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This concept video is discussing strong grip low point issues.

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A pattern that I tend to see with some students is, and I'd say that this is kind of like

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let's say somewhere in the high single digit to low double digit handicapped.

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

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

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

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relationship 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 turned well

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

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out, let's say that the club face would be greater than 40 degrees or so kind of like that.

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

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forward, that will tend to cause the club face to get really closed if that happens out

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in 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 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 body is

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wide open in order to prevent the club face from getting too closed.

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

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less from the arms.

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

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

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doing, is they don't get their body open enough.

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And so in order to prevent the club face from getting closed, what they do is 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 that

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way.

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So I was able to control the club face, but I wasn't able to control my low point very

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well, 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 supination.

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So supination tends to move the low point forward kind of like that as opposed to 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, I also

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have to manage the club face.

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

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

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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 that supination

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which helps with contact and low point because it doesn't match the club face compared

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to where their body is.

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

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

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

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behind you in the club face.

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

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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 because the

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body is not matching where the club faces.

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

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

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

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

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so that you can improve the chicken wing.

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But unfortunately the strong grip chicken wing are matched with a body position that is not

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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 be struggling

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with low point especially if you have a strong grip in the chicken wing.