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This video is discussing open it halfway down. So in this video we're going to

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discuss a couple of the key reference times when you're looking at your

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swing on down the on video. What should you look for is for as clubface

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control? This is really driven by a member question that I got about if your

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wrist is cupped at the top of the swing. So I thought it'd just be easier to

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discuss the clubface from that key shaft parallel delivery position and then

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work our way backwards and basically understand what's going on when are the

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common times to lose control of the clubface. So the the checkpoint is

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basically looking at the club when it's parallel to the ground. I'd say this is

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about as open as you would want to be and this would probably be about as close

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So somewhere in between those is going to give you a relatively easy and

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straightforward closing of the clubface. So you've you've already done a fair

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amount of it. All you have to do is keep pivoting and extend those arms and

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close the face a little bit more as opposed to if the face is all is really

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open at this point oftentimes you have to close it so fast that a it's really

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hard to time and control with the driver. B it's hard to control low point

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because

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you'll usually have to stall to get that extra little closing zip. So what

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happens

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if you are open here? Well the next checkpoint I would go back to is the top

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of the swing. So many golfers have long thought that you want to have that the

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clubface pretty much parallel to your form at the top of the swing. And that's

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not a bad reference point because to get it parallel to the top of the swing it

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going to be closer to flat rather than open. We know down at impact we want to

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have it roughly 25 degrees more flex than where it was at set up. So if I have

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a neutral grip that means I'm going to be flat or slightly bowed at impact

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which

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means if I have the wrist pretty flat at the top of the swing then I don't have

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to do quite as much changing of the wrist on the way down. So if you have the

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clubface in a very open position kind of like this where the toe is pointing

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straight down and you have the clubface in an open position here then I usually

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find that's telling me that you tend to keep the clubface pretty consistent

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during

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the whole downswing. I would focus then on trying to get that wrist to feel

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almost

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like a Dustin Johnson and feel like it's more flat so that then when you come

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down it'll be much easier to get into that checkpoint. Now if you have it

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cupped or open at the top of the swing the next thing you want to do is look

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at well when did it get open is that because I started with a really weak grip

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and then even though my wrist was in a good position I was pretty open at the

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top of the swing or what is very common is I will fan the club open and have a

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lot of rotation during the backswing or it's fine through here and then I fan

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the club open as I go to set the wrist to help me kind of pull down on the

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club almost like I'm using an axe. So the checkpoints would basically be like

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in the takeaway I want to make sure that I didn't fan the club open in from the

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takeaway to the top of the swing that I didn't fan the club open and then from

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the top of the swing to that shaft parallel delivery position making sure

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that I didn't fan the club open during any one of those three phases if I did

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that's where I want to put some emphasis to keeping better control of the club

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face. If you struggle with having the club face really open then one drill that

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I

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like to combo in is having the club up here at about parallel and then making

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almost like a baseball swing or just turning and basically feeling like the

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club face stays square and then slightly closed on the way down. If you're used

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to fanning it in the takeaway then even doing this drill you'll probably spin

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the club open like this just from a natural movement that you've trained

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with the forums and you'll it'll be beneficial for you to start training the

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club face staying a little bit more square to the path it's moving on. So the

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shaft parallel club face position from down the line is very useful diagnostic

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for looking at your face-to-path relationship. If it's open too much at

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that point then circle back and look at either the top of the swing or shaft

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parallel in the backswing so you can figure out when you're opening the face

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so you can find the fastest way to correct it.