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In this golf smart insight, we're going to answer a member question about hitting the ball

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to high with the driver. So this particular golfer from New York has had a little bit of

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issue with having kind of distance and consistency was kind of his major issues. Hitting the ball

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a little bit off the toe, main reason he was sitting off the toe, he had the pattern of a little

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bit of an early release with the right side so that right arm would get away from him and then

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that upper body would lunge more on top. This would cause a little bit of a kind of chicken wing

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or bringing the arms in on the follow-through that whole combination caused a lot of toe shots,

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a lot of poles, a lot of pull-draws, not really the best combination. So first thing we've been trying

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to work on has been trying to get a little bit more of this upper body shifting behind by doing

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the Jackson 5. Jackson 5 is one of the great movements for building a little bit more of this

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axis till. Now what'll happen is there's two major ways for me to create height. One would be

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by releasing the wrist, this gets more loft on the golf ball and the opposite one would be by

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staying behind the ball like so. This causes me to have a little bit more of a upward angle of

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attack which will cause me to have a higher launch. So in this golfer, in this particular golfer's

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what's going to happen is anytime you've gone from this pattern like so to now staying behind

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the ball but I still feel like my arm extending away from me is one of my main power sources.

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What's going to happen is I'm now going to add both. So I'm going to stay a little bit more

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behind the ball but I'm also going to release more on the right side of my body. That combination

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is going to cause a lot of height and typically a high right miss. So something that'll look

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similar like that. What we need to do is not bail on the upper body staying back. We don't want

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to go back to the upper body drifting ahead of the golf ball or on top of the golf ball with the

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driver. What we want to make sure we do is when we come down into this delivery position we want to

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make sure that that elbow continues to work past your body instead of lining up more in line with

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the ball. Typically when you do this it is going to feel like you've lost clubbed speed. So if you

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have the chance get on a radar so you can see that that's probably not the case. Because what will

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happen is this feeling of the right arm kind of flicking and releasing gives the perception of a lot

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of clubbed speed. But typically what I'll see on 3D is that will peek somewhere around here where

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if you have this arm working more across your body like so you will tend to peek your speed more

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at the golf ball and it'll allow you to have more of this side bend. So now I get the direction

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that my arms are kind of guiding the club more in the direction of the target instead of

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perpendicular to it. That combination helps to give us that kind of tour launch that we look for

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as well as transferring more of the speed into the golf ball. So if you are struggling with

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getting that upper body to stay behind and you're hitting ball really high, review the arm

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sections and transition and release and specifically look at how this right arm is going to work

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more across your body instead of more out at the golf ball. That combination will help bring the

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launch back down but in a much more powerful way than your typical way of bringing the launch down

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which would be lunging with the upper body to get on top of the golf ball. So try that.

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Let me know if it works. I've seen it work a lot of times with my students and I'm confident that

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if you can get this feeling it'll lead to a much more consistent and powerful ball fight.