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This drill is 9 to low point. So 9 to low point is a great drill for working on your

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low point control. Many golfers struggle with the club kind of bottoming out behind

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the golf ball and either picking the ball or chicken winging or hitting fat shots,

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then shots. And typically this will show up as poor contacts especially with the

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irons. So 9 to low point helps you connect that delivery position to where you're

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trying to get ultimately get the club at its lowest point brushing the ground. So to

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do it, we're going to use our impact fix as a kind of awareness drill. So you're

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going to get into your setup position and you're going to get into your good

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impact position. Then you're going to move the club ahead of the golf ball

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about six eight inches or so and you're going to feel like you've just pushed

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just slightly into the ground. Now at this point technically because of what my

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body is doing the club is going to be or the handle is going to be coming up but I'm

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also going to be extending the arm so I'll feel that club pushing down into the

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ground. So for this drill impact fix we're going to impact position and then put

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the club at low point. Now I'm going to move the ball just so that you can see

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what the keys are for this drill. The key for this drill is when I get into this

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low point position the key is to make a straight line with the club head where it's

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working gradually downward into low point. What a lot of you are going to try to do

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especially the first few times that you try this is you're going to get into your

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delivery position and then you're going to get the club on the ground. Let's say just

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behind the middle of your stance or even middle of your stance and then you're going

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to try to keep it low all the way through there. So it's going to end up looking like

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that. Now the problem is when you get body speed involved it'll end up getting more

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exaggerated where the bottom of the swing is going to move a little bit further backward

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and that's going to tend to cause the club to come more from this low to high position.

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So when you're doing this drill the key is to feel the club a little bit higher longer

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so that then when you go to extend it's extending out into that low point position instead

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of behind it and kind of dragging through because there are really only two ways that I

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can move that bottom the swing forward like this. One would be if I take the swing path or

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the shape of the whole loop and I make it come way over the top. So if I'm facing this way

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right now that whole loop is bottoming out right at the golf ball now if I go like this

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now it's going to bottom out ahead of the golf ball but you can see it's way over the top.

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If I was to create a shallow path that's going to cause the swing to bottom out behind the golf

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ball. So the other option instead of tilting the whole shape of the circle is to take this

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and basically shift it like so. Now the two ways that I could do that would be either shifting

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my whole upper body which isn't going to work very well for anything longer than like a distance

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wedge or pitch shot or I could use the white movement where even though my body is going to

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stay behind and angle a little bit backward my arm timing and direction is going to move the whole

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circle or Hula hoop forward. That's the option that we're trying to get here.

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So we'll demonstrate a few but keep in mind kind of the overall concept of trying to get it

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from a straight line here to brushing the ground out in front of the golf ball and then we're just

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going to let the golf ball get in the middle. So from a face on view you're going to do the impact

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fix. Boom you're going to put the club roughly even with your left foot six you know eight inches

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in front of the golf ball and feel like that's where it's going to be reaching its low point.

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Go back to waist tight and then in one fluid movement get the club the bottom out

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ahead of the golf ball. So not letting it bottom out and then trying to keep it low. If it's already

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low to the ground before the golf ball you got no chance of keeping it low to the ground on the

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other side. So from down the line I'm going to do my impact fix preset where the club is going to

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be pushing in the ground pump that a couple times go back to waist tight and then in one movement

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try to get the golf club to brush or hit the ground and just let the ball get in the way. Now if

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you're if you're new to this it's very normal to hit these a little thin it's also normal to hit

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these a little bit to the right. You can any of these stop drills you want to be a little bit

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patient with yourself as far as contact goes. But then once you get a feeling for it so here's my drill

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good then I do one but the ball get in the way. Once I get a feeling for it I can go ahead and try to

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recreate that same type of contact and feeling in a normal kind of fluid nine to three drill.

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Once I have a normal fluid nine to three drill feeling and I've got something I want to test.

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Now I can go bigger either more intense or I can work it closer and closer into the full swing.

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So if you're struggling with a little bit more of a scoopy type contact and you're struggling

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with iron consistency this is a great drill for help you to focus on low point which is one of the

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key factors for hitting solid iron shots.