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Golf is a tricky sport. There are lots of things that are visually misleading and mentally confusing about making a good golf swing. One of the first challenges for a golfer to visualize is that the hands are going to be very different at impact than they were at set up.
At set up, the clubface is relatively square to the shaft, but if you want to have the handle ahead at impact, and have shaft lean, then the clubface will have to be closed (or turned more left/counter clockwise) compared to where it started. The club will look very closed if the body doesn't also change, but because the body has rotation, side bend, and more bend in the elbows than it did at set up, this matches the closed clubface in a way that it produces penetrating consistent ball flight with optimal distance.
If you have a hard time getting body rotation through impact, then this is probably a big reason why.
Playlists: Fix Your Flip, Beginner Program
Tags: Impact, Release, Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This drill is the impact drill for overcoming the visual of impact.
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So what I see a lot is that especially if you played racket sports or something where you were used to having alignment kind of straightened out in front of you.
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Is that a lot of people think that this is a square impact position.
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And it is, but this is a square impact position with the bottom-line swing right in the middle of my stance.
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You'll see that the club is square to you or straight up and down and in line with the shaft.
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Now all these things that we've talked about in contact and the impact other drills, the door jam, trying to get the hands ahead.
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If I now had the hands ahead and the club face square to that path, it would look like this.
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Right? Now if I hit a golf ball, like that it would go way off to the right.
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Different times if you're used to standing up, flipping, having the bottom-line swing right at the golf ball.
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And you start to learn how to get the hands more ahead.
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Initially the ball may go to the right until you learn to overcome this visual obstacle, which is square is going to be or impact square.
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When my hands ahead are going to be like this.
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You'll learn that movement in the transition drill and the release drills, but basically see how I got this left wrist pretty flat.
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So I started with the left wrist cup and if I didn't change anything and I flattened the left wrist, that's what it would do to the club face.
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Now that's about 25 degrees closed, which is a square neutral grip.
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Because from here, if I was to then turn my body so that my hands are ahead, now the club face is pointed at the target even though my hands are ahead.
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So oftentimes I'll have players set up and then just flatten that left wrist, cut that right wrist, and it closes down the club face.
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And I'll say, when do you feel that in your swing? I'll say, close your eyes, when do you feel that in your swing?
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Now usually look at me and say, never.
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I said, okay, I want you to feel that before you hit the golf ball.
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Sometime before you hit the golf ball, you're going to try to get there.
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But as long as the hands are coming out ahead, the golf club is going to be actually square when it reaches the bottom of the path,
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which will help you hit a slight little draw instead of blocks out to the right.
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So this is a good little just concept drill for you to start playing around with you can look at home,
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but basically the hands are going to be trying to close the club face while the body is trying to keep it open.
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Together they match up and you have the bottom of the swing forward with a square club face.
