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In this concept video, we're going to go over troubleshooting setting the club

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or the second half of the backswing.

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So there's a handful of errors that we typically see that are very similar to

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what we see in the takeaway.

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If you recall from the concept video about what we want to do, once we've made

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this good takeaway movement,

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we want to set the club with a simple kind of hinging, folding, rotating of the

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arms,

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as well as continuing to have the shoulders go down.

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Now, one common one would be to have the shoulders come up during setting the

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club.

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And one major reason why you may be standing up or having that left shoulder

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come up during the setting the club phase

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is if you are focusing on it and you're trying to get that shoulder down so

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quickly and you do it as much as you can,

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it can't stay down there and so it tends to come up.

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You want this side bend movement to be kind of evenly distributed throughout

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your backswing.

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So pay attention to the rate at which you're side bending, it may be too fast

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too soon.

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Another common error, or the second one, would be the sway.

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So I mentioned in the takeaway of getting to the outside of the foot, it's very

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common that when you go to set the club,

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you will actually get into the outside of your foot like so. So it'll be a good

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-looking takeaway,

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and then as I set the club, it'll go like that, like that.

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The tour average is about an inch of lateral movement. That's the upper end,

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right?

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What I frequently see on 3D with amateurs is somewhere around four, five inches

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sometimes of lateral movement

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to the right away from the target.

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That just, it doesn't load the hip for what we want to do in transition.

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All it loads is the shoulder for creating a chop pattern on the way down.

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So pay attention to the sway section if this is one of your issues.

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The next piece that we tend to see is going to be your arm plane.

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Now this tends to go a little bit with that standing up movement, but if I were

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to face this way,

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when I have my arms, if I just stand up and go through that movement, you can

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see how the shaft gets close to parallel to my body.

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It's a little bit less than parallel. I'll turn a little bit more that way. See

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right there.

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If this is perfectly vertical, then when I bend forward, now the weight of the

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club is actually pulling down this way.

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So very commonly, if I have a very vertical arm plane, my body will stand up so

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that the weight of the club is supported better by my hands.

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But what that could mean is that you have a good takeaway and then you just

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hinge it up vertically.

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So you stand up to balance it out instead of letting that rotate as the club

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sets.

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So as I fold my arm, it also rotates out like so.

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This gets you in position for the motorcycle move or to get into delivery

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position.

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The last piece that we tend to see is something called reverse spine angle.

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This can go very often with the sway, but it doesn't have to.

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It's basically when you go to set the club and you completely collapse your

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spine where you basically arch your lower back like so.

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That puts a lot of pressure in your lower back and is one of the top causes of

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lower back pain.

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It can simply be while I'm not holding on to my abs or it can be a result of

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some tightness in the rib cage.

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So when I get to here, I feel like I can't go any further unless I collapse my

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spine like so.

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And that kind of gives the appearance of extending the spine, but it's all in

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the lower back and it's very problematic.

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It can mess up the timing of the lower body initiating your transition and

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cause you to get to armsy.

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But the big thing is it causes back pain which could force you to not be able

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to play as much as you'd like.

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So we've got standing up, we've got the sway, we've got the steep arm plane and

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we've got reverse spine angle as the big common errors that you'll have to pay

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attention to when you're working on setting the club.

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One last little piece with the arm with the arm plane.

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You'll notice in order to get that arm vertical, I'll tend to have this right

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arm work more back behind me with the elbow going high as opposed to the hand

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getting above the elbow.

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If the hand goes behind my body, that'll tend to get this club very steep where

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if the elbow stays more in front, that allows the club to flatten out a little

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bit and prepare you for a delivery position a little bit more.

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So in summary, we've got standing up, you've got swaying off the ball, you've

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got your arm plane either from just the wrist or from that right shoulder.

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You've got the reverse spine angle and those are the biggest issues that we

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tend to see with setting the club.

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So pay attention to which one I've recommended or which one your issue is and

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go find the associated drills to help you correct it.