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This concept video is answering the member question, "Why do I chip better one-

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handed?"

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So I had an email come in asking with some videos about why the swing looks

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smoother and

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why this particular golfer chips better when they're doing it one-handed, doesn

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't make

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any sense.

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Well, I'm going to try to shed light on two different reasons why I think golf

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ers oftentimes

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fall into this pattern, especially if you have a little bit more of a chip yip

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pattern or

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a little bit more of a rapid acceleration.

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So one of the things that happens is when you have both hands on the club, oft

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entimes

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what golfers end up doing is in order to reach around and kind of connect both

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arms together,

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their shoulders get a little bit more rounded and sometimes they get more slack

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.

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What can happen is in trying to round the shoulders or in trying to grab the

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club, the

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shoulder blades end up moving a lot and the rib cage doesn't move a whole lot.

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So then I also start moving my lower body a lot.

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So the two main reasons why I think golfers, certain golfers with certain

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patterns chip

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better one-handed rather than two is they stay more centered, more stacked and

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they tend

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to keep the shoulders a little bit more stable or packed in.

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That helps control the radius so then they're able to control bounce and low

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point a lot

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better.

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If you have the club in one hand, it's really hard to have a big shoulder reach

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.

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Because it's heavy, regardless of which hand I'm using, I'm going to tend to

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pack in or

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stabilize that shoulder a little bit.

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When that shoulder is stabilized, even if I use the wrist, that helps control

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the width

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of the swing.

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So I don't see a whole lot of lengthening arm motions or I don't see a lot of

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punchy

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acceleration on the way through when I'm doing things one-handed, just like

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that.

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And he demonstrated trail, I would say the most common is demonstrating trail.

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But the same kind of rules apply that keeping the radius and the width of the

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swing would

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apply for doing a single arm left-handed drill as well.

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So that's key piece number one is you might be finding that when you have two

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arms on

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the club, you're having more shoulder movements in the backswing and downswing

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and when you

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have one arm, it tends to stay a little bit more of a constant radius or

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consistent shoulder

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position.

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The second one I mentioned is often times when both hands are on the club, some

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golfers

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start having more action happening at their body and their legs, whether that's

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because

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of what's going on the rib cage or just they're kind of trying to more or less

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lock down

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what's happening in the upper body and so they start moving more lower body.

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But often times what I see is that golfers who do it one-handed golfers who do

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it one-handed

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tend to stay more stacked or more centered and that tends to help with the

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angle of attack

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as well as low point control especially the golfers who I see fall more into

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this pattern

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would be tending to have more of a strong grip.

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Often times when they have a strong grip one-handed it's not quite as strong

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and when

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they get both hands on the club they tend to get a little bit more tilt and

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then have

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a little bit more slide.

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It's just a general tendency but that can create low point issues.

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What's always interesting is if you find that you do something particularly

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well I recommend

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videotaping yourself so that way you can look at the difference between what

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you're the

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one that happens kind of naturally and the one that you're struggling with.

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In this case if you videotape one hand, two hand and then you post it in the

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forum we

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can help you understand well what are you actually doing differently when you

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have one

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hand on the club versus when you have two.

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Ideally the body the ground contact all that's going to be fairly similar the

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main drawback

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to only doing it one-handed would be I could see distance control being a

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little bit more

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of an issue as well as handling really thick rough.

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For basic shots around the green a lot of players do really well one-handed and

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I think

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this provides a couple of the reasons why I think that is.

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That was a pretty good one.