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Understand Your Hand Path for a Better Golf Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how your hand path affects clubface alignment at impact
  • Visualize the relationship between body rotation and hand movement
  • Learn to shallow your hands for improved swing mechanics

In this video, you'll learn about the importance of hand path during your golf swing and how it differs from the traditional swing plane. Understanding this concept will help you achieve better clubface control and improve your overall swing dynamics.

Video Transcript
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This video is my view of the hand path so we're gonna do just a global hand

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path

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of what's going on during the golf swing. They've always talked about the swing

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plane but we now know that the hands and the path of the arms and the path of

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the

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club are going on is slightly different than a true swing plane. So from the

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top

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of the swing the first thing we're gonna see is a little bit of a shallowing

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out

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of the club so if I did it from this point of view it's gonna go go like

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this. Now it's very very slight but what that does is that prepares or that

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builds a force that when I pull in is gonna cause that club face to square

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that way. So what'll happen I'll show two perspectives. So I'm gonna go to the

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top of the swing. There's that first shallow move now I'll do that watch in

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the club. So there's that first shallow move now you'll look you'll see from my

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perspective it looks very dramatic from the camera's perspective it's not gonna

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look too dramatic. Now we're gonna use my visual alignment system or visual

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kind

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of reference frames here so we got target line perpendicular inside 45 and

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then outside 45 just far enough away so that I'm not gonna make contact if I

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did swing. So I'm gonna do that first move and once I get to about delivery

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position you'll see right around here the club is roughly parallel to this

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target line. Now from here what's going to happen is because of my body

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continuing to rotate the path of my hands even though they're extending away

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from me is going to be coming in just like so. So you'll get a good perspective

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of it right here where you'll see that my hands are going in even though the

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club where the club head is going down and out. So it ends up looking kind of

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something like that. We'll go ahead and hit one show you how this hand path

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thing

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works. So that's a perspective on my view of what the hands are doing through

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the majority of the golf swing. So now let's go over a couple ways that you

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might have problems with this. So what a lot of golfers will do and I'll show

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you what it would look like is they will get the club out away and those arms

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extended kind of down like so and then they will basically bring the club

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straight through kind of like this. So that's more of a cast pattern where my

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arms are getting extended very very soon and then you can see the path of the

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club coming through slightly out in. It doesn't look that dramatic from here

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but if I was to look at it from the down the line view basically it would look

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like it's coming kind of major left to right. That's one of these optical

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illusion things that we have to get over. The other piece that we'll tend to

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see

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is going to be more of an early extension. So if my body goes in this way I'll

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get

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a lot of that early move but now as I'm extending my arms what you'll see is

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compared to the target line you will see that my hands are kind of continually

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going in and out. So what will happen is if I do that it becomes very hard for

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me

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to have a downward strike. I'm going to basically pick the ball or if I am

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going to have a downward strike it's going to come from an overly forward

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body position kind of like so. So either the cast going out like so or the

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early

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extension are going to cause problems with this hand path and hopefully you

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can see as I look down here what we're trying to accomplish by having these

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hands follow my body as I release. So now I'll go ahead and try one here for

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you

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so you can see what that'll all look like.

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So hopefully that helps you understand why we're doing the things in transition

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,

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why we're doing the things in the release. Ultimately what's that's going

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to do to the club and how that's going to help you overcome your major swing

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00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:06.480
issues.

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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Understand Your Hand Path for a Better Golf Swing

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify how your hand path affects clubface alignment at impact
  • Visualize the relationship between body rotation and hand movement
  • Learn to shallow your hands for improved swing mechanics

In this video, you'll learn about the importance of hand path during your golf swing and how it differs from the traditional swing plane. Understanding this concept will help you achieve better clubface control and improve your overall swing dynamics.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.280
This video is my view of the hand path so we're gonna do just a global hand

2
00:00:05.280 --> 00:00:05.480
path

3
00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:10.320
of what's going on during the golf swing. They've always talked about the swing

4
00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:14.400
plane but we now know that the hands and the path of the arms and the path of

5
00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:14.460
the

6
00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:19.920
club are going on is slightly different than a true swing plane. So from the

7
00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:20.200
top

8
00:00:20.200 --> 00:00:24.690
of the swing the first thing we're gonna see is a little bit of a shallowing

9
00:00:24.690 --> 00:00:24.800
out

10
00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:28.520
of the club so if I did it from this point of view it's gonna go go like

11
00:00:28.520 --> 00:00:33.260
this. Now it's very very slight but what that does is that prepares or that

12
00:00:33.260 --> 00:00:37.560
builds a force that when I pull in is gonna cause that club face to square

13
00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:45.440
that way. So what'll happen I'll show two perspectives. So I'm gonna go to the

14
00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:49.000
top of the swing. There's that first shallow move now I'll do that watch in

15
00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:54.200
the club. So there's that first shallow move now you'll look you'll see from my

16
00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:58.080
perspective it looks very dramatic from the camera's perspective it's not gonna

17
00:00:58.080 --> 00:01:02.640
look too dramatic. Now we're gonna use my visual alignment system or visual

18
00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:03.680
kind

19
00:01:03.680 --> 00:01:08.480
of reference frames here so we got target line perpendicular inside 45 and

20
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:13.240
then outside 45 just far enough away so that I'm not gonna make contact if I

21
00:01:13.240 --> 00:01:18.880
did swing. So I'm gonna do that first move and once I get to about delivery

22
00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:23.680
position you'll see right around here the club is roughly parallel to this

23
00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:28.040
target line. Now from here what's going to happen is because of my body

24
00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:32.920
continuing to rotate the path of my hands even though they're extending away

25
00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:39.360
from me is going to be coming in just like so. So you'll get a good perspective

26
00:01:39.360 --> 00:01:45.320
of it right here where you'll see that my hands are going in even though the

27
00:01:45.320 --> 00:01:55.480
club where the club head is going down and out. So it ends up looking kind of

28
00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:59.400
something like that. We'll go ahead and hit one show you how this hand path

29
00:01:59.400 --> 00:01:59.640
thing

30
00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:07.360
works. So that's a perspective on my view of what the hands are doing through

31
00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:10.960
the majority of the golf swing. So now let's go over a couple ways that you

32
00:02:10.960 --> 00:02:15.640
might have problems with this. So what a lot of golfers will do and I'll show

33
00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:19.960
you what it would look like is they will get the club out away and those arms

34
00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:23.800
extended kind of down like so and then they will basically bring the club

35
00:02:23.800 --> 00:02:28.520
straight through kind of like this. So that's more of a cast pattern where my

36
00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:33.120
arms are getting extended very very soon and then you can see the path of the

37
00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:38.160
club coming through slightly out in. It doesn't look that dramatic from here

38
00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:43.280
but if I was to look at it from the down the line view basically it would look

39
00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:47.160
like it's coming kind of major left to right. That's one of these optical

40
00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:50.960
illusion things that we have to get over. The other piece that we'll tend to

41
00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:51.160
see

42
00:02:51.160 --> 00:02:55.380
is going to be more of an early extension. So if my body goes in this way I'll

43
00:02:55.380 --> 00:02:55.520
get

44
00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:00.920
a lot of that early move but now as I'm extending my arms what you'll see is

45
00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:06.920
compared to the target line you will see that my hands are kind of continually

46
00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:12.440
going in and out. So what will happen is if I do that it becomes very hard for

47
00:03:12.440 --> 00:03:12.560
me

48
00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:17.360
to have a downward strike. I'm going to basically pick the ball or if I am

49
00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.360
going to have a downward strike it's going to come from an overly forward

50
00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:29.350
body position kind of like so. So either the cast going out like so or the

51
00:03:29.350 --> 00:03:29.720
early

52
00:03:29.720 --> 00:03:34.680
extension are going to cause problems with this hand path and hopefully you

53
00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:41.200
can see as I look down here what we're trying to accomplish by having these

54
00:03:41.200 --> 00:03:46.820
hands follow my body as I release. So now I'll go ahead and try one here for

55
00:03:46.820 --> 00:03:46.960
you

56
00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:51.080
so you can see what that'll all look like.

57
00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:59.440
So hopefully that helps you understand why we're doing the things in transition

58
00:03:59.440 --> 00:03:59.440
,

59
00:03:59.440 --> 00:04:02.760
why we're doing the things in the release. Ultimately what's that's going

60
00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:06.040
to do to the club and how that's going to help you overcome your major swing

61
00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:06.480
issues.

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