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This concept video is discussing the spectrum from wedges to driver, so I had a

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question

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about adjusting your stock full swing for hybrids and three-wood, and it really

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leads

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into this video of basically it's important to understand that there's not one

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magic

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setup because if there was one magic setup, then you'd have a hard time

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adjusting for

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uphill-wise, downhill-wise, ball above your feet, thicker, rough, thinner,

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rough, like

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everything works in the spectrum, hopefully built around your your stock swing.

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Well, in the driver versus iron videos, I explained that the some of the big

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differences

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are going to be my stance width is going to help contribute to where my upper

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body is

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in space.

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So with an iron, compared to the top of swing, my upper body is going to be a

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little bit

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closer to the target.

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So it's getting a little bit more covering the golf ball, and this helps

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produce a negative

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angle of attack.

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With a driver, I'm going to have a little wider stance, so when I press with my

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lower

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body, it's going to cause my upper body to be actually behind where it was at

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the top

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of the swing.

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We're actually moving further away from the target.

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That helps me have more of a neutral, zero, or even positive angle of attack,

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which helps

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with distance.

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So a three wood, or a hybrid, are somewhere in the spectrum of hitting, let's

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say, four

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or five, six degrees down at the upper, upper end, compared to driver hitting a

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couple degrees

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up.

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A three wood is going to be pretty close to neutral.

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I think the tour average is somewhere around one degree down.

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So it's going to be closer to this driver's end of the spectrum, but know that

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you can

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get away with a little bit more of an iron-based swing because you're setting

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up, because you're

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hitting a little bit more down.

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So it's going to have slightly narrower stance than the driver.

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Ball position's just a hair back, but the big thing is I'm going to be swinging

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closer

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to the driver's swing than the iron swing.

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I'll discuss a few of the ones that are key, but I'll put a list up here as far

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as the differences

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in this continuum.

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So as I get towards a wedge, I can have more of my weight or pressure on the

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front foot.

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I'm going to have narrower stance.

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I can work in more of a chop motion.

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I can have a little bit more of an open clubface and get away with it.

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Those are some of my favorites.

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I can have more of a cast sequence.

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That's one of the big ones.

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When it gets to a driver, most of those things would be a lot of trouble.

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The three wood's going to be just slightly less trouble.

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So a lot of golfers who are really good with their wedges and struggle a lot

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with their

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driver have more of a swing where their upper body gets on top and they cast a

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little bit.

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And so using a three wood, which is a little bit closer to the wedge, is a good

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band-aid

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to help them get away with, especially if hitting the driver ultimately leads

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to really

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poor ball flight where now I'm hitting it into the trees and I'm having a hard

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time

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recovering.

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Well, when I get to the driver or if I get to the three wood, I'm now looking

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at a wider

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stance.

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It's better to get shallow so it's better to almost hang back a little bit.

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I can get away with early extension again because I'm going for this shallow

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path.

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I can get away with having more of a closed clubface because I'm going to be

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swinging

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a little bit more into out.

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And the cast is a big time problem, but the early extension and the sway are

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not going

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to be as big a problem because I'm going to have a little bit more of this

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lateral movement

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towards the target on the lower body side.

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So there's this spectrum, oh, and the arm motion through the ball is a little

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bit more

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of this lift off my ribcage instead of a chop across my ribcage.

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So we could come up with a simple recipe as far as, okay, if your stance is

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this wide,

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you should play the ball position here.

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But really, I think that takes a lot of the athleticism and the variability

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that you're

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going to see on the course out of it.

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So it's important to know that when you're hitting a three wood, it's going to

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be closer

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to the driver's wing.

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So when you're taking these practice wings, you don't want the club to really

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slam into

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the ground, you want it to really just kind of brush the ground more like so.

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So just for fun, we'll demonstrate my version of the three wood, which

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hopefully works

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out pretty well in here.

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So the three wood is going to incorporate a lot of the same stock moves that we

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discussed

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with the driver as well as the irons.

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One of the big differences is just kind of controlling this a little bit more.

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I'm not going to swing quite as hard as I would with a driver because I don't

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have that

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vertical margin of error.

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I still have to get this to really brush the ground.

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Other than that, it's going to be the same as your stock full swing.