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In this video, we're going to take a look at the driver killers.

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So if you struggle with your driver, then it's likely one of a few main issues.

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Typically it comes down to either a steepness where it's either the upper body dominant

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or I'm just in a position where the club is traveling too much heightal low kind of traveling

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in more of this B-shite, shape pattern down into the ball.

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Or the club face is being closed too late and that creates a lot of contact or direction

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issues.

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If you tend to be more of the steep pattern, it tends to be more predictable, but you typically

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complain of some big misses, especially flares off to the right, like slices or pulse

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to the left, as well as a lack of distance.

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Oftentimes you'll say that you hit your three wood as far as you hit your driver.

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That can often be related to this steep issue, not always, but a lot of the time.

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If you struggle more with consistency where the flight is pretty good, but I have some

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big pushes to the right and it's a big overdraws to the left, that's typically more the

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club face is squaring or closing late.

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So when you're looking at it on video, you want to start with the impact line and you

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want to start with where is the club compared to the height of the ball when it's about

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even with the right foot.

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If my upper body is on top, you'll see that the club is still high up off the ground compared

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to the golf ball when it's even with my right foot.

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This is going to be coming more down into the golf ball or it's going to require a quick

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shallowing, which would happen with the arm bend.

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So first position is looking at this impact line with the driver, making sure that the upper

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body is a good distance behind that left foot so that your head is somewhere in the six

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inch, four to six inches behind the golf ball or more over your right leg.

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Kind of like this.

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That tends to get the club low to the ground so then when you extend the arms and you

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keep the body pivoting, that tends to create the more the sweeping or brushing or flat

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bottom of the swing.

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The second piece to look at is the club face.

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So if we're looking at that same checkpoint, you can see here, I left the club face pointing

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at the camera, wide open here.

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Now I'm going to have to snap my wrist or let the club pass very quickly in order to

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then square it up.

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So that would look more club faces wide open and kind of flicking the wrist kind of like

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this.

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Now you'll see that I hit that relatively straight but I'm going to be limited in

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how much speed I can create and consistency wise.

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My contact is typically going to go all over the face.

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So I'm not going to be very consistent.

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If that's the case, then I have to do more of these motor cycle drills and getting used

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to the club face being more rotated earlier and the feeling of everything coming through

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together on the way through as opposed to just hitting it with a flick of the wrist.

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So the good news is I deal with driver issues all the time and if it is the case where

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you're struggling with the driver, it's usually

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solved by either hitting it more with the body or by closing the face and swinging a little

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bit more shallow or from the inside.

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So it's usually only one of two solutions.

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It's just figuring out what's going to get you into that pattern the fastest and that's

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where you're looking at the video and working your way backward from impacts will help you

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figure out is it more of a body or tilt issue, is it more of a sequence issue, I'm swinging

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too much with my arms, is it more of a path and face issue.

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Once you know that, then there's only a handful of drills you'll need to do in order to quickly

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dial it in.

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So let's look at what a couple of those look like.

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So if I get more on top of it, almost like I'm going to hit an iron and I get steep,

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you'll see that's going to give me that classic low slice pattern.

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Now I didn't swing too hard at it because I don't like the way swinging hard and steep

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feels.

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But what I'm going to do now is I'm going to swing it about the same effort about the same

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speed, but I'm going to be in a better body position and you'll see launch wise that's

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going to carry a good 40 50 yards further and then run in an additional 30 40.

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I mean that ball probably went 80 yards further than the first one without putting a whole

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lot more effort in just by getting more of the speed coming from my body while being in

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this shallow position and squaring the face a little bit earlier so I didn't have the

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time it quite as much down at the bottom.

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So like I said, the driver typically, if you're struggling with it, it's only one of a

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couple issues, it's just figuring out which drills will help you kind of change the picture

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or dial in the concepts the fastest.

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All right, just for fun, we'll do a good body pivot.

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Good driver swing.

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Close.

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All right, it didn't square the face on that first one.

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So putting the right rough, we'll do a good one here.

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That was pretty good.