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This drill is wipe with your chest tall.

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So many golfers working on low point control

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benefit from working on the wipe.

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Now, the wipe is essentially a movement of the arms

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more across your body.

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Well, some golfers, when they're trying

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to work on this movement of the arms across their body,

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end up doing it more with the body and not so much with the arms.

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Here's how that will typically look.

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If I have them trying to lead the arm across their body,

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you can see that instinctively I'm going to have a little bit

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of side bend.

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Well, what'll happen is some golfers have too much side bend

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and basically only move the elbow in front because of side bend.

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If I took away my side bend, that elbow is actually

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still more on the right side of my body

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compared to that being more across my body.

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If I then added that side bend, you

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can see there's a very different look between those two.

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So some golfers, in order to feel how the wipe moves

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the bottom of the swing forward, need

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to focus more on doing it at the shoulders.

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The way you can do that is by maintaining

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some of that side bend, feeling like that shoulder stays--

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or like the rib cage stays tall and level,

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and then getting the elbow to work gradually

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across your chest more like so, working

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gradually across your rib cage in the general direction

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of the target, kind of like that.

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And then what you can do is focus on doing some of these 9

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to 3 or working even into 3/4 while feeling like the body

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stays tall and you get more of that wipe from the arms

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instead of getting it from that side bend.

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So sometimes getting into too much side bend

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can be counterproductive for what you're

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trying to do with the wipe.

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The way you'll know is if when you do 9 to 3s

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and you do a lot of wipe drills, if the bottom of the swing

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is way behind the golf ball like I'm demonstrating there,

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then it's more this elbow is kind of up against the side

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of your body.

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If I'm doing those and I'm able to get the bottom of the swing

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to move forward, then it's a good sign

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that the elbow is working enough across my body

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where I'm doing enough of this wipe.

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One other little thing is that many golfers,

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if they get it up against the side of the ribcage,

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kind of feel like the movement of the wipe

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is more aggressive as opposed to nice and gradual.

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I'll frequently ask golfers to slow it down

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and do a gradual or almost like--

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I'll use Fred Couples tempo style, kind of very smooth.

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If you are moving that elbow across your body,

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you'll be able to make solid contact

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regardless of how hard you're swinging.

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If it's more on the side of your arm,

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you'll need a little bit of tension in order to square it up.

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And so that's another sign that you're doing it more

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with side bend and the elbow on the side of your body

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as opposed to having more of this wipe direction

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across your body.