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In this analysis video we're gonna take a look at the face-to-path

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relationships

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using the overhead view. So in this swing I'm taking a little bit a little bit

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longer than 9 to 3 but I wanted to have a really clear club face so we're

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hitting just kind of a 9 to 3 style shot. Now here you can see that at about

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waist height the the hands are in front of that right shoulder or even with

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that

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right thigh so that's probably closer to where the club would be parallel to

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the

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target line. You can see that the club face is close to vertical or slightly

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passed. Now as it comes down you'll see that it's rotating towards the target

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at a relatively consistent rate. You will understand that a little bit better

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as

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we look at some other examples and then unfortunately the club kind of

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disappears out of view but what you can see at this position is that that right

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hand is more or less on top of that left hand. So looking at that from the down

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the line view we can see that that club face is rotating so that it's more or

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less pointing at the golf ball a few frames before impact. That was the

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important thing that I wanted you to see from that kind of overhead view and

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then here you'll see the club working more towards toe-up or possibly even a

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little patch depending on your grip strength and how much form rotation you're

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gonna have. As we look from this face-on let's move that just a little bit. So

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if

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we look from that face-on you can see that there's a full release where that

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right hand is kind of passed over on top of that left hand from that face from

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that overhead view that's where we were seeing that right hand more on top.

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Keep

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that in mind as we look at some amateur golfers and some of varying levels so

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some very low handicap very good ball strikers and then some higher handicap

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so that you can kind of visualize how this face and path relationship works. So

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in this particular golfer so in this particular golfer you can see that that

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club is pointed well out to the right of the golf ball and you can see that it

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more or less stays there and then this golfer is going to use the path by

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pulling up on the handle in order to get that face pointed more at the target

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but you see that he did so basically using that open face and pulling the

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path left as opposed to the gradual and continuous closing that we're trying to

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get during that release and so when he gets to that finish position you can see

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that the right hand is well underneath the left hand not on top because it

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wasn't rotating closed during that face. Now with this path if he had rotated

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it

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closed the ball would have gone way left so it's not a simple one-to-one fix if

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we just fix the face usually the face and the path both have to be adjusted and

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then here's another gentleman who has the the club face in a fairly good

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position here where the club face is just past vertical but you'll see that

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through

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that phase to basically here the club instead of rotating this way is more or

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less just sliding across like so. Can you see how that face is still pointed

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way

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out to the right and then he's going to use that early release or kind of a

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scoop pattern to get that face that's well open here pointing in the general

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direction of the target but unfortunately that scoop method tends to cause that

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lead arm to break down and you'll see that his trail hand is very much

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underneath the grip instead of on top of the grip so he hasn't had a ton of

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that forearm rotation during his release either. Now we've got an example of a

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golfer who has actually had been working on the motorcycle and arm

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shallowing so you'll see the club faces in a fairly closed position and works

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its way into a good closed position already pointing at the target through

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here so he's able to get pretty good arm extension on the way through there's a

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tiny little breakdown of the wrist but for the most part he has pretty good

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arm extension part of that is because you can see that his hands are well ahead

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of the golf ball or from his perspective they look well ahead of the golf ball

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from the face on camera they would look like they're just slightly ahead where

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the last few examples the hands would be closer to in line with the golf ball

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so

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by getting the club face closed early he's able to continue rotating which

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allows his hands to get ahead of the golf ball and allows his arms to extend

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through the ball leading to consistent ball striking. Now here we have Jack

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Nicholas hitting a five iron obviously the camera frame rate is not going to be

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as good that we'll be able to see clearly where that club faces but you can get

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a

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good sense of the path as it relates to the to the club face so when he gets to

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the the shaft parallel to the ground which would be roughly when the hands are

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even with that right shoulder you can see that the club head is still coming

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from the inside of that target line and then as he goes through you'll see the

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that lead arm is going to rotate or that trail arm is going to rotate as they

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're

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both extending so here you can see he's got a fair amount of arm bend still got

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that arm bend and then those arms are extending so I like to kind of reference

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it a spot somewhere down on the target line where those arms are more extending

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there as opposed to what we saw with a lot of the amateurs where they were

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extending more at the golf ball. Here's another example this one JB homes and I

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'm

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not sure why they didn't have better frame rate or shutter speed but we can

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see some of the shaft relationships as well so compared to a stance you can see

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that that club is coming more from the inside from and down the line camera

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angle you would see that that would only look like the club was about a club

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head

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width inside of the golf ball but from the overhead you can see that it looks

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like it's way behind especially when you combine the fact that his chest and

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shoulders are already starting to point more out in front of the golf ball that

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allows him to have his hands continue to lead and when he gets to impact you

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can

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see that his body is already turned facing the target so we're closer to the

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target you can kind of see the blur of the club at this point already starting

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to

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point at the golf ball and that combination of having the golf club

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pointed at the golf ball earlier allows him to both come from a shallower angle

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as well as get that good arm extension on the way through. So I'm limited with

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the number of overhead views that I have at least until I get a drone. So

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here's a target line view of Roy McElroy now we can see that great body

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action and arm shallowing piece and then as we get to waist height you can see

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that compared to his left forearm there's a little bit of that flexion in that

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lead wrist so he's done a good job with the motorcycle because we know that up

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here at the top of the swing that lead wrist is actually in extension or pretty

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close to flat so it's done it a good amount and you can start to see the club

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face there is already turning towards the golf ball so you can see it kind of

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having a consistent rotation towards the golf ball during this face here. Now

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unfortunately we can't see the last couple of phases before impact or frames

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before impact because of the camera location and grass height but you can

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see that those arms continue to rotate through and the way that you can kind of

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visualize that is if you look at the lead hand or the the glove of his lead

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hand you can see that it continues to rotate towards the target and then

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beyond as those arms extend what a lot of amateur golfers would do is as they

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get to this point the the glove hand would stay pointed at the target and that

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lead wrist would just bend and break down and then eventually that lead arm

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would start to chicken wing because he has a consistent rotation and he had

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that

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arm shallowing piece his face and path are in a very good relationship so he

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gets into this great follow-through position with the arm extension piece

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body in a really good position where he hasn't early extend or stood up arm

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extension right hand on top of left everything is looking great there if

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you're having any issues with your release or figuring out your face and

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path relationships and why you might be having contact issues please check out

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the associated videos here or feel free to send us an email or submit your

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swing and we can help you get on track