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This drill is visualizing angle of attack with a lie board, so here I've got a

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lie board propped up on a yoga block and you'll see they kind of fall creates a

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ramp going down into ground just like this. Well I find that many golfers who

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struggle with scooping the ball the club would be underneath the ramp like this

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and then sweeping up in the ball just like that or there's this feeling of

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kind of sweeping through impact instead of covering the ball and compressing it

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So if I had a golf ball here then what would happen is on the way down the club

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would basically follow the path of the ramp down towards the golf ball but it

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wouldn't stop there. It would continue following that ramp down until right

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about here. We'll put up a close-up of the tour pro where you can kind of see

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this pattern down through impact.

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So not everyone has a lie board but for some people that visual can really help

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.

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If you do have a lie board you can prop it up just like the old classic where

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you'd put a golf ball there or a towel or something to force you to have the

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club coming from a higher position and then down into the golf ball kind of

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like

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so. Obviously hopefully without getting quite so steep. So now if I have this

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too

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close to the lie board then it will strike the lie board in my takeaway. It

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will prevent me from doing a nice one-piece takeaway. So I use it more you know

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I

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want to make sure I've got a few inches in between the lie board in the golf

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ball so that I can make sure that it doesn't impede my takeaway and then I

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just use it as a visual of basically how can I get the club to be traveling

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down

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that lie board at least a few inches three or four inches out in front of the

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golf ball. So if you struggle with more of a scoop it would end up striking the

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lie board more back here. So I find this a really helpful visual. There's two

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things that you want to avoid when you're doing this. There's two ways that I

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can

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cheat to avoid the lie board. One would be I slide my body far forward so now I

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can actually still scoop and avoid the lie board. Or two if I swung more

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outside

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in it's really easy again to scoop and avoid the lie board. But if I just

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monitor those two things if I make sure I'm swinging on a pretty good path and

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I'm not lunging ahead then the closer I can get the golf ball to the lie board

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the more that I'm going to have the bottom of my swing ahead of the golf ball.

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So

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it's really good for your iron play. I would not advocate doing this with your

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driver or your three wood.