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This drill is monitoring chest height with a pool noodle.

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So many golfers struggle with standing up through the shot, so they struggle

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with standing

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up kind of like this, and they're really unaware of it.

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When you ask someone who does that, "Hey, did you stand up?

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Try and stay down.

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Try and stay down."

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They're really unaware of it.

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So what I usually do is I will either set up a station like this or I'll hold

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an object,

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like a pool noodle in here close to their chest height.

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So the main thing here is now I've got something, I'm going to lower it just

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slightly.

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So I've got something that's in my field of view, a little bit in front of me,

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so that

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when I come through, I can have a reference as to whether I stood up or not.

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So what I want to try to do is first, I'm going to practice turning my body so

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that my chest

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stays at about the same height compared to this pool noodle.

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So even if I was to come up a little bit, I would say, "Oh, all right.

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I'm going to create a reference right about here in my mind, and then I'm going

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to turn

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through keeping my chest at that reference."

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I like to have it on the target side, not directly in front of me, because if

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it's directly

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in front of me, when I come through, I've kind of lost sight of it.

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I want it to be far enough ahead so that when I come through, I can still use

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it as a good

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reference and check it without having to turn or pivot my head.

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So then I'll do normal progressions of 9 to 3, 10 to 2, up to full swings.

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Let's get that a little bit closer to it.

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So now I'm going to feel like I'm going to come to there at impact.

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I might even do a pushball or something like that, but I'm going to focus on

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finishing

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in this position instead of that position there.

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So 9 to 3, double check.

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Not too bad.

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I was pretty happy with that.

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Now in a 10 to 2 in full swing, it gets a little trickier because now I have to

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pay

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attention to where I was when I was moving down through here, but I'm going to

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leave

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this once I get the club pass follow through position.

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But once I get to here, the momentum of the club and my body absorbing the

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force safely

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is naturally going to stand up a little bit more.

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So as I go into a bigger swing, now I really have to rely on that flash of

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where was this

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thing just between here and here.

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And the more times I do it, the better my body will get at being able to

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recognize and

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pay attention to it.

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You might have to start with a lot of 9 to 3s and a lot of slow motion swings

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really trying

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to feel like I stay the same space or even like I get closer to it between the

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start of

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the release and the end of the release.

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Remember, the end of the follow through position right here is when I have the

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greatest amount

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of side bend of my upper body.

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So I'll be close to the same height with my chest even though my legs are

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straightening

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as they're going into a nice bracing move.

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So now we'll go back to, we'll do a little bit more like a 10 to 2.

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So I'm going to feel like I stayed down through and then came up and then

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because of the purpose

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of this drill, my brain naturally tried to pull me back down, but that's okay.

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Now as I go into a full swing, I'm just going to use the feel, we'll get that

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even a little

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bit more in my way for the full swing.

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So I'm going to try and get extra low on this one using this as my source of

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feedback.

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So emphasizing staying down, using my abs, but controlling the height of my

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club.

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If you don't want to set something like this up on a tripod, then you can take

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an alignment

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stick and put it in the ground and put a head cover or something on an angle

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like that.

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But I like to get it as close to my visual frame for doing this head height

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awareness.

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I like to get it as close to my visual frame as I can.

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So I highly recommend using a pool noodle and a tripod.

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That works really well for me or maybe you can get creative and create some

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kind of station

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that you can train with at home.