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The drill is where is your sternum pointing.

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So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a couple alignment sticks and I'm

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going to

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go through some different parts of the swing to focus on where your sternum is

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pointing.

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Because I'm a big fan of training that Ironman position and basically where is

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your sternum

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pointing compared to golf ball when you make contact at impact.

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But what I tend to find is that many golfers benefit from focusing on where is

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that sternum

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pointing at other parts in the swing.

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Two areas that we're going to focus on in this swing are the or in this drill

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are the top

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of the backswing and the follow through.

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Because where your sternum points reveals a lot about what's going on in the

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pivot and

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there's some common problems that you might be going up against that resolving

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or that

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are easier resolved by focusing on where that upper body is positioned.

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So basically I'm going to get into my setup position and then from here I'm

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going to make

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my backswing pivot and now you'll notice if I have a good backswing shoulder

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plane then

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my sternum is pointing roughly parallel to the ground.

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I find that many golfers who struggle with either swaying too much off the ball

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with

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their upper body or having a really short backswing, these would be pointing

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down at

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the ground there and then most of their backswing is going to be created by

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lifting and maybe

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even bending your arms.

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A lot of golfers who tend to bend their arms to go to the top of the swing have

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the chest

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pointed way down and bending the arms is really the only way that they're going

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to get enough

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height where if you train a little bit more of this neutral pivot where the

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upper body

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stays relatively centered and has a combination of some side bend and some

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rotation and some

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extension that will get things pointing more horizontal.

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Now in the follow through position we're going to try to point it even more up

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towards the

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sky.

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So here I am at the backswing when I get into that first movement in the down

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swing you can

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see that this is going to increase and point basically back down towards the

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target line.

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I don't want to go this way initially right I don't want to go into side bend

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so this

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is pointing too much up there that's a form of early extension so I'm regaining

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my flex

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getting more into that left tilt and then through impact my upper body is going

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to stay

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behind my lower body as I brace and so when I get in this follow through

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position my lumbar

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spine and my body is supported by my abs but my chest is pointing just above

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the horizon.

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Many golfers who struggle with more of a scoop or a chicken wing or a bending

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of the arms

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they will tend to have the upper body pointing more down there just like in the

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backswing

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and then the arms are what's creating more of the lift kind of like this so we

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're going

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to get tilted this way up towards the top of the swing and then we're going to

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be coming

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through into impact where it's basically pointing slightly open and then

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getting into that follow

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through position where this is pointing just above the horizon again.

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So that can give you a few little checkpoints that you can use when you're

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doing your pivot

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training at home and then you can take those concepts and the alignment sticks

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and apply

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them when you're practicing at the range.