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If the club comes from the inside, the club will rotate through impact (which is a good thing) and as a result the lead arm will be rotated so that the elbow points down at the ground in the follow through. If you don't have this rotation, then there is a good chance that your path is coming from outside-to-in through impact.
Tags: Not Enough Distance, Cast, Driver, Release, Drill
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The striver drill is elbow fold down.
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So elbow fold down is basically looking at the orientation of this left or lead arm during
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the release.
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So if this arm tends to be facing up towards the sky or bending, kind of getting into this
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chicken wing position, I would call that folding up where if I let that arm kind of rotate
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and try to get it pointing more down towards the ground, that's going to be more of
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this elbow fold down.
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This is a higher priority for the longer clubs, mostly because it keeps the path moving
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out to the right.
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So if I'm doing it from down here, what you'll see is the more that this elbow starts
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working up, it tends to all things being equal cause the club to swing more to the left.
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The more that I get that elbow to fold down, you can see that that club is actually traveling
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more out to the right.
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That's part of why I feel like the tip of letting those forearms roll over each other
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works for a lot of people.
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It wasn't that it was closing the club face, it was that it was keeping the path going
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out to the right which helped straighten out slices.
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So focus on this when you're doing either your 9 to 3 and you can actually check it
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and look at the elbow and say, is that pointed down or is that pointed up?
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Or if you're doing full swings, you'll have to use video in order to look at it and
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see if your elbow is actually staying down.
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Because no, that's a really good metaphor or a really good checkpoint for if my arms
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are going to extend and keep the club moving out to the right or if my arms are going
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to more chop and move the club more to the left.
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With the driver, we want to make sure that the club is going a little bit more in-out
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because of the fact that we're hitting flat or slightly up in order to have a similar
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flight or straight shot the way that we want with the irons.
