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- This video is discussing hybrids.

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So I've had a couple of questions about specifically,

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like, you know, I always pull hook my hybrids

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or I always hit them on the toe.

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What's going on?

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Do I play them more like an iron?

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Do I play them more like a wood off the ground?

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So hybrids have a little bit of kind of some challenge to it,

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but they're also really beneficial for most golfers.

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So we're gonna talk a little bit about their design

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and the swing patterns that I think work best

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with them.

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So I've got my six iron and my four hybrid.

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And what I want to show you is that

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there are a handful of hybrids that are a little bit flatter,

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but in general, hybrids are steep.

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And part of the problem is hybrids were made

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for the average golfer.

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The average golfer isn't really the one

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who looks to take lessons.

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So they're gonna try and fit the average golfer,

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which means golfers who come over the top

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and are a little bit more upright.

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So hybrids, the way I was explained,

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that's how they got evolved to be a little bit more upright

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compared to the regular irons.

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And the other thing is with irons,

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you can adjust the lie angle.

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Usually if you get forged clubs,

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hybrids typically are tougher to adjust the lie angles.

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I believe PhD is a little flatter

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and I believe Adams is a little flatter as well,

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but trying to get the flattest hybrids you can is a good idea.

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So if I were to get into my normal position

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with my six iron, and then,

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so I'll show you a little bit about the lie angle

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is what I got.

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I got a little hotel key card from my last seminar.

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So if I get into my normal address position

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with my six iron and I just kind of freeze it there,

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what you'll see is if I took a business card,

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I could slide it about a third of the way in.

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That's a few degrees, which is usually

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what gets accounted for with droop,

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and what I've been instructed is closer to a proper fitting.

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So basically, if it's sitting there

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and I can get the club in through that way,

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then if I were to return the club

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to about the same height,

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the natural droop and the shaft would level that out.

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Now if I do the same thing with my hybrid,

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if I get into my comfortable setup position,

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hopefully you can almost see what's going on,

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by the time I get in there, it's almost halfway.

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It's there just much more upright.

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So upright clubs is almost like having

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the ball slightly above your feet.

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Slightly above your feet is going to tend

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to close the club face.

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And so if I have more of an outside in path,

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I'm gonna tend to hit more poles.

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If my brain is aware that I'm gonna hit more poles,

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it may try to scoop a little bit more

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and I'll hit it off the toe

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because the arm's bending on the way through.

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That's why a lot of amateurs tend to have those challenges

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with tomas and poles with the hybrid.

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Now the good thing is that with a hybrid,

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it's built with a big wide sole

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so that I can actually hit behind it and hit a little fat

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and the club will just slide through the ground.

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It won't necessarily dig.

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But the cool thing about hybrids is they are hybrid.

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They can be hit like an iron

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where you're making more leading edge contact

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or they could be hit more like a wood

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where you're using the bounce

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and kind of sliding the club through impact.

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So they have a fairly broad margin of air with low point,

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but the face control is gonna be a little bit more challenging

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because they're more upright than your normal clubs.

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So when you're swinging clubs that are more upright,

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I tend to challenge golfers to swing

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a little bit easier with their hybrids.

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I'm not a huge fan of going after your hybrid

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as hard as you can.

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The other thing is I actually coach golfers,

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you can do your normal pattern,

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but I'll coach golfers to make a little bit more

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of a controlled fade swing

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and know that it'll usually be a little bit more of a pull.

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So aiming just to touch right

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and then playing for the ball to start a little more left

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compared to your normal swing with an iron.

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Again, one of the challenges with golf is

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we have 14 different implements.

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I can't think of another sport

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where you have 14 different objects

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that you have to learn to develop skill with.

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And so understanding that the hybrids are just biased

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that way can help take away some of the frustration

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with some of the common misses.

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So we'll give it a go with the hybrid swing.

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Pretty much making the same swing,

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except I'm trying to get the bottom of the swing

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at the golf ball instead of a little bit more ahead.

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So it's gonna be hit with a little bit more

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of my upper body behind it, say,

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compared to if I were hitting the equivalent for iron.

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Kind of like that.

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And again, I'm not a big fan of trying to swing hard,

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especially when you've got these things teed up,

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because when you have it teed up,

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it pretty much encourages the club swinging

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a little bit higher, which with an upright line angle.

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Imagine having the ball more above your feet

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that can make the pull aspect of the club

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or the closed face aspect of the club

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a little bit more exaggerated.

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So now with it here, I'm going to swing a little bit more

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with more of a fade bias, not really coming quite as inside

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as if I were hitting a four iron or three wood.

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I can swing a little bit steeper.

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And like I said, I like to err on the side

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of playing a little bit more of a fade with the hybrids.

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I think that's how they're best designed.

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I would err on playing them a little bit more

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like a wood unless you have a severe iron bias

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to your swing, in which case you can get away

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with playing the hybrids, but in that case,

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you may be, if you have a lot of club bets beat

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in the severe iron bias swing,

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you may be better just off playing the longer irons.

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One quick point, if you do struggle with,

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let's say you hit more of the poles and you're tired of that,

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you can always choke up a little bit more on the hybrid

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compared to the regular clubs.

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That will essentially flatten the line angle.

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You might lose a little bit of distance,

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but what you lose in distance,

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you may gain in not hitting it on the toe

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and being able to make your normal swing.

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So you can see there by choking up a little bit

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to flatten out that line angle,

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I was able to make a little bit more of my natural swing

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and actually hit a little bit of a draw.

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Still a little pole because of the line angle,

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but I know to play that with my hybrids.