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This drill is setup keys using the knees.

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So I'm going to give you two quick little checks that you can use for easy

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setup reminders

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when you're on the course.

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So I have other ones where we focus on bending from the hips and keeping the

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spine pretty

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stable.

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That helps create the axis that we want to rotate around.

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So if I bend from the hips, then my body is pointing more at the golf ball.

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So then if my arms simply extend out in front of my body because my body is

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angled down

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at the golf ball, the club is going to travel down there.

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Now if I were to bend or to lower myself more from my knees kind of like this,

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now my posture,

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my belly button is pointing more at the camera, I'm more vertical here.

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So if I was to swing around my body, I would swing actually above the golf ball

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So now I have to swing a little bit more up and down and it can cause some low

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point,

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it can cause some slide.

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It can be okay with the mid-irons for some higher handicap golfers.

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They won't really struggle, but it causes a lot of problems with either the wed

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ges or

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the driver.

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So we want to get out of the habit, we want to start bending more from our hips

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So two quick checks with your knees.

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Check number one, if I keep my abs tight, so my spine is pretty straight, and

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then I'm

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just going to bend by pushing my hips backward until my fingertips are about an

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inch above

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the tops of your kneecaps.

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It depends a little bit on your arm length, but I'm going to be feeling like my

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weight

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is in the center of my feet and my hips have pushed backward just slightly.

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So this gets me into a really good set up posture, and the good thing about it

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is when

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I'm on the course, I can do a real quick check, every hole, every few holes,

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just to make

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sure I'm still getting into a good set up posture if I'm working getting out of

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that

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knee pattern.

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So check number one, bent enough there, and then I'm just going to rotate

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around that

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axis, hopefully make pretty good solid contact because I've set up in a good

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body position,

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stay centered with a good release.

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Knee number two is feeling tension.

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So some people like the position, other people like the tension.

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If I bend my knees kind of like this, this is actually a type of squat that

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puts more

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stress in your quad in your knee.

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So if I do that, I'll feel that my quad gets active.

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If I push my hips back, I'll feel that my quad is soft.

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So active, soft.

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What I'm going to try to do is I'm going to bend and address the golf ball

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where my

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quad stays relatively relaxed or pretty soft.

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I don't mind a little bit of tension, but I'll try to get that as soft as I can

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That's a good indicator that I'm bending more from my hips, especially if I

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double that

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by feeling the tension more in my glutes.

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So quads are soft, glutes are tight.

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That gets me angled more down towards the golf ball.

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So similar procedure to the first one, except I don't have to kind of find a

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landmark.

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I can just kind of really quickly do it up here, there, quads are soft, ready

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to go,

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stay centered, make a good swing, got caught in the mic, happens a little bit.

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Okay, so quads there, everything's all good, hopefully the mic doesn't grab me

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this time.

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That was a little bit better, let's get a little more slack for the next one.

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Okay, so two quick checks that you can use on the course to quickly dial in and

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make

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sure you're bending from your hips and not from your knees.

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Great when you're working on your posture.