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This concept video is read every lie.

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So when I do playing lessons, which we're in the middle of the season, so I'm

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doing them a lot more,

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when I do playing lessons, one of the first things that I'm teaching people

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is how to evaluate the lie and how that influences shot selection.

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So here I've got the whole, actually, is a dog like left,

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but I'm aiming over these trees in this particular video.

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You can see that the ball would be well below my feet in this particular stance

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This is kind of pretty close to as exaggerated,

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because if we get too much more than that, the ball's not going to be able to

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stay on it.

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So this is going to be close to the ball below my feet as much as I can,

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and if I spun around the opposite way, you'll see that the ball's going to be

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well above my feet.

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So the tricky question is, at some point, right, if I had the ball well below

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my feet like this,

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or if I had it way above my feet like that, obviously that's going to influence

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the shot a ton.

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Well, does it matter on, say, a T-box?

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If the T-box slightly crowned, if it changes a couple degrees?

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My stance is, yes, that even the brain's going to make adjustments for those

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few degrees.

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So I emphasize that you want to read every lie.

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I've got these two different kind of exaggerated scenarios so that we can talk

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about them,

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and you can do a smaller version when you're looking at your own kind of subtle

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shots.

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So one of the simple things is when the ball is below my feet or when the ball

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is above my feet,

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when I have a non-traditional stance because of what will happen in my ankles,

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it's going to make it harder for me to power the swing with my lower body.

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So what I have to do is I have to try to use my core or use my arms.

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I have to try to kind of maintain a lot of my alignments in geometry without

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using my lower body

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as the main power source because what happens is when the ball is below my feet

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like this,

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my ankle now has more range of motion for me to kind of rotate that lower body,

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but what will happen is if I start to shift even a little bit because of the

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ball being below my feet

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and my weight being more towards my toes, I'm going to tend to fall over.

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The opposite is when I'm here, I could use my lower body a whole lot more for

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power,

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but the problem is because the ball is above my feet,

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I'm already close to my max amount of ankle dorsiflexion,

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or basically I can't really bend my knees too much without going up on my toes.

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So when the ball is above my feet, it's more of a physical restriction that

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forces me to swing with my arms.

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When the ball is below my feet, it's more of a balance restriction that tends

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to force me to power it more

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with the upper body or with the arms. So in general, I'm going to have to have

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kind of a little adjustment

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that I'm going to make based on how much contribution I'm going to get from my

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lower body.

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Now, let's talk about the shot possibilities. So when the ball is below my feet

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like this, right,

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it means that the ground is kind of tilted away from me like that and the golf

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ball is sitting here.

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And most to try to come from the inside, it wouldn't work too well because now

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the ground is going to be in the way.

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So I'm going to err on wanting to have a path that's going to be slightly

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outside the end

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so that I don't make contact with the ground before the golf ball.

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So if I have an outside to end path, then that gives me the options of playing

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a fade, a pull, or a pull draw.

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Right, and I could over fade, over draw, but those three basic categories. I'm

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going to have my path going left.

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If the face is square to the, or open to that path, it's going to curve back to

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the right.

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If it's square to it, I'm going to hit a pull, and if it's close to it, I'm

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going to hit a draw.

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So one of the things is I'll see a student who might be working on trying to

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hit more of a draw,

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and they'll come up to this shot and they'll still try to hit a draw.

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And I'll say, "Well, the ground is taking away a big part of your margin of

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error, so why don't we play the safer shot?

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Why don't we play what the lie is dictating? Why don't we try more of a fade?"

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The opposite is true when the ball is above my feet like this.

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The harder thing is if I get slightly on the outside, I'm going to tend to

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strike the ground before the golf ball.

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I've got a lot of room to come from the inside and not hit the golf ball, so I

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'm going to err on having more of a path that's into out.

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Now, with an in-out path, I can either hit a push, a push fade, or a nice draw,

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possibly even an over-drawer hook.

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So the ball being above my feet and the ball being below my feet tends to open

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and close the club face.

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So when the ball's above my feet, that tends to close the club face, which is

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part of the reason why it's going to be more likely I'm going to hit a ball

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that curves more to the left.

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And the reason is if you review the club face closing, when the shaft lowers

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like this, the face is actually pointing to the left,

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where in this situation here, when the shaft raises, it's actually pointing to

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the right.

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So that adjusts the shot selections. So if I tend to be kind of really lower

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body dominant and I have a ball below my feet, that's going to be a real tough

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shot.

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If I tend to be more upper body dominant and the ball is above my feet, that's

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going to tend to be more of a tough shot.

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So we can use these lies to help adjust what you're working on, but the big

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thing is even on T-shots, I want you to be kind of aware of what's going on

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with the lie and what kind of shot that's going to dictate for you.

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So, for example, up here, it's a little bit more of just the ball would be

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subtly below my feet, but if I sense that, I may still want to play more of a

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cut shot and not necessarily try to hit a draw because I would be more likely

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to hit a pull if I try to hit a draw.

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So, read the lies, know what they're going to do for you. If it's significantly

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above or below, you're not going to be able to use your lower body as well. You

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're going to have to find out a way to kind of get the same or similar align

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ments, but using the upper body and the arms is more of your power source.

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So, give that a try. If you have any specific issues relating to your swing or

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your swing faults or swing pattern, please let us know and we can help you

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figure out which would be the easiest shot selections for you to use given

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different situations.