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The trail is training your local life.

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So I've got a pool noodle here to help you build a little bit of spatial awareness of where

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you are down at impact.

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A lot of golfers struggle with their pivot or their handle location and just having a wall

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would be ideal.

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But in this case, a pool noodle can help your brain figure out where you want to get to

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in space.

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It's an iron, just past impact.

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We talk about that low point being at about the left foot.

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Well one good reference or good checkpoint is basically at that point having the club,

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the club, the hand, the shoulder and the hip kind of all in line.

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The two most common problems would be either the upper body is back and I've slid a little

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bit, which could cause the hands to flip a little bit and cause me to hit that and

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it's in shots.

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Or the lower body stays back and the upper body gets kind of forward and then again the

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handle is back.

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But I can use this as a common or as a checkpoint to help with my spatial awareness.

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If I can go, I'll start first with the merry-go-round version.

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So basically I'll just look at my pivot and can I get to a position where my shoulder

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hip and foot are in line.

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That would be great for getting low point in front with an iron.

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If I wanted to then adapt this and train it more with a driver, I would make sure that

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I've got about a fist width between my shoulder and the wall, even though my lower body

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is up against the wall.

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So iron I'm going to be more on top of it.

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Driver I'm going to be more behind it.

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Lower body is in the same position, but the upper body difference creates that axis

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tilt that adjusts our angle of the tack.

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The hands are basically going to be in line with it, whether I'm with an iron or with

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a driver.

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So this can help again heighten that spatial awareness.

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Now I've got this here and I'm going to set it up so that it's behind me but kind of

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in line with the outer edge of my foot.

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Now if I get into a good impact position, this will feel like my body is turned facing

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the target and it's pretty much flush up against this wall when I get into my finished

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position.

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This will help me if I'm kind of staying back like this or if I'm sliding too much and

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breaking through the wall.

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In the finished position I don't mind if your upper body is a little bit more away because

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of the bracing pattern but when I get to impact, I want to make sure that I'm pretty

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close to that position especially if I struggle with fat thing contact.

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So like most of the things I do, I would start with getting into a little bit of a

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nine to three and then I would progress to tend to two and up to full swings.

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Now you want to be careful if I go too far back here, this is actually going to get

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in the way of my hand.

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So I want it to be set up so that it's more of kind of a visual that I can check at the end.

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It was just a touch behind, might have been just a little hair shallow on that one but

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this allows me to kind of dial in that low point position.

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So if you struggle with your upper body too far forward, your hips too back, your hands

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too far back, you can use a wall or some type of vertical reference to help you retrain

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that impact position.