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In this video, we're going to do a quick review on the tour striker training

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aid.

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So we had a member ask about the tour striker for creating shaft lean.

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We happen to have one here at the academy, so I thought I'd do a quick little

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video on

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what I like about it and what I think you have to be careful about.

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So first, the good things.

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With the tour striker, and if you're not familiar with it, the tour striker is

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basically a golf

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club that has almost half the face, is more this bounce or rounded leading edge

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.

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So, basically the hitting surface is only from there to there, and the bottom

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of the club

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is here and there's this pretty pronounced angle there.

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If I get set up, the thing that I really like about it is whenever I have

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someone look at

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it, visually they start thinking or looking at it, it looks like I really have

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to get

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my hands ahead in order to get that front edge down onto the ground.

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So in order to actually get the front edge on the ground, I have to get my

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hands that

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far forward and basically take it down to almost zero loft.

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So visually, it creates quite an impression of what I want to do.

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So I'm going to really try and get those hands far ahead.

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Now, the thing that I'm not a huge fan of is feel wise, even if I get my hands

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ahead,

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I don't get the same type of leading edge strike feel that I get with my normal

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mid-iron.

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So whether I get my hands ahead and hit a pretty good shot like I just did

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there, or

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if I swing outside in and kind of scoop the turf contact on that fat shot and

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that solid

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shot felt somewhat similar because of the pronounced rounded bottom of the sole

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.

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It almost feels similar to like a wedge shot where I'm getting the club feels

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like it's

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sliding along the ground instead of kind of slicing through it that I typically

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get when

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I'm swinging more of a mid-iron.

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So the feel-wise isn't going to have a real, the feel-wise of the club

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interacting with

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the turf, it unfortunately feels very different when I'm using the training aid

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compared to

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my regular club.

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So if I'm using it to get a sense of what shaft lean feels like, to me, a big

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part of

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the shaft lean feel is that ground interaction or that turf interaction of

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feeling the leading

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edge versus the scoop.

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So visually, if you're more of a visual learner, I think that this can be

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helpful for creating

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an image of I really have to get my hands out there and in front in order to

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make contact

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where I hit the ball on the face like that one, but feel-wise what I'm going to

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experience

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with the club hitting the ground isn't exactly what I'm going for.

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So while I don't use it a ton for visual learners, I do think it can be a

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helpful training aid,

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hopefully that gives you some guidance as to whether you should apply this club

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.

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I don't think it's a club that will do any harm, so if you're on the fence it's

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not

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a bad thing to experiment with, but there are a number of swing tendencies that

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are

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not going to fix and it's not going to be a guarantee of getting shaft lean.

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Okay, so now we'll hit through a couple, one I'll do kind of solid good, kind

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of like that,

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and you can see that does hit the ground, I have some shaft lean, ball goes

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flying nicely,

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but it doesn't feel like I had a real strong leading edge right.

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So now I'm going to do more of a cast, try to get the hands behind, and I

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probably still

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got my hands a little bit ahead, but other than the fact that that launched

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higher, the

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ground contact felt very similar on those two shots because of such a large

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round bottom

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of the sole.

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Try to exaggerate it even more.

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So again, I can still scoop, I can still hit a decent shot, it doesn't

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guarantee that I'm

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going to get my hands ahead.

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So in that sense, I have to be a little careful if I'm using it, I probably

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want to use video

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at the same time so I can actually make sure that I'm making progress, not just

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relying

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on how the training aid feels.