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This concept video is talking through clubface closing strategies.

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So we're going to talk through a couple different clubface closing patterns so

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you can understand

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how the three main ways to close the face or relate to each other.

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So I think it's sometimes easiest to visualize the face when you're holding it

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up.

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So I'll tend to do this with students.

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I'll have it kind of held up at parallel like so or you know belly button

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height more

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like baseball level.

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So if I was to this is pointing you know perpendicular to the ground kind of

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like this.

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If I have more opening elements so if I bring it if I bring it back and rotate

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it'll point

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more up.

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If I have more closing elements it will come more down.

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So whatever I do in the backswing I just have to make sure that I balance that

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out and get

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the face pointed at the target.

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The main ones will be twisting bringing the club back you can see forward

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points it more

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up back points it more down and then if I lower that pointing a little bit more

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down

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if I go this way that's pointing a little bit more up.

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So ideally I'm going to have that unhinged which points it more up.

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I'm going to have shaft lean which points it more up and then I will have the

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motorcycle

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which points it more down that creates kind of the best impact conditions

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especially

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with the longer clubs.

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So now we'll take a look at it in more of the golf plane but you can visualize

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it and

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practice it up here and just kind of see the individual pieces.

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If I wanted to come back square I could just keep it square to that path that

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whole time

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or I could rotate it open and just time it coming back that's kind of a golfer

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's choice

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but ultimately I can relate where the ball is starting and how the ball is cur

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ving to

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that club face orientation.

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So the three ways to close the face or open the face if I lower the handle that

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closes

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the face because now you can see that the face is pointing way over there if I

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had that

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lie angle tool this would point straight and then as it goes down that face is

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now angled

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that way as it goes up it's angled more that way.

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Then I could keep the grip in the same place and rotate the face open or closed

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.

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This is one of the common ones that most people think of when they think of

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closing

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the face or opening the face and then the other one is I could keep the club

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head end

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in the same place and I could bring the handle back along the path or forward

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along the

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path when it goes more ahead I'm essentially hitting it earlier in the arc and

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the club

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face has less time to close so it's more open and when I bring the handle back

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I'm hitting

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it later in the arc and so the club face has a greater chance to close

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basically coming

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in through there.

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So what many golfers do is they figure out a combination of these three closing

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mechanisms.

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One common one is they're not going to use the motorcycle so the face will be

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really

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open and then they'll have more of the scoop and lower the handle so they will

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tend to

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have more of a look like this and they'll hit a fair amount of they'll have low

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point

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control issues because of the more of the flip aspect and they'll tend to get

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more

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pull start lines especially with the longer clubs kind of like that but they

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can hit kind

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of a very playable fade pattern typically with the short irons and you'll see

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when I

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when I do that one if you were to look at your own swing you may see the club

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exit

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way around to the left kind of like that that's a good sign that you're using

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more of that

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um flip style or what some guys call more of a swivel style release because

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basically

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what they're doing is we're using lack of unhinged that closes it and letting

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the club

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pass that closes it so now I can hold off on the motorcycle I can basically

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rotate this

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way and still get the club face pointing in the direction of the target but you

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see in

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order to do that um I hit it fat because my low point is off so the pattern

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going this

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way has to get used to more unhinged that opens the face like this so then I

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have to

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have that motorcycle movement ideally that motorcycle movement is going to

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happen much

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earlier and then I can unhinge and then simply rotate my body on the way

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through so it has

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a feeling of the arms being a little bit more early and a feeling of quieter

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hands because

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it's more of a body hit but it's really just using the hands differently so now

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a second

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pattern would be more I'm going to really raise the handle and bring the club

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through

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kind of like this um which holds the face open so then down at the bottom I can

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spin

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it really fast so I get a lot of the closing from the rotation very late so

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this would

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be more of a late style motorcycle and then I hold the face off with that one

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now this

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golfer will tend to hit blocks and when they hit it straight it's more because

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they perfectly

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timed letting that last piece go of closing the face with a little bit more

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scoop kind

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of like that they'll tend to be more picker styles of the golf ball um have

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kind of a

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sweeping draw or a pull draw miss um with the driver where oftentimes they get

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going this way

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too much which forces them to then straighten the arm too much on the way

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through kind of like that

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so that golfer has to get the motorcycle to happen earlier and then a little

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bit more shaft lean

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to complement so the motorcycle tends to close it and then that shaft lean

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tends to hold it open

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and that unhinge tends to shallow things out so if it's a little bit off it'll

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go a little bit

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right or left but that tends to be a little bit more consistent pattern one

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other pattern is the

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severely outside in so this golfer um typically gets the face pointed at the

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target more by using

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the outside in path so the face never actually gets closed it's basically

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coming through space

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like this coming through in an open position like that instead of rotating

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closed what they do is

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they swing more down so now that open position is pointing at the target but

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the net result of that

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is the club face was left open they're getting a little bit of squaring from

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the flip uh but the

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hands aren't down enough to get it left and they definitely haven't haven't had

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enough rotation

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so the face is open and then they're just getting the ball to start at the

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target because of the

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the face um relationship to the target but it's going to curve off to the right

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because the face

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the path is so open so that golfer absolutely needs to add a little bit of

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motorcycle to start

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getting the face more closed to the path earlier so then they can bring or

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improve the path which

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will help them get a little bit more shaft lean and with a shallower bottom of

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the swing

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tends to work a little bit better for the longer clubs