Lydia Ko - Power and Control
Lydia Ko - Power and Control
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Description
In this video, I'll show you how Lydia Ko has a perfect balance of power and control in her golf swing. I'll also show you how she stabilizes the lower body throughout the entire swing and outline a great drill to show you how to control the club face in the hitting area. If you have been lacking power and control in your golf swing, then you must check out these key moves that Lydia does so well and put them to use in your own game.
Video Practice Points
- Shift to the trail side during the takeaway and maintain the knee flex so that you can activate the glutes and stabilize the hips.
- Shift to the lead side and create a solid post in the lead leg and stabilize the hips for control and power
- Control the club face with gradual rotation. Toe up to toe up when working in a 9 to 3 drill.
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Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructor
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Chris Tyler and this week I'm going to
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focus in on the new 1.5 million dollar 17
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year old LPGA superstar Lydia Ko. I'm
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going to show you how she has a perfect
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blend of power and consistency in her
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golf swing. So let's go ahead and get
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started.
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Okay so the new 17 year old young
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sensation Lydia Ko gets a wonderful
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victory this past weekend so
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congratulations to her she's a phenomenal
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talent and I think we're going to see her
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around for quite a while winning a lot of
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big events and as I said in the opener I
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wanted to talk to you guys a little bit
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this week about a good blend of both
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power and consistency and you know a lot
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of times when we do instruction we talk a
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lot about how important the lower body is
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not number one for just stability and
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control but it's also really critical for
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power and if you learn how to use the
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lower body effectively it can in turn
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speed your golf club up drastically and
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Lydia uses the lower body extremely well
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and she also controls the area that
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matters most in golf and that's the
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hitting area and if we think of the
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hitting area this time it's more of like
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a hip high to hip high range you're going
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to see something that she does really
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well and it's one of those common areas
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that we see from one professional to the
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next and obviously having a lot of
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control in this area is where these
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players are able to succeed and then also
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having that good blend of power
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obviously you know with golf being a
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sport where you need to have a lot of
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speed those two ingredients are you know
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absolutely pivotal for good golf so let's
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go ahead and get started here I'm going
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to show you from a couple of different
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angles we're going to focus more on the
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face on view first and what you're going
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to see her do I'm going to draw what we
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call the right hip line here is you're
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going to see her make a good size shift
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to the right side okay which is her trail
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side you're going to see a small shift
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here so you see her shift over to that
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side not a ton of head movement and what
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she's doing here is she's loading up that
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right side for stability so she's loading
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the right side up she's creating a post
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in that trail leg and when you create a
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post what you're trying to do is you're
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not trying to allow any sort of wobbling
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from your post I think of it kind of like
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a mailbox post if you don't want your
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mailbox kind of wobbling all over the
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place so you want to shift it over there
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you want to get the weight into that
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right heel right ankle and you want to
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have your glute muscles really start to
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fire contract and you can use those for a
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lot of stability and one of the good
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things that you'll notice in her golf
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swing here from a down the line
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perspective when she gets loaded up to
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the top part of her move and for you
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golfers at home when you've when you've
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struggled with having you know either
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over rotation from your hips you've
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struggled with hip spinning you struggled
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with you're not having a lot of control
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of your golf swing if you notice here
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she's just got a very very small window
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between her knees now with a driver swing
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we we oftentimes we widen our stance we
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make some subtle changes but from a stock
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shot format if you're looking at your
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golf swing and you've noticed this window
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opening up between your knees chances are
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you've over rotated your hips which can
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in turn when you over rotate your hips
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can over rotate your spine and when you
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over rotate your spine then the hands and
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arms can travel much further so if you've
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been looking for a good solution to
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shorten and tighten your golf swing up
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the best possible thing that you can work
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on is making a small shift and really
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getting some good awareness of your glute
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muscles not only for consistency purposes
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but also for power all right so let's
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continue on here I'm going to show you
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from a face-on perspective she's created
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that post in that trail side big wind-up
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big rotation there she gets about 95
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almost 100 degrees of rotation from the
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shoulder line and then what she does to
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start her downward move is now she's
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going to shift and unwind her hips so you
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see you're shifting off that right hip
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line and then she's unwinding those hips
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so now she's creating a post in that lead
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side so let me go ahead and remove this
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arrow for us so she's creating this big
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old post in this left side and she's
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going to stabilize the hips and like I
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said with driver swings we do we do go
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into a wider base and we do increase axis
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tilt down in the hitting area but the
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most important part is being able to
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leverage the ground and be able to pull
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the power up out of the ground and also
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stabilize and that's what she does
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extremely well you're gonna see that
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she's created that post if you watch that
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lead leg there she likes to push down
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into the ground
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and she's stalling those hips out and
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then she's getting ready to release the
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golf club and max speed down there in the
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hitting area which is awesome awesome
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textbook stuff there and now from a
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consistency purpose or consistency
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standpoint for us let me go ahead and
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show you some things here from a down the
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line perspective because this is where
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she has that good blend I'm gonna go
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ahead and back her up into the takeaway
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so if you this is where we would see a
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completed takeaway she's got roughly 45
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degrees of shoulder turn she's got both
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arms nice and straight club shaft is
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parallel to the ground but notice here
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how the club face is just a fraction on
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the shut side normally what we would be
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looking for is more of the toe of the
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club to be more to the sky and if you
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watch here when she gets back down into
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the hitting area she gets her hands down
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and around the hip-high range so here we
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are this next frame so she's got her
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hands right about hip-high but notice how
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this toe of the club is now right up the
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sky and the club face is nice and square
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and I think of the hip-high to hip-high
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range when we do a lot of instruction is
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is a toe up to toe up kind of drill so we
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have that drill on the website the nine
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to three but if you focused on creating
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the the toe of the golf club or allowing
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the toe of the golf club to be at the sky
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at the nine o'clock position and then
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through these next few frames
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you're gonna see that club face squaring
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up at impact and then back over to the
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hip-high range here on the other side now
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you can notice that the toe up is right
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up to the sky there so she's had a fair
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amount of gradual rotation to the club
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face which is extremely important for
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consistency so again that's where it kind
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of goes back to that blend of power and
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consistency is being able to control
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things that are going on down in the
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hitting area and there you know as I said
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there's you know obviously there's there
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can be some differences with her right
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leg moving in towards her left and her
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right foot coming up off the ground
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that's not something that we would be
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prone to be teaching to a lot of our
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students because that can create some hip
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spinning issues that can create the you
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know that can bring the hips forward but
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with her move because she's able to
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stabilize things from the lead side of
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the body pay very close attention here to
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the scorecard that's in her back pocket
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so you can see that scorecard or yardage
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book now watch it right at this point so
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you can see all that rotation she's
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unwinding getting seated over in that
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left side she's created that post and at
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this point you won't see that scorecard
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move at all as she's releasing through
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the hitting area back out to that three o
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'clock position so it actually starts
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right at that point where the club face
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is nice and square and then she's going
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to go ahead and release it on through
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right out through to the three o'clock
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position and in turn she's able to hit
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the golf ball 250 plus yards at 17 years
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old and she hits more than 80% of her
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fairways all right guys so find that
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blend of power and consistency by loading
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up and stabilizing your lower body
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properly control the hitting area by
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using that good nine to three drill that
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we have on the website always you're
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going to hear me preach the five minutes
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to a perfect release because
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understanding how to control the club
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face and have a gradual rotation to the
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face through the hitting area is
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ultimately how you're going to have a lot
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of control
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another great video on the website is
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going to be load up the right glute
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all right load up the right glute it's
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going to have it'll be over here in the
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recommended videos to the right of your
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video player it's a great video that's
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going to show you if you've had any
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issues with stabilizing your hips it'll
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show you how to get things moving and get
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things shorter and tighter and then
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ultimately be able to play a lot more
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consistent golf all right so that's our
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game plan we want to obviously use that
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lower body for stability we want to be
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able to use it for power and then in turn
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turn that power into a lot of good
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controlled speed down in the hitting area
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and we'll be able to play some great golf
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this year all right guys i look forward
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to working more with you guys in the
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future i hope everybody has a great day
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and a great rest of the week we'll talk
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to you soon
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