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The drill is heel toe awareness with an alignment stick. So often times golfers can

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follow a pattern where they're drifting in towards their toes and the simple drill using an

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alignment stick can elevate your awareness of that problem. Many golfers you get

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in towards their toes either have more of kind of a scoop style release, more of a cast pattern

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or they may struggle with shanks because moving in towards your toes can shift the upper body

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in towards the golf ball and so if I start a certain distance away from the golf ball like

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this and just shift in towards my toes if my arms extend and I get into a good release pattern

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that can create some shanks. So often times I'll use an alignment stick just a heighten the awareness

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of where you're pushing through your feet. So to do this basically what you're going to do is

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you're going to put the alignment stick just under the front of the feet. So or just under

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the toes. So the balls on my feet and my arch are still on the ground but you can see that the

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stick is basically under just the front of the biggest joints of the toes. So right

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in through there I can still pick my toes up and keep my weight in my center but it's not

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all the way to the tip of the toe just like that and it's not under the arch. Okay so I get set up with

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it right underneath that tip of the toe and I'm going to allow a little bit of freedom in the

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transition but during the backswing I don't want the weight to go dramatically in towards that

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right foot or the trail foot and then during transition you can get a little bit of pressure into the

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stick but as early as you can or definitely before the arm is about parallel to the ground

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it's going to feel like it starts working more in towards that left heel. So I'm going to

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do if I get into a little bit pressure I'm going to make sure when I get towards contact

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that the toes of the left foot are able to come up off the ground. That's going to actually help

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me stay more centered. Create some room with my ribcage so that my arms will be able to do that

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good white movement and help get the bottom of the swing out in front of the golf ball in a shallow

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position. So once you're comfortable with feeling like you're saying a little bit more centered

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then you can step away and try to recreate that same feeling just with your own awareness.

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Now some of you may be thinking that there are a lot of really good golfers who are up on their

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toes say Alexey Thompson or a Lori Davies or even Justin Thomas. But what you'll typically

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see is that most of those golfers who do get up on their toes well you'll see is when they

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when they land they'll actually land more towards the heel so they'll get into that position

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where basically they're getting more towards the heel side and the outside of the foot.

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So the pressure is working more towards the heel not so much towards the toe.

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They'll never see a really good golfer get in towards their toes and then land and kind of

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stay forward like so. Because they'll impede how well you'll be able to rotate into your

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follow through and it'll make it challenging to have continued body rotation without falling over.

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This counter move in towards the heel helps for basically balancing the pull of the club

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in the direction of the golf ball which is balanced by me pulling away from it which helps

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create a lot of the speed and shallowness down at the bottom of the swing.

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Okay so demoing you've got the stick underneath the front of the toes again just on the

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other side of the kind of the balls of the feet and you're going to try and you can start

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with nine to three's but you're going to make sure that when you finish you can pick up those

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toes that you're not pressing down on that alignment stick. Once you can do it consistently with

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some nine to three's then you can take it up to more of a full swing.

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It can be a little bit tricky kind of dialing in your ball position. So you may want to use a

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key just until so that you can keep the distance and set up a little bit easier.

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Left the club face open just to touch on that so it's good enough for the demo but we'll do

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one more just for my sake.

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There we go.