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The setup drill is called left foot turnout. Basically figuring out what I

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need to do with my foot so that it supports what my body can do. So you're

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gonna take the club and place it across your hips just like we've done in some

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of the other drills like the setup drill, the Jackson 5, any of those moves.

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And

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then from here you're going to turn and try to get your pelvis or your belt

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buckle to face the target while you keep your foot flat. That's the challenge

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in

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this drill. I'm not actually hitting a ball I'm just experimenting with my leg.

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So as I turn you'll see that my hips are actually about 30 degrees short of

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where they need to be or where I would like them finishing into the target. To

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get them to finish facing the target I start to feel a little bit of torque in

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my ankle and my knee. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take my foot and turn

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it

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so that now it's pointed about 30 degrees out to make up for my hip

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restriction, right? Because my left hip is a little tighter than my right hip.

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If I

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was playing golf left-handed I could play with a pretty square foot and have a

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normal finish. Unfortunately that left hips a little tight so I've got to turn

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that left foot out. Now with that left foot turned out it's gonna delay when my

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hip actually needs to do the work. So now I can turn and easily get into this

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finish position. So all my setup drills for me are going to start with this

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foot

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a little bit turned out like so just so that it's far enough that I can stay in

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my posture as I go to finish. Because the problem is if this foot is square and

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I

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have this left hip restriction that won't let me turn fully you know 90

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degrees which very few of you will be able to do. So I recommend some foot

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turn out for most of you. When I get as I approach that breaking point my body

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is gonna save it and it's going to stand up and I'm going to basically get the

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movement out of my lower back, my right hip, my ankle, my knee, but everything

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other than that hip. And that stand-up move is gonna mess with my path and

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plane as I approach the golf ball. So to avoid that and to allow me to stay

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down I'm gonna turn this foot out 30 degrees 25 degrees whatever the magic

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number is so that I can get into my finished position without having the

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foot come up. The foot will come up when you're swinging hard especially when

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you're swinging a driver but for this kind of experiment drill I want you to

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focus on keeping that foot flat. So simple little way for you to figure out

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how much foot turn out you need for the downswing. Now as far as the right foot

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you want that to be turned out just slightly so that it matches the knee so

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maybe 5-10 degrees but if you err in the side of having that foot turned out

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too much that can limit your ability to use the right hip in the downswing

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properly depending on what's going on there or the right ankle. So I tend to

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focus more on where the left foot is and the right foot can be just slightly

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turned out because if you have a restriction in your right hip there are

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better ways to get around it than going duck foot. So we're gonna focus on the

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left hip make sure it supports your body and use that in all your setup drills

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which will help make your golf swing a little bit more efficient.