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In this analysis video, we're gonna look at setup.

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Now, we're gonna start the video by looking at the body.

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So we're gonna look at the spine, the hips, the knees.

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And then we're gonna look at the arms.

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So we're gonna look at the shoulders and the grip strength.

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And then lastly, we'll look at ball position.

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So first, let's look at the spine.

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Now, it's very hard to see exactly what the spine is doing

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when looking at video, but we can get a general idea.

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And one of the easy ways that we can look at spine

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is if you go from the base of the neck

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to the top of the belt.

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So kind of base of the neck or the collar to the top of the belt.

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And if you do this, you'll see that the spine

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is roughly parallel to this line.

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There'll be a little bit of a curve kind of in the mid back,

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but it's roughly parallel to this line.

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You don't see a big gap between the lower back and the line,

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and you don't see a huge rounding in the mid back.

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Now, over on the right, we have a golfer

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who's demonstrating a form of seaposter.

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So you can see that there's a little bit more of a rounding

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and you can see a little bit more space

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between the back or more of the curve

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is kind of on the outside of that line.

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The place where you can really identify

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that this golfer is in a little bit of seaposter

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is if you look in the lower back.

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So if you're looking somewhere in this space,

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you can see that the belt line

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is almost parallel to the ground

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where Jason Daze is pointing much more out

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in the direction of the golf ball.

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That's an indication of using the hips

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to get down to the golf ball,

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where the amateur on the right has used more

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of the rounding of his mid and upper spine

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to get down to the golf ball

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because his pelvis is almost parallel to the ground.

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And now here on the right is a golfer

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who is demonstrating what we refer to as s-poster,

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where you can see this general soft sort of s-shaped curve

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and you can see that there's virtually no space

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between the lower back and the line

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as opposed to what we saw when we looked at Jason Daze

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over here.

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You can see a much more pronounced kind of hump

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in the mid back and you can see

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that the lower spine is pretty flat to this.

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So essentially what he's doing

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is in order to get down to the golf ball,

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he's sitting into his lower back,

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which inhibits both the abdominals and the glutes

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and makes lateral stability a real issue.

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Also, because of the curve in the lower back,

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in order to get his upper body to face the golf ball,

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he ends up having a pronounced rounding of the upper back.

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Rounding in the upper back will activate more your pecs,

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your upper trap, your anterior delt

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as opposed to your lats and your serratus.

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So you get this rounding of the arms,

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which makes it hard to use the spine

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to create the backswing.

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And now on the right, we have a golfer

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who has a fairly good spine curve,

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pretty neutral, maybe slight C, but pretty good.

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What we'll see here is some excessive knee flex.

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So he's in his setup posture,

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and then as he gets ready to take the club back,

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you'll see a pretty big bounce and set into the knees,

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where if I have a line that's drawn up from the toes,

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you can see that his knees are almost approaching that line,

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where on the left, I have the line

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drawn up from the toes of Jason Day,

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and you can clearly see that he doesn't

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excessively bend those knees.

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Excessively bending the knees is activating

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the quads to create stability,

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as opposed to sitting into the hips and using the glutes.

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Unfortunately, the quads are not as sensitive

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for lateral movement of the pelvis.

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And so many golfers who struggle with too much knee flex

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in setup will then struggle with too much lateral movement

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of the knees and feet during the backswing.

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The next piece we're gonna look at is arm hang.

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And here we've got Adam Scott and Jason Duffner.

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And basically I've just drawn a line straight down

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from the outside of the shoulder,

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as well as from the arm pit or the crease of the shirt,

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since it's a little tricky to see the true backside

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of the shoulder while they're wearing clothes.

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And you can see that their hands fit very nicely

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right within this corridor.

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With the irons, you'll tend to see them fall

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more or less within this corridor.

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And with a driver, you'll tend to see it sit

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just on the outer edge.

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And here are a couple of tour golfers,

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Adam Scott and Jason Day, demonstrating what I mean

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by they'll be just on the outer edge.

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So they'll be more right in the midline

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of the outside of the shoulder,

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as opposed to between the arm pit

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and the outside of the shoulder.

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And here we have a couple amateurs

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that are demonstrating kind of the opposite.

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So here we have a golfer on the right with driver

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who has his hands a little bit more right

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in the middle of that window.

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And then here we have a golfer on the left

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who has his hands a little bit more in that driver position.

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So it can tend to cause issues with retention of posture

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when we get into the backswing and downswing.

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And this next piece we'll take a look at is alignment.

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Now, if you're gonna look at alignment based on video,

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you have to be very careful that you're making sure

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that the camera is somewhat in line

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with the direction that they're aiming.

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'Cause you'll see on a good quality video,

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you'll see the ball roughly take off parallel to the screen

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or straight down the middle of the screen.

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If you take a video and you happen to see the golf ball

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either shoot off more to the right

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or more typically it'll go more to the left,

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that's a pretty good indication that,

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especially at this level of golfer

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that you don't have the camera set up

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in a proper position to look at their alignment.

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But now let's take a quick look at alignment

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of Zach Johnson and Charlie Wheat here.

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What you'll typically see is that the hips,

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the shoulders, the knees, the thighs

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will roughly be parallel to where they want the ball to start.

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In addition, if you look at the forearms,

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you'll typically see a little bit of the lead form.

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So you'll typically see a little bit of the left forearm

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on the top side, just like so.

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That happens from having a little bit more bend in the trail

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or right elbow for raking the golfers

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than is in the left arm.

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And you can see just a little bit of that space

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on each of these two gentlemen.

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And here are a couple more golfers

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to demonstrate this importance of camera angle,

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also to look at triggers.

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Because what you'll see is,

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here, both of these two golfers

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look like their forearms are barely parallel.

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Yes, you can see a little bit of Jason Day's forearm

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right there, but they, for all intent purposes,

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as they look like they're pretty parallel.

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Well, now if we take Jason Day to that frame

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right when the club starts to move back, which is there,

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you can now see there's a little bit more

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of the forearm showing.

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So part of his trigger is to preset some of this rotation.

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We can see a similar movement over here with Tom Watson.

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If you wait until right there where the club starts to move,

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you can start to see the forearm appearing.

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So don't be fooled by the position

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that they're in before they start taking the club away.

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Check to see exactly when you in your video

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are starting to take the club away.

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And here are a couple examples of amateurs

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who tend to aim their upper bodies

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and forearms a little bit more to the left

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and varying the degrees.

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So over here on the left, you can see a golfer.

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And as he goes to initiate his takeaway, which happens,

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right there, we still see the left arm underneath the right.

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And it's not until the club is right about there,

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about a foot behind the golf ball

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that we start to see that left forearm,

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indicating that the shoulders as well as the forearms

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were pointed well to the left

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before he started to take the club away.

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Over here on the right, you'll see it much more subtly.

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This is a pretty good mid-level handicap.

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And you'll see that here he's starting

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to take the club back already

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and we still can't see the left forearm.

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And then there we go.

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So again, about in that foot behind the golf ball range.

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Now, if you were to look at him,

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this is the shoulder position

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that it looked like Jason Day, Adam Scott,

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and some of those other golfers were in,

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but now he's got the club about a foot behind the ball.

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So this could just set you up slightly

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to air on the side of hitting some poles

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or slices if that's your preferred ball flight.

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And here a couple more examples,

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just to demonstrate the principle that I talk about

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where I think that the closer you are to the club

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or the closer you are to the grip,

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the more important the alignment is.

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So here two offers is Tommy Gainey

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and an amateur that I teach,

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who if you look at their upper body,

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if you look at their forearms,

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if you look at their shoulders,

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they're roughly parallel to where the ball's going to start.

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If you look at their feet, they're a little bit closed.

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I think it's fine to have your lower body

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be a little bit closed or open.

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That can actually help account for

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pelvis height, leg length issues, all those kind of things.

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But I rarely see golfers who succeed at a really high level

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who have their upper body in forearms

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completely out of alignment.

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And now we're going to look at the face-on position

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so that we can look at grip strength and ball position.

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So first, we're going to look at ball position.

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And if we look at ball position,

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there's a couple of things that I like to do.

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You're going to draw a vertical line up

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from the back of the line.

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And you're going to draw, sorry,

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you're going to draw a vertical line

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up from the back of the ball.

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And then you're going to draw a horizontal line

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from the tip of their left foot.

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And the horizontal line from the tip of the left foot

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is just to confirm the camera angle.

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If you look on the left, you can see that

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roughly the tips of both feet of Jason Duffner

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are touching this line.

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So unless he has a closed stance,

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which we could always check from the down the line,

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we know that this camera is pretty much perpendicular

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to the direction he's trying to hit the ball

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if the ball is in the center of the screen.

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If you look over on the right,

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you can see that not only is the ball

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not in the center of the screen,

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but there's a pretty good amount of distance or space

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right there where I made a few little hash marks.

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There's a pretty good amount of space

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between the left and the right line.

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So essentially, this is not a very good camera angle.

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And if we were to look at his ball position from here,

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it would look like it's pretty much in the middle

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of his body and in the middle of his stance.

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Now we have a video of Adam Scott

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where the golf ball is more in the middle of the screen.

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And we can see that his toes are much closer

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to parallel to this line.

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As a result, we can see that the ball position

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he's hitting with the driver is much more

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towards the front half of his body,

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or almost even with the outside of his left knee,

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left shoulder, where with the iron, Jason Duchner

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has a little bit more of a mid stance and mid chest

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or right off of a logo if you had one on your shirt

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and right off the inside of the inner thigh.

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We'll look at a few more.

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And here we have Justin Rose,

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both with an iron on the right and a driver on the left

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so that you can see the difference

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in ball position and setup.

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So on the right, you'll see that the line

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up the back of the golf ball goes roughly

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through his shirt pocket or just to the left of his zipper

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or just on the inside of his right thigh

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and off of his left ear.

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All of those are pretty good acceptable ball positions

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for playing your typical iron shot.

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Now over here on the left, you'll see the ball position

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just outside of his left ear or more in line

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with the left shoulder or almost the left knee.

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And here we have Roy McElroy.

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So on the right, we have him with the iron,

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pretty good camera angle.

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Ball's roughly in the middle of the screen

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and you can see if we draw the ball position line,

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roughly goes through his left eye.

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So as we get into the shorter clubs,

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you can see that it's going more and more in front

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of the face and less and less in front of the shoulder.

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Here we have a decent camera angle.

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The toes are roughly parallel so the lens

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is pretty parallel to the golfer,

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but the ball is positioned forward in the screen

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so it'll make it look like it's a little bit more forward

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of his body, but we can see it's well front

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of where he is playing his iron.

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So just something for you to factor in

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when you're taking a look at your ball position

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for your irons and your driver.

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And here we have an example of a higher handicap golfer

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and we can see that if we look at the driver,

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the ball's in the middle of the screen,

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stance is parallel, he's just got that ball

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pretty much in the same place,

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just slightly ahead of where he had the iron.

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Both of them are roughly in the middle of his pelvis

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as well as just off his left eye or left ear.

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In general, I would say that amateurs

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tend to play the ball more further back

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or away from the target than professionals,

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but that's a dangerous generalization.

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There's obviously gonna be people

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who do it at both extremes.

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Here we have two amateur golfers,

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one hitting an iron where it's a little bit more

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off of his right eye and another golfer hitting it,

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a driver where yes, it's ahead of his,

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it's ahead kind of even with his left shoulder,

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but you'll see because of his stance,

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it's not actually very far up compared

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to his lower body.

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So part of the reason why amateur golfers

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tend to want to play the ball further back

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is because they have trouble getting the path of the club

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to go out to the right,

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and you'll learn more about this as you go through the system,

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but they have trouble getting the path of the club

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to get out to the right, so having the ball further back

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limits how much the club is swinging to the left naturally.

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And the last piece of the setup puzzle

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that we're gonna look at is grip strength.

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Now, looking at grip strength on 2D is a little bit limited.

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I typically look on 3D to see how much extension

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is in the left wrist or in the right wrist,

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and I factored that into how I'm calculating the grip strength.

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But with 2D, one of the ways that you can look at it

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is if you look at their hands and you look at

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either the angle of the forearm to the wrist,

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like so, or if you just look at how much

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of the glove is showing.

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So here we can look at the forearms,

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the wrist of Justin Rose not measuring an angle,

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just kind of identifying and noticing

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that there is a significant angle

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or looking at how much of this logo of the glove

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you can see on the back of the left hand.

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Essentially, the left hand is pointing more at us,

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the golf ball or the camera,

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than it is pointing at the target.

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The tour average that I see on 3D

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is going to be about 25 degrees of wrist extension.

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With, combine that with a little bit of rotation,

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and we happen to see this hand

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pointing a little bit more at the camera with most golfers.

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Here are two more examples.

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We've got Tiger Woods on the left,

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Graham McDowell on the right.

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Tiger Woods has moved more towards a weaker grip.

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Well, he originally moved towards a weaker grip

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and now seems to be moving back a little bit stronger,

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but you can see how much he has right there.

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And if you look at Graham McDowell,

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you can see the majority of his glove,

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he tends to have a stronger grip,

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believe somewhere around 40 degrees of extension on 3D.

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Now, it's also ideal if the hands

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are somewhat working together.

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So if you were to look at the bees on the fingers,

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that's one way that has typically been taught

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to look at grip strength.

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So if I were to draw a line up the bee between the thumb

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and the first joint, you can see that roughly,

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it's hard to see the joint on the left hand,

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but these would roughly be parallel to each other.

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Where if you were to look at this amateur here,

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a, knowing what we know about grip strength,

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we can barely see any of the back of his left hand.

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It is primarily facing right at the target

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where that bee is pointing straight up towards his eye.

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If we look at the bee on the right hand,

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the right hand is pointing actually outside of his shoulder.

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So his hands are a little bit not positioned,

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but the bigger problem is that the left hand

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is in a very weak position.

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Now, if you have a weaker or a hand that's facing

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more the target or turn more to the left on the club,

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you have a weaker grip and you struggle with a ball

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that curves off to the right,

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this is something that you should definitely look at.

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And firstly, if you have a stronger grip

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where these V's are pointing more well off to the left like so,

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or sorry, turn right on the club

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so they're pointing outside your shoulder.

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And you struggle with a golf ball

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that over hooks or over curves to the left.

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Again, that is probably something

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that you should at least consider.

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Here's another amateur golfer on the right

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and you can see if you look at the back of his left hand,

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you can see that while the bee on the right hand

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is pointing over towards the right or over towards his shoulder,

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you can see that the back of his left hand

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is pointing very much in the direction of the target.

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There's a golfer that complains of hitting fades

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and so having a weak grip has been a big problem for him

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and strengthening the grip has helped him overcome

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the tendency to hit mostly a ball

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that curves off to the right.

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Now, I know that we've covered a lot in this video.

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So just to summarize, we've looked at the spine curve.

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We've looked at the amount of hip hinge

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and how that relates to spine curve.

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We've looked at the amount of knee flex

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and we've looked at the arm hang.

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And then over on the left,

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we've looked at your ball position,

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how that relates to whether it's an iron or a driver

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and we've looked at your grip strength.

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Now, I know that sounds like a lot

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and frankly, it is,

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but the good thing is it doesn't take any real athleticism

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in order to have a very good consistent setup.

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It just takes discipline and repetition.

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And so within the site,

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we've broken down each of these pieces

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and associated drills with them

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that you can practice either at home or at the course

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in order to build this consistent repeatable pattern.

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But anytime you're learning a movement,

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you've got to put in a significant number of repetitions,

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500, 1,000, 1,500 repetitions

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so that the brain can really refine that pattern

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and feel comfortable with it.

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I don't expect you to just memorize these different pieces

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and then go to the course and hope that it works out.

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That's never going to work.

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You need to put in a little bit of training,

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but a little bit of training helps build

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that consistent setup that you're looking for,

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which builds the repeatable golf swing

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that you're here to learn.