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The cereal is playing around with low point. Low point control is one of the key skills

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for making really solid contact. You frequently see golfers or tour golfers at the

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US open, the British open where the grass is really bare and they tend to be on a little

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bit more slopes. You see them take a number of practice swings just kind of feeling how

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the club is going to hit the ground. I find that many amateurs are avoiding trying to hit

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the ground where most good golfers are trying to hit the ground and they're trying to hit

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the ground in a specific spot. Now what you do with your swing, how much you bump your

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hips or keep your posture or use the wipe or the motorcycle, that all influences both

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how you create speed or how you create speed, how you control the face to path relationship

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as well as the path. Low point control is one of the parameters of the path. So I'll bring

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the camera in and we'll take a closer look but I pretty much just drawn a box with the spray

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paint. What I normally do for students is I'll have them get in their setup posture

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and then I'll take a tee and I'll place lines in the ground. I'll just kind of drag and

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create lines so that they can see it. Roughly let's say about eight inches to a foot on both

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sides of the golf wall. So about four inches, four to six inches on one side versus the

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other. And then what I'll ask them to do is I'll ask them to take practice swings and just

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kind of see where the club hits the ground. Then here's where the drill comes in. The challenge

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is I'm going to ask you to move it with one of two different ways. You can either move it

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forward or backward using your arms or your body. If you're doing the arms I want you to

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try to keep your body movements the same. So I can move here and make it in contact. I can

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keep pretty much the same body movements and just by changing my arms I can move the

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low point from well back by my right foot to well out in front of my left foot. Then if I

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want I can challenge myself to move the low point around keeping the same arm movement and

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just adjusting the body. So now I'm going to make basically that release and I'm going

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to try to shift a little bit more so I can hit the ground back there or early extend or I

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can spin but now I get the low point where the path getting a little bit too much to the

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left. But it's a great way to kind of play around with low point. If you struggle with

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heel toe contact so shanks or lots of toe shanks, toe shots then I would also want you to play

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around with how can you move the low point away or towards. And so that way you'd want to put

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lines going towards the target parallel lines towards the target so that you can see where

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you're making contact and then what I'll find is okay I might be releasing like that and it's

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going out a bit and now I've been more forward keeping the same release. It starts to move

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more back towards me or I might find if I lead more with my body it brings it back towards

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me. If I really go early with my arms it gets you know good four inches out that way.

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So I might find that I can control and move around that low point doing different arm movements

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doing different body movements. The big body movements that are going to help you move

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the low point or either the Jackson 5 so getting a little bit of pressure shift into that

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front foot. The merry-go-round getting more flexion and body turn or potentially a little bit more

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of the side bend and this is a great way to confirm if you're getting side bend while going

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into extension because that'll move the low point way back or if you're getting side bend while

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going into flexion rotation that'll move the bottom of swing forward. So you'll see if I side

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bend but then rotate that hit the ground there. If I side bend but then extend that hit the

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ground way back here. So if you want to work on your low point skill trying to do it perfectly

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every time is the worst way to work on a skill. I've talked about the Goldy lock drills and trying

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to do too much one way too much the other way and then finding the middle. This is a great

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way for you to practice that skill working on low point. So now you can see from kind of the overhead view

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I'm just going to move the ball towards the front of that so that you can see roughly

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there's where my ball position would be and now here's just kind of setting a baseline trying to

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brush the ground right about where the ball is. Now I'm going to do body stays the same and I'm

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going to change it with my arms and so you'll see I can there's a little bit more outside in

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there's a little bit more white movement. I can really move it forward with that white movement

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without getting too much out the path getting too much outside in or if I cast I can really

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move that low point backward. Now I'm going to try and keep the same release

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so we're going to get that release going and I'm going to use my body rotation to move that forward

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and use some early extension to move that backward. I'm going to flex a little bit more to move that

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forward and steeper. I'm going to cover the ball but stay a little bit more back so I can just play

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around with different options and try and control where that's hitting the ground. You can put

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teasing the ground as different objects or you can just do it spatially. Now I'm going to try to move

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it forward backward so I'm going to set my baseline of just hitting the ground kind of like that.

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Now I'm going to flex more forward and turn and you see that moves the bottom of the swing closer

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to me. Now if I early extend and early release that right arm it moves it backward and further away

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for me. So now I can control where that bottom of the swing is hitting and then ultimately do it with

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some golf balls. So here I've got set up. There I've got the low point just ahead. Now I'm going to

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challenge myself. Same stance. I'm going to set up here and I'm going to try to use the wipe and

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staying down. So you can see I just got the grass and now same stance. If I found that I was really

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bottoming out here I'm going to try and control low point with a little bit more early extension

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now it gives me a little bit more hook.