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This is impact bag outside left foot for the driver.

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So I like to use this impact bag outside the left foot, not just for irons and

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working

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on low point, but for driver and really working on face control.

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So what we're going to do here is we're going to place the impact bag about six

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inches or

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so in front of the left foot.

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So if I had a ball teed up, here we go.

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So if I had a ball teed up, you could see that the bag is close to about a foot

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in front

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of the ball.

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And what I'm going to try to do here is when I make contact with the bag, I

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want to make

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contact pretty close to the height of the ball and with a club face that is

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still square.

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If you have more of a tendency to kind of throw the arms, then what you'll see

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is that the

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club face was pointing almost at the road.

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I would hit it very much with the toe of the club, as opposed to if I get down

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here and

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hit it more with my body, then the club is still nice and square and low.

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So it's hitting it about the height of the ball with a club face that's still

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square.

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My goal is to have the club face be pretty close to the square to the target

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all the

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way from about a foot before the ball to a foot after the ball.

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I heard Joe Miller, one of the most iconic long drive guys say that was one of

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the things

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that he works on.

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Now, it's important to note that Joe does have a lot more of this club face

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closing.

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He has a lot more of that trail arm straightening, so it makes sense that that

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would be something

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that he would want to work on.

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I find for a lot of golfers who struggle with big directional misses with the

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driver, it

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comes down to primarily the space control issue.

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And getting the club face to squeeze, feel like it stays square longer, goes a

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long way

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in helping clean up some of those face control issues.

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So now that I've got to feel, I'm going to bring a little baby step.

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So it's still kind of there in the corner of my eye.

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I'm going to feel like I'm still trying to hit it that way.

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So I'm going to do a little bit of a nine to three, get my shoulders a little

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more square.

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And from the down the line camera, we should see that that took off fairly

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straight, that

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felt like I had good extension, but I didn't let the club face kind of twist

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over rapidly.

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I felt like I got more of that club face closing here and then just kind of

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delivered that

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club face to the ball rather than trying to time a club face snapping.

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And then I can go ahead and I can add a little bit longer swing or a little bit

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more speed

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and ultimately both until I get a feeling like the club face is staying low to

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the ground

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and square even with my full driver cut.

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Okay.

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So little demo of how I like to work through it, got the impact bag, feel kind

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of there,

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step up to the ball, good ball position, nine to three.

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So little on the toe so it drew more than probably wanted, but reasonable

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contact there, felt

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like I was nice and behind it.

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Okay.

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Second.

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Now we're going to do 10 to two, come up to the wall, 10 to two, a little low

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but good

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flight.

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I like it a little on the low side, especially even right now the driving range

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is into the

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wind.

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I'm not sure if you can see it or hear it, but subconsciously I always try to

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flight it

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a little lower into the wind.

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Okay.

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So now we're going to go up, kind of get a fuller swing, got that feel of the

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club face

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thing, square longer, pretty good hit right there.

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Had that similar feel, that was the best one of the lot.

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So that's the way I like to work through it, have it kind of there in the

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visual, but it's

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not an actual physical barrier just to help you train this feeling of the club

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face thing

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nice and controlled down through impact instead of snapping over if you have

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too much or too

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early arm action in your release for the driver.