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This drill is face closing with the impact bag.

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Many golfers struggle with closing the club face during the downswing or getting the club

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to rotate through the downswing.

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They tend to want to hold the face pretty square and then square it more by straightening

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the arms as opposed to rotating the face.

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The problem with that method is if you straighten it more by straightening your arms then

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it's very hard to have any amount of shaffling because shaffling as you can see opens

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the club face.

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So what the better golfers tend to do is they have this rotation of the club face to match

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that shaffling.

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That's part of the reason why you don't see that with wedges where wedges you want the bottom

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of swing a little bit more in line with the golf ball.

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So to work on face rotation early enough in the downswing we're going to use the impact

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bag.

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So again I'm not a huge fan of using the impact bag to actually train impact but it's a good

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way to stop the club at various points during the swing.

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I can give you a little checkpoint.

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It's something that I've done in the past with using just a bag or pillow type thing but

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this is an easy way for you to do it at home.

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So I've got the ball roughly in the middle of alignment stick and this is somewhere pretty

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close to the toe line.

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Now what I'm going to do or another way you can look at it it's about chef 30 degrees 45

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degrees back.

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That kind of like so.

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Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to try and stick the toe into the club or into

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the impact bag kind of like this and I'm just going to get the feeling of closing that

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down and turning that toe down.

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Many golfers when they first try to do the motorcycle and when they're trying to close

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the face more will end up doing it more like this.

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They'll do it more with shaff rotation and getting the club well outside.

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So having this position deep enough forces you to use that older deviation and forces

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you to do it in a way where you'll still be coming from the inside.

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So this kind of gives you a reference of what it's like to get that club face closed

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early.

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The other thing it gives you a feeling of or a sensation of is instead of hitting the ball

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with more of the club passing the hands you kind of get the sense of hitting the ball.

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More with this rotation or that palm press or palm strike feeling.

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So I get the feeling that I'm basically going like this and then what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to try to make there's my release and I'm going to try to use my body

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rotation so that that release there gets the impact.

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I'm going to try to use my body rotation to move impact from there to there.

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I'm not going to use my hands and arms to move the impact from there to there.

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That's a little tricky concept but hopefully you can follow what I'm describing there.

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Now if I was going to adapt this for a driver the question is what I make it happen

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earlier or later.

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Well what we really want to have happen is we're going to move this up so I'm going to grab

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a chair and it's going to happen earlier.

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So if I was doing this with a driver I would be basically getting that same amount of

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rotation right around there actually probably a little bit below that but I'm limited

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in the chair I've got here.

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So right around there and then now same rules I'm closing it to that position and I'm

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going to use body rotation so that my arms feel like they're doing there is happening

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until there.

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So you can see that if I do that facing the camera so if I get that position spring

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this back just a touch so it's roughly in line with just inside a shaft parallel to the

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target line.

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So now if I close that down kind of like this and then I use my body rotation so that

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felt like I did the exact same arm movements to hit it there but that's ending down there

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an impact and you can see if I had driver of the well behind it those would match up.

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So with an iron it happens a little bit lower to the ground kind of like there not

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quite as side bend and rotated with the iron as I would be with the driver but this gives

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you a sense of what are the arms going to feel like and where are they in space compared

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to your body and then gives you the challenge of how can I use my body to get that to

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impact.

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So then what you can do is you can set up a little circuit so I've got the ball there

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here's my station right so I'm set up to a golf ball right in line with the camera

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right about here.

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I do a few hit that impact bag get it close but make sure it's not coming outside and

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then use body rotation to get it to there and then I step forward with that same timing

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so I'm trying to kind of close it early to there and then that feeling of getting it close

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through there I'm just going to use the body movements so that that happens at impact so

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we'll do that again so we get there so now I'm trying to hit there but watch my body makes

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it so now if I took my body away but if I add my body back in the body moves the contact

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from there to there the example would be okay there's just throwing a ball with my arm but

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now I've got a time it so that that movement matches what my body is doing that's what I'm

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trying to do here so I get that closing the club face that motorcycle and owner and then

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let my body kind of bring that through pull that just the touch but overall pattern pretty close

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so if you're struggling with getting the club face or closed early enough you're not getting

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penetrating ball flight or you're not getting it to turn over a little bit this is a good way

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to check and make sure that you're getting that club face to close early enough and that usually

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transfers to that stronger ball flight or a little bit more of a draw once you sink it up with

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what's going on with the body.