Jordan Spieth - Fairway Wood Consistency
Jordan Spieth - Fairway Wood Consistency
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Description
In this video, I'll show you the key areas in Jordan's swing that allow him to hit his fairway woods nice and solid every single time. I'll also show you how important axis tilt is at address and how important the lead shoulder position is at impact when hitting golf shots off those tricky tight lies. You will learn how to locate the mistakes in your own swing and get on your way to reaching those par 5's in 2.
Video Practice Points
- Make sure your spine is tilted just inside your lead knee at address.
- Weight distribution at address should be even after axis tilt is performed.
- Allow for secondary axis tilt in the hitting area only after you are fully shift to the lead side.
- Check to make sure the lead shoulder is not drastically higher at impact from where it was at address.
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Hi guys, this is Rotary Swing Instructor
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Chris Tyler and if you found yourself
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struggling on the golf course, topping,
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chunking or miss hitting your fairway
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woods altogether, then you want to pay
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close attention to this week's analysis
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on Jordan Spieth. I'm going to show you
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how Jordan uses two very key moves in his
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golf swing in order to hit his fairway.
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Woods really solid. Let's go ahead and
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get started.
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Okay, So this past weekend, Jordan Spieth
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fires a final round 63 at the Australian
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Open, blowing the field away by six
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shots. So congratulations to Jordan
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Spieth on that. And just to kind of put
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in perspective of what kind of round he
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had, There was kind of a funny Twitter
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message yesterday that Rory McIlroy put
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out and said, you could give Rory 100
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rounds on that golf course. In those
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playing conditions and no way he would
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have ever touched 63. So that just kind
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of shows you how great of a round that he
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had. So congratulations to Jordan on
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that. And this week, we're going to focus
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in on a really important area of the
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game, and that's going to be Fairway
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woods.
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I know a lot of us at home struggle with
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when we get on to a par five, or we get
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on these tighter lies. Or either trying
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to hit a three wood or a five wood, or a
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hybrid where we either top it down the
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fairway, or we chunk it, or we bounce the
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club off the ground into the ball. And we
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find ourselves getting really frustrated
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and trying to figure out why this is
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happening. And I want to show you some of
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the things that he does in his golf swing
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well. And I also want to talk to you
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about what you're going to be able to do
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to help correct yourself for some of the
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issues that you may be having. And what
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you need to be able to look for as far as
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self analyzing and get you back on track
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to playing some really good fairway wood
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golf.
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Alright, so some of the areas that we'll
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focus on this week, we're going to talk
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about the lead shoulder, I'll mark that
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position for us. I'm also going to mark
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the position of the spine here at address
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and this is what we call axis tilt.
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Now, Axis Tilt is probably one of the
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most overlooked features of the setup,
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but is one of the most critical areas of
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the setup for a number of reasons. It
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allows us to get the head in behind the
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golf ball, so you'll notice here that
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he's got ball position is perfectly
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placed right off that left ear. Alright,
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this is a perfect ball position right
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here. And it also allows us to stay
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evenly distributed so axis tilt, If
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you've noticed that, you feel either pre
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-loaded into your lead side or you feel
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too much weight into your trail side,
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double check to make sure that you have
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axis tilt down correctly.
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Also the important of axis tilt is that
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if you don't set up enough of axis tilt,
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if you set up with your spine more
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vertical, Then you can run the risk of
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either over-rotating the spine or, from a
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fault fix perspective, you can start to
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run into a reverse pivot. At the top part
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of your golf swing, if you notice that
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your spine is leaning more towards the
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target, that can do two things. It can
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compress your lower vertebrae, and it can
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also run you into that reverse pivot that
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I just said. When you reverse pivot and
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you're now leaning more over your lead
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side, then in the downward move as a
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compensation, you're going to fall back
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on your trail side which can, this is
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where you'll start to hang back, You'll
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bounce the club off the ground, or you'll
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create this really drastic ascending blow
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where you'll hit a lot of top shots.
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So, what we're going to be looking for
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here is, number one, we want to make sure
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that we feel evenly distributed at a
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dress position with proper axis tilt.
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Alright, like I said, I've marked two
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really important positions here as far as
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the head position is concerned, and I've
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marked where the lead shoulder is.
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You're going to see us go ahead and load
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up to the top, so we've shifted to the
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right,
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big load up to the right side, big
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rotation.
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Notice this straight line up from the
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lead side all the way through the spine,
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you don't see the spine leaning more
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towards the target.
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This is a very, very good spot for you
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guys to really understand. Also, notice
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that the head is not moved too far off
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the golf ball.
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Now, the reason why I'm talking about
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this straight line up from the lead side
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is if you've noticed any big curvature to
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your lead leg here, You don't have this
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straight line up, or if you notice that
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the spine is now leaning more towards the
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target, That's where you're going to need
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to start to correct your rotation
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process. And I would double check to make
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sure that you have axis tilt down
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properly. Because from the address
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position, when we shift our pelvis, just
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a fraction to get that weight started
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over to that trail side, you actually
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lose a little bit of that tilt, so that's
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why it's really important that we have
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the spine just inside the left knee at
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address.
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Now you're going to see a couple of big
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moves here, so you'll see in downswing
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transition,
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you're going to see a pretty good size
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shift left. So this is where the head
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position starts to shift back in front of
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where it was originally at address, so
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you can see how he's shifting his hips,
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he's unloading the lower body, getting
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everything fully seated over the left
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side, so now his head is a good two, Two
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and a half inches in front of where it
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was at the starting point. And this is
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where he's going to start to really push
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that left heel into the ground. And he's
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going to start to pull that left hip away
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from the target, which is in turn, he's
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creating torso rotation.
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Now you'll hear that term around the
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website, you'll hear secondary axis tilt.
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Now, this rotation alone that he's
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causing, or that he's using is creating
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this secondary axis tilt. Which is going
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to be really pivotal for us to be able to
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shallow the arc out properly, But we have
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to be able to be fully seated into that
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lead side before we start to make this
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rotation to get things shallowed out. So
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watch the head position here,
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It does not move any more forward when he
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gets shifted over to that lead side. And
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now he's going to start to use that lead
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side to start to pull and rotate. And now
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you're going to see the head start to
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move back into its original starting
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point. So let me go one more frame here
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for us.
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Alright, so here we are at impact, so
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notice the head position is back right
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where it was at the starting point.
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And notice the lead shoulder right here,
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so this lead shoulder is not way up above
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where it was at the address position. So
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these two things right here, These two
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areas you want to watch out for, and
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these are probably the culprits or the
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reasons why you've been having a hard
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time hitting solid golf shots. So if
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you've noticed that your head is out in
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front of this line, now chances are we
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call that being out in front of the golf
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shot, that can cause the angle of attack
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to become very steep. And if you become
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very steep with these fairway woods you
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can either, you know, Create a ton of
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backspin to where you'll get a lot of
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ballooning to your golf shot, or you can
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actually, you know, You have this really
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descending below, where you'll hit the
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top part of the ball or down into the
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ground and you'll hit this really big bad
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top shot. Or you can actually hit the
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ball down into the ground. I've seen that
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happen before.
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Alright, so if you've noticed that your
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head position is out in front here,
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Chances are, you've not used yourself or
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used the ability to create what we call
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secondary axis tilt to help shallow
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things back out. Club is going to be very
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steep coming into the ground. So when I
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talk about secondary axis tilt, You can
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see now that the spine is facing just
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outside the lead knee here from where it
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was at address. So it was just inside
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from an evenly weight distributed, you
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know, Address position to now being fully
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seated left and then being able to create
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a little bit of torso rotation of pulling
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that lead hip away from the target.
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And now he's allowed things to shallow
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out properly.
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Also if you've noticed that your lead
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shoulder is above this line quite a bit.
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If you've noticed that it's two, three
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inches above where you were at address,
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then probably you have created way too
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much secondary axis tilt. And when you
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create too much secondary axis tilt, that
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can cause you to hang back on your trail
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side. So when you get hung back there,
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That's where you're going to run into the
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problem. Where you'll either shallow
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things out too much and the club's going
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to bounce off the ground.
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Or you'll create that really ascending
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blow and you'll just top it. So those are
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the two areas that you really need to
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focus in on your golf swing is making
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sure that you understand where your head
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position is at address, where it is at
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impact, and then also where your lead
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shoulder is. If your lead shoulder, like
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I said, is way above, Then you need to
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focus on making sure that you get rid of
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a lot of that secondary axis tilt. And
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that'll help you get back into hitting
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golf shots more solidly. So there's some
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good drills on the website. There's some
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great videos. We have the hip bump axis
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tilt video that's in the program setup
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section. We also have the importance of
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axis tilt.
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That's a video that's in the advanced
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section. I'm going to put these videos
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over to the right-hand side of the
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player.
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Talk about, it'll be the recommended
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videos for this week.
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Also another great video on the website I
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think is often overlooked is the level
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shoulders drill.
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That's a great video that Chuck talks
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about how to get the shoulders more level
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in the hitting area. But make sure that
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if you're going to work on that drill,
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that you don't have your head moving way
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too far out in front of this line.
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Because that can create that mess of
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problems with either coming in too steep
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or hitting some top shots as well.
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Alright guys, so these are the key areas
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I want you to check out in your golf
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swing. Make sure that you have great axis
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tilt at setup. Make sure that you rotate
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around your axis properly. Make sure in
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downswing transition that you shallow
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things out properly after you get fully
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seated left, and you're creating proper
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rotation and proper secondary axis tilt.
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Make sure that that lead shoulder is not
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getting way up in the air. And get well
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on your way to hitting some great fairway
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woods and not embarrassing yourself on
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the golf course any longer. Alright, I
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look forward to working more with you
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guys in the future. Now let's get out
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there and hit some great shots and make
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it a great day.
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