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This concept video is discussing strong grip low point issues.

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So a pattern that I tend to see with some students is, and I'd say that this is

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kind

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of like a, let's say, somewhere in the high single digit to low double digit

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handicap.

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So let's say somewhere in the 12 to, or sorry, the 7 to 15 handicap range.

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I see a lot of golfers who tend to have a fairly strong grip, so they don't hit

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many

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slices, but they struggle a lot with low point contact, partly because of their

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body relationship

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compared to the grip.

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So what I mean by that is, if I have a strong grip, so if I have my hands

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turned well to

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the right, or if I was to take a grip and hold it so that that left arm is

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pointing out,

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let's say that the clubface would be greater than, you know, 40 degrees or so,

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kind of

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like that.

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Well, if I supinate my left arm, the way that I might want to in order to move

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low point

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forward, that will tend to cause the clubface to get really closed if that

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happens out in

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front of my chest.

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So golfers who tend to have a stronger grip on tour will tend to get much more

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open and

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leave it behind.

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I'm still supinating the arm in order to move that low point forward, but my

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body is wide

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open in order to prevent the clubface from getting too close.

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It also allows me to provide more of the powering of the swing from my body and

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a little less

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from the arms.

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So I might notice with this strong grip in this good pattern, I'm going to tend

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to get

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my body more open, have my arms kind of soft and feel like the club is left

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even further

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behind.

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But what a lot of golfers who have this low point issue with the strong grip

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end up doing

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is they don't get their body open enough.

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And so in order to prevent the clubface from getting closed, what they do is

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they'll tend

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to chicken wing and kind of hold off the face.

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And you can see as I do that the club is actually coming up into the golf ball.

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So they'll tend to have more of a swing kind of like that on the way through.

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Now you might have seen from the down the line, I hit a nice little soft draw

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that way.

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So I was able to control the clubface, but I wasn't able to control my low

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point very

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well.

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And I'll tend to have a lot of bigger misses in consistent contact.

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Now to improve that chicken wing pattern, I've got to induce a little bit of

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supination.

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Supination tends to move the low point forward kind of like that as opposed to

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no supination

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and having a little bit more extension tends to move the low point backward.

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So if I'm trying to use my arms in a way that will move the low point forward,

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I also

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have to manage the clubface.

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So what will happen with these strong grip players is they will tend to, when I

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show

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them how to get a little more supination, they'll tend to hit a shot that kind

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of looks

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like that.

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So a very solid shot, but went probably a good 20 degrees left of the target.

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And so they'll struggle with getting their brain to commit to getting some of

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that supination,

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which helps with contact and low point because it doesn't match the clubface

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compared to

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where their body is.

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So if you struggle with that pattern, you either have to weaken your grip a

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little bit

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and commit to where your body is going to be at impact, or you have to work on

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getting

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your body more open so that then when you do that same release, it's happening

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more

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behind you in the clubface.

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So I'm basically hitting it earlier before the low point, which prevents the

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clubface

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from closing.

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So I see a number of golfers who have this strong grip, low point problem

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because the

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body is not matching where the clubface is.

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So if this is the case for you, if you have a stronger grip and you're looking

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at it from

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down the line video and you're not seeing much of your back impact, that is

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probably

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the reason why you're seeing more of a chicken wing and you're going to have a

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hard time

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breaking that pattern unless you either change the impact position or change

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the grip so

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that you can improve the chicken wing.

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But unfortunately, the strong grip chicken wing are matched with a body

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position that

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is not as far open as it needs to be at impact.

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So hopefully this helps tie together a few different concepts of why you might

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be struggling

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with low point, especially if you have a strong grip and a chicken wing.