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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

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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 over draws, this can be one of the fastest ways to kind of straight

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en

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out your wall 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 30

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degree

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angle, kind of like this. And the visual representation here is just to figure

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out the path you want your hands to go on if you're going to have a little bit

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more of a neutral path. So if you get to if you get to impact, let's say we get

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to

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right around there, and your hands start working straight down this orange

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stick,

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kind of like so. The only way that that's really going to work out at speed is

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with a little bit more of kind of a extra side bend, kind of extra lateral tilt

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in the path, the resulting path from that movement of the hands working more

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out

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towards the target, is typically going to be well in out. The only way you the

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only thing if your hands are moving that way that could get the club back into

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a

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neutral, you know, more of a straight path would be flexing the wrist and kind

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of

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giving it more of that movement kind of like so. But usually it's going to be

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too

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little too late. So one of the things that you want to work on if you're

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struggling with this overly kind of straight at the target hand path is

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getting your hands to work left. Now I'll always add you want your hands to

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work

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left as they're working away from you. So as my arms are extending out a

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way from me, how am I going to get them to work more along this left path? So

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one

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simple thing that I'll have people do is just get to impact and then practice

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kind of seeing the path of those hands working more along that stick, kind of

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like so. What I'll do is I'll demonstrate a couple times and then I'll I'll

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mirror it for the camera. So getting the impact and then practicing as those

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arms extend, getting the hands to work a little bit more left. And there's it's

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not the club head. So I'm not trying to get the club head to go like that

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because

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if as you see my hands are following more of the orange stick, it's actually

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the

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hands that I want working a little bit more to the left. That tends to help

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straighten out the path and get you out of that overdraw pattern. So as if I

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was

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hitting this, if I was hitting this kind of straight at you, then what you

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would

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see is I'd get into that good impact position and those hands would be

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working almost in a straight line along this left stick, kind of like so, as

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they're still extending and rotating as we teach in the release section. The

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only

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way that that's going to happen is if I have continued upper body rotation

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along

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with continued side bending. If I start standing up, even if I try to move my

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hands left, you'll see that they will have a tendency to follow more of the

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orange stick, not so much the left stick. We frequently use the hula hoop to

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demonstrate the path of the club, but we could also use it to essentially show

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the path of the hands. So if I'm struggling with hooking the ball,

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

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this,

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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

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is

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going to be a little bit more left like this. So we've got a couple of visuals

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here that I use with better golfers who are struggling with hooking the ball,

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then you can take it into, once you have a clear idea based on these visuals of

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where I want my hands to go, now I can use that same visual and brush the

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ground, so that was a little bit better. Getting into brush the ground, then I

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can

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do nine to threes letting the ball get in the way, working up to three quarter,

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finally a full swing. Anytime you're working in this release zone,

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you tend to want to start with nine to three or waist height to waist height,

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

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breaks

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down. If you need to circle back to that waist

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height, but ultimately keep testing yourself until you can take it into your

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