Why You Need This:

I bet you have heard a lot about swing plane over the last couple of years. It seems like it is out there everywhere.

Unfortunately, many people tend to make the motion much more complicated than it really is.

In this video, I will show you a couple of simple motions that will allow you find your golf swing plane for both the backswing and downswing.

What's Covered: How to rotate the forearms in the golf swing.

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 3:51

Video Transcription:

OK, so the last piece when we’re talking about the wrist moves is what we’re going to call door knob to the right and door knob to the left.

So pronation means to rotate inward toward your body, pro is towards center, so that would be my thumb’s going inward. Then supination is my thumb’s going outward, away from my body.

I think that’s a little bit complicated, I think that makes things less intuitive.

If you take both your hands and you imagine you’re turning a door knob to the right, that would be supination for my right hand, if I’m turning it to the right or clockwise that would be pronation for me left hand.

So turning it to the right, and then turning a door knob to the left. You don’t really need to know the mechanical term, just realize that’s happening in the golf swing in the backswing and the downswing to get speed and to get the club moving on plane.

What’s really happening there is you have two bones in your forearm. You have your radius and your ulna. As you rotate, you’re really not turning your wrist, it’s actually your forearm bones and you can feel that.

Grab your forearm and you’ll feel those bones kind of rolling over top of each other as you rotate your hands.

But keep in mind when we’re talking about the golf swing, I may say this again, door knob to the right is turning clockwise, door knob to the left just like you’re turning a door knob is going to be counter-clockwise is door knob left, clockwise is door knob right.

Very easy to do when we just think of it as door knob right, door knob left.

So in the backswing my hands are going to set up basically neutral, so my palms are going to be together, door knob to the right, so just like I’m turning door knobs to the right to set the club on plane.

As I come back into the downswing they’re going to be releasing going to neutral and then door knob to the left.

So in my downswing they’re going to the left to keep the club on plane. So you can see my palms, if you just watch my palms, I’m turning them to the right to get the club on plane, I’m turning them to the left to release the club and keep it on plane as I’m coming through.

So if we’re turning this way, and I’m going to hit this golf ball, we’re first going to go as we’re going back, you’ll see my palms rotate open to set the club on plane.

You’ll see as I’m coming down, my palms are rotating closed to keep the club on plane into my release.

If I do these together, that’s going to have the club on plane the entire time, and I’m going to be able to be pretty consistent.

I don’t want you to get too wrapped up in getting the exact swing plane when we’re talking about the scratch golf system, because swing plane is important, but it’s not the most important.

Having these other key principles are going to be really a lot more key to getting good results than being perfectly on swing plane. I think that’s widely overdone.

I’m not saying it’s not important that swing plane isn’t important, but it’s not the most important.

So if we just have that simple idea that in the backswing palms are going to be rotating door knob to the right, or my wrist are going to be rotating, my forearms door knob to the right, then door knob to the left as I’m releasing.

That’s about as detailed that we need to get when we’re talking about the wrist movements as far as pronation and supination.

So hopefully that makes a lot of sense, I don’t want you to spend tons and tons of time focusing on this, but I would like you to go ahead and take a couple hundred swings.

Just practice swings, and focus on the wrist turning this way, turning door knob right going back, turning door knob left going through, and do about 100 swings doing that. Just so you can get that kind of feeling.

Now I may mention these feelings in later videos, and talk more into detail in future videos that aren’t in the scratch golf system as we get more advanced, as we’re getting to be really, really technically specific.

But for the general idea for here is you guys are going to hit it great if you just keep in mind it goes a little open going back, a little closed going through.

That’s going to help you to release the club, get a lot of speed as you’re coming through contact, and ultimately hit the ball a lot better.

So good luck to you guys, go ahead and do those couple hundred repetitions. Practice hard, and I’ll see you all soon.