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This concept video, we're going to discuss how to play the steep barn pattern.

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So the steep barn pattern is not ideal, but if you don't have enough time to work on

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the pieces, like let's say I've been doing the steep barn pattern for 20 years and I'm

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going to play a trip in two weeks and I don't have a good feel of shallowing the

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arms. Well then I probably don't want to do anything radically different to try to shallow

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the arms. I want to just play that steep barn pattern. So if I'm going to play that steep

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barn pattern then there's a couple suggestions I give for most golfers. First the easiest

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thing to understand is the more that I create this power vertically my body is going to

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shallow out. Now I could either do that from really tilting behind but that tends to cause

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some timing and low point issues or I could do that by staying a little bit taller. So I'm

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going to stand up a little bit taller so that I can pull down and still have enough room

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to then get those arms straight. And as I'm getting the arms straight you'll notice I let

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the club pass as opposed to kind of bending the arms and bringing it in like this. So I want

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to make sure that from this tall position I'm really letting my arms stay straight and letting

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the wrists do a little bit more down at the bottom kind of more like that as opposed to

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trying to do too much with the body. If I am really steep with the arms then short term trying

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to do too much with the body often disrupts my timing. The other piece with the steepness

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aspect or with the staying tall aspect is I really want to make sure that my upper body

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stays on top of the golf ball. It's very hard to be steep arms and be back behind the golf

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ball kind of like this. And that's part of the reason why the steep arm pattern doesn't

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tend to work as well with the driver. So I'm going to not only stay tall but I'm also going

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to stay a little bit more on my front foot. This will help get the solid contact so get the

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low point ahead of the golf ball without having to overly rotate my body because what will

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usually happen is if I have a steep arm pattern kind of like this then the last thing my body

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will want to do is get wide open because I have a really hard time squaring it up. So I'm going

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to be tall and I'm going to be on top. Those are the two kind of setup and pivot ideas that

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complement the steep arm pattern. From a rhythm perspective I have to be really careful not to

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swing out of my shoes. I have to be really careful not to try to ratchet things up. Oftentimes

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when I have more of this shallow body steeper arm pattern it's more timing sensitive. I'm also

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going to have a lot more trouble hitting kind of a flighted shot or easy tempo like three quarter

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swings. I want to kind of stick with around the same tempo for most of my shots as best I can.

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So because if I swing hard what will usually happen is I pull harder. I lose the kind of the timing

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of when my body should be either lunging or standing up and I tend to get some

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cut face and contact issues. So we're going to stay tall. We're going to stay on top of the ball

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and we're not going to swing hard. Ball flight wise everyone always asks is it better to hit

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more of a fader or draw that really depends on your grip and your quadface alignment? But I would say

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you will do better playing one ball flight rather than trying to do a whole lot of shot shaping.

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And I would say that the better ball flight to play is one that isn't dead straight. So if I

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more on top of it it's a little bit easier if I have the quadface open that thing's going to fade

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fairly you know a good amount and if I do end up keeping my body a little bit more closed

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then that's going to tend to draw a fair amount. So it becomes harder to have a really stable

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quadface so it's easier to have a little margin of error and make sure that I'm going to

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hit either a bigger fade or a bigger draw. Now lastly equipment wise you'll tend to do better with

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shorter clubs and even a little bit more upright. So the driver is typically the most problematic pattern

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which you can either try to resolve by choking up or remembering some of those other keys and making

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sure that you don't swing hard and that you stay pretty tall. So what I usually recommend is in order

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to play the driver you don't want to get the ball too far forward. So you're going to tend to hit

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the ball a little bit lower it might be a little bit spinnier coming off but that'll make it closer

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to your iron pattern so you don't have to make as a big change. I think that varying your ball

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position too much is almost the same thing as varying the length of swing. So quick summary tying

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it all together if you're going to you know let's say you're going on a trip and you haven't had

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time to figure out how to shallow out the arms and get the body a little bit more involved or steep.

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We're going to get a little bit taller a little bit more on top of that left foot so shoulders are

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a little bit more level. We're going to focus on staying within ourselves as far as our rhythm goes.

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Shotwise we're going to make sure that we're not trying to hit it dead straight. We're going to play

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one curve over the other and driver position we're definitely not going to try to kill it and we

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might be comfortable hitting it a little bit lower from being more on top of the ball. If you do that

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oftentimes some of these steep arm golfers have pretty good short games this will be a way you can

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manage the full swing avoid some of those big numbers keep it in play until you have enough time

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where you can work on putting some of these pieces together. So let's do one more difference so we'll

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do one where I do the steep arm pattern kind of like that little less body turn little more

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own arm pull um kept the body a little bit more tall and quiet and that will do more of my normal

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so a little bit more arm shallow little bit more body rotation kind of like that.

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you