going to close the club face to the shaft

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So first thing I'll do is I'll let you kind of feel the weighting of the club.

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So when it's straight up and down like this, the weight of the club goes

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through

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the shaft and it'll feel pretty light. When it turns like this I may feel a

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little bit more resistance in this this lead arm because the weight of the club

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is not going straight through or the weight of the club head is not going

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straight through the club shaft. This is the position or this is the feeling

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that

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you want to get used to because if I'm swinging on the way down and the club

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face, if the shaft is moving this way and the club face is perpendicular to it,

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then or sorry parallel to it, then it would feel very much like the club going

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like this. So to get used to the club face feeling like it's moving close to

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the shaft, you have to get used to this weighted feeling kind of like that

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where

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it's a little bit asymmetric. So then the drill is relatively simple. All we're

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going to do is we're going to close the club face just like this. We're going

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to

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make some waist height swings so that when we have this closed club face it's

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coming in just slightly closed compared to the target. So I've got it closed

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like

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this and I'm basically going to hold that position with the wrist and I'm going

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to work on the timing of when I want those arms to extend. Then what I do is I

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can gradually start working down so pre-close, keep it in that closed

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position, just kind of feeling the weight of the club, feeling that club face

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relationship. Then I take my normal setup, close that face, same thing and

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trying to brush the grass but not hit the shank guard. So what I'll end up

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having to do is when I hit shots, if I keep my normal path of just slightly

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outside to in, it's going to go way to the left. So what I have to do is I have

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to convince my brain that this is the right orientation. I'm going to keep that

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and I have to use the path and change the path just a little bit to get it to

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launch straight. So this helps you overcome that barrier of getting used to a

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face

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close to the path and starting to see what actually would produce a draw ball

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flight. Once you have this feeling of this draw ball flight, then you can play

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around with not starting with it close but closing it either at the backswing,

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at the top of the swing or in transition. So once you have this feeling, you

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can

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then experiment with the other way. Can I get it really open and then shut it

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between there and impact? That will get you used to more of the timing of the

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downswing where I'm going to be closing it from about somewhere around here,

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doing the motorcycle all the way down to just before contact or for a lot of

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people it'll feel like right at contact. So if you're struggling with just a

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predominant fade pattern and you're trying to get the face a little bit more

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close to the path to get better compression, give yourself a little bit

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more versatility in terms of ball flight. This is a great way to overcome that

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barrier. You just get used to the feeling of the club face being closed to the

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shaft and you learn how to adjust the path to get it to start where you want it

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to. That is ultimately building the platform of a solid release from with

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an inside path and a good draw pattern.