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This video is learning from your curve, so in this video I'm going to present a

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really

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clear formula for you.

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If the ball curves more than you want, then you have a face-to-path problem.

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There's a lot of videos on the site that will help you with reading feedback,

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whether it's

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the steepness or the shallowness of the path, whether it's the clubface

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orientation, the

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low point control.

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All of those things are critical for learning to properly read feedback.

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But for many golfers, I just give you one clear formula.

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If the ball is curving a lot, then the face and the path are in different

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directions.

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So I always use the ping-pong example, because most people are used to getting

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a ping-pong

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ball to curve, where sometimes it's hard to change the curve in golf.

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So in ping-pong, I want you to imagine that I was going to hit a shot kind of

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like this,

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or I would hit a shot like this.

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Obviously, that first one would have very little curve to it.

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We'll see if this will curve, golf balls are tough.

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You can see even as that lands, the second one is going to have a lot of curve

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to it.

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Now let's break that down so that we can see exactly what's happening, how it's

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producing

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the curve.

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So if I was to bring the ping-pong paddle through here, the paddle is pointing

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in a certain

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direction.

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It is also traveling in pretty much the same direction.

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When those two are in the same direction, you're going to have very little spin

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, imparted

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on the golf ball.

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When I come outside in, like this, the ping-pong paddle is pointed this way,

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but the path it's

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traveling on is pointing this way.

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The greater the difference between those two, roughly the more spin you're

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going to create.

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So if you're hitting a ball and it's curving 30 yards to the right, it means

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that the club

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face is significantly open to the path that it's traveling on.

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If you hit a shot and it curves way to the left, it is significantly closed to

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the path

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that it's rotating on, and you want to do something to solve that.

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Now there's two different ways you could solve a face-to-path issue.

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One is you could change your grip.

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If you can make the exact same swing, and simply if the club face is coming in

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like this,

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simply rotate the club face to the path either more closed if you're slicing it

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or more open

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if you're hooking it, then it'll tend to balance it out, and the ball will go

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straighter.

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Now oftentimes, you'll hit a shot that'll slice and then you strengthen your

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grip, and you

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hit a shot and it has about the same amount of slice because your body was

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trying to accomplish

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more a certain impact feeling or impact club position rather than just making

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the same

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swing.

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But oftentimes, you're going to have to change some of the arm movements in

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order to affect

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where the club face is pointing.

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So one good place that you can check is kind of at Schaff parallel.

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If it's wide open like this and it slices, you might want to consider

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strengthening your

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grip or looking at the wrist movement.

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If it's way closed, you might want to consider alternating or changing your

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grip, and I

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got the video on five degree grip changes to show you how I like to play around

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with

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grip strength.

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But let's say that's not the answer and I need to change the club face with my

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swing.

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There's usually different solutions, whether it's an open club face or a closed

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club face.

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Typically, if it's an open club face, then I need to work on getting the club

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face to

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either close more to the path with the flexion of the lead wrist or extension

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or the motorcycle

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movement or let it keep closing with more of the supination down at the bottom,

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or I need

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to shallow the club while I do that in order to help the club close down at the

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bottom.

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Because if the path is too much outside to end and the club face is open, I'll

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have a

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harder time getting it to close.

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If on the other hand, I'm hooking the ball and I have a situation where the

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club face

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is coming in too closed.

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What I tend to see is that it's more of a I've got the club face, maybe rotate

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it a little

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bit.

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But what will really happen is down at the bottom, I'll rotate it closed and I

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'll let

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the club pass.

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And what that does is that overly closes the face and usually takes the path

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way out to

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the right.

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It kind of has a pattern that looks more like that there where I tend to get a

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big amount

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of curve.

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For that one, I don't recommend twisting the club differently here.

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What I recommend is delaying or changing that movement down at the bottom by

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getting either

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more body rotation, more of the white movement or just basically getting more

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shaft lean.

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So if I'm hooking the ball, I still keep closing the club face and I just work

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on getting a

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little bit more shaft lean down at impact to straighten it out.

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If I'm slicing the ball, I usually have the work on twisting the club or

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strengthening

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the grip.

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So if you're struggling with reading feedback, it's a really clear, or this is

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a really clear

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one single thought that you can use.

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If the ball curves more than you want, then you have a face to path problem.

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And it's if the more that it curves, the more open or close the club face is.

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So if you have a lot of curve, one of your goals is to match those up better.

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And this gives you a couple of solutions, whether the club face is too open or

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too close.