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This concept video is two keys to face control.

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A lot of good golfers will complain about face control, whether it's a two-way

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miss or one

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big miss.

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They tend to have relatively solid contact, but once or twice around they hit a

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foul ball

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that is just, you know, well offline, and they can really boil it down to the

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face, changing

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a lot on those particular swings.

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So in general when someone talks to me about I have these two amiss or I have a

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lot of face

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control issues, there are two major things that I'm looking at when I start

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looking at

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their video.

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One is the location of the arms compared to the body and two is the body stall

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or the

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body delivering more of the hit as opposed to the arms.

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And I wouldn't say that one of these is more important than the other, but if I

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had to pick

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I'd say the arm location is probably slightly more important.

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So here's, here's what I mean.

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I demonstrate this all the time.

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I got it from Scott Cowkes.

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I think it's just a really easy way to see why do we want to be in lag?

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What I mean by in lag is why do we want the club to be more behind our body

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kind of like

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this at impact?

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Well, if you hold the club straight out in front of you, just like this, and

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you were

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to rotate the club, close, you can feel there's very little resistance.

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I can close it easily, and if I said, okay, open it and then try to close and

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stop it

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at zero, you'll see that I overshot it.

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It's really easy to overshoot the amount of closing if the club is straight out

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in front

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of you.

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If on the other hand, I put the club more back in this kind of lag position

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here, and

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now I go to close, I feel like, A, I can't close it nearly as much.

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There's some physical governors built into the wrist, and B, it feels like it

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kind of

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closes slower, compared to when the club is straight out in front of me.

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So number one, when I'm looking at face control, especially with the longer

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clubs, especially

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with the driver, I'm going to be looking at compared to your body, how much are

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the arms

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behind, kind of like this, or have the arms caught up with the body, and

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sometimes the

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arms are behind the body, and the shaft is pretty vertical, kind of like this,

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because

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the upper body is going forward, in this place, the club is going, or in that

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location, the

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club is just going to be twisting really fast, and it's hard to have perfect

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timing every

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single time.

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What'll usually happen is it's going from open to shut very quickly, and if you

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tend

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to air on getting more ahead of it, you hit more of the big block, and if you

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tend to

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air on staying a little bit more behind, you hit more of a pull, or maybe even

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the pull

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draw.

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So rule number one, if we're working on face control, as we're trying to get

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the club

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more behind.

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Now rule number two is we are trying to hit the shot more with the body.

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The similar to this concept here, the more that I hit it by releasing the arms

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in front

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of the body, the faster the clubface is going to be closing, and the more that

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I hit it

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more with the body bringing it through, or going into a good bracing position,

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or doing

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more of this kind of negative torsion, what'll happen is the club is closing a

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lot more

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gradually down at the bottom.

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So the stock to swing kind of builds in the best of both of those, where the

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club is in

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a little bit more lag behind you like this, and then the body is bringing the

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club through.

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That helps get a very shallow low point that's slightly ahead of golf ball with

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a more gradual

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clubface closing, so it tends to give us contact as well as direction

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consistency.

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But if you're struggling with clubface control, I highly recommend you look at

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these two features,

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especially from the face-on camera view, that will usually point you down the

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right kind

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of decision tree or right thing to investigate.

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Do I need to work on my arms in order to get them more in front of my body, or

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do I need

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to work on my body pivot with the arms in order to get more of a body-driven

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hit?

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Those two will ultimately help you eliminate usually more of the left and the

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big right

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miss, but ultimately it boils down to giving you a lot better clubface control.