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In this concept video, we're going to talk about squaring the clubface.

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So one of the unique aspects of golf is because we're playing on this kind of

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incline plane

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or this angle where the ball is on the ground, it's not always easy to tell

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exactly where

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my clubface is pointing.

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So I've got one of those simple little alignment tools to help you see where

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the clubface is

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pointing.

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I'm going to show you the three kind of forces or torques that can change the

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alignment of

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the clubface and then we're going to simplify it and talk about the two major

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ones that

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you'll hear me mention frequently during the transition and the release.

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Okay?

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So, here we go.

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If I were to position this club so that it's pointed straight in line with this

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yellow

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stick, you can see that those two are dead in line.

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So the clubface is pointing in the direction that the target is.

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Well there's three ways that I can adjust this.

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One would be if I were to raise the handle up and down, you can see that up

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makes it

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point more to the right, down makes it point more to the left.

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So even though the lines on the club are pointing in the direction of the

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target, if my club

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is more like this, it's actually pointing slowly to the right.

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Secondly, if I were to rotate the club in the plane, you can see that that's

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now pointed

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to the right and that's now pointed to the left, but the clubface is still

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square to

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the shaft.

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So that's option number two and option number three is I can twist the club to

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the clubface.

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So it can get quite complicated because as I come down, I can rotate the shaft,

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I can

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lean it forward and I can do all these little things that get the clubface

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pointing in the

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direction of the target, but not necessarily the way you might imagine.

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So I want you to start thinking about how we're going to square the clubface.

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When I talk about squaring the clubface with the shaft, what I'm typically

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referring to

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is this in-plane motion.

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So you can see that the club is pointed off to the, or the clubface is pointed

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way off

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to the right.

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Now it's pointed in line with the target and now it's pointed left, but I took

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this entire

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clubshaft and moved it in order to get the clubface pointing in a different

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direction.

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Now when I talk about just using the clubface, here's what I mean.

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If I bring the club out here and then if I twist the club, now the clubface is

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pointed

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in the direction of the target even though I didn't change the shaft whatsoever

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.

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So when I talk about in transition using the motorcycle and when I talk about

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making sure

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that that happens for long enough during the downswing, what I'm typically

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talking about

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is this closing of the clubface to the path.

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And the reason that this is important is I set up with it just like so and the

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only way

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that this would be pointing at the target is if I brought it right back to

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where it was

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just like this.

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But that's a very poor way to have a downward strike and take a divot.

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If I want to have a divot, then I'm actually going to hit it kind of like this.

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And now if I bring it down and I do that again, I've got to be hitting before I

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reach

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that low point, so this is about four inches before the low point, and you can

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see that

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that club is pointing somewhere 20 to 30 degrees off to the right.

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And so what I need to do is close the clubface slightly to the path so that now

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it's pointing

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much closer to the target.

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So what we typically see is with good iron players, good drivers of the golf

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ball, they

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tend to have this closing of the clubface relatively early so that they can

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have enough

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lean in the shaft compared to their body, and that lean will look something

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like actual

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lean when you're hitting an iron, but because of the ball being further forward

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, it doesn't

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look like lean when my upper body is back when I'm hitting the driver.

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It's still about the same amount.

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Now for wedge shots, you'll typically talk about this reverse tumble, or you'll

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typically

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hear me talk about using the shaft to square the clubface.

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And that's because we don't want to have a lot of this clubface closing.

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We want all the clubface squaring to actually happen from the shaft.

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So hopefully that's a new way of thinking about it for you, but it will really

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help

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you understand why we're doing certain things in transition and during the

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release.

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Because if you don't square the clubface early with just this shaft movement,

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it is

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virtually impossible to have enough shaft lean unless you lunge your upper body

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forward,

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which tends to cause a whole host of other problems.

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So hopefully this helps you understand how we're going to square the clubface

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when you're

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watching the rest of these videos.

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Now before I forget, let's go over the common patterns for how people square

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the clubface

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or how people get the clubface pointed in the direction of the target.

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So one would be I'm coming with an open clubface and one would be I'm coming

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with a closed

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clubface.

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The coming with an open clubface is by far the more common pattern.

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And there's two common ways that people will compensate for it.

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So the first one is I'm going to open the clubface and now the clubface is open

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compared

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to my body.

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Now there's two common ways that I'm going to get this clubface pointed in the

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direction

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of the target.

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One is I'm going to swing my path very much to the left.

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And so now you'll see when I make contact, the face is pointing roughly

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parallel to this

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yellow line.

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But because the path is so different than where the clubface is pointing, it's

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going

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to impart a big slice bin on it.

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The other option, I'm going to do the same thing with my grip.

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The other option is I'm coming down very open and from the inside.

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Now if I was to continue rotating and stay in my posture, all that ball would

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go very

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far right or I would possibly shank it.

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So the common pattern for this would be I'm going to stand up and release that

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full angle

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so that my arms are straight.

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And I've used that shaft to get the club pointed in the direction of the target

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.

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So that one ends up looking more like this and ends up having very fast club

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rotation.

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And I'll demonstrate the way that looks kind of from the face on view.

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So here we've got that perpendicular.

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So let's open it first.

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Now here would be there I've come kind of over the top with an open clubface.

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And so that's pointing in the direction of the target but there's a big

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difference between

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the face and the path so that causes curve.

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The other one, there's still my open clubface.

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Now I'm coming away from the inside and I stand up and that causes the clubface

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to snap

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closed but very, very quickly.

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And there's still a big difference between the path and the face.

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So those are the most common patterns as far as the open clubface.

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Now this one's a little bit more rare but you can have the clubface in a very

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closed

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position.

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And typically what you'll see are the two ways to get that pointed in the

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direction

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of the target are going to be to release the hands up but I'm still pointed

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left.

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So what I'll do is I'll raise the handle up so it'll end up looking kind of

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like so

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through impact.

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So if I came from here, the common one, there's that clubface very closed and

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then I'm going

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to stand up and extend both wrists in order to get that clubface pointing more

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in the

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direction of the target.

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So those are the most common ways that you'll see for compensating for either

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an open or

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a closed clubface.

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