How Swing Path Affects Compression
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Club path is which direction the club is moving through impact. A bad club path not only may be the cause of wayward ball flight, but it also results in a loss of power. This video tells you how swing path affects compression. Follow the advice and you'll see an improvement in both power and direction!
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All right, the next critical phase to getting proper compression on the ball after we have some speed in.
There is our path.
Our path is huge in order to get the club to hit the ball properly.
And what so many amateur golfers do is as they start rotating from the top, from the right side, they throw the club out over the top and so the club starts working across the ball.
And so you start putting this slice spin on it and you start sliding the ball across the face.
Instead of getting a direct strike, we obviously want to get that direct strike, but I'm also that's pretty obvious.
But I'm going to show you a little secret that I use to get a little more boost out of it.
And so I have a tee drill here that I commonly use with my students, especially those who are coming from the in from over the top, and it's a visualization drill.
I have two tees straight down the target line, so these two tees represent where we want the ball to go, and these tees represent a visualization of the path.
Now, this is an exaggeration.
I don't want you to come this far from the inside, but this visualization gives you an idea that you want to start swinging more from this direction to let the club approach the ball from the inside.
Because this is the secret.
If you want to cheat a little bit and get a little more speed out of your driver than what it's legally allowed to do, totally legal to do this, of course, but what it does?
If the clubface is struck perfectly square on a clubface with a modern driver with a modern core, it can come off at Ratio So, in other words, if the club swung at 100 miles an hour, the ball is legally allowed to come off at 150 if if the ball comes off faster than that.
When it's shot out of a cannon, straight into a square clubface, then the clubface is illegal, and so it doesn't pass the core test and the USGA rules that club illegal.
Now again, the parameters for this test are a ball is shot out of a cannon at 100 miles an hour.
To a perfectly square clubface, which means the clubface.
Designers, the engineers that make these things.
Set it up in such a way that if the clubface is perfectly square, the ball will come off at 150 miles an hour.
But what they don't test is what if the clubface is slightly closed, in other words, de-lofting it while approaching on an inside path?
They don't test that, so what you can do is alter your path to be a little bit more from the inside.
As much as six or seven degrees, that's pretty extreme.
You're going to hit a pretty good draw doing that, but as you do that, this Degree driver, in order to be squared back up enough to bring the ball back around to the target, is now going to be degree driver which means if the ball if the clubface was tested on the core machine at a 7.
5 it would be way way too hot but at 10.
5 If it's true Loft, it's perfectly legal.
So the trick is you start creating a more in-to-out path with a positive angle of attack.
With a clubface that's slightly closed.
And that's how I get 1.
55 smash factor on my tee shots now I don't do this every time because like I said this is going to be a pretty decent draw depending on how much you come from the inside how close the clubface is but it's a great thing to have in your bag when you really want to murder one and get everything out of the ball that you can but it's also helpful for anybody who tends to swing a little bit over the top because this drill again it's exaggerated but it's helping you visualize coming more from the inside so one of a a couple techniques that I use is with my students I tell them that as once they turn their chest back to me if I'm standing behind them I want you to feel like you keep your chest pointing at me as long as humanly possible while you just shift your weight and turn your hips and keep your chest parallel to this line so you can see the little line of T's from the inside path as I'm coming down I don't want my chest to be parallel to these T's I want my chest to be parallel to these this allows me to feel the club working more from the inside which allows me to deal off the club a little bit more and start getting some more speed now of course the the trick to this is if you're just hucking the club with your right arm straight over the top any visualization drill is not going to help you've got to still work on the fundamentals of RST which is shifting your weight keeping your chest closed and turning your hips rather than turning your shoulders which is what you can see the first thing that's going to happen if I turn my shoulders the club's going to come straight over the top and work across the ball and create this weak slappy shot so if you want to start getting the most out of your driver or if you're just trying to stop coming over the top lay some T's out on the ground and this is another simple technique especially we have this new bag is that we have the ability to give you another simple little visual with the impact cube you can actually have this hang over and put it at an angle slightly at an angle like this because that will also force you to swing more into out if I swing over the top I'm going to whack the bag first so putting the T drill and the the impact cube here together I can put these two drills together and start getting myself to start learning to swing more from the inside and it's okay if you do this as an exaggeration it doesn't matter if you start whacking them way out to the right a little bit if you've been coming over the top and you start learning how to hit a draw all of a sudden it's not going to be a bad thing but the cool thing about these two drills is you can do this indoors all all winter long all summer long you can practice shifting keeping your chest parallel to these tees letting the club work back out and release and swing underneath the impact bag and you'll start getting a path that's going to allow you to compress the ball like never before just like that
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