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Your hip flexibility will play a key role in determining how your lower body works through impact. This video shows you how to determine how much foot flare your front foot should have, and why setting up to square could be a big problem. How much is enough turn out? Well, if you can't turn to get your pelvis facing the target, then you probably want to increase turnout until you can. This is a very simple drill to help you adjust your golf set up for your physical capabilities. Unless you can get your belt facing the target with a square lead foot, then a square lead foot is setting you up for a swing fault or injury.
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Tags: Early Extension, Set Up, Follow Through, Drill, Beginner
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The setup drill is called left foot turn out. Basically figuring out what I need to do with my
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foot so that it supports what my body can do. So you're going to take the club in place
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at a cross your hips just like we've done in some of the other drills like the setup drill
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the Jackson 5 any of those moves. And then from here you're going to turn and try to get
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your pelvis or your belt buckle to face the target while you keep your foot flat. That's the
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challenge in this drill. I'm not actually hitting a ball. I'm just experimenting with my leg.
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So as I turn you'll see that my hips are actually about 30 degrees short of where they need to be
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or where I would like them finishing into the target. To get them to finish facing the target
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I start to feel a little bit of torque in my ankle and my knee. So what I'm going to do is I'm going
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to take my foot and turn it so that now it's pointed about 30 degrees out to make up for my hip restriction.
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Right? Because my left hip is a little tighter than my right hip. If I was playing golf left handed
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I could play with a pretty square foot and have a normal finish. Unfortunately, that left hips a
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little tight so I've got to turn that left foot out. Now with that left foot turned out it's going
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to delay when my hip actually needs to do the work. So now I can turn and easily get into this
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finished position. So all my setup drills for me are going to start with this foot a little bit
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turned out like so just so that it's far enough that I can stay in my posture as I go to finish.
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Because the problem is if this foot is square and I have this left hip restriction that won't let me
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turn fully 90 degrees which very few of you will be able to do. So I recommend some foot turn out
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for most of you. Well when I get as I approach that breaking point my body is going to save it and
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it's going to stand up and I'm going to basically get the movement out of my lower back,
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my right hip, my ankle, my knee, but everything other than that hip. And that stand up move
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is going to mess with my path and plane as I approach the golf ball. So to avoid that into a
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allow me to stay down I'm going to turn this foot out 30 degrees, 25 degrees, whatever the magic number
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is so that I can get into my finished position without having the foot come up. The foot will
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come up when you're swinging hard especially when you're swinging a driver but for this
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kind of experiment drill I want you to focus on keeping that foot flat. So simple little way for
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you to figure out how much foot turn out you need for the downswing. Now as far as the right foot
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you want that to be turned out just slightly so that it matches the knee. So maybe 5-10 degrees
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but if you air in the side of having that foot turned out too much that can limit your ability
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to use the right hip in the downswing properly depending on what's going on there or the right
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ankle. So I tend to focus more on where the left foot is and the right foot can be just
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slightly turned out because if you have a restriction in your right hip there are better ways
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to get around it than going duck foot. So we're going to focus on the left hip, make sure it supports
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your body and use that in all your setup drills which will help make your golf swing a little bit more
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efficient.
