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This drill is picket fence start line training so many golfers struggle on the

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course partly because they're not picking a really good target or a really

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clear target so oftentimes from from conversations I've had with elite

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level golfers and my playing myself when things are going really well we're

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able to control where the ball is starting so one of the ways that I kind

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of do this in a lazy way is I'll use one of these two different objects to help

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refine my start line so from the down the line you should be able to see I've

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got alternating white and wooden tees kind of forming a little bit of a picket

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fence there. Alternatively I have a ruler with just some colored tape you

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could you could use sharpies you could use whatever it's just to give you lines

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that you know are about a half inch apart and then what I'm gonna do is for

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each shot I'm going to pick a different a slightly different target and I'm

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going

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to try to use my alignment to control the start line now when I do this

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typically I would adjust my alignment stick on the ground just to help me

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calibrate roughly where that target is in my 3d space so on this first one I'm

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going to try and hit a draw at this right flag so I'm gonna try and get this to

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start over the brown tee or the red stripe so now I'm pretty set up to that

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hopefully I'll take my swing and we'll be able to see that was probably fairly

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close to my start line so then now the the reason I use this station is I don't

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have to I don't want to keep aiming at the exact same target every time that I

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'm

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swinging so this allows me to move my target a good 20 degrees or so so now

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I'm going to go at the red and white pole in the center of the range which

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puts me pretty close to that white flag or that white tee and one way if

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you're not sure is you can hold the club up in line with your dominant eye just

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like this and put it in line with the target here and your golf ball there and

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that'll help you pick an intermediate target or one of the spots there you

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want these intermediate targets to be about 12 to 18 inches in front of you

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you don't want to have an intermediate target way down there and the reason is

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I want to be able to pick this up with my peripheral vision so that I'm not

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turning my head or changing my eye line in order to see it when I do that

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that's typically going to give me a false awareness of where the target

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actually is so I want to be able to get set up like without having to turn my

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head so now if I picked that we'll come back here again right so if I picked

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that second white one from the left we'll just the stick just slightly feel

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like

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my alignment's pretty decent there we'll be able to tell from down the line how

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good I actually do

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well ball pretty much ended up at my target we'll be able to see from the

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down the line how close I was to my start line but this is a great way to be

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able to add some randomness choosing different targets choosing different

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flights but still work on a complementary skill like start line I set this up

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for

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a lot of students you can go as wide as you want so that you can hit from the

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same spot but choose different targets it's a good thing to do when a you're

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either getting ready for an important tournament or be if you have a mechanical

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thought that's working really well but it's kind of tenuous like you wouldn't

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be able to add anything to it without it breaking down it takes a lot of

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thought

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this is something that you can do in complement while you're putting in

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reps and refining a specific mechanical scale so use the the picket fence in

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order to refine your start line to help you take your range game to the course

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alright since we since we did the demo we'll do a little bit more of a fun one

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we'll try to get it to start over that white even though I'm gonna hit a big

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recovery pull hook

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so kind of sweeping dry I feel like I missed my start line just a little bit

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to the right but not terrible