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Australia is practicing upper body awareness. Many golfers lose sense of where

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their upper body

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is in space and there's a few different times that this can happen but

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practicing with a little

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bit of visual spatial feedback can help you dial in where your upper body is or

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other parts of your

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body as well. So for this one we're going to focus on where the sternum or the

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neck or your head

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is depending on what you feel controls all that space. So the tour average is

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that the upper body

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shifts off the wall only a half inch to an inch so it's very little shift that

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would be if here's my

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upper body that's about an inch off the ball. So many golfers in a misguided

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attempt to really

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load up onto the trail side either shift their body during the takeaway where

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their upper body is

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well over the ball or they stay centered and then when they go to set their

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their arms they tend to

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shift off the ball that way. So having a little visual spatial awareness can

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help either of those

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backswing flaws. There's a major downswing flaw as well which would be an upper

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body lunch. Many golfers

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get lose track of where their upper body is usually because of their release

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pattern getting a little

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scoopy or having more of a flip and so they lunge that upper body well ahead of

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the golf ball

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so that they hit it so they can hit the ball solidly but it prevents you from

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doing a few key

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things. When your upper body gets that far forward you're almost always going

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to have a really steep

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angle of attack and so many golfers shallow it out by scooping with the wrist

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but it prevents you

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or the other one that they'll shallow it out with is having more of the

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extension

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or a lack of rotation so they'll kind of lunge forward like this. It really

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prevents having body

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rotation. It would be very hard to be in front of the ball and wide open

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without getting unplayably

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steep. So if you lunge too much it's going to disrupt your rotary sequencing.

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So this little

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training aid it's just an alignment stick and I've got a pool noodle on it. The

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pool noodle is

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optional and you can see in the wind it's actually not as helpful but it makes

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it easier for you to

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see where this is on camera and for many golfers I'll use this pool noodle just

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because hey it's

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it's soft it's not very threatening and it takes up a little bit more space

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visually so it's easier

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to feel where I am. But I can either train 9 to 3 where basically I'm staying

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on top of it during

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the backswing and on top of it during the downswing while still trying to use

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good mechanics so while

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still trying to use my body I don't want to stay on top of it and just swing

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with my arms I want

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to still use my body you know pushing the right foot pushing to the left foot

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but while my upper

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body stays more centered then I can take that up to full swings or three-

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quarter to you know

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L to I length swings but having this still kind of as a visual reminder of

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where I want to keep my

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upper body in space. So you'll see that if I were to exaggerate some of these

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flaws

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you'll see if I shift well off the ball I'm going to have a tendency to hit way

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behind it

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or the very least I'm going to tendency to have early arm movement because

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while my body is trying to get back into a playable position it'd be really

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hard to delay and kind

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of maintain some of that good downswing loading. The other one would be more of

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the

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forward lunge where I'm not going to shift as much during the backswing but I'm

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going to really

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go forward during the downswing and you'll see I tried to flip and get it up in

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the air but it

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usually has a low low launch unless we'll we'll try to duplicate that one more

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time I have a few

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students who do it beautifully but they're working with something like this as

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well. So if I lunge

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forward I've really got to flip and release this more behind and really get

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those arms going soon.

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So you can see you got a little bit more height that way disconnected with my

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arms

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and lunge forward but it cost me a significant amount of distance and it wasn't

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the most kind of

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solid feeling strike at least not to me. So now just for good measure we'll do

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one more good one.

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I'm going to keep this spatial awareness here. For me I have to be more careful

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during the downswing

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I don't have a major problem swaying off the ball but some of you may feel that

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that upper body

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has to stay a little bit more centered in order to keep this visual in the same

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space.

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So keeping that upper body in a good location is one of the fastest ways to

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improve your low

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point control and it's sometimes easier than working on the release which is

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the other major way.

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So use this if your turf contact your low point control is out of a whack

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especially if you have

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too much of a sway off the ball or a lunge during your downswing.