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In this concept video, we're going to go over troubleshooting setting the club,

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where the second half of the backswing.

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So, there's a handful of errors that we typically see that are very similar to what we see in the takeaway.

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If you recall from the concept video about what we want to do,

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once we've made this good takeaway movement, we want to set the club with a simple kind of

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hinging folding, rotating of the arms, as well as continuing to have the shoulders go down.

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Now, one common one would be to have the shoulders come up during setting the club,

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and one major reason why you may be standing up or having that left shoulder come up during the

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setting the club phase is if you are focusing on it and you're trying to get that shoulder down so

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quickly and you do it as much as you can, it can't stay down there and so it tends to come up.

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You want this side bend movement to be kind of evenly distributed throughout your backswing.

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So, pay attention to the rate at which your side bending and maybe too fast too soon.

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Another common error, or the second one, would be the sway.

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So, I mentioned in the takeaway of getting to the outside of the foot, it's very common

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that when you go to set the club, you will actually get into the outside of your foot like so.

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So, it'll be a good looking takeaway and then as I set the club, it'll go like that.

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Like that. The tour average is about an inch of lateral movement. That's the upper end.

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What I frequently see on 3D with amateurs is somewhere around four, five inches sometimes,

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a lateral movement to the right away from the target. That just, it doesn't load the hip for

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what we want to do in transition. All it loads is the shoulder for creating a chop pattern on the

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way down. So, pay attention to the sway section if this is one of your issues.

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The next piece that we tend to see is going to be your arm plane. Now, this tends to go a little

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bit with that standing up movement, but if I were to face this way,

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when I have my arms, if I just stand up and go through that movement, you can see how this, the shaft,

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gets close to parallel to my body. It's a little bit less than parallel. I'll turn a little bit more that way.

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See right there. If this is perfectly vertical, then when I bend forward, now the weight of the club is actually pulling

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down this way. So, very commonly, if I have a very vertical arm plane, my body will stand up

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so that the weight of the club is supported better by my hands. But what that could mean is that you have a

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good takeaway and then you just hinge it up vertically. So, you stand up to balance it out instead of

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letting that rotate as the club sets. So, as I fold my arm, it also rotates out like so. This gets you

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in position for the motorcycle move or to get into delivery position. The last piece that we tend to

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is something called reverse spine angle. This can go very often with the sway, but it doesn't have to.

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It's basically when you go to set the club and you completely collapse your spine where you basically

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arch your lower back like so. That puts a lot of pressure in your lower back and is one of the top causes

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of lower back pain. It can simply be, well, I'm not holding on to my abs or it can be a result of

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some tightness in the rib cage. So, when I get to here, I feel like I can't go any further unless

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I collapse my spine like so and that kind of gives the appearance of extending the spine, but it's all

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in the lower back and it's very problematic. It can mess up the timing of the lower body in

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the sheying your transition and cause you to get to armsy, but the big thing is it causes back pain

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which could force you to not be able to play as much as you'd like. So, we've got standing up,

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we've got the sway, we've got the steep arm plane and we've got reverse spine angle as the big

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common areas that you'll have to pay attention to when you're working on setting the club.

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One last little piece with the arm with the arm plane, you'll notice in order to get that arm

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vertical. I'll tend to have this right arm work more back behind me with the elbow going high

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as opposed to the hand getting above the elbow. If the hand goes behind my body, that'll tend to get

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this club very flat or sorry, very steep. Where if the elbow stays more in front, that allows

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the club to flatten out a little bit and prepare you for a delivery position a little bit more.

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So, in summary, we've got standing up, you've got swaying off the wall, you've got your arm

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plane either from just the wrists or from that right shoulder. You've got the reverse spine angle

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and those are the biggest issues that we tend to see with setting the club. So, pay attention to which

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one I've recommended or which one your issue is and go find the Associated Drills to help you correct it.