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This video is practicing uneven lies on a flat driving range.

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So most of us intuitively know that the flat driving range is not the same as

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what happens

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when I'm out on the course.

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I'm out on the course, I can have ball above my feet, ball below my feet, I can

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have, or

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sorry, ball below my feet, ball above my feet, I can have uphill, I can have

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downhill.

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And oftentimes golfers aren't really prepared and they hit a lot of bad shots

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given certain

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lies.

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Now you think that you can't really simulate what's going to happen there as

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far as how

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your balance feels, but there are some skills that those shots require that you

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can practice

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off a flat lie.

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So when I have golfers working on uneven lies or work preparing for this more

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variability

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on the course, there are four main things that I try to have them play around

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with.

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So the first is I'm going to have you just do your stock shot and just take a

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look at

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your stock path and ball flight and all those things.

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Then you're going to try to recreate similar path tendencies.

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So the same ball flight, but we're going to mess around with four different

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things.

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We're going to mess around with, am I swinging more with my arms or more with

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my legs?

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So power source.

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We're going to mess around with weight distribution.

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So do I have more of my weight on my left, more of my weight on my right?

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We're going to mess around with ball position, which can be sometimes a

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challenge when it

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comes to adjusting the path.

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So I'm going to either play ball position forward, ball position back, or the

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fourth

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one we're going to mess around with a slightly closed stance or a slightly open

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stance.

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And this will involve a little bit different knee flex.

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So it's not just totally changing my alignment to open closed.

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It's just changing my hips and my stance almost like I was doing a staggered

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lunge.

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So we can just kind of baseline normal ball flight, kind of like so, and it's

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going to

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be a little challenge to see because I'm filming at the end of work here.

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But now what I can do is I'm going to put more of my weight on my front foot,

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just like

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so.

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Make it a little harder for me to use my legs, but, and I got just a tiny bit

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steep on that,

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but I was able to recreate just about the same feeling as far as face to path

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goes.

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Now I'm going to put more of my weight on my trail foot.

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This will make me really want to swing more from the outside.

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So I'm going to have to work a little bit harder with my arms in order to get

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the same

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ball flight, but the same ball flight may go just a bit higher because my upper

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body is

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more behind.

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The stance won that time.

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I had the path go a little bit too much to the left.

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We'll try that again.

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So now if I'm going to stay more back, I really have to work harder with the

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arms.

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That was a little bit better there.

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So caught it a tiny bit thin, but overall I was pretty solid.

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So we've got our weight distribution.

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Now we're going to swing more with my arms and less with my body.

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So I'm going to get set up and now I'm going to swing a little bit more armsy.

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That's typically not going to go as far and it's going to be flighted a little

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bit lower.

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Got that a little on the toe and a little heavy.

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That's not to be unexpected.

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So next one, I'm going to swing a little bit more with my core and my hips.

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So this one can be a little awkward with the irons because that will move the

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bottom of

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the swing backward, but we're going to give it a go.

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So a little bit more with my legs.

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Hit that one not too bad.

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That was less of the arm action, more of the legs.

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Now we're going to do ball position.

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So ball position forward, ball position back.

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So ball position forward, ball position back.

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Just to baseline, there's about my normal ball position.

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So we'll put one object ball just so I know about where that is.

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I'm going to move that ball position forward kind of like so.

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Now I have to make a few subtle adjustments, caught that one a little fat, did

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not make

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enough of those adjustments, kind of got caught in my shoulder.

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So now ball position way forward, this is one of the tricky ones just like when

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my weight

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is way back, especially if I'm trying to hit just a little tiny draw.

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So I'm going to try and exaggerate some of those movements.

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It's a little thin, which is to be expected with ball position forward, but got

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about

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the same ball flight.

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So now normal ball position and we'll move it way back, keeping my weight about

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the same.

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Now I have to really work hard not to slam the club into the ground.

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So I'm going to make sure that I still shallow things out.

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That's fairly comfortable because that's more of like a punch shot.

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So that started a little right and you're back.

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And then the last one is the staggered stance.

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So this helps you with when you start to get into more of these tricky und

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ulations.

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So now I'm going to get set up and I'm going to keep my chest square to the

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target, but

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now I'm going to stagger my stance more forward so that it's about my toe even

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with my heel.

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Kind of like so.

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Too bad there.

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What it really disrupts is my feeling of my weight shift.

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Now open stance usually gets a little bit tougher.

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So still keeping my shoulder square, just bringing that front foot back.

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This is similar to when I'm putting more weight on one side or the other, but

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it's a

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little different.

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This simulates some of the combo uneven lies.

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So again, tendencies when it goes forward or my weight goes back, I hit it thin

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That may mean that I need to work a little bit on my weight training.

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But working through this little matrix or this little circuit can help you

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simulate what's

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going to happen when you're on the course and you have to make subtle

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adjustments for

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uneven lies.

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If you really struggle or you play a lot of hilly courses, I recommend at least

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incorporating

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a few of these into your regular practice routine.