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This drill is playing with face and path, so a lot of you have one specific

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face-to-path

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relationship that you like, and that's a great way to play golf, but learning

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how to adjust

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the face-to-path relationship is a great way to understand your ball flight, it

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's a great

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way to understand variety in the release, it's a great way to understand the

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overall

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movements we're trying to build here in the golf swing.

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So to play with face-to-path, basically what we're going to do is we're going

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to try two

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extremes, we're going to really close the club face and then use the path to

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make it

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go relatively straight, and then we're going to really open the club face and

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use the path

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again to make it go relatively straight.

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Now we're probably going to have very different lofts, so it's going to go

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different heights

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and it's going to fly different trajectories, but overall we should still be

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able to get

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it to launch fairly straight just by playing with this face-to-path

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relationship.

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If you're used to being more of an over-the-top slicer, it's going to feel very

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weird to

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have the club face close to the path and still try to get it to go straight,

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and if you're

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a giant draw or hook over the golf ball, if that's your normal tendency, then

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you're

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going to struggle when we get the club face more open and you have to swing a

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little bit

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left.

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So I usually do these in nine to three or half style swings, but to adjust the

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face-to-path

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our major options are going to be these wrist movements here, so flexion

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extension, possibly

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some pronation supination down at the bottom, but primarily flexion extension

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to adjust

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the face-to-path relationship.

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Our other option is to change the grip in our hands, but for this drill, for

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playing

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around with this, I want to do it mostly with your normal grip and just by

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doing different

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wrist combinations.

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So most of you are probably used to having the club face stay pretty square and

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just

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keeping that square relationship something like that.

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So what we're going to do for the first one is we're going to really close the

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face, and

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then we have to swing on an exaggerated end-out path so that when it passes the

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ball, the super

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closed face is pointing at the target.

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So I'm going to go to waist height, close the face a lot, and then use a path

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swinging

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well into out to make it launch straight.

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If I were to close the face to the path and then do just a normal path, you

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could see

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that that would launch very much to the left.

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So that's why we call this playing with the face-to-path relationship, because

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we want

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to get used to being able to work in this larger range.

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So I'll do that again.

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You're going to go to about waist height, close the face as much as you can.

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You can see now when I did that, I do want you to notice the club head didn't

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move.

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If the club head moves, then I'm adjusting the face-to-path relationship and

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the path.

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If the club head stays in place, I'm just adjusting the face-to-path

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relationship.

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So I take it back to about waist height, close the face, and then try to use an

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exaggerated

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end-out path to get that thing to launch straight.

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And I'm hitting off a tee just to make it easier for contact, because when I

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start adjusting

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the path that drastically, if I'm coming way from end out, I don't know if you

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heard that,

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but it will be very likely that I'm going to bottom out behind it, because the

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more that

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I move the path into out, the more it moves the bottom of the swing backward.

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So now, we'll do the opposite.

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So we're going to get to roughly the same starting position, where I'm going to

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bring

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it to about here, but then instead of closing the face, I'm going to do what's

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going to

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feel uncomfortable to me.

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We're going to open the face.

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So now, if I were to use more of a neutral path, this thing would basically hit

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a little

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flop shot that goes way off to the right.

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So what I want to do instead is I basically want to come over the top to get

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this to launch

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closer to the target.

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So I take it back.

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Normal, open the face, and then I'm going to try and come way over the top to

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get this

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thing to launch straight.

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One of these may feel much easier for you to do, and that reveals what your

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swing tendencies

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or your swing biases are.

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For example, you can see that I'm having a much easier time coming from the end

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out

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position.

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That is my natural tendency is to have more of the club face close to the path

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and swing

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a little end out, which produces a powerful draw, but it limits my short game.

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If I get here, open the face, it's very uncomfortable for me to swing a little

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bit more to the left.

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That's part of the reason why I tend to struggle with the short game because

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that doesn't feel

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quite as comfortable for me.

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So playing with face to path can help you understand your natural tendencies,

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how to

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adjust them with just the changing the face to path relationship, and then

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ultimately give

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you some references and some feelings that you can use when you're then taking

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it back

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to training your full swing.