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This drill is hands left to follow through. So I've got a little visual

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station that I use with golfers. A lot of better golfers who struggle with

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hooking the ball. So if you're hitting a slice, this is probably one of the last

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things that you really want to work on right now. But if your your tendency is

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to hit more overdrails, this can be one of the fastest ways to kind of straighten

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out your ball flight. So basically I've got a orange stick that represents the

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target line, kind of like so. And then I've got a yellow stick at about a

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30 degree angle kind of like this. And the the visual representation here is

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just to figure out the path you want your hands to go on if you're going to

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have a little bit more of a neutral path. So if you get to if you get to

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impacts, let's say we get to a right around there, and your hands start

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working straight down this orange stick kind of like so. The only way that

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that's really going to work out at speed is with a little bit more of kind of

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a extra side bend, kind of extra lateral tilt and the path, the resulting

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path from that movement of the hands working more out towards the target is

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typically going to be well in out. The only way you the only thing if your hands

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are moving that way that could get the club back into a neutral you know more

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of a straight path would be flexing the wrist and kind of giving it more of

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that movement kind of like so. But usually it's going to be too little too late.

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So one of the things that you want to work on if you're struggling with this

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overly kind of straight at the target hand path is getting your hands to work

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left. Now I'll always add you want your hands to work with left as they're

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working away from you. So as my arms are extending out away from me how am I going

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to get them to work more along this left path. So one simple thing that I'll have

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people do is just get to impact and then practice kind of seeing the path of those

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hands working more along that stick kind of like so. What I'll do is I'll demonstrate

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a couple times and then I'll mirror it for the camera. So getting the impact and then

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practicing as those arms extend getting the hands to work a little bit more

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left and there's it's not the club head so I'm not trying to get the club head

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to go like that because if as you see my hands are following more of the

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orange stick it's actually the hands that I want working a little bit more to the

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left. That tends to the help straighten out the path and get you out of that

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overdraw pattern. So as if I was hitting this if I was hitting this kind of straight

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at you then what you would see is I'd get into that good impact position and those

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hands would be working almost in a straight line along this left stick kind of

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like so as they're still extending and rotating as we teach in the release

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section. The only way that that's going to happen is if I have continued upper body

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rotation along with continued side bending. If I start standing up even if I

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try to move my hands left you'll see that they will have a tendency to follow

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more of the orange stick not so much the left stick. We frequently use the

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Hulu hoop to demonstrate the path of the club but we could also use it to

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essentially show the path of the hands. So if I'm struggling with hooking the

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ball what's typically going to happen is the Hulu hoop is going to look more like

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this where the path of my hands is kind of working straight out towards the target.

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Even though the club is coming from the inside ideally the path of the hands is

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going to be a little bit more left like this. So if you got a couple of

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visuals here that tend that I use with better golfers who are struggling with

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hooking the ball then you can take it into once you have a clear idea based on

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these visuals of where I want my hands to go. Now I can use that same visual and

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brush the ground so that was a little bit better getting it to brush the

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ground then I can do nine to three is letting the ball get in the way working up to

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three quarter finally of full swings. Anytime you're working in this release

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zone you tend to want to start with nine to three or waste height to waste

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height gradually add distance and speed until you get to a point where it

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kind of breaks down if you need to circle back to that waste height but ultimately

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keep testing yourself until you can take it into your full swing with with

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confidence that you know you're not going to hook the ball.