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This concept video is looking at the overall shape difference between a short iron swing and a long

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long club swing. So driver three would something like that. So I've got the trusty Hulu

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hoop out here and then I just took a pool noodle and we can imagine that the pool noodle

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is basically tangent to the path. So this will be representing the instantaneous path.

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If I'm hitting down on the ball you can see that that path of the club is not only traveling

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down it's also going a little bit out to the right and that depends on how much I'm hitting down

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as well as how much the Hulu hoop is tilted up or down. The more it's tilted down like on the

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driver that makes it go more out to the right. The opposite if I was to hit up on it like with the

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driver you can see that that path is not only going up it's going to the left. So to get a driver path

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that is pretty straight I need to swing a little bit more into out or shallow. To get an iron path

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where I'm hitting down on it to be straight I need to have a little bit more outside in.

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Now the other thing that compounds this just a little bit is the shape of the circle from the

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face on view. With the driver and the long club we're going to tend to have a little bit more of

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a look of a squished circle kind of like this. So if the ball position is right about there I'm going

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to squish it down kind of like that and swing a little bit more into out in order to get that path

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pretty close to straight. Now if this was a iron swing I'm going to hit a little bit more down on it

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and the swing shape is going to be more kind of circular and that's partly because of how we're

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powering this wing more with the upper body less with the big lower body and big kind of tour sequence

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that creates that flat spot in the width on the other side of the ball that we want for the longer

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club. So now I've got a short iron in the three wood and what you'll see is with the three wood to

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account for that I'm going to be have a little bit more of this access tilt. Now I create some of that

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just by having a wider stance at set up. It's going to help me stay a little bit more behind the

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ball and that by itself is going to get the path to swing a little bit more into out which will

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balance the fact that I'm not hitting down on it very much. Especially with the driver where I'm

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hitting up on it. With the iron I'll play the I'll be have a narrower stance which prevents me

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from creating that big tilt because I want the bottom to swing closer to where the golf ball is.

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When I get to a wedge the bottom swing is very close to where the where the golf ball is.

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So to do that I'm going to try to keep my upper body and my lower body a little bit more stacked

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on top of each other and then as a result of having my upper body and lower body stacked more on top

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of each other in order to get down to the golf ball and have a little bit four arm extension

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which is going to create more of this circular shape instead of the ellipse or kind of squished

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egg shape where it's wider on the other side of the golf ball. So the differences are with the

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short iron it's going to be a little bit more cast and slightly more outside in but that primarily

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comes from having the upper body power more of the swing and your body being more stacked.

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With the driver it's going to be a little bit flatter and wider or shallower and that's going to

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come from having a wider stance and a little bit more of that Jackson 5 or a little bit more of that

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bracing pattern. So if you struggle with one end of the spectrum either hitting the short iron or the

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long club there's a good chance that you're overall pattern and the overall shape matches better

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the other end and you want to work on how you can make simple adjustments to change the shape to fit

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the club that you're actually swing. So with the iron you'll see I can still draw the ball hitting

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down and a little bit I was slight pulled a little bit of draw staying more tall and hitting

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down. Now to get about the same amount of curve that one would have looked more like this but you

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could see with a three would that would launch that would basically roll along the ground. So now

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I'm going to play it a little bit further or further back if I made that same swing and came in steep

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and probably bought them out behind it. So now I'm going to have to get a little bit more

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lower body rotation in order to get that shallow contact. So that will look a little bit more.

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Like that and both of those that one actually went fairly straight just a touch draw the other one

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was a little bit of a pulled draw but you'll see that the overall patterns

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while the ball flight looked about the same in order to do so I had to make adjustments to the shape

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of the swing which you learned early in this video and I recommend that you practice going from

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short iron to long club and back and forth as part of your practice training to help it transfer to the

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course.