How Club Face Contact Affects Compression
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This video studies compression in terms of where you hit the ball on the face of the club. Find out how you can change club face contact to reduce bad shots. You'll also learn about moment of inertia (MOI) to see how the stability of your club at impact determines how solidly you'll hit the ball.
- Center face contact gives maximum compression.
- Shots off toe or heel cause face to twist and decrease compression.
Another one of my favorite drills I'm going to share with you is this T drill.
That's going to help you understand one of the most important concepts of the golf swing.
And that is where you hit the stinking ball on the face.
At the end of the day, hardly anything matters more than this.
Because if you hit the ball way out on the toe, the ball is going to tend, especially with the driver where the gear effect is in play.
You tend to hook quite a bit.
If you hit the ball off the heel, the ball is going to tend to cut quite a bit and, more importantly, you're going to lose speed.
Speed is the name of the game.
We need that ball to come off the face with as much efficient energy transfers we can possibly get, and that means hitting it on the screws.
You've got to hit the ball in the center of the face consistently to get the most out of your swing.
If you swing at 100 miles an hour but your smash factor is 1 .
3 You're only getting 130 mile an hour ball speed when you should be getting 150, you're giving up 60 yards off the tee.
It's that big of a deal and it's really easy to lose a ton of club head speed by just slightly missing the center of the face.
Now, this T drill gives you a great, simple feedback mechanism because you put the tees in between, excuse me, on on either side of the club face.
If you're coming in, you're clipping these tees every time, you know that there's either something really wonky with your swing, you need to get a swing review, or take a look at your swing on video.
And start understanding what's causing you to come from the wrong path.
Now a couple simple quick tips that are going to help you think through this stuff.
If you're hitting the outside tee with the toe of the club, it's almost definitely that you're swinging way over the top.
That's all right side dominant stuff.
Take a look at the stop coming over the top video.
Get your right hand off the club and all of a sudden it'll be virtually impossible for you to swing over the top.
If you're hitting the left tee the inside tee a couple things that tend to happen here.
One, people tend to rotate really hard and it sucks their arms into their body because their arms can't swing out away when they keep turning.
Not only is that costing you club head speed, but it's also going to cause you to tend to whack it out off the toe quite a bit.
And that's a really, really weak place.
If you're gonna miss the club, the ball on any part of the club face, miss it off the heel in terms of power transfer.
The further you get away from the center gravity out towards the toe, the less energy transfer there is.
The toe really deflects open when you hit the club face hit the ball way out on the toe.
The club face will twist open you lose a tremendous amount of energy transfer.
So this drill, just setting two T's in here and learning to hit balls in between, it is a great, simple drill.
My next favorite drill for this is one that's really really simple.
I've talked about already, but I want to keep going back to it.
Because it's the perfect drill for fixing so many swing faults, and it goes back to the five minutes, the perfect release video.
Going back to just this drill here as you start taking movements away from your swing, and that's everything.
With RST is stackable.
It's meant to help you build on one piece of the foundation.
And once you get that piece right, you stack another piece on.
And you keep stacking another piece on until you build a perfect golf swing.
But if you're going through and you can't do this right and just get this simple drill where you're hitting the ball right in the center of the face.
Every time just doing the first step of the five minutes to release and then the release part, there's huge problems.
This drill should be super simple because we're stacking ourselves on our left side, we're presetting our shoulders into impact position, and we're only going halfway back in here.
Just like we should be in the real swing, we should be in those same positions.
That drill and building up from there, going back, adding the right arm, taking back a little bit further, and still getting to these same positions.
Is what will allow you to start hitting the ball in the center of the face every time.
Because pretty much everybody can get into the point of just doing this drill.
They hit the ball in the center of the face every time because we've taken so many moving parts out.
The trick to building a proper golf swing is to stack those pieces back in slowly as you have time to master each new movement where everybody goes wrong as they go from step A to step Z thinking that they're going to be able to do everything right the first time nobody can do that not Tiger Woods not Roy McIlroy nobody when you're learning something new you got to go from my video talking about learning how to drive a manual transmission you don't go from the parking lot where you learn how to stop stalling it and lurching it to the Indy 500 the next day same thing is true in the golf swing learning any motor movement takes time so work on this drill where you're going and just doing the five minutes of perfect release build on it keep adding pieces to it and stack it with this drill you can do the five minutes the perfect release the ball sitting in a div a little bit but you get the idea same drill i didn't clip the t's i got the club right the ball right in the center of the face and as i start making this bigger and bigger i shouldn't all of a sudden start whacking the t and doing all this crazy stuff that's when i'm adding the wrong movements and that's your cue that you're not ready if you can go all the way to the top left hand only come through and make a normal swing and not hit anything that's when you're ready to start stacking that right arm on there and then if all of a sudden you go to the top with your right arm on there and then all of a sudden you start clipping that t or you start doing all this crazy stuff what do you got to do you're not ready to put the right arm on there take the right arm off keep drilling until you get proficient with the left arm that's how you learn the golf swing that's how you're going to get better faster than any way possible so hopefully you've enjoyed these six laws of compression learning how to compress the golf ball is really what makes golf super fun i hope you enjoyed it i hope you learned a lot
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