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This challenge drill is extreme face awareness.

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So extreme face awareness is applying the, I'm going to hit a straight shot, a draw in a

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fade, but what I'm going to do here is I'm going to create an uncomfortable situation.

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So I'm going to use the wrong grip in order to challenge myself in order to feel the

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risk mechanics.

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So I'm going to hit my fade with a stronger grip and I'm going to hit my draw with a very

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weak grip.

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I'm going to work on 9 to 3 is or 10 to 2's but not full swings, but I'm going to exaggerate

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these movements.

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I'm going to put my hands in a very weak position and try to hit a draw, which means

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I've got to on the way down really motorcycle, really bow that risk, really get that right

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hand on top.

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Feel almost the extremes of these motions in order to get that club closed enough to then get

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it to draw on the way through.

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So I'm actually going to do a stop version at first, so I'm just going to bring it

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there, get that super close, and then try and get it.

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Well, it was very thin but you did see the draw happening.

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So then we'll try to do it without the stop action.

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So very weak, I've got my thumb all the way on the left side.

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This is the one that I tend to do.

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Good, got a nice little draw from that position.

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This is the one that I tend to use the most for golfers, for better golfers, oftentimes

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with juniors who have time and are willing to work through these struggle drills a little

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bit, because it really forces you to exaggerate the risk closing mechanic.

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Just like so.

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So we'll do a little bit bigger.

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Didn't quite get it closed enough.

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When you do the bigger swing with the weak grip, it is harder to then get it to draw.

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So if you notice that that's one thing that you can draw, then pretty well on nine to

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three's, but then have trouble when you take it to the full swing.

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It is possible that it's mostly because of the weakness of your grip, and so when you set

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the risk becomes harder to then square the face more on the way down.

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Okay, so now we're going to go for the opposite.

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We're going to work on, we're going to take a stronger grip, and we're going to really

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work on feeling the body rotation help hold the face off so that I can get more of a

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fade.

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So with this grip, if I was to just stop and let my arms pass, you can see that club

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face would come in very close.

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But if it instead, I hold the hands back and let most of my delivery come more from

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the body rotation instead of from the arms, then I should be able to still hit a

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fade even with an extremely strong grip just like so.

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And that's how some golfers, some good elite level ball strikers actually hit their

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fade is more with a strong grip and just requiring excessive body rotation.

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So if you tend to have more of a kind of a stall flip pattern, this one can really help

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with getting the feeling of the body rotating.

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Didn't quite, it's trying to fade.

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It was just more of a little bit of a pull.

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So we'll do one more, try to really feel like that body gets open and holds those hands

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off.

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There we go, that's clearly fading back.

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So to really challenge your ability to control the club face, I recommend tweaking with

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your grip to require you to feel a little bit different waiting and exaggerate these

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wrist motions that help you control the club face.

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Once you have the feeling, then you can go and do the standard nine shot drill just using

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your normal grip and some of these subtle feelings that you picked up in this extreme

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face closing.

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So if you want to adventure, go practice this for 20 minutes.

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It will really elevate your ability to control the club face with whatever challenge or whatever

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grip you choose.

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The hardest ones are always trying to hit it dead straight.

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So I'll put my neutral grip on and try to feel somewhere in between.

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A little bit more draw than I wanted there, but now I have a good feeling of which one I

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need to apply in order to balance that out.

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So now we're going to try for the dead straight ball.

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That's pretty close there, very, very little curve to that.

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And I did that by applying more of that body rotation field field in order to help take

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away the natural draw of my swing.