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This case study video is looking at using a yardstick to track your swing path.

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So I'm actually going to do a little case study on myself just to show you how

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different

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swing looks from down the line correspond to the path looking from overhead.

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So you can see over here on the track man that this particular swing had a two

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degree

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left swing direction but I hit down on it 5.8 attack angle.

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This is an eight iron and so the club path was one degree and out basically hit

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a very

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straight shot just slight slight draw.

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So let me tell you how I've got this set up.

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I've got a golf ball six inches away from a meter stick and I've got these

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colored hashes

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at six inch increments so what you'll see somewhere in between there is that

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first increment.

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So I've got the golf ball between two T's there's the first six inch increment.

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So you can see this is kind of like the bowling alley set up that I use but we

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're going to

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be able to get a rough measurement with my eight iron.

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So what you'll see is from the down the line the swing is going to roughly

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match that forearm

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plane and then as it's coming down it looks like it's pretty straight compared

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to that

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forearm plane just slightly in the out.

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Well what you can do with the overhead camera is you can track where it's

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crossing the meter

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stick.

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So here I've got five or there's a foot so basically it's crossing a spot two

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feet behind

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the ball and six inches in.

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So if you took a alignment stick and kind of estimated so if you take your put

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ter which

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is three feet and you subtract the grip which is a foot or if you put the grip

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down twice

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that roughly gives you a target of about where the club head is going to pass

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over on a pretty

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neutral swing.

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So now you can see I hit that solid this was kind of just a stock shot.

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Now let's take a look at a swing that would be more of a stand up.

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So I attempted to get a little steeper with my arms and stand up or early

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extend so you'll

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see that from the down the line the club path is coming well from the inside.

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This was so the swing direction was four degrees into out.

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I hit down four degrees so the club path was six degrees into out.

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You can see from here from overhead is that basically the club is passing about

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the meter

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stick about six inches closer to the golf ball.

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So instead of crossing over on that line now it's crossing over on that line

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that's going

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to give it this trajectory of going more into out and you'll see that on the

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way through

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the club stayed away or further out compared to that meter stick as well.

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So from the down the line you'll see it go up and to the right this was kind of

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a more

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of a pretty good size draw for an eight iron.

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Okay last we've got an outside in swing so this wasn't terrible in transition I

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probably

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could have thrown it out and casted it a little bit more to be more

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representative but you

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can see it's coming from above the swing the impact plane and then going

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underneath so

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from the down the line camera angle you would see subtly going from the outside

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to underneath

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but from the overhead camera we can see quite a different story.

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So this is crossing the meter stick somewhere back here so remember if we if we

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keep this

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kind of to scale right here was two feet behind the ball where it was crossing

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the

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meter stick that was giving me a pretty neutral path here was six inches closer

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that was giving

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me a a much more inside out path about six degrees inside out so now it's

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crossing almost

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a foot behind the neutral path and so it could follow that trajectory but it's

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not going

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to what it's going to end up doing is it's going to be coming straight down

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that bowling

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alley and you can see it's already in line with the ball and now it's really

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darting

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over to the left.

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So this was a 13 degree outside in swing direction hit down on it four degrees

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so the club path

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was only 10 degrees outside in but you'll see roughly how it's it's crossing if

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I had

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the yardstick or meter stick even further down you'd be able to see where it

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was actually

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crossing much earlier.

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So one way to kind of measure your swing path and I use that term loosely is if

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you use

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an alignment stick or a yardstick and you roughly look at from either you can

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set up

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a camera on a slight angle or if you're just kind of observing where the club

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is crossing

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the meter stick that will help you experiment with your path.

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This is kind of one different way of looking at the path but it's similar to

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say the four

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square setup and so if you have a chronically outside in swing you can

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visualize where this

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would need to cross in order you know you could set up some type of feedback so

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that

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you knew roughly six inches in two feet behind the ball with an eight iron

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would give you

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a spot right around there that you would want the club to cross if you were

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going to have

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a neutral path then you can let your brain kind of troubleshoot and figure out

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how it's

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going to actually get that to happen.

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So all three of these shots ended up fairly close to the target one was 14 feet

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away one

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was five feet away one was two feet away so they all ended up on the green in

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the right

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ballpark and one had very little curve one had a big curve and or a big draw

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and one

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had a big fade.

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So hopefully this overhead camera a little case study helps you visualize the

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path especially

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when you compare it to what you'll likely see when looking from down the line

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hopefully

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this gives you a couple checkpoints when you're working on managing your club

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path.