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This troubleshooting video is coming into the ball with the clubface closed.

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

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a path pattern, or creating speed.

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One of which pattern you can look at is what's going on during the release.

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So, what do I look like when I've got the club kind of in just past delivery

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position,

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and what happens to it until it gets to the end of follow through?

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Some golfers will tend to get into a very closed clubface position,

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looking something like this at the end of delivery.

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And you've really got a few options. If you're closed like this, the most

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common option would be to then

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break down the arms and kind of chicken wing and hold off any of that arm

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extension.

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So, it looks kind of like this on the way through.

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And you can see it gets into a very narrow position.

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It's not extremely playable.

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So, I wanted to give you a few different ways that you can look at

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how do I manage a clubface that is coming in overly closed?

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Well, there's a couple different ways that the clubface would come overly

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closed.

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One would be if I had an extremely strong grip, and I mean extremely strong,

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and I still did, and I did a lot of the good body movements,

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but you could see that if the grip is extremely closed,

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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.

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The next would be coordinating some of the body movements,

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some of the path movements in order to balance this clubface equation.

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So, if you're coming in with the clubface getting really close like this,

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what it usually relates to is the arm timing in direction,

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having not enough either wipe or body rotation,

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whichever way that you kind of frame that body movement during the second phase

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of the downswing.

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So, if I'm coming in more like this, and then if I added body rotation and

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white movement,

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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

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and moves it from a closed clubface to now a square clubface.

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And that's the way guys like Dustin Johnson or J.B. Holmes,

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who have a stronger grip, but still get the body well open and impact,

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will have a club that looks fairly neutral at that shaft hair little checkpoint

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The other option that some golfers do is when they get into this overly closed

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clubface,

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they'll then early extend and had an excessive amount of kind of raising the

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handle like so.

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And that pattern can work up to let's say eight handicap or so,

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but it's hard to get into the low single digits using that pattern.

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So, I would typically go after adding a little bit more wipe,

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

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movement.

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Those typically will have a bigger effect on the overall relationship

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and it'll give you better arm extension which hopefully gives us more solid

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contact.

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The one piece that you have to monitor is if I'm getting the path a little bit

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too outside in.

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So, some golfers will close the clubface because they're getting outside in.

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And if all I did was bring this from the inside,

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

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reopen the clubface.

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So, some golfers will, especially if they're working on the motorcycle

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and they have the pattern where when they do the motorcycle,

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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

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and had it coming a little bit more from a shallow position,

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you can see that that has nowhere near the same amount of clubface getting

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closed look to it.

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You can always use ball flight and if the clubface is getting really close to

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the target,

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the ball is always going to start left, and if it's really close to the path,

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you're going to tend to see a lot of curve to the left.

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Figuring out which one you fit into, you got to read the feedback,

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and then working on getting a little bit more body centered so that I can get

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my body open.

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That helps delay that closing of the clubface.

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Getting a little bit more of the wipe helps create some of the shaft lean,

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which helps delay the closing of the clubface and ultimately helps balance that

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equation.

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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

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focus your training

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into something that will have a measurable change on how you're arranging your

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clubface.