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This is low point training with the swing mate.

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So again, just showing you some usage of visuals.

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And I think that this little striper swing mate is pretty cool in the sense

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that it provides

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some really easy standardization to your visuals.

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Normally when I was working with students, I would put a stick in the ground,

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have to

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move it around, adjust the height, things like that.

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It's just really easy to adjust these.

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So I highly recommend it, especially if you have a training station at home.

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So for low point training, I've got the stabilizer bars, just to help me with

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my consistent

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ball position.

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I'm going to have my ball position pretty much in between the ball and target

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line and the

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forward stabilizing bar.

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So I've got this pink noodle kind of light, or sorry, the purple noodle angled

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as a visual

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of where I want to get my hands kind of at the end of delivery position, kind

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of even

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with the golf ball or kind of in this pre-release, well, delivery checkpoint.

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Then I have a pool noodle.

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These are the slightly smaller size pool noodles.

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So you might have to adjust it depending on what object you have there,

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alignment stick.

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You would have to put at a specific angle, but I like having it flat.

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The only reason I like using this is it doesn't, compared to just putting a

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pool noodle on

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the ground is it doesn't move away, and I can always have it in the same

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position even

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if I hit it.

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So the key here is if you have a really wide takeaway, you'll probably hit the

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pool noodle

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in the takeaway.

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So you might have to adjust it to kind of like a little bit of a preset move.

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But then from here, I can really work on some of my release drills, kind of

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like delivery

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and go, or I can work on kind of my nine to threes, little slide on that one,

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trying

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to get away from the pool noodle.

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It'll expose things.

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But overall, this is going to help me make sure that I'm not kind of casting

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and standing

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up.

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It might encourage me to get a little bit more body turn.

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That was a little bit.

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More brave.

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I wasn't afraid of hitting the pool noodle there.

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It took a nice size divot slightly ahead of the golf ball.

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So this can help you with your impact line and kind of seeing where the club is

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making

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contact with the ground because you have these visuals and you don't

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necessarily have to

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draw anything in the ground.

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I do, like I said, this is because the visuals are long enough, I can move the

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ball position

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this way.

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But there are some times where when you're hitting off grass, having visuals

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like this

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are hard to move, you can slide this around.

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But I think that this is best utilized if you have like a at home training

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station practicing

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off a mat because then you literally don't have to move it.

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You can just keep putting the ball back in the same spot.

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You don't have to just do release drills.

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I think this would be fine for working with your transition.

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You can use some of these visuals to make sure that your impact line is pretty

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good and

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you're not sliding too much or hanging back.

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You could use it potentially a little bit for height to make sure that you're

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staying

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about the same distance and you can use it for reinforcing your shoulder angle

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that when

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you're done, it's kind of pointing in that direction versus pointing more level

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to the

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camera.

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So, nifty little tool, both for path training on more down the line or down the

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target line

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as well as low point when you have it more in this face-on orientation.

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So again, the only challenge for the face-on orientation with this low pool

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noodle is that

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you might have to lift the club a little bit slightly in your takeaway to avoid

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it.

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But it will help you get better low point control.