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This drill is high, low, high.

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So high, low, high is a build on the low to high release.

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So I would say that this is a more advanced concept.

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This is definitely for kind of your mid upper single digit golfers, even down

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to your scratch

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and competitive playing golfers for working on building more of this flat spot

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down at

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the bottom.

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In the low to high release drill, we basically get set up and then we're going

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to bring

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the club down and out.

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So from this down the line, you'll see the goal is to exaggerate.

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It's going down and out.

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And then from here, the goal is then to use the body so that the grip is coming

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up and

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in as the club is going down and out.

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That creates more of this flat bottom of the swing, as opposed to if I was up

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here and

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I just released the club straight down, more like a wrecking ball.

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So if I released and the grip and the club continue to go down, it would have a

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little

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bit more of an abrupt change down at the bottom compared to if I have more of

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this low and

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out to up and in, I'll feel the club really slide along the bottom of the

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ground and have

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a nice little flat spot there.

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But then the challenge becomes when I go from the low to high to the tenda two

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or when I

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start going from high to low to high.

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So the key in that is making sure that I'm getting the down and out more from

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the body

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and then continuing to use the body on the way through.

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So timing wise, what usually happens is a lot of golfers who are more active

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with their

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arms tend to release the club like this and you'll see that my chest stays more

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level

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in the club and the hands go down into the golf ball.

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Now granted, you can make it a solid contact but it tends to be a little bit

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more inconsistent

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or has a shorter window where the club is down on the ground.

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You'll tend to have steeper contact, kind of diggy divots where what a lot of

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better

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players do is they use their body so that the club is getting down and out

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through here,

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continue to use the body so that when they do the release, the club just slides

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along

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the ground.

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In order to do that, the timing goes from kind of fast early to speeding

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through this

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low to high.

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It has a feeling of more of a swinging through the ball rather than hitting at

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the ball.

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And so I like to mix those two together so you're going to do some low to high

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where

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you just practice bringing the club out, out and down, in and up.

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That's going to happen primarily from the pivot, not from, I don't want to see

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some

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artificial kind of arm action like this.

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You'll notice my arms are actually extending as I'm going through.

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And I can monitor the ball flight, you'll be able to see from the down the line

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that

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even though the hands are coming up and around, the club head is going down and

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out so the

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ball is flying pretty straight, fairly true.

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I can even hit a draw that way.

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If you tend to have more of this arm tension or lack of ulnar deviation, then

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you'll tend

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to have more of a shot like this where both the club and the handle went up and

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left instead

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of being able to have that ulnar deviation and softness that allows the handle

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to come

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up and in but the club to still go out.

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Next, we're going to try and add the speed coming from down through that

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position.

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So we're going to go just slightly above it.

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We're going to preset that.

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We're going to go just slightly above it and we're going to feel like the hand

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path

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following the body is going to go out to in as the club is shallowing a little

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bit with

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that ulnar deviation.

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So it's not quite following the exact same path.

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If I exaggerated it, it would be, it will feel like the club is kind of going

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like that

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as the handle is going this way.

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So the club head will drop inside somewhere to that zoro loop kind of feeling

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down there.

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So we're going to do one where we go just past the point.

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That was really good right there and that had a feeling like I accelerated

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through that

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transition of high to low before coming up high again.

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So it all blended instead of having more of this hit impulse.

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So like I said, this is definitely a more advanced drill, but this can be

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really powerful for

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good golfers especially if you struggle with a little bit more of a two-way

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miss or with

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diggy contact.

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So work through lengthening the longer the swing.

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The longer the swing, I'm going to have to kind of build that speed even a

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little bit

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more gradually.

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The longer the swing, the more that if I go early, the club is going to

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continue to have

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a trajectory going down or the grip is going to have a trajectory going down as

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opposed

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to coming up.

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The best place to look for that on video is from the face-on view where if you

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look at

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it from this here, if you draw a line at the top of the hands, you'll either

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see the club

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going down through there or you'll see the grip stay close to the same height.

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A rough guide is having the club somewhere around mid-thigh from that face-on

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view if

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the camera is set at a good height where if you're more high to low, it will be

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more

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at about hip height.

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So on a fuller swing, high to low, so the one I'm trying to work out of would

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be more

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like that.

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Again, hit it pretty solid, a little thin, but won't have the same flat spot

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and feeling

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down at the bottom as this one where I felt like I got my hands really low and

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then the

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speed was much later through the ball and the ball just feels like it jumps as

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opposed

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to being struck.

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So if you're struggling with the low to high component of the release, then mix

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in some

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real gradual, high, low, high to work on that timing of the blend from using

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the body kind

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of through this corner and into that really powerful follow through position.

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All right, let's do a little demo of the three balls we're going to hit.

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So low to high, the club is not going to go above waist height because I'm

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going down

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and out to up and in.

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There's no going above the lowest point.

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Next one, I'm going to go slightly above that point.

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So it's going to go, I'm going to feel that going down and then back up.

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And then the last one is going to be a full swing where I'm going to feel

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blending through

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that position with a lot of speed, kind of like that.