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Working on set-up can help with consistency in a simple way. It allows you to play your swing without making too many big swing change feels. Set-up keys are especially useful for swing thoughts during competitive rounds where thinking too technically might disrupt your performance. Two keys I give golfers can be felt easily with some awareness of your knees. To avoid bending your knees too much, make sure you can almost touch the top of your knee caps. The exact position varies for each golfer based on arm and spine length. The second key is to make sure that your quads aren't too stiff. This is a sign that you've got your weight too much into your toes.
Tags: Early Extension, Standing Up, Set Up, Drill, Beginner
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This drill is set up 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 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 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 arm simply extend out in front of my body because my body is angled
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down at the golf ball, the club is going to travel down there.
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Now if I were to bend where to lower myself more from my knees kind of like this, now my
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posture, 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 point,
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it can cause some slide.
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It can be okay with the mid-eyons for some higher handicap golfers like they won't really
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struggle but it causes a lot of problems with either the wedges or 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.
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If I keep my abs tight so my spine is pretty straight and then I'm just going to bend
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by pushing my hips backward until my fingertips are about and inch above the top of
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your knee caps.
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It depends a little bit on your arm length but I'm going to be feeling like my 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 setup posture and the good thing about it is when I'm
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on the course, I can do a real quick check.
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Every hole, every few holes, just to make sure I'm still getting into a good setup posture
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if I'm working getting out of that knee pattern.
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So check number one, bend to enough there and then I'm just going to rotate around that
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axis.
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Hopefully make a pretty good solid contact because I've set up in a good body position
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stay centered with a good release.
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Key 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 puts more stress
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in your quad and 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, 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 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 double that
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by feeling the tension more in my glutes.
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So quad's are soft, glutes are tight.
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That gets me angled more and 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 landmark.
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I can just kind of really quickly do it up here.
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There, quad's are soft.
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Ready to go.
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Stay centered.
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Make a good swing.
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Oh, got caught in the mic.
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Happens a little bit.
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Okay, so quad's there.
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Everything's all good.
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Hopefully the mic doesn't grab me this time.
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That was a little bit better.
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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, the quickly dial in and make sure
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you're bending from your hips and not from your knees.
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Great when you're working on your posture.
