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Side Saddle 9 to 3

The side saddle 9 to 3 is an extreme version of the Trevino drill. This is a presetting drill that forces your hips into a very open position. In order to not come over the top, this requires you to use your body in a more shallow way to achieve a quality impact position. The side saddle drill starts from an address position where your hips are facing the target. Then, you'll want to side bend and protract the lead shoulder blad so you can get your shoulders square and the club in a good impact position. For many golfers, this gives a really good feeling of the lead side stretch that accompanies a good impact position.

Tags: Poor Contact, Impact, Drill, Intermediate

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This drill is the side saddle 9 to 3. So the

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side saddle nine to three is kind of

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an extreme version of the Trevino drill. But what

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I think it does that is a little bit more specific

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than the Trevino drill. Is it really emphasizes

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the

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Side Bend and spine rotation at impact. So

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the sides saddle nine to three is going

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to be really easy. We're just going to stay inside saddle. So

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we're gonna stay in so my back is to the camera. I'm facing the Target and

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now my goal is to get my body

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my upper body into impact position. So to

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do that.

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First I'm going to side Bend.

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Not quite to Max but pretty close so

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that my shoulders are pointing down towards the golf

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ball. And then I'm going to rotate backward so

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that my shoulders are pretty close to parallel to

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the alignment stick on the ground. So step one

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side bend step two rotate. And

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now if I put my hands so that they're ahead kind of

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like this.

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I get a sense of this right side really

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being crunched. This left side really being stretched.

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This is pretty much an exaggerated

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version. But on the right track

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a similar feeling that you will get to a good

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impact position where oftentimes the Trevino drill,

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you'll just kind of start really kind of

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overdoing things with your arms. At least

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until you figure out this can be a good starting point.

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And then the Trevino drill where you're only

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open about 40 degrees can be a good bridge to working

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back this feeling towards your full swing. Okay. So

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this is a nine to three drill. So we're gonna do this

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right here and part of the reason it's a nine to three

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is that's about as far as I can bring it back without letting my changing

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my lower body orientation. So I'm presetting

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this impact feel hands are a little

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bit ahead and then I'm just going to do kind of

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a nine to three and you'll hear really good solid crisp

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contact.

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You'll see a very low flight because I have a bunch of

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shaft lean. But because my body

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because my upper body is in this kind of

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Twisted position. It actually feels shallow

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at the same time.

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So we'll do.

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One more like that because I didn't really like that last one.

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So preset all this good crunch. That

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one's pretty good now.

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The big key is to take that feeling and apply

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it to your regular nine to three.

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So now I'm going to take my normal setup. I see a

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lot of people start, you know, kind of cheating it and presetting it

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some more and now I'm going to try to get back to

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that same exaggerated feel where my

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hips are facing the target. My shoulders are

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tilted down, but also Square to the Target.

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Kind of like that. So now we're gonna have

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to be patient with our arms to give our hips.

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Enough time to get all the way

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open so that I can get

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into that impact position.

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If I get there to the top and then I fire with my arms firing

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with your arms because where the arms attach onto

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the pelvis will almost always limit your body getting

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open. So this kind of side saddle

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nine to three gives you more of a sense.

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of the body getting open

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And you can add a little bit of kind of Pop to

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this similar to like the pelvic punch drill so you

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can add a little bit of Pop to this and try

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to hit these quite far from this shorter backswing

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nine to three position to really help the sequencing but

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even with the pop it should still be smooth. So

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we'll do one more. So we're gonna bring it back.

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Really pop and that one's you know,

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going pretty good distance eight iron, maybe a

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hundred and forty hundred and fifty yards as opposed

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to my normal kind of 165. So it's it's a good

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percentage for how short of a swing I'm taking kind of

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shows you some of the power of using your core improper sequence.

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So if you look at down the line and

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you you're losing your you're not getting enough side bend

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on the way through or you're not getting your hips open an exaggerated

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drill, like the side saddle drill. The Trevino drill. They

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can help you get that sense of this

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Twisted spine. And then once

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you have that feeling of the Twisted spine,

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you can apply that to your regular 9 to 3 is 10 to 2s and up

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to your full swing. All right, so let's apply that to a

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full swing.

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Kind of like that.

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