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This drill is working on heel toe awareness. This is kind of a cousin of

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the shank gate. Some golfers just have a poor concept of if they're hitting it

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more on the toe or more on the heel and have a hard time feeling it. So they

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might

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not go all the way to a shank but this drill can help you feel where it is on

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the club that you're making contact. So before I go to a golf ball what I'm

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going

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to do is I'm going to take a few T's, so I'm going to take three T's and I'm

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going

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to put them about an inch apart. So I'm going to place three T's about an inch

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apart just like so. I'm going to make them a little bit wider than the width of

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the

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club head. So if I had a kind of zoomed in here one T would be here, one T

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would

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be there, one T would be there. And now what I'm going to do is I'm going to

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take

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just a normal practice wing set up at the middle T. Now in my particular case I

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hit just the middle T, but what you may find is that you hit either the inside

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T if you struggle more with toe contact or the outside T if you struggle more

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with

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heel contact. Whichever pattern you have you're going to try and do the

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opposite.

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If you're pretty good with just hitting the middle T you can either tighten the

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tolerance or you can train both. So now I'm going to try and take a practice

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wing

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or where I set up at the middle T and I'm going to adjust so that I clip the

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middle T and the heel T on the club face. So middle T and the heel T. You'll

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see I

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just got the heel T. So I over corrected I can see that the divot was about

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centimeter away from the heel T or from sorry the middle T. So not too bad but

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given the tolerance that I set up for myself not quite good enough. So we'll

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try that one more time. I'm going to set up to the middle T and then I'm going

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to

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try and just clip that inside T. So there I clipped both the inside as well as

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the

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outside T. So then you'll see it's not too bad as far as resetting it up. Now I

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going to set up to the middle T and I'm going to try and hit the middle T and

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the outside T. And you'll see that you may struggle with one area or the other.

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I

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hit the outside T much easier than I hit the inside T. So I'm probably going to

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be a little bit more heel biased. Once I become aware of where I have the

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contact then I can set up the same station and put the golf ball on the

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middle T. Trying to make dead setter contact. As you can see by this picture of

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TourPro contact you can see that they do a great job of finding the middle of

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the

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club face. You can use the T's. You can use impact spray but I do recommend

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that

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golfers especially as you're getting more into kind of your playing season

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focus on where impact location is because it's a great way to get externally

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focused instead of being too internal thinking too much about mechanics when

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you're playing. Focus just on making on what feelings you have or what ideas or

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visuals you use in order to make solid contact and those tend to be a little

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bit more repeatable on the course under pressure. So with a golf ball now with

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basically the shank gate in place I'm going to try and just make contact with

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just the golf ball and neither T. Even with my foot slipping out a little bit I

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was able to make contact because I've trained my heel toe awareness.