Adjusting Trajectory With The Stroke

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In this content video, we're going to discuss ways to adjust the stroke to

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adjust the trajectory.

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So I find that this is a little bit more advanced than just doing the setup

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changes.

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Again, the setup changes, if I want to go low, I'm going to bring the ball back

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and I'm

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going to stand a little closer to it.

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So that's typically going to raise the handle and I might stand a little bit

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taller and

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I'm going to be hitting more kind of straight down on it just like that.

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I'm typically going to get more of a leading edge hit, but because the heel is

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off the

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ground, oftentimes it won't dig.

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If I'm trying to hit it higher, I'm going to move further away, ball position

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further

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forward, and lower the handle.

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Oftentimes in order to lower the handle, I'm going to get a little bit lower

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because I'm

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not further away, this is going to encourage the club swinging a little bit

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more flat or

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around and the club is going to come through kind of like that, presenting a

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lot of loft.

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Well, there are options if I want to get a little bit more fancy in terms of

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being able

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to control the trajectory with my stroke.

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So someone like Stan Utley talks about if you want to hit it low, he does that

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mostly

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by regulating the club face.

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So he'll play a lot of the shots more in the middle of the stance, and if he

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wants to hit

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it low, he will tend to bring the club back a little bit more closed, kind of

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like so.

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And then by closing it, a little bit more of this motorcycle movement, that

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allows him

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to get more shaft lean, which lowers the flight as well as decreases some of

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the spin.

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So if we just looked at a normal shot, kind of having a trajectory and a

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release like

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that, if I now focus on closing the face, that's going to come out a little bit

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lower

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and have a lot more roll, it's going to feel like it comes out hotter.

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Second option would be if I'm trying to increase my launcher trajectory, then I

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'm going to

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do the opposite and I'm going to feel almost like a bunker shot where I'm going

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to cup

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the wrist a little bit more in the back stroke.

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Now, that typically is going to, that's going to open the face and so I'm going

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to feel

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like I have to release it a little bit more with my hands.

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I want to be careful that I'm not getting a lot of arm or shoulder disconnect,

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but rather

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I'm just releasing the wrist and letting the club pass a little bit sooner.

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Now I still like, even if you're releasing it, I still like getting into a good

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follow

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through position where it's more in front of you, but if I did it this way, the

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wrist

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is going to be a lot more cupped if we said compared to say my standard where

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the club

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is just going to be matching the spine angle, it's going to be coming back more

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like a bunker

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shot where the club face is going to stay pointing the sky a little bit more.

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So if I'm going a little bit higher, I can open the face, release it, it will

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land softer

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but have a higher launch and higher trajectory.

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So some people like to, like I mentioned, people like Stanley like to keep more

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of the

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setup the same, kind of the stroke the same and just feel a little bit more

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kind of play

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with the hands and the club face.

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I think this is a more advanced way of doing it, but I also think that if you

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develop those

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skills, it gives you more options.

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For example, I might be in a situation with a funky lie where I have to, it's

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encouraging

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me to go a little bit higher and if I wanted to maximize things, I can actually

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use my

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high setup and cup the wrist a little bit and now I get kind of my maximum spin

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landing

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super soft or if I wanted to really get this thing running, say I had to keep

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it underneath

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a branch or something, I could play it low, but I could also incorporate

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closing the face

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and just really taking some of the spin off and getting it low and almost hook

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ing it to

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get it to run out a bit more.

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So the simple way is to play with the setup, the more advanced way is to play

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around with

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some of these wrist angles, you will naturally change some of your stroke.

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So oftentimes, if you're trying to go higher, you will swing a little bit fl

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atter and if

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you're trying to go lower, you will swing a little bit steeper, but it's the

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club face

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angle and the shaft lean impact that have the biggest impact on our trajectory

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and you

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can affect that a lot with your wrist angles in addition to your setup.