Stacy Lewis: Winning with Accuracy
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In this video, I’ll show you how Stacy Lewis splits the fairways time and time again because golf’s a lot more enjoyable when you’re not in the woods. You’ll find out: • How controlling your club face with your lead arm leads to more consistency, • Why accuracy is dominated by controlling your club face, not your club path, and • How you can increase your accuracy by gradually rotating your club face.
- Your lead arm is controlling the club face
- Create gradual rotation in the face during the backswing
- Square the face early to control the speed of the club face in the hitting area
Hey everyone, I'm Rotary Swing Instructors Release Specialist Chris Tyler.
This week Stacey Lewis gets her first victory of the 2014 season with a great win.
We're going to be focusing on one of the key areas that Stacey does so well at the bottom part of the swing arc.
So if you've ever had questions on how you're going to be able to control your golf ball and keep it on the golf course every single time, You want to stick around and see what.
She does so well in the hitting area and makes her one of the dominating forces on the LPGA.
Alright, So this past week, the queen of consistency on the LPGA Tour, Stacey Lewis, gets her first victory of 2014.
so congratulations to Stacey.
I know that she's got a little bit of a lengthy backswing, A little bit of an out of control backswing to RST standards.
And I want to focus in on one very pivotal area that she does so well.
That has led her to be the top scorer on the LPGA Tour, the leading scoring average on the LPGA Tour, the most birdies made, the most greens and regulations, The best putter on the LPGA Tour?
So she's leading in a lot of the great categories that are going to keep her around the LPGA Tour for a long time.
And controlling the club face is absolutely one of the most important aspects of the golf swing.
So let's go ahead and get started and take a look at what she does very, very well to control the face throughout the entire move.
And when we start to look at this, you're going to see that the primary responsibility of the lead arm in your golf swing is going to be controlling the face, alright, And we want to make sure that controlling the face with the lead arm, and then your trailing arm or your right arm.
If you're a right handed player, is going to be adding the speed at the bottom of the arc.
But ultimately, if you put the control in your lead arm, you're going to lead to more consistent ball striking, You're going to be able to control the golf ball on the course and be able to have a lot more fun out there.
So let's go ahead and take a look here, If you notice on the down the line view and the face on view that she's got her glove logo facing down the target line.
You can see that she's got the Glove logo facing down the target line on both driver swing and the iron swing.
And when she starts this club back, she's got a gradual rotation of the left wrist, Left forearm, which is what we call pronation, and the right arm, as a reaction to that particular move, is supinating.
And you can see that she's actually creating some steady rotation throughout the entire golf swing here.
So you can see now as she reaches about the top part of her golf swing here.
So if we focus on more of the down the line view, you can get a better view here.
As her glove logo is starting to face more towards the sky, where before it was faced down the target line.
And she's being able to control the face and put a gradual rotation, and that's absolutely one of the most important aspects that you'll need to understand in the release.
Part of the golf swing is that we want to create a gradual rotation, that way we're not having to time a flip of the hands, we're having to hang on to the rotation to kind of save it based on the path.
80% of the actual ball flight is going to be dictated by the clubface, 20% is going to be dictated by the path.
So if you can really control the clubface, that's why I'm saying it's one of the most pivotal areas.
And she's able to take something that looks out of control and put a lot of control back into it.
By creating a lot of gradual rotation here.
So if we look down the line, we'll continue to look here, she gets the club up to the top, she's continued to rotate that left wrist, left forearm, gets the club across the line.
Now this position, normally we would have a lot of players that would have to recover from here and either throw the club over the top or spin the body.
very, very hard.
Now when you make one of those two moves, now what you're going to be doing, if you're throwing the club back out in front of you, Now, your path is going to be left, and you're going to have to slow down the rotation of the left wrist to control and keep the golf ball on the golf course.
Or keep you from slicing it, or keep you from hitting a pull hook.
So if you were to spin the body as another reaction very hard here, What that does is that we're trying to make room for the hands and the arms.
But nine times out of ten, the clubface will start to come in very open and you'll have to time a flip.
So that's why I wanted to mention this position at the top.
And we want to take a lot of the timing out of the body, yes, But being able to control the clubface within your particular move is going to be absolutely the most important feature.
So if we look as she starts to work down, you're going to see that she starts to have a little bit of bowing in that left wrist, which is important for being able to deal off the club.
But if you watch the rotation here, she's going to start to try to square the club very early on.
You can see that she's starting to rotate that left wrist like she's turning a doorknob.
All right, now she's actually supinating the left wrist and she's starting to turn those knuckles down, which is a great video on our website that teaches you how to get some gradual rotation.
There's also another great video called Squaring the Clubface Early that you definitely want to check out.
Because what we're trying to do is we're trying to control the the rotation per second through the hitting area.
So if you're known as a flipper, If you, if you're known as one of those people that comes in really flat and laid where the club comes in from behind you, you're rotating the clubface, let's say at 800 degrees per second, where with a good solid golf swing that's got gradual rotation, let's just say three to 400 degrees per second.
And that's absolutely the most important part of being able to control at the bottom of the arc.
So you can see same thing here on the the face -on view, kind of an off to the side face-on view.
You can see, right at this point, she's starting to rotate that left forearm and she keeps it rotating.
And now you can see where that glove logo is facing right at the hitting area.
It's faced in the exact same spot that it was.
Clubface is nice and stable and in turn she's able to hit a lot of greens and regulation.
She's able to keep her ball on the golf course.
So I want you guys to really make sure that you're focusing on creating a lot of gradual rotation throughout the move.
Check out the knuckles down video.
Check out squaring the clubface early.
Also, you'll always hear me mention check out five minutes to a perfect release.
That's another fantastic video for you guys to really learn the steps on being able to control the face through the most critical area of the golf swing, and that's in the hitting area.
All right guys, so put this to use.
Make sure that you've got some gradual rotation in the clubface.
You're controlling it throughout the entire move.
Get out there, play some great golf, keep it on the golf course, and bedazzle your friends.
I hope you have a great day and we'll talk to you soon.
