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Square the Clubface Early
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Learning how to properly square the club face at impact is something that most amateur golfers struggle with for as long as they play the game. They have no idea that the best players in the world have a simple secret that makes a square club face at impact simple to reproduce time and time again.
- Squaring the club face early prevents a last-minute "flip" to fix an open club face
- Start flattening the left wrist at the top to reduce rotation speed (degrees/second) at impact
- The back of the hand rotates through the downswing so it points down, not out, by impact
A lot of golfers don't understand what should be happening during the downswing and during the transition, and specifically what's happening with the golf club.
As you're bringing it down into impact.
In this video, we're going to talk about from the down the line view, what I refer to as squaring the face early and what that's going to do for your golf swing.
Especially if you're used to coming with a very, very open face, as so many golfers struggle with this.
And then they have to try and time a flip at the bottom to get the clubface back square at impact.
So first let's look at what that looks like.
As I come down into impact, if I'm in a decent position at the top and I start coming down.
A lot of golfers I see are with the clubface in this position coming down.
This is very, very open versus this would be very shut and this would be where we're working towards, okay.
So as they start pulling down they just start ripping the handle of the golf club down typically in an effort to produce lag which is totally the wrong way about going about doing it and they leave the clubface wide open so as we get into this position where we're almost at impact the club shaft is parallel to the ground the clubface is still kind of looking at the sky and as they come down this now the clubface is still very very open and then right at the last second they try and flip it and stop everything and that's why a lot of golfers end up with a really flippy impact position that they look like this or they're flipping it is because they're doing it in an effort to square the clubface can't blame them if they don't do something to try and really get that clubface square the ball is going to go a mile right and it's going to be a very weak slappy slice so the cure for that is to do things correctly as always we don't put band-aids on swings and with RST is that you start working to square the clubface early in the downswing so that as you come down there's very little rotation going through impact of the clubface and we're going to talk about what that means if you just imagine that my clubface is sitting here and I open it so you can see the clubface and shut it really fast that's going to be measured in terms of degrees of rotation per second and so you could imagine if I take this club and spin it as fast as I can let's just use a ballpark number and say that's rotating at a thousand degrees per second so it's rotating very rapidly now in a good golf swing we want to have very little rotation or very slow rotation through impact because we want to square the face early in the downswing and so that degrees of rotation per second might go down to 250 300 degrees so instead of having a flash flip coming into impact and hope we manage to time that consistently consistently which we'll never do that clubface is going to be already pretty square and rotating only a few hundred degrees of rotation per second so that's the ideal so that you're not trying to flip it the only way that you can do that is to obviously a be in a good position at the top proper grip etc we spend all these time working on those things but two is now as you start coming down one of the first keys is that you can start flattening this wrist left wrist and as you're doing that it's actually going to happen a little bit the top you're rotating your hand this way now I'm going to exaggerate this okay so you don't want to start just flipping it over but this is the move versus just pulling it down and keeping the back of your glove facing the sky imagine that you're taking the back of your glove and turning it down so this is all I'm doing I'm taking my hand and I'm just rotating it this way and let's see what happens to the club versus if I just pull it down club face is going to be wide open now I'm going to take it and just do that same motion I'm going to start rotating it down and now the club face is starting to look at the ball and so now my degrees of rotation per second has been cut down dramatically that's a critical piece in the downswing if you don't do that you're going to have to have some sort of flash speed at the bottom and hope that you save it with your hands and you're always going to struggle and be inconsistent so as you've mastered the backswing and you're now on to working on the transition you want to start working on very slowly adding some rotation flattening that left wrist so that as you come down into impact you're going to feel that the back of your hand is pointing down at the ground at impact versus coming in very open where your logo your glove is pointing away from you and then flipping it at the last second so here start rotating it down get your logo your glove facing the ground and then go through the left hand release drill and you will feel what it feels like to have a proper impact position and slow down the release of the club so you're no longer trying to learn to time a flip
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