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This content video is if you hang back check the club face. So many golfers

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come

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to the site with the preconceived idea that everything needs to be going

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forward through the shot. The upper body, the lower body, everything has to be

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going forward in this general direction. That originally stemmed out of a lot

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of

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articles that came from when they started looking at pressure but

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unfortunately they described it as weight. So while we want to have a lot of

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pressure going into that front leg, sometimes we get in too much trouble if

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we get our weight moving too far forward. In fact what 3D oil show is with

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especially with a driver, you will tend to see from the release. So from right

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about here through there, the upper body can move backward as much as six,

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seven

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inches. While the lower body continues to go forward and the pressure goes into

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that front foot. So as a result, many golfers think that hanging back is one of

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the worst things that they can do and that they just need to shift their weight

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forward. A lot of golfers talk about, "I need to get my weight shift working."

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Well, most of the time I would say that the shift backward when it's the lower

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body shifting backward kind of like this, that's a way for you to swing enough

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outside in to compensate for a really open club face. In fact, in person, it's

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the

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only scenario where I've ever seen almost a hundred percent correlation, where

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I've

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never seen someone have a reverse pivot or shift more towards away from the

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target with their lower body during the Nounswang. If they didn't have a really

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wide open club face, because you can see if I got my body forward with that

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wide

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open club face, my hands would actually have to be back about here in order to

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hit the ball relatively at the target. And that doesn't feel very powerful. It

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pretty awkward for most golfers. So instead, what you'll do is if you have a

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really open club face, you can spin backward and that will get the club face

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to point roughly at the target. So what happens is many of these golfers with

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the overly open club face start trying to get out of this reverse weight shift,

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start trying to go forward, but they've still got the club face wide open. And

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so

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when they start trying to go forward with the club face wide open, best case

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scenario is you hit it 30, 40 degrees left and maybe even a little thin, worst

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case scenario, you shank the ball or top it, it's not a good situation. So if

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you

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notice that you have a big reverse weight shift or you think you have a

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reverse pivot, I'd say it's almost 100% chance that the club face is way too

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open coming down. And you need to work more on either strengthening your grip

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or in the motorcycle so that you can get the path in a position where shifting

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your pressure forward will help you instead of hurt you. So if you're one of

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those golfers who got the idea of too much pressure shift, hopefully this helps

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you understand that you don't need to have everything going forward. It's just

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the pressure which comes from the lower body going forward, even though the

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upper body is going backward. If you have a real reverse pivot where your upper

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body is in your lower body, you're actually going away from the target during

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the downswing, then it's usually a way to swing the path left enough that a

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really open club face is pointing closer to the target.