Swing Analysis - Slice and hook

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All right golfers, when analyzing your video, slice and hook is actually one of

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the easier

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patterns to look at.

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So even though it's one of the more frustrating patterns to play, it's going to

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be pretty

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simple when we're looking at it on video.

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We're just going to use these two checkpoints.

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We're going to look at where is the club compared to your hands during the down

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swing,

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and what is that club face orientation.

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And then we're going to look at it in the follow through at about the same

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point when

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the club is parallel to the ground.

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So when the club is inside your hands, that's going to be more of a hook bias.

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When the club is outside your hands, that's going to be more of a slice bias or

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path outside.

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So if the club is way outside the hands, you want to look at the top of the

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swing to see

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if there was anything contributing to the club getting outside, or you look at

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your

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arm structure to see if you have enough arm shallowing, etc.

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If you have the club too far inside, you look at your early extension, you look

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at the arms

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getting too far back down behind, kind of like this.

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If we are looking at the follow through position, we're basically looking to

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see that the club

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is close to vertical, so that would be more of the club face orientation.

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And I should go back.

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When we're looking at club face orientation here, a little bit past vertical is

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more

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less square or close to, let's say between vertical and spine angle.

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If it's more pointing up towards the sky, that's going to be more open.

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If it's more pointing down towards the ground, that's going to be more closed.

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In this position, it's the opposite.

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So when it's outside there, the more that it's pointing up towards the sky,

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that's

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going to be open, and the more that it's pointing down towards the ground, that

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going to be closed.

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And we're looking at the position of the club head compared to the hands.

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In general, what you'll see is, if the club is in a good position here, and

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then in a

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poor position there in the follow through MP8, then it's more of a release

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issue.

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If the club is way out of position at P6, then it was more of a transition and/

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or backswing

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issue.

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If it's more of a release issue, you'll tend to see either the club go too high

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from again

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early extension or more the arms catching up, often if they've been too far

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behind you during

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the downswing.

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If the club is coming down more this way, that's often either I don't have a

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good bracing

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hip position, so I don't have any axis tilt, or my shoulders are rotating more

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in a steep

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position on top of the ball, kind of like so.

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So here's a number of examples, and we'll just see quickly, if the hands are in

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line

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with the club, if you have the camera setup right, then that's going to be

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slightly outside.

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So a little draw bias would be just on the inside of your hands with the

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shorter clubs

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to a little bit further inside with the longer clubs, to just on the outside

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there.

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So again, pretty classic here, just inside, club is slightly turned from

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vertical to that

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goes, if you continue that clip, the club exits right through the hands, which

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you can

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see the club pretty vertical there.

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This is a bad camera angle, but if you were to look at it, the hands would be

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slightly

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inside to slightly outside on this shot, and the club face would be in a pretty

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square

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position in both, maybe slightly closed.

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Again, not perfect camera angle, it's a little closed, which makes the club

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look like it's

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more inside.

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So again, you have to be careful with that, but you can always compare the ball

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flight

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with the quality of contact to kind of get a rough estimate as to what your

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path would

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be.

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But you can see club face will still be, you can still read the club face, even

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if the

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path is, if the camera angle is a little off for reading the path.

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So like I said, real quick check for if you're slicing or hooking, check there

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at P6, Chef

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Farewell, look at where is the club compared to the hands and what's the club

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face orientation,

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and then look in the follow through compared to the hands club face orientation

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That'll give you a rough estimate as far as what you're doing face the path

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during either

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the early part of your swing or during the release, and that's how you're going

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to solve

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your slice or your hook as your own best golf coach.