Over cooking Driver with SD 1.0

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wedgeplay

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I'm hitting some quick hooks with the driver on SD 1.0.



For the last 18 months I have struggled hanging the driver out to the right.
Watching SD 1.0 has changed that and I'm happy.



What has helped me the most is the inside of my left elbow because I used to almost see my point. I'm not kidding.



What should I do to tame it down some.

Thanks.
 
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wedgeplay said:
I'm hitting some quick hooks with the driver on SD 1.0.

What should I do to tame it down some.
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If you are hooking the driver a bit too much, but not hooking the other clubs too much, you are getting farther below plane with Driver and this bends the bottom of the D PLANE outward, resulting in less LIFT.

So, what to do?

Ah....

The MANZELLA PHANTOM TURF drill.

Put a piece of paper, or a scorecard, behind the driver, so that the top of the paper is approximately the same height as the ground would be to the ball and club if you were hitting it off the deck.

Set-up with the driver hovering at "contact height" and swing making sure to WHIFF the "phantom turf" (The paper).

See if you still hook as much. ;)
 
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Yeah I'm not sure what he means either. Do you tee the ball up? Can't wait to find out. With SD, I'm either hitting draws, hooks, or pushes. Never straight or slice/fade.
 
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multi

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I think misses back and downswing. Sounds to me as if it simulates hitting a driver off the deck while on the tee.

The paper is standing up not lying down and the height of the paper serves as "phantom turf" so you if you knock it over - it's telling you if you were hitting the driver off the deck you would have just hit the ground.

I'd imagine DOTD drill does the almost same thing but ppl over do it for fear of hitting the ground.
 
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curtisj76

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"The MANZELLA PHANTOM TURF drill"

Can someone tell me what this drill is trying to get us to do? Besides not hook it. Thanks
 
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suns11111

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Correct me if I am wrong about Brians drill, I believe the paper is flat on the ground and missing the paper on the downswing keeps the D Plane from bottoming out. Hit/brush the paper guessing to flat before the ball......wesley snipe (no relation).
" The MANZELLA PHANTOM TURF drill.

Put a piece of paper, or a scorecard, behind the driver, so that the top of the paper is approximately the same height as the ground would be to the ball and club if you were hitting it off the deck.

Set-up with the driver hovering at "contact height" and swing making sure to WHIFF the "phantom turf" (The paper)."
 
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holeout

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This drill keeps you from getting underplane. Simple as that. It's what happened to me once I over did the SD pattern that Brian put me into when I saw him in Louisville.
 
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holeout

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He didn't give me this drill, but I can understand the concept. I'm not sure how the paper works, but essentially you're trying to make an "air divot". The drill he describes, I think, is to give you a better visual of how to actually do it.
 
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Fold the paper or scorecard so it is sits as high as the top of your tee. This will allow the paper to act as the ground when hitting a driver off the tee. Hover your driver above the paper and hit the ball without disturbing the paper.
 
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