How You Can Shallow Your Arms, Hands & Club in the Downswing. Great Drill.

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when you do your setup if you're going
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to work on this
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this is really what you want to have set
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up you want to have a club or stick down
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your toe line
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and a secondary stick roughly at four
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o'clock
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now a couple things to keep in mind and
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you saw both tiger with the iron and
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rory with the driver during the
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downswing right the checkpoints being
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by the time the left arm is parallel to
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the ground in the downswing
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this arm from my point of view is about
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right over that club and then
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my club head is right over it that's why
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we call it
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the four o'clock drill my lead arm goes
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over four o'clock
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and then the club goes over four o'clock
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which helps me deliver the club
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to the ball from inside
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hey guys eric here outside at the
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bethlehem golf club in today's video
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we're going to talk about a
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four o'clock drill to shallow your arms
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hands and club during the downswing so
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if you've been getting too steep during
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your downswing
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if you struggle with pools and fades
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this video is perfect for you
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now before we dive into the drill i
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could show you how to do this we're
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going to hop over to analyzer quick i'm
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going to show you
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what we're talking about when i say
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shallow the arms hands club give some
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checkpoints then we'll come back
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let's take a look here at what we mean
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by this four o'clock drill
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to shallow the arms and hands we have
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tiger on the left
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arguably the best iron player at this
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point in time in his
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career and rory on the right with the
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driver now
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some differences in the camera angles
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some differences in where they are at
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the top but
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the point i want to show you here when
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we start to make the downswing
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and this is going to be for where the
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lead arm is first
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so the first reference point of this
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four o'clock is
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where the lead arm is and so what i'm
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going to do is draw a line down his toe
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line
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these lines are going to be perfect but
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just to kind of draw a line here
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and what i want you to see and what
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we're going to practice to maintain some
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depth to the arms and some shallowness
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to the club
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let's assume this line down his toe line
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is three o'clock if i draw a line out
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towards the ball that would be twelve
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o'clock so this is like twelve
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i'm not super artistic but let's say
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this is about twelve o'clock
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this is three o'clock down here right so
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that's
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three o'clock terrible looking now when
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we get down here to left arm parallel
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what i want you to see is from the top
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his left arm stays in some amount
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so it stays in this way
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and if i drew a line from his point of
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view roughly down the arm
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we would say that that line is about
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parallel to what would be
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four o'clock right so it's on four
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o'clock
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this would be five o'clock and then this
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would be six o'clock right
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see if we can kind of draw a little six
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there so
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it's on four o'clock now what you're
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going to note is the left arm
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comes down it's on that i'm going to
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leave that terrible graphic up but the
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left arm's over four from his point of
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view
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and then if we continue to go what
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you're going to notice is now the club
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shaft is not perfectly parallel to the
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ground but roughly parallel to the
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ground
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is about still in on that four o'clock
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line or close to it right now if we look
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at rory on the right we're going to
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start to see the same things
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we get him down to left arm parallel and
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arguably the best driver of the golf
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ball
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here's roughly where his toes are here
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which again if this would be 12 o'clock
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towards the ball
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the line down his toes is three his left
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arm is in still quite a bit right
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so he maintains some depth of that arm
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but of the club at this point
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is uh just over the balls of the feet
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we'll call it and his arm is in
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over about the four o'clock let's clear
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two of those out so his arm is over the
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four o'clock
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and then by the time the club gets
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parallel to the ground
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which we're going to see here in a
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minute we're going to see that club also
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gets
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over the four o'clock probably right
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about here so the club gets out of focus
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so
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both tiger and rory tiger when he was
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the best iron player in the world
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got the left arm over four o'clock when
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it was parallel to
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the ground it's about on this line
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and then he got the club over that line
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when it was parallel to the ground
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rory best driver got the left arm over
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four o'clock right again this line and
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then he also got the club over
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four o'clock and so that's what we're
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looking at in terms of how to shallow
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the arms and hands
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how to maintain depth to the lead arm
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how to shallow the club hit the ball
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from the inside
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if you have any kind of over-the-top
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issues or inability to shower the club
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this would be a starting point now we're
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going to talk a little bit how to do
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this drill
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how to use your body motion and what you
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can expect and how to practice
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just real briefly as an add-on here what
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you're going to see from face
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on is in order to keep the depth and
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shallow the arms and hands early
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you're going to know both tiger and rory
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keep the chest and shoulders
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back meaning they don't rip open right
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away from the top to left arm parallel
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the chest and shoulders stay
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back still about 45 degrees closed now
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from here
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through is where you can start to rip
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open the chest
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but if you start to open the upper body
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too quick from the top
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you're not going to be able to get that
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depth to the arms and hands
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and so there's tiger doing it with the
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iron and now here's rory from the top
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note again by the time they get the left
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arm parallel the chest and shoulders are
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still
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back or closed quite a bit before
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they start to rip them open so in order
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to keep that left arm in over four
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o'clock
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you have to be able to keep your chest
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and shoulders still closed 45 degrees
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by left arm parallel okay so let's talk
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about the drill and how to do this and
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not now the drill
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and how we're going to work as you saw
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on the screen my not so artistic ability
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with the clock system but you
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kind of got the idea there with what
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we're looking to do and how to shallow
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the arms and hands
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if forward straight towards the ball was
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12 o'clock the club
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or lying down my toes being three
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o'clock i put a secondary club
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roughly at four o'clock so when you do
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your setup if you're going to work on
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this
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this is really what you want to have set
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up you want to have a club or stick down
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your toe line
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and a secondary stick roughly at four
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o'clock
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now a couple of things to keep in mind
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and you saw both tiger with the iron and
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rory with the driver
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during the downswing right the
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checkpoints being by the time
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the left arm is parallel to the ground
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in the downswing
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this arm from my point of view is about
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right over that club and then
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my club head is right over it that's why
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we call it
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the four o'clock drill my lead arm goes
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over four o'clock
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and then the club goes over four o'clock
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which helps me deliver the club
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to the ball from inside so if you have
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any kind of steep
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shaft any kind of shoulders opening
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over the top pulls fade etc this is a
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perfect
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drill progression to get started to feel
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the depth now
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let's talk about some things that go
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along with this what you need to feel
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and how to start
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the first and most important thing you
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saw was a little add-on because i didn't
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do in the first one
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is the chest and shoulder turn to be
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able to keep your arms and hands more
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in or deeper you have to keep
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your chest and shoulders just a little
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bit closed
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for the first half of the downswing
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specifically what we're looking for
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if we go up to the top and we're 90
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degrees with our shoulders or full turn
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by the time i get down to that left arm
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parallel mark
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which is when the left arm's parallel to
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the ground like those we saw over four
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o'clock
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my shoulder should still be closed 45
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degrees
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so my chest is pointed kind of over my
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right knee
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my back's still towards the target when
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i keep my chest and shoulders closed
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initially that allows my arms to stay
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back
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if i open my chest and shoulders you'll
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notice now my arms are out past
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that four o'clock they're even past the
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three o'clock they're kind of at
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230 probably and the shaft gets all
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kinds of steep so
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for you right if especially if you've
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been over this way
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you really have to keep your chest and
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shoulders
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closed for the first half of the
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downswing
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from there you can open them as much as
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you want okay
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so that's the huge part in the beginning
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now as we start to practice this
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what i would suggest doing i've got a
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sandwich i'm going to run through a
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little progression
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is practice getting your lead arm over
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the stick get the club over the stick
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see what it feels like and then we're
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going to start short and slow so
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if i'm going to start this i go up to
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the top i feel my left arm over the
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stick
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you might feel your left bicep into your
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chest more
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your arms and hands are up and back
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compared to normal my shoulders feel
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really close compared to normal but i
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can see my arm is over that
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and then i feel my club over that to get
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the club over that you might feel your
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trail arm or right wrist bent back more
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your left wrist bent back more your
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thumbs
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are back over that four o'clock as well
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they're not over here two o'clock
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so i feel my left chest and shoulders
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closed left arm
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in chest feels way back over here
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compared to normal
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you might feel your head farther back
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than normal club
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over there i might feel some different
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risk conditions again club kind of
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angled in
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and then i swing through and what i
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would do is do one to two rehearsals
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just like that
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up top chest and shoulders closed arm in
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club in swing through so i pause at each
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spot
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up top just shoulders closed arm in club
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in
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swing through now i'm gonna try and hit
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okay when i try and hit i need a camera
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behind me ideally if i want to know for
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sure
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and i'm going very short and slow this
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sand wedge shouldn't go any more than 50
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60 70 yards so i've done my two
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rehearsals
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now i'm going to try and feel the same
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thing
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and i hit a shot and i like every
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student i work with hit that farther
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than i wanted to
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okay that was too long and too fast i
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would yell myself there i'd say that was
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too much
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but what i do is i go back look at the
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camera
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c was my arm over four were my hands in
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line with my pec bicep
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was my club inside my toe line and how
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did i hit that ball what i would do then
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is
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check and see and if i was coming over
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it too much like my
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normal is too far over too far steep
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left arm too far out club out this
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should
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really feel like your chest and
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shoulders
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stay closed a lot longer if you feel
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like your left arm is
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way more in if you feel like the club is
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winched you feel like you're gonna hit
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the ball a mile to the right
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that's what you need to feel let's say
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you have a 10 yard pull you feel a mile
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to the right and then we'll probably get
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to
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fairly straight so again two rehearsals
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got my club at four big chests and
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shoulder turn keep the chest back arm in
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club in swing that's one rep
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big in chest and shoulders chest and
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shoulders stay back arm is over it
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club is over it swing through and then
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i'm going to try and hit
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both those checkpoints in slow motion
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feel the same thing
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and now that's about a pace that i think
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i could do it with
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obviously i can see that i hit the ball
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well is my ball flight different but
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ultimately i want to go back and check
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so
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this is valid whether you do sand wedge
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irons the same thing with driver as you
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saw roy do the same thing with driver
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arm and club over floor clock so if you
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have that steep
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this is where you start this is how you
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do the drill only do it as long and fast
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as you need to or
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