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Australia's laser path training. So I'm gonna use a cat laser to help you train

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your path at home. Many golfers struggle with either an overly into out path or

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overly out to end. If you're overly into out you'll tend to struggle with more

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thin shots, more blocks and hooks, maybe even shank in the ball. If you're more

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outside in you'll tend to struggle with really deep divots. If you take divots

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at all you may have a chicken wing on the way through. You'll hit pulls and

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slices. You'll be better with the wedges kind of really struggle with the long

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clubs like the driver. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna use a cat laser

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instead

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of a golf club or actually in as a representation of where the shaft is

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pointing to help me figure out where the club needs to swing in both the

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downswing and the follow through. Now ideally you're doing this in a room

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where you've got walls all around you so you don't have to spin around. But I

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've

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only got this wall here that you can see. Now if I go ahead and get set up and

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I'm

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gonna take the club and I'm going to grip it so that the laser is sticking

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out the bottom. If you're you've got one club at home you can just tape it

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there

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and I recommend if you use a laser you get one that has an on/off switch so you

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don't have to keep pressure on it. So I've got the laser just like so. If I

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tend

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to have more of a slice then what that means is that the laser is going to work

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very much horizontally across the wall like this. If I tend to have more of a

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hook pattern that means that the laser is going to tend to work more vertically

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up the wall just like this. And when I'm coming into the ball it's gonna be the

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same thing. So if I tend to get the laser going out there that's gonna tend to

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produce more of that slice pattern. If the if the laser is working more

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vertically down like this that's gonna tend to swing out to the right. So I've

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used this with a number of students who are more visual learners to kind of get

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the pattern. So if you have more of a slice pattern you want the laser going

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straight up the wall. That would be a sign that you're keeping the club head

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further out towards the target line. If you have more of a hook it's already

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going straight up the wall. I recommend trying to get it to work more up the

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swing plane or even a little bit around to the left. Now as with most path

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training this doesn't really give you anything to work on with the club face

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but this can be a really good complement when you're practicing at home and

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working on your path. And you really don't even need a club. You could just

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take the the laser and basically start training some of these movements of

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having a little bit of tilt and body rotation and seeing how that makes the

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club work more around or up the swing plane. You could see how if you early

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extend that would tend to throw it straight up the wall and if you lunged

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forward like this that would tend to make it go low and horizontally across. So

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if

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you're more of a visual learner this is a great little device for helping you

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calibrate and dial in what your path tendencies are and you can work on

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balancing them by doing the opposite.