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Take a look at how the basics of the game have to be bang-on before taking to the golf course. Chris Snape, Jumeirah Golf Estates professional, explains the importance of getting the golfing muscles working on the short irons before going to the longer clubs.

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00:00So, for those of you who haven't done it, I think it's important with the clubs being
00:11bigger they're going to travel a lot faster, hence why we need to warm up with the shorter
00:16stuff so we'll have a proper warm up. We'll have a look and see you with maybe a mid or
00:22short iron. Whatever the problem is with the shorter stuff, as the club gets bigger it's
00:27just going to magnify and increase the problem. If for example you're hitting your 7 iron
00:32and it moves 10 metres to the right with the 7, by the time you get a 3 wood, 5 wood driver
00:37in your hand it's going to be more like 50 metres to 60 metres. Over time, through instruction,
00:46you will train and strengthen the golf muscles and you'll get more coordinated which will
00:51then reduce the issues as it were and make you absolutely outstanding, wonderful golfers.
01:01First of all, because the club's longer and travelling faster, we want to make our feet
01:07wider to give ourselves a more stable base. Second of all, we're going to position the
01:12ball inside of the left foot. This is basically to encourage us to hit the ball on the up
01:18swing. Because there's not much angle on these clubs, you want to hit them on the up
01:23swing to encourage them to fly higher. And third and finally, the speed of the swing.
01:30You have to build up slowly. If you swing these clubs back quickly, the weight and momentum
01:36of the club is just going to pull you out of position. They'll end up swinging you instead
01:41of you swinging them.

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