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In this concept video, we're gonna discuss the fat shot.

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Um, so oftentimes in your pattern, you'll get stuck

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where you're having a common miss

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and you have to work through that miss.

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Um, the fat shot typically shows up with irons

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where you're hitting the ground before the golf ball.

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You're, I'm gonna show you a couple things

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to look for at impact.

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Two body causes, one arm cause,

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and one kind of sequencing cause that can contribute

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to a tendency to hit more fat shots.

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Um, the first objective is

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to figure out are you hitting a fat shot

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because the bottom of the swing is too far back, or

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because the bottom of the swing is too far down

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or too deep into the ground.

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Um, the obvious one is I'm hitting the ground

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because I'm too far back

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and the club is actually coming up into the golf ball.

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Um, the less obvious one is the bottom of the swing is ahead

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of the golf ball, but

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because the bottom of the swing is too deep,

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the club is striking the ground before the golf ball.

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In both cases, you'll get, um, debris caught in

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between the golf club and the golf ball,

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and the ball won't go as far

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and it'll, it won't feel very good.

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It'll often feel kind of jarring or diggy.

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Um, so let's talk through the major causes here with the,

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with the fat shot with the body.

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The primary two, uh, that you want to look for are,

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are you too far down?

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Basically, is the center of your body right here,

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too close to the golf ball?

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That would tend to cause more of the deep shot.

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Um, or is everything too far back?

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If everything is too far back, um, then you'll tend to

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fluctuate between fat and thin.

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Um, but if the body is in a good position

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and just too close to the ground, um,

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then you'll typically struggle or you'll go back

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and forth between solid shots and fat shots.

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Not absolutes, but that's the general tendency.

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From the arm perspective, the main cause

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of the fat shots would be the arms being a little bit too

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far behind the body, um, either the right arm lengthening,

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especially that, uh, trail wrist too soon you'll see kind

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of a gap between the shoulder and the body, um,

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or that left arm kind of pulling down

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and in, um, kind of pulling more like this.

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Um, that can cause the, the radius of the swing

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or the arms to lengthen the club too soon.

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Now if it looks like the arms are in front of the body,

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the body is maintaining a good distance,

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it's not too far back

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and you're still getting a little bit too much lengthening

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of the arm too soon, but the divot isn't too deep,

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it's just a little back.

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Um, then I would look at sequencing

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and looking at making sure that my body is getting, uh, open

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before my arms are, uh, getting into impact.

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Um, that would typically show up if you're hitting fat

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shots and you look at the camera.

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Um, and the shaft would look like it's pretty much

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even with the golf ball.

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Um, so oftentimes a little station like this where you have

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a second stick indicating your ball position that'll help

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you see or, or doing something like the classic line drill.

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Um, that will help you see where contact is.

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So is it too far back or is it just too deep?

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Um, if it's too deep, you'll want

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to look at the major causes

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of your upper body moving in towards the golf ball,

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especially the middle of your body.

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Um, this could either be the legs kind of buckling down.

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This could be, um, like a little bit too much, uh, kind

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of extension in the back, not enough turtle shell, um,

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or the upper body kind of diving down

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and doing too much of a upper body driven crunch.

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All those can lower the swing, um,

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and cause some pesky fat shot problems.

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Um, if it's too far back, you wanna look at pivot location,

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whether it's just the upper body getting too far back

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or everything getting too far back.

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You wanna look at the timing of is it getting back in the,

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uh, backswing as or the downswing.

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Same thing with the, uh, body getting too close.

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But that's a bigger issue

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for looking if the swing is getting back.

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And with the arms,

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you wanna look at are they widening too early,

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like a cast in transition or is it more of a early release?

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Um, down to the bottom. If all those things look okay

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and you're still hitting it fat, then you wanna look at kind

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of that core and pelvis rotation

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and make sure that your body is getting open.

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If you use that rubric,

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you can usually identify what's causing you

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to hit the ball fat and then you can come, you can uh,

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click on some of the drills to focus your on the body part

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that is causing your main miss, rather than just jumping

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around hoping to fit the fat shot.

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So quick, demo. When in doubt you can always go

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to something like the line drill

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and just, um, use more of a constraint lead.

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Like as long as I get the bottom of the swing, not too deep

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and ahead of this stick,

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I'm probably not gonna hit it too fat.

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Good divot location there ahead of the stick.

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We'll take that one.