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That’s where he would hold his five iron. Now, keep a hold of your sand wedge there, I’m just going to lay your five iron right on top of you here. So the ball’s going to be a little closer to him, more towards the center of his stance, and you can see, as he sets up to it, go ahead and stay set up there, hands right below his shoulders, back’s nice and flat, slightly bending his knees. Now the sand wedge, that’s his shortest club in the bag. Now, from a good posture position, we’re going to add his sand wedge to this. So that’s really good posture, a nice flat back, slightly bending your knees. Now you can see, as Clay just relaxes and his arms fall, that’s right where he’s going to hold the club, because his hands are directly below his shoulders, and that’s what you want. Now, slightly bend your knees, and then bend over from your hips, and then let your arms fall. Now, he gets to that position, just stand straight up, put your arms to your side. Okay, you can see Clay’s got a little bit of knee flex, his back’s pretty flat, and he’s bending over from his hips. So Clay’s going to show me here his posture. We don’t want to bend our knees too much, we don’t want to bend over too much. Or you could go with the opposite – you could slightly bend your knees and then bend from your hips, but we want to make sure we bend from our hips. Now first, with posture, here’s what we want to do: we want to make sure that we bend from our hips, slightly bending our knees.
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Hi everybody, my name’s Mike Merchent, I’m the director of golf here at Purgatory Golf Club, this is Clay Merchent, Clay is going to assist me today, and today we’re going to talk about posture and setup.
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The hand and arms should always be in the same position. He shows quite clearly that the posture is the same whether you are using a sand iron or your driver. Mike Merchent, Director of Golf at Purgatory Golf Club, demonstrates proper golf posture & setup.
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