Diagnosing the Cause of Bad Golf Shots
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Learn how simple it is to diagnose every single bad golf shot you hit utilizing RotarySwing
hey guys Chuck Quinton here at the root of rotary swing is understanding what causes a bad shot it's that simple everything that you do once you start following the rotary swing system you will always be able to vary it quickly and very specifically identify exactly what caused a bad shot because the movements are so simple that if you add something to them it's very simple to see where things go wrong so for example now hopefully you've done a ton of nine to three drills because this is the whole golf swing from here to here is what really matters the rest of it's just details so that's what we use is our primary initial diagnostic tool when we're checking to see what's going on with somebody's swing we're just gonna make these little half swings and I'm gonna do them and if I do it correctly so I should make a little half swing here halfway back now I'm going through my checkpoints head down shoulders square hips open right heel down weight stacked over my left ankle clubface fully released from your perspective it's gonna look like this left arm straight clubface released weight over the left ankle left left hip and neutral right foot rolled in right heel down shoulders back chest open belt buckle open piece of cake if I do that right that ball is always gonna go exactly where I want it's gonna go straight it's pretty simple but what happens is that we start adding things to these movements that cause us problems and that's what I want to talk about so that you when you go to the range can not only learn to diagnose what's going wrong in your swing but you can use it to your advantage to start shaping the shots so that you can do what you want with the ball so when we look at this I'm going to do one and do it incorrectly and I want you to try and see if you can tell what I did wrong here this is a really really common fault all right what do you see if I got paid a dollar for every time I had to fix this one I'd be a wealthy guy right heel up in the air where's my chest pointing where's my head looking I was so excited and eager to see where that ball went that I turned my whole body and my head that rotated my chest if I rotate my chest guess what happens to the clubface doesn't want to release my body overpowers it and so now as you come through the follow-through you'll see the clubface is open that's costing me about eight miles an hour club head speed and the ball is gonna want attend to go to the right because the clubface isn't closing so this one pushing from the right shoulder right hip trying to open up my chest to get my chest on the ball is one of the biggest swing fought flaws and as you start going to add speed to it this is how I'd start to hit a nice big cut I'd rotate my chest through get in front of the ball a little bit that helps delay the release and hold the clubface open that's how I take this miss and turn it into a positive if I want to hit a cut shot open up my stance here a little bit nice little five yard fade I rotated my chest through that automatically held the face open a little bit I hit a nice little baby cut perfect so the important thing is understanding the miss when I rotate my chest through my chest has always got to stay back and allow my club to release and my right shoulder is always trying to stay away from the target as long as humanly possible now I'll make another mistake let's see if I can do this one now so now I didn't turn much at all the ball went left and if you look at it from this side I just flipped my hands over now this is too much to be able to take much advantage of but we see this all the time where golfers instead of learning to use their weight shift and hip turn to bring the hands down they just kind of stay static with their legs and just use their arms and flip at it and that's a horrible way to try to hit a ball because there's no power in it so what I need to do is understand what did I do incorrectly didn't shift my weight didn't turn my hips the most important part of the downswing is weight shift and posting up getting that hip open because that allows you to not have to overuse your arms in the downswing so that's the most common swing fault number two getting really handsy with it now what I start seeing when people start doing these movements correctly and are just working on fine-tuning it and they're doing it with just their left arm we see this all the time now move my clubface back here and you can see the clubface is really open this is a really common issue that we see when people are doing the nine to three drill what's happening here I'm sustaining the pool with my left arm too long I don't need to keep pulling my hand through the hitting area this is when you're trying to add power to the swing with your left arm your left arm is a control arm not a power arm so this arm doesn't need to keep pulling through the hitting area in fact it's got to stop to allow my wrist to release that's what gives us all the speed this is where the effortless power comes in my hand starts to slow down moving laterally and my wrist start to uncock and rotate and take over and pass my hands not in a flip in a scoop but in a rotation move and that is what gives us effortless speed in the swing so don't take your left arm and try and pull it through the hitting area you're just delaying the release the clubface and again that's what I want to do when I hit a high cut it's gonna work perfect for that it's gonna hold the face open and add loft to the hitting area so with this nine to three drill you can pretty much diagnose every single swing flaw now I'm gonna chunk one watch what happens so I hit back behind it how do I know what I did is right or wrong well I can feel if I hold my follow through that my weight is on my right foot I look like this pretty simple one where's my weight supposed to be how do I know take a golf club over my first belt loop should make a nice straight line through the center of my knee and center of my ankle and now I know that I shifted far enough so with this nine to three drill you can pretty much learn every single swing flaw that you're gonna struggle with if you're topping it you know this is almost always a wrist scoopy flippy thing where you're taking your wrist and trying to help out hit the ball just relax your hand let the club release naturally start feeling the club swing so I really highly encourage you to use these nine to three drills to start diagnosing shots learning what it feels like to let the club release and checking eventually start using the ball as your feedback mechanism to see whether or not you're doing these little simple movements correctly because they'll start to show you even on these little shots what you're doing wrong every single time
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