Blocked Golf Shots | Fwd Shaft Lean
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If you want to compress the ball for explosive distance, then you need to be working on striking your ball with forward shaft lean. But sometimes we run into some problems like blocked golf shots. In this video, I'll show you the 2 missing pieces to forward shaft lean. You'll find out: 1) What's causing your blocks and 2) What you need to work on that will allow you to hit pure shots with plenty of distance.
- As Forward Shaft Lean Increases so Does the Need For Face Rotation
- Hands in Front of Ball at Impact
- Wrists Rotate Counter Clockwise to Square Face
- Imagine Turning Doorknob to the Left
All right, So you've been working to get that great forward shaft, lean, like you see all the guys on the PGA Tour do, to really compress that golf ball.
But every time you do that, you keep blocking it to the right.
It looks something like this.
So as you start to lean that shaft forward, the ball is squirting out to the right.
It's going nowhere.
You may even hit some shanks, some old Hosmer rockets.
You definitely don't want to do that.
That takes all the fun out of the game.
So I'm going to show you how to get that forward shaft lean, but to compress the ball, hit it dead straight every time, and the two things that are causing you to do that.
All right, so if you're shanking it, if you're hitting it thin, if you're really making poor contact as you have forward shaft lean, the one thing that you're doing is you're not releasing the club.
So as I'm coming through this ball, I need to have forward shaft lean at impact, but the club actively needs to be releasing.
This is where it gets a little bit tricky.
So if we can imagine as I'm coming into the downswing, my right forearm in this club has created this good amount of lag.
I got this nice angle built up here and I want to keep some of that for impact.
But the key is I have to be releasing this club through there.
So this club is going to be releasing.
It just won't fully release until after the ball.
So I have this angle.
I still want some of that angle at impact, and then I want it to fully release just after impact, which would be when the club's moving actually the fastest.
So I want to make sure that I'm not pulling everything through.
Now people that I see that are shanking them and blocking and hitting them thin when they're doing this.
They've got this angle and they've got the forward shaft lean, but instead of letting it release, they're trying to hold on and pull everything through.
And as you see that I'm doing this, if I have this angle and I pull everything through, now look where my club is, I'm a foot over top of the ball and that's causing you to hit it thin.
It's also causing you to not be able to square up the club face.
Now the second piece is going to get you compression.
It's actually probably the most important piece.
We've got to make sure that we rotate this club face.
So as I'm coming down, I need to let this club face rotate to the left to square up the face.
And what I mean by this is if I'm lined up perpendicular to the camera here and I have this shaft straight up and down, now you can see that this club face will be pointing straight at the camera.
This will be a square club face if I'm going this way.
Now as I lean this shaft forward, watch what happens to the club face.
It's going to open up about 45 degrees or so, or 20 or 30 degrees, depending on how much forward I get the shaft, how much forward shaft lean that I get.
So a lot of people, they get this forward shaft lean but they forget to rotate the face.
So now they're coming down, they've got the forward shaft lean but the ball is squirting out to the right.
So the way that I want to do this is you can imagine if I'm coming down through impact, this club face is going to be doing this.
So it's actually going to be turning counterclockwise.
The same motion would be as if I had a door handle, a doorknob, I had it in my left hand, I'm going to be turning this doorknob to the left, right, and that's going to square up the face.
So now as I'm coming down, I have forward shaft lean but look at the face, it's also square to my target.
So this is me leaning forward but not rotating the club at all.
This is me leaning the shaft forward and rotating the club through.
So there's a great way you can check this, just make some slow motion swings, pause at impact and look and see if your face is open like this or if it's square like this.
So let me go ahead and do one the correct way.
I'm going to make sure that I'm releasing the club and I'm going ahead and rotating the face.
And let's see if I can hit this pretty straight.
So you can see that I de-lofted it, I really hit it low.
I kind of exaggerated for that example but I squared up the face by rolling my hands.
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