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What To Do When You've Lost Your Swing
As a golfer, you will undoubtedly come across a point in time where you have lost your swing; this is true for even the best professionals in the world. To make matters worse, there can be both mental and physical components to this situation.
Thankfully, if we rely on a "standardized" process to troubleshoot these frustrating circumstances, we should be able to get back on track more quickly and breathe a much needed sigh of relief.
As a golfer, you will undoubtedly come across a point in time where you have lost your swing; this is true for even the best professionals in the world. To make matters worse, there can be both mental and physical components to this situation.
Thankfully, if we rely on a "standardized" process to troubleshoot these frustrating circumstances, we should be able to get back on track more quickly and breathe a much needed sigh of relief.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
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In this video, we're going to talk about what to do when you've lost your swing
2
00:00:07.970 --> 00:00:08.040
because
3
00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:09.840
it happens to all of us.
4
00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.760
You want to have a process of how to analyze your swing and what to go back to.
5
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.360
First, you've got to understand some of the subtle differences between the
6
00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:19.080
driver and
7
00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:20.560
the iron swing.
8
00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:25.520
But to tie it all together, we're going to start from impact backwards.
9
00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.820
So one of the best ways to analyze your swing and to kind of find it when it's
10
00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:31.500
off is to
11
00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:36.370
look at where the club is basically right down at impact or at the low point to
12
00:00:36.370 --> 00:00:36.840
when
13
00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:41.680
the club is, you know, of six inches past the ball, something like that.
14
00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:47.320
When the club is about six inches past the ball, this low point line, you want
15
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.200
the club,
16
00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.490
your hands, roughly your left hip and your left shoulder to be in line with an
17
00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:53.040
iron.
18
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.420
And if I had a driver, you would see more the left hip, the hands, the club in
19
00:00:58.420 --> 00:00:59.040
line, but
20
00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:02.200
the shoulder, almost about a hands width back.
21
00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.870
So if we start there, as far as this is where we're trying to get to, we're
22
00:01:06.870 --> 00:01:07.560
going to be
23
00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.680
able to see a lot of the reasons why our swing might have gotten off.
24
00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.290
Maybe we've slid a lot, maybe we've early extended and as a result, the hands
25
00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:16.880
back.
26
00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.310
But we can quickly break it down to is the body out of position or are the
27
00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:22.000
hands out
28
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.280
of position.
29
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Once we have that simple distinction, then we're going to look backward to
30
00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:27.600
where the
31
00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:28.640
release started.
32
00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.220
So I call this delivering position, where basically we're coming from somewhere
33
00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:32.560
right
34
00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.000
around here and we're looking at how the body and the arms are releasing down
35
00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.520
into impact.
36
00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:43.040
I'm going to use the same criteria, I'm going to look, is my body off?
37
00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.160
So is my body coming way up?
38
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:47.920
Is my body, you know, stuck on the back foot?
39
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.680
Have I slid way past the ball?
40
00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.480
Have I spun out?
41
00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.200
There's lots of different things that your swing will probably, you know, fit
42
00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:55.840
into a couple
43
00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.520
of different patterns and your swing will consistently get off in the same way.
44
00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:02.800
So you can do that little checkpoint and look at the body or you can look at
45
00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:03.440
the arms and
46
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:04.440
club.
47
00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:08.740
So at this waist height checkpoint, this is a great place to start looking at
48
00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:09.240
what am
49
00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.840
I doing with the club face?
50
00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.030
If the club face is really wide open or if the club face is really shut, maybe
51
00:02:15.030 --> 00:02:15.640
my body
52
00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:20.130
movement on the way through is a compensation for the club being out of
53
00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:21.080
position.
54
00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:26.560
Or if the club path, I would want the roughly the handle of the club or sorry,
55
00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.240
the club
56
00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.400
head just inside the handle kind of like this.
57
00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.470
If the club head is way out here, then perhaps my body movement or my release
58
00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:35.520
is a compensation
59
00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:39.590
or if the club is way inside here, it's going to tend to want to swing out my
60
00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:40.520
body movement
61
00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.560
or my release maybe a compensation.
62
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.320
So I'm going to start down at the important area and then work backward.
63
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.530
Once I know what's going on here, I'm going to look back at the top of the
64
00:02:51.530 --> 00:02:52.180
swing.
65
00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:55.180
I'm going to look at the back swing to see how that influence the top of the
66
00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:55.600
swing.
67
00:02:55.600 --> 00:02:59.560
But I'm going to always relate it to what I'm doing down here at the bottom.
68
00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.540
Because ultimately, no matter what, if I get into a really good low pointer
69
00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:05.760
impact position
70
00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:09.640
and the club is pretty much on plane and the club face is pretty square, I'm
71
00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:10.280
going to hit
72
00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:11.520
lots of good shots.
73
00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.100
So always having a goal towards working on will help you whenever your swing
74
00:03:16.100 --> 00:03:16.920
gets off.
75
00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:21.600
I find this especially important when you've taken a weekend off, a week off or
76
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:22.200
when you
77
00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:25.730
get stuck trying to work on a new move and suddenly you start to lose one area
78
00:03:25.730 --> 00:03:26.160
of your
79
00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:27.160
game.
80
00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:29.980
So you want to have a system, you want to have some type of model that you can
81
00:03:29.980 --> 00:03:30.440
go back
82
00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:31.440
to.
83
00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:32.960
This is a great place to start when your swing gets off.
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.970
In this video, we're going to talk about what to do when you've lost your swing
2
00:00:07.970 --> 00:00:08.040
because
3
00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:09.840
it happens to all of us.
4
00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.760
You want to have a process of how to analyze your swing and what to go back to.
5
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.360
First, you've got to understand some of the subtle differences between the
6
00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:19.080
driver and
7
00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:20.560
the iron swing.
8
00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:25.520
But to tie it all together, we're going to start from impact backwards.
9
00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.820
So one of the best ways to analyze your swing and to kind of find it when it's
10
00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:31.500
off is to
11
00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:36.370
look at where the club is basically right down at impact or at the low point to
12
00:00:36.370 --> 00:00:36.840
when
13
00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:41.680
the club is, you know, of six inches past the ball, something like that.
14
00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:47.320
When the club is about six inches past the ball, this low point line, you want
15
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.200
the club,
16
00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.490
your hands, roughly your left hip and your left shoulder to be in line with an
17
00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:53.040
iron.
18
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.420
And if I had a driver, you would see more the left hip, the hands, the club in
19
00:00:58.420 --> 00:00:59.040
line, but
20
00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:02.200
the shoulder, almost about a hands width back.
21
00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.870
So if we start there, as far as this is where we're trying to get to, we're
22
00:01:06.870 --> 00:01:07.560
going to be
23
00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.680
able to see a lot of the reasons why our swing might have gotten off.
24
00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.290
Maybe we've slid a lot, maybe we've early extended and as a result, the hands
25
00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:16.880
back.
26
00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.310
But we can quickly break it down to is the body out of position or are the
27
00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:22.000
hands out
28
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.280
of position.
29
00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.090
Once we have that simple distinction, then we're going to look backward to
30
00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:27.600
where the
31
00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:28.640
release started.
32
00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.220
So I call this delivering position, where basically we're coming from somewhere
33
00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:32.560
right
34
00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.000
around here and we're looking at how the body and the arms are releasing down
35
00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.520
into impact.
36
00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:43.040
I'm going to use the same criteria, I'm going to look, is my body off?
37
00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.160
So is my body coming way up?
38
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:47.920
Is my body, you know, stuck on the back foot?
39
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.680
Have I slid way past the ball?
40
00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.480
Have I spun out?
41
00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.200
There's lots of different things that your swing will probably, you know, fit
42
00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:55.840
into a couple
43
00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.520
of different patterns and your swing will consistently get off in the same way.
44
00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:02.800
So you can do that little checkpoint and look at the body or you can look at
45
00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:03.440
the arms and
46
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:04.440
club.
47
00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:08.740
So at this waist height checkpoint, this is a great place to start looking at
48
00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:09.240
what am
49
00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.840
I doing with the club face?
50
00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.030
If the club face is really wide open or if the club face is really shut, maybe
51
00:02:15.030 --> 00:02:15.640
my body
52
00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:20.130
movement on the way through is a compensation for the club being out of
53
00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:21.080
position.
54
00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:26.560
Or if the club path, I would want the roughly the handle of the club or sorry,
55
00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.240
the club
56
00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.400
head just inside the handle kind of like this.
57
00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.470
If the club head is way out here, then perhaps my body movement or my release
58
00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:35.520
is a compensation
59
00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:39.590
or if the club is way inside here, it's going to tend to want to swing out my
60
00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:40.520
body movement
61
00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.560
or my release maybe a compensation.
62
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.320
So I'm going to start down at the important area and then work backward.
63
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.530
Once I know what's going on here, I'm going to look back at the top of the
64
00:02:51.530 --> 00:02:52.180
swing.
65
00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:55.180
I'm going to look at the back swing to see how that influence the top of the
66
00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:55.600
swing.
67
00:02:55.600 --> 00:02:59.560
But I'm going to always relate it to what I'm doing down here at the bottom.
68
00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.540
Because ultimately, no matter what, if I get into a really good low pointer
69
00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:05.760
impact position
70
00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:09.640
and the club is pretty much on plane and the club face is pretty square, I'm
71
00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:10.280
going to hit
72
00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:11.520
lots of good shots.
73
00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.100
So always having a goal towards working on will help you whenever your swing
74
00:03:16.100 --> 00:03:16.920
gets off.
75
00:03:16.920 --> 00:03:21.600
I find this especially important when you've taken a weekend off, a week off or
76
00:03:21.600 --> 00:03:22.200
when you
77
00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:25.730
get stuck trying to work on a new move and suddenly you start to lose one area
78
00:03:25.730 --> 00:03:26.160
of your
79
00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:27.160
game.
80
00:03:27.160 --> 00:03:29.980
So you want to have a system, you want to have some type of model that you can
81
00:03:29.980 --> 00:03:30.440
go back
82
00:03:30.440 --> 00:03:31.440
to.
83
00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:32.960
This is a great place to start when your swing gets off.
Have questions?
Ask Mulligan for help
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
What To Do When You've Lost Your Swing
As a golfer, you will undoubtedly come across a point in time where you have lost your swing; this is true for even the best professionals in the world. To make matters worse, there can be both mental and physical components to this situation.
Thankfully, if we rely on a "standardized" process to troubleshoot these frustrating circumstances, we should be able to get back on track more quickly and breathe a much needed sigh of relief.
As a golfer, you will undoubtedly come across a point in time where you have lost your swing; this is true for even the best professionals in the world. To make matters worse, there can be both mental and physical components to this situation.
Thankfully, if we rely on a "standardized" process to troubleshoot these frustrating circumstances, we should be able to get back on track more quickly and breathe a much needed sigh of relief.
Hide
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.970
In this video, we're going to talk about what to do when you've lost your swing
2
00:00:07.970 --> 00:00:08.040
because
3
00:00:08.040 --> 00:00:09.840
it happens to all of us.
4
00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:14.760
You want to have a process of how to analyze your swing and what to go back to.
5
00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:18.360
First, you've got to understand some of the subtle differences between the
6
00:00:18.360 --> 00:00:19.080
driver and
7
00:00:19.080 --> 00:00:20.560
the iron swing.
8
00:00:20.560 --> 00:00:25.520
But to tie it all together, we're going to start from impact backwards.
9
00:00:25.520 --> 00:00:30.820
So one of the best ways to analyze your swing and to kind of find it when it's
10
00:00:30.820 --> 00:00:31.500
off is to
11
00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:36.370
look at where the club is basically right down at impact or at the low point to
12
00:00:36.370 --> 00:00:36.840
when
13
00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:41.680
the club is, you know, of six inches past the ball, something like that.
14
00:00:41.680 --> 00:00:47.320
When the club is about six inches past the ball, this low point line, you want
15
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:48.200
the club,
16
00:00:48.200 --> 00:00:52.490
your hands, roughly your left hip and your left shoulder to be in line with an
17
00:00:52.490 --> 00:00:53.040
iron.
18
00:00:53.040 --> 00:00:58.420
And if I had a driver, you would see more the left hip, the hands, the club in
19
00:00:58.420 --> 00:00:59.040
line, but
20
00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:02.200
the shoulder, almost about a hands width back.
21
00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:06.870
So if we start there, as far as this is where we're trying to get to, we're
22
00:01:06.870 --> 00:01:07.560
going to be
23
00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:11.680
able to see a lot of the reasons why our swing might have gotten off.
24
00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:16.290
Maybe we've slid a lot, maybe we've early extended and as a result, the hands
25
00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:16.880
back.
26
00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.310
But we can quickly break it down to is the body out of position or are the
27
00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:22.000
hands out
28
00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:23.280
of position.
29
00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:27.090
Once we have that simple distinction, then we're going to look backward to
30
00:01:27.090 --> 00:01:27.600
where the
31
00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:28.640
release started.
32
00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.220
So I call this delivering position, where basically we're coming from somewhere
33
00:01:32.220 --> 00:01:32.560
right
34
00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.000
around here and we're looking at how the body and the arms are releasing down
35
00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:38.520
into impact.
36
00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:43.040
I'm going to use the same criteria, I'm going to look, is my body off?
37
00:01:43.040 --> 00:01:45.160
So is my body coming way up?
38
00:01:45.160 --> 00:01:47.920
Is my body, you know, stuck on the back foot?
39
00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.680
Have I slid way past the ball?
40
00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:51.480
Have I spun out?
41
00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.200
There's lots of different things that your swing will probably, you know, fit
42
00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:55.840
into a couple
43
00:01:55.840 --> 00:01:59.520
of different patterns and your swing will consistently get off in the same way.
44
00:01:59.520 --> 00:02:02.800
So you can do that little checkpoint and look at the body or you can look at
45
00:02:02.800 --> 00:02:03.440
the arms and
46
00:02:03.440 --> 00:02:04.440
club.
47
00:02:04.440 --> 00:02:08.740
So at this waist height checkpoint, this is a great place to start looking at
48
00:02:08.740 --> 00:02:09.240
what am
49
00:02:09.240 --> 00:02:10.840
I doing with the club face?
50
00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.030
If the club face is really wide open or if the club face is really shut, maybe
51
00:02:15.030 --> 00:02:15.640
my body
52
00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:20.130
movement on the way through is a compensation for the club being out of
53
00:02:20.130 --> 00:02:21.080
position.
54
00:02:21.080 --> 00:02:26.560
Or if the club path, I would want the roughly the handle of the club or sorry,
55
00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:27.240
the club
56
00:02:27.240 --> 00:02:30.400
head just inside the handle kind of like this.
57
00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:34.470
If the club head is way out here, then perhaps my body movement or my release
58
00:02:34.470 --> 00:02:35.520
is a compensation
59
00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:39.590
or if the club is way inside here, it's going to tend to want to swing out my
60
00:02:39.590 --> 00:02:40.520
body movement
61
00:02:40.520 --> 00:02:42.560
or my release maybe a compensation.
62
00:02:42.560 --> 00:02:47.320
So I'm going to start down at the important area and then work backward.
63
00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:51.530
Once I know what's going on here, I'm going to look back at the top of the
64
00:02:51.530 --> 00:02:52.180
swing.
65
00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:55.180
I'm going to look at the back swing to see how that influence the top of the
66
00:02:55.180 --> 00:02:55.600
swing.
67
00:02:55.600 --> 00:02:59.560
But I'm going to always relate it to what I'm doing down here at the bottom.
68
00:02:59.560 --> 00:03:04.540
Because ultimately, no matter what, if I get into a really good low pointer
69
00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:05.760
impact position
70
00:03:05.760 --> 00:03:09.640
and the club is pretty much on plane and the club face is pretty square, I'm
71
00:03:09.640 --> 00:03:10.280
going to hit
72
00:03:10.280 --> 00:03:11.520
lots of good shots.
73
00:03:11.520 --> 00:03:16.100
So always having a goal towards working on will help you whenever your swing
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gets off.
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I find this especially important when you've taken a weekend off, a week off or
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when you
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get stuck trying to work on a new move and suddenly you start to lose one area
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of your
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game.
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So you want to have a system, you want to have some type of model that you can
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go back
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to.
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This is a great place to start when your swing gets off.
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In this video, we're going to talk about what to do when you've lost your swing
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because
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it happens to all of us.
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You want to have a process of how to analyze your swing and what to go back to.
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First, you've got to understand some of the subtle differences between the
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driver and
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the iron swing.
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But to tie it all together, we're going to start from impact backwards.
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So one of the best ways to analyze your swing and to kind of find it when it's
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off is to
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look at where the club is basically right down at impact or at the low point to
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when
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the club is, you know, of six inches past the ball, something like that.
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When the club is about six inches past the ball, this low point line, you want
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the club,
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your hands, roughly your left hip and your left shoulder to be in line with an
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iron.
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And if I had a driver, you would see more the left hip, the hands, the club in
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line, but
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the shoulder, almost about a hands width back.
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So if we start there, as far as this is where we're trying to get to, we're
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going to be
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able to see a lot of the reasons why our swing might have gotten off.
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Maybe we've slid a lot, maybe we've early extended and as a result, the hands
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back.
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But we can quickly break it down to is the body out of position or are the
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hands out
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of position.
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Once we have that simple distinction, then we're going to look backward to
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where the
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release started.
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So I call this delivering position, where basically we're coming from somewhere
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right
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around here and we're looking at how the body and the arms are releasing down
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into impact.
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I'm going to use the same criteria, I'm going to look, is my body off?
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So is my body coming way up?
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Is my body, you know, stuck on the back foot?
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Have I slid way past the ball?
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Have I spun out?
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There's lots of different things that your swing will probably, you know, fit
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into a couple
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of different patterns and your swing will consistently get off in the same way.
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So you can do that little checkpoint and look at the body or you can look at
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the arms and
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club.
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So at this waist height checkpoint, this is a great place to start looking at
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what am
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I doing with the club face?
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If the club face is really wide open or if the club face is really shut, maybe
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my body
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movement on the way through is a compensation for the club being out of
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position.
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Or if the club path, I would want the roughly the handle of the club or sorry,
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the club
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head just inside the handle kind of like this.
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If the club head is way out here, then perhaps my body movement or my release
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is a compensation
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or if the club is way inside here, it's going to tend to want to swing out my
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body movement
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or my release maybe a compensation.
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So I'm going to start down at the important area and then work backward.
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Once I know what's going on here, I'm going to look back at the top of the
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swing.
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I'm going to look at the back swing to see how that influence the top of the
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swing.
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But I'm going to always relate it to what I'm doing down here at the bottom.
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Because ultimately, no matter what, if I get into a really good low pointer
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impact position
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and the club is pretty much on plane and the club face is pretty square, I'm
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going to hit
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lots of good shots.
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So always having a goal towards working on will help you whenever your swing
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gets off.
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I find this especially important when you've taken a weekend off, a week off or
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when you
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get stuck trying to work on a new move and suddenly you start to lose one area
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of your
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game.
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So you want to have a system, you want to have some type of model that you can
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go back
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to.
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This is a great place to start when your swing gets off.
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