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In this concept video we're going to take a look at the scoop.

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So the scoop or the flip is a release move and it's an extension of the lead

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wrist but

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more importantly it's a flexion of the trailer wrist so it's going kind of like

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this and

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it's long been described as a higher handicap problem, it's usually it's

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frequently ascribed

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to trying to help the ball in the air but I'm going to break down what I think

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is actually

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happening, wide golfers do it and then ultimately what you would have to do in

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order to change

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it because I don't really think that for most golfers it's an attempt to help

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the ball in

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the air especially if they continue to do it once you've told them that you're

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scooping

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and you don't need to hit it high in the air.

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So if we're looking at this scoop you'll typically see right around here the

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body will tend to

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stall and the wrist will tend to straighten kind of like this.

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This would be that scoop or flip release.

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What it really does is it squares the club face but it does so by moving the

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shaft backwards.

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So I talk a lot about how you create speed and how you control the path and how

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you control

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the face as the three main drivers of a golf swing.

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Well the scoop in my mind is more of a how you control the face because if you,

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what's

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imagine I'm hitting it perpendicular to the camera like this and in this

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position right

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here you can see that the face is pointing way over there.

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So my brain has to figure out how to solve the equation and get that black line

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pointing

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at the target.

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Well the easiest way to do it and one of the fastest ways that I can do it is

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by scooping

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or flipping my wrist like this.

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That is essentially the same as if I was here and I move the grip backwards

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keeping the

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face perpendicular to the grip that closes the face or makes it point more to

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the left.

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So what a lot of golfers will do is they will flip in order to square the face.

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If you take this golfer who flips and you try to get him to continue rotating

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so the

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body doesn't stall, you try to get shaft lean, what ends up happening is they

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have no chance

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to square the face.

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They hit really weak thin blocks or shanks and they have a hard time buying

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into the solution.

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So what you have to do is you have to square the face in a different way.

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You've got two different methods you could either re-hind the wrist to close

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the face

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so you could hinge the wrist this way, that's not the best method or you could

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simply twist

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the shaft more by using the motorcycle and ideally you should do that earlier

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in the

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downswing as opposed to trying to do it down at the bottom and do it later.

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So if you're going to replace the scoop there's a few different things that you

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're going to

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have to do.

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You're going to have to work on the timing of your arm extension.

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So if I'm used to scooping then I'm probably used to my arm straightening very

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early in

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the downswing and being almost straight at impact.

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So if I keep that timing but I take away the scoop by closing the face with

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shaft rotation

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I'm going to hit it way left.

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The other one that I'm going to need to do in order to fix the scoop is to

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rotate the

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shaft to close the face instead of use the path of the club to close the face.

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So from down the line that would look like this.

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If the face is open there I could scoop to square the face or I could rotate

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the club

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face and that allows me to continue rotating and the rotation version gives me

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a much

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better sequence, low point, wide point.

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So when the club head is getting furthest away from me is going to be delayed

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which helps

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give me some margin of error.

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So work on body continued rotating, timing of the trail arm and squaring the

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face with

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rotation.

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That recipe has worked for me over the years of getting people out of the scoop

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pattern

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and into a more tour release.