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This troubleshooting video is coming into the golf ball with the club face open

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So again, golfers fall into some patterns and they tend to gravitate towards

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certain either club face alignments or path control or power generation,

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but they fall into some patterns.

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And one pattern that can be a challenge to work around is having the club face

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open.

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So if we say that's relatively square because I'm going to have a little bit of

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shaft lean, they'll fall into a pattern of having the club face working more

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like this.

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What that'll look like is when you get to about this shaft parallel position

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where you can get a good view of the club face, it'll be pointing well up

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towards

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the sky kind of like that, as opposed to closer to spine angle or just past

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parallel would be a little bit more square.

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So if it's open like this, if I was then to have that same shaft lean and body

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rotation, that club face would remain open.

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So what usually happens is if you get into this open pattern, you'll either

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stall and flip to try to hit it straight.

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Or to what you'll do is it's open like this and you'll tend to get a little bit

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more outside in.

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So now that starts straight, but because I chicken winged and had a very left

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word path, that's going to start straight, but it's going to slice off to the

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right.

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The good news is if you're struggling with the club face open, there's really

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only a couple different solutions.

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One is changing your grip from the start.

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So if I take my normal grip just like this and then if I extend my arms out and

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that's pretty much vertical, you may want to consider adjusting the grip and we

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have

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a video that walks you through the process.

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I like for that.

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If you rule out that it's not grip strength, then it's one of the movements.

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There's really only two places where I'm going to break down in this club face

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closing.

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One would be not starting the shaft rotation early enough.

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So working on the motorcycle, either with the left wrist or the throwers

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catch or the motorcycle with the right wrist, or below waist height, if my

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release

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pattern is geared around having no shaft rotation or none of the continued

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motorcycle, then I don't want to get into a neutral club face position and then

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have to reopen it so my brain will tend to err on just keeping it in an open

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position to set up for a little bit more of an outside in release.

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So I'm either going to work on that shaft rotation early or I need to work on

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that continued shaft rotation late in getting that motorcycle movement to

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continue later or getting into some of that supination so that I can get good

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arm extension and good club face closing on the way through.

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So it's a little simpler than if you're coming into the golf ball with the

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club face to close, but that doesn't mean that it's not frustrating.

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So be patient with yourself.

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Use accurate feedback.

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If you start working on closing the face, you should start to see golf balls

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that

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launch a little bit lower and you should see no curve off to the right because

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you're closing the face to the path relationship.

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That means they should either go pretty straight or even have a draw to them.

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If you're not getting that feedback, then even if you feel like you're closing

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it,

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you're probably not.

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You're probably just working around this pattern of having the club face open

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and

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that's something that you ultimately want to resolve, especially when it comes

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to

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the longer clubs because having the club face a little bit closed will allow

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you to

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get some of that good body positioning or body rotation which helps create the

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optimal launch angle for the longer clubs like the driver.