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this drill is training a draw path with an impact bag so those of you who've

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followed the site and followed my teaching know that I'm not really a big

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fan of using an impact bag you know training for impact right the way that

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they're designed but I do like to use impact bags in a couple different

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unconventional ways so what I'm going to show you is how I like to use the

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impact bag to help you with a getting an outward path or a right word path or

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right hand of golfers so what we're going to do with the impact bag is we're

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going to position it outside the golf ball kind of like that now what many

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golfers whether they they know it or not what many golfers intuitively believe

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is that in order to hit a draw when they're demonstrating it they tend to

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exaggerate like the face rotating through kind of like this and we know that

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the

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amount of rotation that's not what causes the draw it's the face angle

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compared to the path so this is a good way to focus on both of those here's

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what you're gonna try to do if I do this facing you in order to hit a draw I

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want you to visualize that the face is close to the path and so it's just going

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to travel through space like this so if there was a golf ball right here it's

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traveling more like this it's not that it's coming just slightly inside and

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rotating clothes like that so in order to get that feeling what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to set up with this impact bag roughly out in front of my left

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foot

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and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to get that club face so that it's

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pointing roughly at the target back here and I'm going to extend the toe of the

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club out into the impact bag like this now it's a little tricky to do this and

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actually make contact with a golf ball so usually what I'll do is get that look

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there in slow motion it's coming through kind of like that and then in slow

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motion I'm trying to hit that impact bag now this is going to exaggerate that

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in-out move but when you start to add speed it's going to usually result in a

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slight draw for golfers who are used to hitting more of a slice if you already

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struggle with hooking the ball this probably isn't the best drill for you so

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we'll bring that so it's just slightly outside the ball kind of like so and

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then

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we'll do a little 9 to 3 where I'm basically trying to make contact with

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that and you saw once I add some body rotation I actually miss the bag which

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it's easier to do than you would think so again we get that just outside kind

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of

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like that get a couple rehearsals and I want to make sure that I'm not getting

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the arms too far behind so I'm still kind of in this position you know good

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delivery position and then I'm trying to basically close the face early so it's

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closed there and then I'm just trying to stick that toe into the bag like so

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okay just like that now time I hit the alignment rod so you can you can use the

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impact bag in a number of creative ways to to give your brain a reference of

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hitting something but I'm not a huge fan of you know hitting embracing to to

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look at impact position because it neglects a bunch of the skills that I

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think are good when you're training impact position but I do like it for

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working on this rightward exaggerated path and especially feeling that club

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clove closed with a lack of rotation through that release that combination

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when you take it to a full swing is likely to produce a slight right to left

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ball flight