Top 3 Keys to Drive it Longer [Video]

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now we all want to crush those drives

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dead straight long down the middle of

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the fairway there's a couple things that

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make that nearly impossible if I'm

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teaming the ball up we're about half the

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ball is above my crown just like you see

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here it may make it nearly impossible if

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I swing correctly to not hit thin on the

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bottom of the clubface you're gonna lose

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a lot of distance when you do that same

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thing with my shoulder position if I get

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it too far forward now I'm gonna have to

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lose lag I'm gonna cast I'm going to

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flip and worst of all you're fair your

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drives are going to be inconsistent and

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they're not going to be very far down

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the fairway I'm going to talk about the

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solutions to those and a couple other

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key tricks in this video let's go and

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get started all right so let's jump

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right in hit a couple shots and talk

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about some of these key mistakes that we

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all can make and he's gonna read some of

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our flight scope numbers here on the

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radar so it's gonna be tracking these

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shots number one is going to be the tee

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hike time and time again I see players

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that are setting up the ball with about

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half the ball above the crown of the

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club so meaning that half the ball

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sticking up above this top edge of the

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driver now when that's happening that's

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okay if I'm swinging level or down into

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the golf ball so if I'm kind of hitting

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down into my drives I'm gonna lose some

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distance I'm gonna hit it inconsistent

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but that tee height is about okay if I'm

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hitting down into it so if I had to

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drive you know you know I'm hitting down

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big slicing of the trees lost tons of

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speed and tons of distance I was

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actually able to hit on the top of the

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clubface where I want to but we're going

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to talk about why this is all just a

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giant mess and go through that here in a

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second so first let's look at that first

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swing doing it incorrectly what was my

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clubhead speed what was my distance you

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know what happened on that shot clubhead

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speed was about a hundred distance was

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227 you went down on it 5.9 degrees okay

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so they're driving it incorrectly a

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couple things are going on number one I

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had that ball tee height too low so only

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about half the ball was sticking up over

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my driver head now if you want to hit it

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far if you want to really get that high

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launch you want to be swinging up into

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the ball so there I was kind of chopping

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down into the ball that's one of the

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most common things I see I'd say

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probably 80 or more percent of players

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that I see are hitting down into their

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drives which is not a good thing I want

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to be hitting up into the drives problem

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lies on this ball

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this teahype if I T it up we're just

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half the balls over the crown if my club

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reaches its low point behind the golf

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ball and starts moving up into the golf

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ball which is exactly what we want to be

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doing

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look how now I'd be hitting off the

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bottom of the driver when I hit thin off

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the bottom the driver I'll lose all

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kinds of distance just like we saw there

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I have to make contact on the top half

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of the clubface that's what's going to

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make it launch higher spin less and

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carry a mile so instead of team netball

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half a ball above my driver face I want

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to get a good three-quarters of the ball

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above the driver face so now we can see

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if I make the right kind of swing now I

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can hit up into this golf ball and I

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still have room to hit it on the top

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half of the clubface that makes things a

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lot easier let's go ahead and try one

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there and we're gonna see that I pick up

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a whole lot more distance when I also

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stay behind it and tee it up a little

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bit higher we're gonna get to the second

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part here in just one second all right

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so much better on that one much longer

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right down the middle of fairway not

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quite perfect yet hit that one a little

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bit off the heel but let's go ahead and

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go to the second key here after we talk

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about the numbers on that one so what

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was the stats on that one cube so club

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head speed was 118 total distance 308

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and angle of attack you were hitting up

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on it about 1.3 so hit a little bit up

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on that one another big key there I

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mentioned the second thing is I don't

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want to be sliding in front of this that

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first shot where I just kind of slice it

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off in the woods it wasn't any good I

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was letting my shoulder get up in front

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of my ankle now if you want to hit your

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drives far what you want to do is

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something called the compression line

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and what I mean by this that's it that's

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a term we use in the top speed golf

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system what I mean by this is at impact

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if I was to draw a line from my left

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ankle the center of my left ankle to the

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center of my left shoulder socket that

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would be tilted away from the target

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this would be toward the target I'd be

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chopping down in the ball weak short

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drives this would be away from the

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target hitting up into the ball long

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powerful drives now it's not just that

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I'm away that's helping me hit it up hit

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up on it that's good it's also the

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powerful pose

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I'm in with my body when I get tilted

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away from the target now look how it

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makes a lot of sense where I can have

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this lag and then release that out in

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front of the golf ball if I was up here

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and I had a lot of lag I would swing

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right over top of the golf ball wouldn't

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make sense so from here I can get lag

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release that in the golf ball I'm gonna

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hit a lot farther so here notice on this

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swing my compression line I'm gonna feel

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like as i tee up to or as I set up to

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this golf ball my head is behind the

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golf ball my shoulder is behind my lead

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ankle and I feel like I'm really gonna

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get behind it and let everything release

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out through the golf ball so I'm getting

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my speed in front of the golf ball

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rather than chopping down into the golf

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ball let's go and try that out there we

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go that one was perfect there couldn't

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hit that one much better gonna have a

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positive angle attack I bet and I stayed

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behind that one really nicely what were

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the numbers on that cue so 118 club head

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speed total distance was 323 and angle

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of attack was up three degrees so up

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three degrees that's about perfect there

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so one other last thing here me and Q

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were talking a minute ago and he was

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mentioning something that I thought was

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really interesting to me why don't you

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walk him through what you believe makes

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the most sense to get the third piece

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here which would be ball position so

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where could I go wrong again where we

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don't want to hit down into this we saw

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how bad that can be what do I need to do

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with my ball position to get it get it

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right right so we've often heard that we

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want to play the ball off the inside of

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our lead foot and that can be a fine

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position for a lot of people but what

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happens is we all have different stance

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wits so if you play that ball off the

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inside of your lead foot do a narrow

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stance for me and basically what we want

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to happen is we want this club to bottom

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out and then work up into the golf ball

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and typically where that club is

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bottoming out is about right in your

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armpit there so if you look here if he

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has a narrow stance and he plays that

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ball at the inside of his lead foot on

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that armpit that's basically gonna be it

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might even be a little bit ahead of the

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golf ball depending on my hammock day

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I'm gonna be tough to dup on that from

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from this narrow stance here right you

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gotta fall enough

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I definitely don't want to be doing that

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and if you had a very wide stance now if

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you step that back foot back there you

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go

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yeah play off the inside your foot now

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that armpit might be too far behind the

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ball and the club might be coming in

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bottoming out and then working up into

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the ball and hitting nice or bad thin

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shots so you don't want to get those

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gonna be the really thin ones that

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really balloon up into the air it's kind

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of the other stream I get way back here

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now right I'm gonna almost hit the

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ground or Senate you know right so what

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we really want to do is play that ball

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in relationship to our upper body and I

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found that off the outside of your lead

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shoulder is actually a great way a great

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place to play the ball because that

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allows the club to bottom out about

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where the armpit is and then work up a

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few inches into the golf ball so you can

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get that nice upward angle of attack so

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I get that high launch low spin those

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are the drives that we all want so clay

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how about you hit one here we display

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that really good ball position and see

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what kind of numbers yeah that makes a

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ton of sense to me too because I could

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as long as I keep this in relationship

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to my shoulder I could have my feet

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narrow and I'd still be in a good spot

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to where I could hit up on it I could

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have my feet really wide and maybe the

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ball would look like it's a little

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farther back in my stance but it's still

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in that good position so I like that a

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lot so I'm gonna play off the outside of

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my shoulder I've got the correct tee

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height and I have what's called the

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compression line I'm staying behind the

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golf ball when I put all three of those

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together I'm gonna just in a position

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here to where I can really get a lot of

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lag I can swing through this golf ball

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and get tons of speed and I would be

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pretty consistent while I'm doing that

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let's go ahead and get a shot there we

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go that might have been the best one of

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the several that I've hit what were the

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stats on that one there ki still still

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in the air alright so just came down 117

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club head speed total distance 331

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you're hitting up on it almost six

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degrees yeah so you can see there as I

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started to go up and up more the ball

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flew higher got lower spin and it went a

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heck of a lot longer so follow those

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three keys you're getting it the best

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route of your life now getting the right

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tee height and getting the right ball

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position it's pretty easy we can change

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that in a couple seconds the one piece

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that you might struggle a little bit

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with is getting that right compression

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line getting behind the golf ball if

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you're someone that's slid in front

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forever

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chopping down losing distance that

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compression line is going

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be real gamechanger now I have a video

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that's gonna build on what we talked

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about here it's one of my best

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compression line videos I've ever made

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I'm gonna play a preview that here in a

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second just go ahead and click the card

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that pops up on your screen if you don't

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see that card no problem go down to the

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description down below click on the link

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in the description and you'll get

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instant access I can't wait to see there

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give you some of the secrets of the

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compression line so you'll play your

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best golf fading back creating lag

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releasing lag those are all very very

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important but none of that matters

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unless we can consistently hit that ball

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right on the center of the sweet spot

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and compress this golf ball and that

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really comes down a great deal this

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comes down to how our body is positioned

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at impact and that's what I call the

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compression line and I want to make sure

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that I'm coming down and through hitting

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the ball first every single time now my

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body has to be set up in a proper way to

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be able to do this so when you're coming

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into contact

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I need my left ankle my left hip and my

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left shoulder to all be lined up in a

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straight line hanging back and coming up

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to thin where I'm picking the ball off

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the ground

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maybe flipping or scooping as I'm coming

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through contact my body set up in a way

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where I can deliver the club down into

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the ball every time well the direction

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our shoulders are pointing are gonna

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dictate where we can release the club

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and how we can release the club so

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that's the general overall idea we need

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that compression line it's allowing her

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to release the club and she has one of

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my favorite swings on the LPGA Tour

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really really solid fundamentals and

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again Rory McIlroy here just a great

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swing very very powerful

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you