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this drill video is hinge and hold with a putter so this drill is a kind of a

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cousin to the hinge and hold idea or to the hands in club out basically helping

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eliminate a big flip pattern sometimes I find that it's much easier to feel

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with a flat-faced club like a putter than it is with say a 7 or 8 iron so

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first what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the putter to establish this

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kind of delivery position and then I'm going to use my body to bring the club

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through so one way to look at the relationship of my release and whether

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it's an early release or a late release or anything like that is looking at the

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relationship of where my chest or my sternum is compared to the club head and

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my hands so as I approach impact with the putter here if the putter catches up

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and passes my hands and my chest you'll see that this is going to have more of

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an early release look and probably lead to some bending of the lead arm on the

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way through so a later release would basically be keeping the club head

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further behind my chest now my hands can don't have to be behind they can be in

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front of my chest but you can see that if I keep that club further behind my

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chest in kind of this circular fashion then I will look like I have a fair

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amount of shaft lean or a lot of a late hit to it so what we're going to do in

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this drill is we're going to hit putts instead of shots to force us for some

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of the precision of the body leading the arms through impact so what I'm going

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to do is I'm going to get set up as if I was hitting more of a eight iron seven

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iron type shot and then I'm going to bring the club back to about shaft

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parallel I'm going to add a little bit of motorcycle but my main requirement

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here

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is I'm going to focus on the relationship of the club head compared to my hands

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so now I'm going to use I'm going to keep the club head behind and I'm just

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going to use my body to hit a slight you know 10 15 foot putt at the course

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I'll actually take them on the green or I'll use the the hole in studio and I

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'll

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have them try to do more of a body leading but very controlled stroke now

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the reason I'll do that is many golfers when I put them on the range they're

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going to get here and no matter what in their mind they're going to have this

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impulse to hit the ball as hard as they can and this drill is more about

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refinement of sequencing and low point control it's not really about maximizing

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distance so I'll challenge them to hit a putt only about 10 15 feet with this

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much load in the arms and I'm going to use my body coming down just like so now

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the the two main issues that I'll see is one by keeping the club behind their

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body when they come through they will be well above the golf ball because they

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have to use their hands to get down towards the ball so that's a sign that

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you're struggling more with low point control and you're using that early

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release to help get the club down to the ground the other option that I'll see

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is in order to hold on to the leg they'll just drift their bodies forward kind

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of like this and then they'll still have to release the arm because they're

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going to be too far away from the ball and they're not going to have enough

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space in the hip or room to complete the follow through so make sure you stay

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centered and stay down just enough so that you can get the putter face pretty

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square and pointed back at the target this will give us more of this hinge and

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hold look to it now the real challenge is going to come in when I bring the

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iron

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back in play because now it's going to look different the loft can make it more

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challenging but my goal is to duplicate that same little 10 yard putt stroke

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where

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I'm finishing just past impact this I've found is one of the easiest ways to

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really ensure that your body is leading the club head through impact then once

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you have this feeling you can gradually add length of swing or speed so let's

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say now I wanted to add a little bit more of the body action you'll see that my

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arms will naturally extend a little bit past but I still maintain that kind of

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trail arm away lead wrist flex or the hinge and hold look to it as I start to

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apply more and more speed the finish will look more and more like a regular

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finish but when you're doing it on this really small scale to learn that

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sequencing in the relationship of the club more behind your chest I find almost

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nothing works better than using a putter to kind of build that awareness of

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where the club is compared to your chest working into your nine to three is

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working into your ten to two or three quarter shots and ultimately work that

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same feeling into the full swing a lot of golfers will say when we're going

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through this a lot of golfers will say I don't feel like I'm releasing the club

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at all and I'll say well you're learning to release it more like this

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instead of releasing it like that it's not that it's it's not a release it's

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just a different style of release than you're used to and it might take a

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little

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bit of time to work through that but learning this other style will help

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change the way that your swing looks and have a big impact on how you're going

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to control low point

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so that would be more the full swing version right there