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Martin Hall: Martin Hall here for Five Star Golf Mats and I've got two cups of coffee. We're going to come to that! I’m joined by Robin Boretti, the golf director here at the club at Ibis. You know I like my caffeine, but two?
 
Robin Boretti: I'll share.
 
Martin Hall: You're going to get to share, but we're on the Perfect Reaction Mat. It's premium Nylon Turf, 30% more dense than the competition. I wouldn't be standing here saying this if I didn't believe it. The best mat I've ever seen. Uh, worst shot I see: slice, slice, slice, slice, slice, slice. We're going to caffeinate people to stop the slice. Now, the slice is caused by the club face being open at impact. We know that, don't we? You see it all the time. And so when the club face is open at impact, it means people didn't rotate the lead arm. I'm going to, sort of, mirror image this. I'm going to put a of coffee gently in your lead hand, you're not going to do anything yet. 
 
Robin Boretti: I won't.
 
Martin Hall: I'll take the club off you.
 
Robin Boretti: Thank you.
 
Martin Hall: But if I wanted people to imagine what it's like to stop a club face being open, and said instead of slicing draw, it' be like, I call it the coffee cup release. I would want to swing
and release the coffee over there. 
 
Robin Boretti: Okay.
 
Martin Hall: Do you want to try it? You've got a lovely white top on.
 
Robin Boretti: I’ll try! I can do it, I can do it.
 
Martin Hall: You can do it! 
 
Robin Boretti: So I'm going to do that same thing? I'm just going throw the coffee.
 
Martin Hall: Same thing, throw the coffee. Throw the coffee out – beautifully done. Now, that's your left arm supinating, that's the biomechanical term. If you throw the coffee out of the cup then, and you put that sort of motion into your golf swing, you can say bye, bye Mr. Slice. So, throw the coffee out of the cup. Throw the coffee out of the cup and let's see if we can get a nice bit of draw on this one. I suspect you will. Nailed it! Absolutely beautiful. So, coffee tastes good. I like it. But I like it even more that it can help you stop your slice. Caffeinate your follow
through and stop your slice. That's going to help you golf.
 
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