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This drill is swing path railroad tracks so what we'll do on this is we're

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going

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to use a visual representation we're going to get some visual feedback for

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your path. So if you're struggling with either hooking the ball or slicing the

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ball, if you have a lot of curve then there's going to be a big difference

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between your face and path. To rule out which one of those is causing the

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majority of the curve is it the path is really off and the face is just pretty

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square or is the face pretty square but the path is way off. We're going to use

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two alignment sticks. So I've got a red stick and a white stick. The colors

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obviously don't really matter but what we'll see is you don't have to have

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these

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really close together but the lower your handicap the more you can bring these

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close together. However if you are curving the ball give yourself a little bit

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of

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leeway. What we're really using this for is the visual. So when I take a swing

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in my mind's eye I can kind of see a blur of the club or after I've swung I can

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kind of see a rough path of where that club would be swinging. So if I'm

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slicing the ball I'm going to have the blur of the club going more outside to

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end kind of like this. If I'm hooking the ball I'm going to tend to have the

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blur of the club going more into out. We use the trusty hula hoop if I have a

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fairly neutral swing path you'll see that the club is going to come slightly

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from

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the inside to then slightly back to the inside. If I'm hooking the ball it will

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come kind of very close or it will come over the white stick relatively close

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to

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the golf ball as opposed to way back here it'll come closer to the golf ball

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and then it'll start to kind of peel off and work just slightly out. It'll you

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rarely see it really swing over out towards the target line or out towards

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the red stick but a solid hook is going to look pretty much like that. Now if I

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'm

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slicing the ball the blur of the club or in the club head is going to get more

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out towards that red stick on the ground and then start swinging across just

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like

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this. So you can use these two sticks to just help you get some visual feedback

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You can take some practice swings trying to get the blur of the club to kind of

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swing right down the middle and then when you take some shots you can focus

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on not so much the feedback but what did that look like if you replayed the

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blur of the club. If you're unsure you can just set up your camera right down

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that alleyway and you'll be able to get a rough estimate of the direction the

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horizontal swing point so the direction that you're kind of swinging in the

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club.

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It doesn't give you the true path because it can't tell you how much you're

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hitting down and how much you're hitting up and for every degree you hit down

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on

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the ball it's going to affect the path a little less than a degree half a

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degree

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to two-thirds of a degree depending on kind of the club that you're swinging.

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So you can use this to help zero in your ball flight. It's similar to the four

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square model but it's a little bit easier for setup when you're on the range. I

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think the four square model can be a little bit more specific and help you

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with not only controlling direction but looking at low point and where that is

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but this one you can quickly set it up and then quickly take it away. The other

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thing that is really useful is let's say you're using this visual feedback and

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you find yourself hitting a pretty predictable little fade or little draw

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like a ball flight that you like. Then what you want to do is keep the training

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station there but then take a few swings outside of the training station and

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try

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to recreate the same ball flight. Then what you can do is you can use the edge

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of a T-box or the edge of the fairway where the where the line of grass goes

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from fairway to rough as one of the alignment sticks. So it's a training

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device that you can kind of use on the course because I can pretend that,

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alright

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I'm done practicing with my two sticks. Now here's the edge of the T-box. I can

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imagine that that's one of those sticks and I can take some swings and try to

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get that visual path figured out and then once I have that visual path in

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place I can set up to my the ball and try to recreate that path. So if you're

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struggling with a little bit of your path control and you're more of a visual

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golfer's you can't really feel too well some of these you know shallowing

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movements or you can't feel that loss of posture use the sticks on the ground

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to

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kind of help your brain coordinate where you want to swing the club and that'll

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ultimately help you develop your stock tour swing. So now a fairly neutral

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swing

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good and then I'm gonna do a little early extension

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kind of like this. So you can see how you can use those visuals to help you

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really zero in on how you're controlling your path and what it

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It looks like, especially if you're a visual learner.