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In this golf smart insight, we're going to answer a member question about

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hitting the

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ball too high with the driver.

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So this particular golfer from New York has had a little bit of issue with

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having kind

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of distance and consistency was kind of his major issues, hitting the ball a

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little bit

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off the toe, main reason he was hitting off the toe is he had the pattern of a

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little

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bit of an early release with the right side, so that right arm would get away

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from him,

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and then that upper body would lunge more on top.

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This would cause a little bit of a kind of chicken wing or bringing the arms in

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on the

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follow through.

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That whole combination caused a lot of toe shots, a lot of pulls, a lot of pull

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draws.

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Not really the best combination.

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So first thing we've been trying to work on has been trying to get a little bit

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more

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of this upper body shifting behind by doing the Jackson 5.

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Jackson 5 is one of the great movements for building a little bit more of this

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axis tilt.

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Now what'll happen is there's two major ways for me to create height.

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One would be by releasing the wrist, this gets more loft on the golf ball, and

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the opposite

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one would be by staying behind the ball like so, this causes me to have a

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little bit more

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of a upward angle of attack, which will cause me to have a higher launch.

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So in this golfer's, in this particular golfer's case, what's going to happen

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is any time

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you've gone from this pattern like so, to now staying behind the ball, but I

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still feel

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like my arm extending away from me is one of my main power sources, what's

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going to happen

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is I'm now going to add both.

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So I'm going to stay a little bit more behind the ball, but I'm also going to

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release more

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on the right side of my body.

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That combination is going to cause a lot of height and typically a high right

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ness.

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So something that'll look similar like that.

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What we need to do is not bail on the upper body staying back.

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We don't want to go back to the upper body drifting ahead of the golf ball or

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on top

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of the golf ball with the driver.

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What we want to make sure we do is when we come down into this delivery

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position, we

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want to make sure that that elbow continues to work past your body instead of

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lining up

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more in line with the ball.

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Typically when you do this, it is going to feel like you've lost club head

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speed.

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So if you have the chance, get on a radar so you can see that that's probably

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not the

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case because what will happen is this feeling of the right arm flicking and

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releasing gives

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the perception of a lot of club head speed.

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But typically what I'll see on 3D is that will peak somewhere around here where

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if you

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have this arm working more across your body, like so, you will tend to peak

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your speed more

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at the golf ball and it will allow you to have more of this side bend.

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So now I get the direction that my arms are kind of guiding the club more in

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the direction

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of the target instead of perpendicular to it.

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That combination helps to give us that kind of tour launch that we look for as

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well as

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transferring more of the speed into the golf ball.

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So if you are struggling with getting that upper body to stay behind and you're

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hitting

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ball really high, review the arm sections and transition and release and

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specifically

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look at how this right arm is going to work more across your body instead of

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more out

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at the golf ball.

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That combination will help bring the launch back down but in a much more

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powerful way

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than your typical way of bringing the launch down which would be lunging with

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the upper

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body to get on top of the golf ball.

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So try that, let me know if it works.

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I've seen it work a lot of times with my students and I'm confident that if you

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can get this

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feeling, it'll lead to a much more consistent and powerful ball flight.