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In this drill video, we're going to look at the technique to dialing in your

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distance.

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So when you're going through your dialing in your distances and you're working

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on your

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hip height, your chest height, and your shoulder height, and your three

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different swings, focusing

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on this stack back swing and reverse sequencing, there are a couple little

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pitfalls that I find

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a lot of my students make.

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So the first one I'll say is if you're trying to do anything where you're going

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to control

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distance, the easiest way to monitor that is to do what I call finding gravity.

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Now this is just another way of thinking about finding a good tempo, a

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consistent tempo, but

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I call it finding gravity.

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Gravity is essentially your rate of acceleration.

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Whatever your body wants to accelerate at, if you can find that, we're going to

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call that

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gravity because there's going to be a constant force.

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Then if you have a constant force and all you do is change the length of back

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swing, you're

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going to hit it a slightly different distance.

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So then you can become very skilled at either controlling your backswing or

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your follow-through

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distance and hitting the shot a certain distance.

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If you have a hard time finding gravity, then now you've got two variables.

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You've got the rate of acceleration and the length of swing and that's going to

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make it

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really hard to get really good at dialing in your distance.

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Now there can be a couple major reasons why people have trouble with dialing in

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your distance

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or finding gravity.

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The two major ones that I see are either creating too much downcock or stopping

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at impact.

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So by creating too much downcock, what I mean is if you're very driven by your

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lower

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body and your legs are your main power source, then what'll happen is you'll

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get to the top

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of your say chest height swing and that lower body is going to create so much

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lag in the

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club that the leading edge is going to be exposed and you're going to have a

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small margin

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of air.

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You know, you've heard me say it many times, I'm all about big margins of air.

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So we want to make sure that the swing is being led more from the shoulders.

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So even though the lower body starts with that weight shift, it's not a very

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dynamic

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or fast weight shift, it's just kind of a gentle little weight shift as if I

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was doing

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this little toss and then I let my arms and I let my body find the rate of

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acceleration

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that you're comfortable with.

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Now the other one that I tend to see is stopping at impact.

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So a lot of golfers, especially if you lose posture early extend, if you tend

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to stop

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your body at impact, kind of like so, it becomes very difficult to gauge the

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rate of acceleration

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because the hands are just going to get very whippy or move very, very quickly

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down at

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the bottom.

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So the two ways that I like to think about controlling those would be A, make

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sure your

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chest continues to turn through impact and B, make sure that your hands are

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finishing

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up and about in front of your face.

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Even on the nine o'clock little backswing, you'll see that my hands finish more

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or less

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in front of my face.

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Those two keys will really help you develop a smooth rate of acceleration,

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maintain your

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posture, all those good things that will help you with contact, and help you

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get really

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good at adjusting your swing by only a couple yards, which is the main goal of

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this distance

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wedge swing.