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This trouble shooting video is coming into the ball with the club face closed.

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Golfers tend to fall into some patterns, whether it's a club delivery pattern, a

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Pat pattern, or creating speed. One of which pattern you can look at is what's

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going on during the release. So what do I look like when I've got the club kind of in

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just past delivery position and what happens to it until it gets to the end of

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follow through. Some golfers will tend to get into a very closed club face

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position, looking something like this at the end of delivery. And you've

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really got a few options. If you're close like this, the most common option

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would be to then break down the arms and kind of chicken wing and hold off any of

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that arm extension. So it looks kind of like this on the way through. And you

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can see it gets into a very narrow position. It's not extremely playable.

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So I wanted to give you a few different ways that you can look at how do I manage a club

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face that is coming in overly close. Well, there's a couple different ways that the club

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face would come overly close. One would be if I had an extremely strong grip and I mean

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I did a lot of the good body movements, but you could see that if the grip is

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extremely closed, there's virtually nothing I can do to correct it.

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Now, throwing that one out because I rarely see that as the option. The next would be

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coordinating some of the body movements, some of the path movements in order to balance

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this club face equation. So if you're coming in with the club face getting really

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close like this, what it usually relates to is the arm timing in direction, having

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not enough either wipe or body rotation, whichever way that you kind of frame that body

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movement during the second phase of the downswing. So if I'm coming in more like this

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and then if I added body rotation and wipe movement, but kept the club in the same position,

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you can see how just like magic that takes the same hand and wrist positions and moves it

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from a closed club face to now a square club face. And that's the way guys like Dustin

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Johnson or JB Holmes who have a stronger grip, but still get the body well open.

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It impacts will have a club that looks fairly neutral at that shaft pair a little checkpoint.

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There are the other option that some golfers do is when they get into this overly club

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closed club face, though then early extend and had an excessive amount of kind of raising the handle

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like so. And that pattern can work up till let's say eight handy cap or so, but it's hard to get

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into the low single digits using that pattern. So I would typically go after adding a little bit

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more wipe, feeling softer arms in transition, a little bit more of the body centered movement.

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The those typically will have a bigger effect on the overall relationship and it will give you

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better arm extension, which hopefully gives us more solid contact. The one piece that you have

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the monitor is if I'm getting the path a little bit to outside in. So some golfers

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will close the club face because they're getting outside in. And if all I did was bring this

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from the inside, you would see that that forearm rotation and move it back to the inside

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would reopen the club face. So some golfers will, well especially if they're working on the

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motorcycle and they have the pattern where when they do the motorcycle the club gets out more like this,

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that will have a very closed look where if I just did the motorcycle and had it coming a little bit more from a shallow

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position you can see that that has nowhere near the same amount of club face getting closed look to it.

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You can always use ball flight and if the club face is getting really close to the target, the ball is always

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going to start left and if it's really close to the path, you're going to tend to see a lot of curved to the left.

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Figuring out which one you fit into, you got to read the feedback and then working on getting a little bit more

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body centered so that I can get my body open that helps the lay that closing in the club face,

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getting a little bit more of the white helps create some of the shaft lean which helps the lay the closing in the club face

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and ultimately helps balance that equation. I rarely see golfers getting too close more commonly I see it getting too open

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but if you struggle with getting it too close hopefully this helps you kind of focus your training into something that

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will have a measurable change on how you're arranging your club face.