Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "I Wish Someone Told Me This When I First Started Playing Golf"

In today's lesson...

Professor Q goes over the only two things you need to know to hone in on exactly what went wrong with ANY swing.

After this video, you'll be able to instantly make on-course adjustments to fix what's ailing you that day!

The sooner you know this stuff, the better!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 12:53

Video Transcription:

The bottom line is if you want to play better golf, we have to be able to hit the ball at the target. And today I'm gonna go over a very easy concept that's going to be able to help you make OnCourse adjustments and get things working a lot better very quickly. I'm telling you, if I would've learned this when I was younger, when I first started playing golf, I think it would've made a huge difference for me.

So I'm really excited for you to be able to learn this concept today. So there's two terms that we wanna understand and. With those terms, there's really just two concepts that we wanna understand. It's very, very simple. So the first term is face angle. So what that is, is that's the direction the club face is pointing at impact, right?

So if my face is open, right, the club's gonna be pointing to the right, that'd be a positive face angle. If the face is. Club's gonna be pointing to the left for rahe, a golfer, that's going to be a negative face angle. So that's the first term. A lot of you probably already know that term. The second term, a lot of you probably already familiar with this, so you may not even need to learn any new terms, is club path.

So club path is the direction the club head is moving through. Contact the in to out, the right to left, uh, motion. So if I'm swinging out to the right, that's gonna be in to out. That's gonna be a positive club path. If I'm swinging to the left, that is out to in, right? That's gonna be a left club path, a negative, uh, club path.

So those are just the only two terms you need to understand. Now, here are the concepts. Very, very simple concepts. To get you to straighten out your ball flight very easily, we need to understand what's happening at contact that's causing it to go in the wrong direction. So concept number one. If the ball is curving too much, then we need to change the face angle.

All right? If the ball is curving too much to the left or right-handed golfer, if it's hooking right, then the face is too close. We need to get the club face open. We're gonna go over ways, very easy ways, how to do that here in just a little bit. So hang tight. If the face is, or if the ball is slicing too much, it's slicing off to the.

For right-handed golfer, then the face is too open. We need to do something to get it closed, right? So if the ball is curving too much, that is a face issue. We need to get the face fixed. We need to adjust the face, right? Number two concept is if the ball isn't curving too much, but it's still going in the wrong direction.

So maybe you're just hitting a straight pull to the left for right-handed golfer, or a straight block out to the right for a right-handed golfer that is going to be. A club path issue, right? We need to change the path. Maybe you're swinging, maybe it's just a little baby draw. You have the right amount of curvature that you want on it, right?

But it's still going in the wrong direction, right? It just has a little baby draw, but it's just, it's just starts out way too far to the right and it doesn't draw back enough. Or maybe you're trying to hit a fade. , right? And maybe it starts too far to the left and it doesn't curve back enough. That is a path issue.

Our path is it, our facing our path are lined up pretty well together, but our path needs to kinda change to get that in the right direction. So just a review. If the ball's curving too much, we need to change the face. If the ball is not curving too much, but it's going in the wrong direction, then we need to change the path.

So I have a couple examples here to kind of show you exactly what I mean here. So in this first example, This shot number one, you're gonna see that the club path is zero and that ftp, what that stands for is phase two path. So that's the direction of the club face relative to the path of the club is 0.4 to the right.

So basically you see that that shot basically goes DA dead straight. Point four is a very, very small amount. If we're under three degrees on any of these numbers, it's typically gonna be pretty good. Shot number two here, what you're going to see is, this is a big time closed face shot. If you look at my club path, it's really, it's within that three degrees, I believe it's two point something.

I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was within that three degrees, pretty close to zero. But if you look at that FTP number, it is 10 degrees plus. That means that the face is just way too close. And honestly, the, the simulation of that shot really doesn't do it justice. That is a snap hook. I'm hitting something like a seven iron that is probably, you can imagine hooking a seven iron 70, 80 yards.

That's probably about how much that hooked. It's just way too much hook on it. So if I were to try to straighten that shot out, I need to get the club face more. If I had the club face more open and more lined up with my path, and my path is pretty close to zero, then those shot's gonna go relatively straight, right?

So the problem with that shot is just the face was way too closed. And then on this last example here, shot number three, you can see that the ball starts off to the right and it draws maybe just a little bit, right? So not a lot of curvature on that shot. It's just a little baby draw. But you can see it's still way off target.

Still way off to the. So if you look at the numbers there, club path 10 degrees plus out to the right, the face to path numbers. I can't remember exactly what it, what it was, but it was just barely close to the path. I think it was less than three for sure. And that's why you're seeing less of a, of, of a curvature there.

There's not a huge curve to that, to that ball flight. So what I would need to do in that situation, if I'm seeing the ball go off to the. But not really draw back very much. That is a issue with my path. I need to feel like I'm, I'm changing the path a little bit. All right, so without further ado, let's go over how we easily make these enco adjustments to be able to change our face and our path easily and be able to get these shots right back on track.

So if it's a face issue, right? If the ball is curving too much, it's a very, very easy fix. The easiest thing to do is to weaken or strengthen your. Right. So the easiest way to think about this is if you look at my hand here, I'm creating a crease between my thumb and my hand. I want that crease. If I'm wanting to get the face more closed, I'd want that crease to be pointing on my grip here more toward my trail shoulder.

If I'm leaving the phase two close, then I might put that crease more toward my chin, right? So you can see if I do that on the grip here. And we wanna change both hands. So both hands have that c. We wanna change both hands together, right? So if I'm leaving the face too, too open, when I'm coming into contact, what I can do is I can just change that crease to be more toward my right shoulder.

And there you go. I'm just gonna automatically be able to, if I take the same exact swing, I can just get the face closed just like that. The face is too open and I'm like this. Then I can just change that crease to be pointed more toward my chin. And then the, if I make the exact same swing I just did, the face will be more open and you may overdo it.

You may get the face too open when you do that or too close, but just ease off it. If, if that's the case, you may overdo it over, you know, overcorrect it and then ease off of it a little bit. But odds are a lot of times when we, when we try to exaggerate it, try to overcorrect it, a lot of times it puts, puts us right where we need to be.

So don't be afraid to really strengthen or weaken. If, if that is the case, that's really the easiest way to do it. Another way that you can do it is changing your wrist angles. So what I mean by that is Boeing and extending the trail wrist will close the club face. And if I have the feel that I'm cupping, uh, the lead wrist and kind of flexing the trail wrist, you can see how that that will open the face.

So if I put the, or sorry, that will close the face. So I put this face angle on here, but you can see if I'm here and I bow that down, you can see how that closes the club face. And if I shoot that face up right, that opens the face, that's more of an advanced way to do it. I recommend doing it more with, um, the grip.

That's typically the easiest way to do it. But hey, if. Find it really difficult to change, weaken and weaken and strengthen your grip, and it's way easier for you just to change your wrist angles than heck. Yeah, do that. That's completely fine. But generally, I've found with a lot of students I work with, it's just easier to change the grip and when I'm on the course, I'm hitting.

If I'm just overdoing everything a little bit, I'll weaken my grip a little bit as well. If I'm overdrawing the ball, it's a, that's a typical fault, um, of, of mine. So a lot of times I'll just weaken the grip a little bit and it just straightens it right out. I don't really have to change anything and I just start hitting the ball closer to the target.

All right, so that's what you need to do. Very, very easy adjustments if we're wanting to change the club face right now. Let's talk about how we change the club. Right. Golf is a game of adjusting your feel to get the desired result that you want. And a lot of people have trouble with this because they don't want to feel doing something wrong to actually get it right, but really that's what we need to do.

If you're doing what feels right to you and it's leading to a very poor result, right, then we need to change it. We need to maybe feel something that's wrong to get the right thing. I know that may seem counterintuitive, but that's really what we have to do. So let me explain. If, if we take the fault feel real approach, what that would mean is, let's say that I'm pulling the ball.

It's just a straight pull to the left. There's not a lot of curvature on this shot. It's just a straight pull to the left. If that is the case, then what's happening is you are just swinging too far to the left. The face is good. You're just swinging the club way too far to the left. So what we need to do is we need to feel like we are swinging way out to the right.

So the fault. To the left, even though you feel like you're swinging perfectly on plane, the fault is to the left. If that is a dead pole to the left, the feel would be to swing way out to the right. You can think of this if, if I'm standing at home plate at a baseball field and I'm trying to swing towards second base, but the reality is, is that I'm swinging toward third base, then I need to feel like I'm swinging toward first base.

That is the feel that I need to have, and if I push it out to the right a little bit, when I. Then that's great. That means that you've made an adjustment, right? That's good. You've, you've been able to make a feel change and you just overdid it. So all you need to do now is just ease off of that a little bit.

So maybe instead of feeling like you're swinging toward first base, if you overdo it when you do that and you push it out to the right a little bit, maybe you feel like you were swinging toward where the first or second basement would be, or in between them, right? Just a little bit less and see where that gets you, and then you keep riding that feel.

It it until your feel essentially becomes real, and then you keep adjusting that. Right? Now, let's say you feel like you're swinging toward first base and you still pull it to the left, then you just need to exaggerate it even more. I would try to feel like you are maybe swinging toward the first base side dugout, and if that's too not enough, right?

Then maybe feel like you're swinging. The, um, the, the, you know, the batter circle there to the right, you know, the warmup circle. That's, that's almost, you know, 90 degrees to the right. But that may be what you need to feel to get the desired result that you want. And that's really all there is to it. It's very, very simple.

We don't need these crazy swing changes or anything like that. That is all it takes to hit a straight shot is to have our face and our path, you know, relatively in the same direct. , and if we understand this concept, if the ball is curving too much, then we need to change the face. And if the ball is not curving too much, but it's still in the wrong direction, it's a push or a pull to the right, then we need to change the path.

Then we can easily make these adjustments out on the course. Now, I love making these videos because I know it can help a lot of golfers, but my favorite thing to do is to work with golfers one-on-one in my unlimited swing review program. This is because we can come up with a plan to really accelerate your.

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