Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This SIMPLE TIP Improves Any GOLF SWING - ABC Drill"

In today's lesson...

If you struggle to get forward shaft lean AND hit the ball on target...

Professor Q will give you a simple setup tip that makes it much easier.

Plus, get his "ABC Drill" to finally groove in the correct impact position.

Finally feel that pro-like impact!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 9:56

Video Transcription:

You've probably heard the term always be closing if you've ever been in sales. But it also applies to the golf swing as well. So basically, let's go over what exactly opens and closes the club face in the golf swing. Essentially three things. Number one is the release of the club. So if I coming down here and I early release the club, right.

Meaning I'm kind of flipping at it as I'm coming through. You can see it that closes the club face. If I release the club later, I have my hands more in front and I release the club more out in front at impact. My face is going to be more open. So that's number one that opens and closes the face and early release closes the club face.

A later release opens the club face. The second thing that controls the club face angle is the rotation of the shaft, right? So that's going to come from mostly our wrist angles, right? So if I do this throttling, move with my wrists. You can see how that closes the club face. If I go kind of reverse styling move, you can see how that opens the club face.

So with my lead wrist, what's happening is, is I'm flexing my lead wrist. This is called wrist flexion. Some people might call that bowing of that lead wrist. And with my trail wrist, I'm extending it back. Some people might call that cupping and that closes the club face. If I do the opposite, if I club this lead wrist, that's what's called wrist extension.

That's going to open the club face as I'm coming through. And then if I kind of flatten out my trail wrist, you can see that that's also going to open the club face. Right. So closing it down and opening up by virtue of rotating the shaft the last piece is the light angle of the club. So if you look here, if I have this club flat, you know, the sole of the club flat to the turf here, and I raise the handle.

You can see how that opens up the club face. If I lower the handle, you can see how that closes the club face. Now, I will say this usually isn't a one, isn't one. You really need to worry about. It's more about those first two, because if those first two are good, a lot of times that lie angle is going to take care of itself.

Usually it's pretty difficult to release the club properly and then have the the lye angle really high. It's usually just doesn't work together. So usually that one is not going to be happening. So what top players are doing is they're releasing this club later, right? So they're opening the face by virtue of the release as they're coming into contact.

So that means that they need to be always be closing with the rotation of the shaft. Now, there are some really easy ways to do that. I'm going to show you had to do right here. So number one is with your grip. I prefer a stronger grip for most people because it just makes it a lot easier. This is all going to make sense here in a second, but that's usually going to make it a lot easier for a lot of people.

So you can imagine if I take this club, let's say I have a weak grip. So if I have a weak grip, that means that my thumbs are basically kind of in line with the ping logo on this grip so that be more of like a weak grip and the face is straight up and down there. So now if I take this this shaft and I loosen my grip and I turn that logo, let's say I turn it about 45 degrees.

Now you can see that face is closed. I re grip the club. Well, look, I've already rotated the shaft and I don't have to do anything. I don't have to do anything in my swing to make that happen. That face is just rotated down and that just makes things a lot easier. I think a lot of people go away from the weak grip or go away excuse me from the stronger grip because it's just more comfortable to dress, to have a weaker grip.

And I agree, if you just have your arms kind of hanging straight down. It's just it's just way more comfortable to have your thumbs just kind of like this and hanging straight down. But address isn't really the most important thing in the golf swing. The most important thing in the golf swing is impact. We need to be able to get ourselves into a good impact position, and it's a heck of a lot easier to get yourself in a good impact position where the hands are in front with shuffling when we have a stronger grip.

So I'd strongly recommend that you have a stronger grip. Here's a very easy way to help you get a stronger grip. Just set up the way that you normally would loosen your grip and then turn the handle. You know, about 45 degrees in your hand, 30, 45 degrees somewhere in there. Then re grip the club, then square back the face.

Now, when you do that, what you're going to find is you're probably going to be a little bit more comfortable with having your hands a little bit more in front at impact. And that is 100% fine. If you're comfortable with having with with having the hands more like this, it's not a very comfortable thing for me. But if that's more comfortable for you, that's also 1% fine as well.

There's lots of our players that are like that as well, but a lot to our players. Dustin Johnson included, will have a strong grip and then we'll have their hands a little bit more in front at impact compared to somebody else who might have a weak grip. But let's say I don't want that strong grip. I don't want to do that.

That's 100% fine. If you do, then we have to be doing other things in the swing to close the club face and we have to do that with our wrist angles. So like I said, there are two other players as well that have weak grips Victor Hovland, Collin Morikawa, these are a couple of guys. They have weak grips.

And when you have a weak grip, what you have to do is you have to be bowing the the lead wrist and extending back the trail wrist throughout the swing in order to accommodate that. If you look at those guys, the swings, if you go on YouTube and look at those guys swing, you're going to see that they have a lot of bowing in their wrists.

When you look at Collin Morikawa at Impact, he looks like this and he has to, otherwise he won't be able to get that tour level shaft lean and compression on the ball and square the face with getting the release out in front. If they don't have those wrist angles with that weak grip. So that's why I recommend strengthening that grip.

So just set up, loosen the grip, close the club, face rig, rip the club, then square back up the face. So that's number one. Now, in the beginning stages, if you're new to this closing the face with by rotating the shaft and you've been closing the face by virtue of really releasing the club for a long time, I want you to do both.

I want you to see what works best for you. Let's do both to the extreme and let's see what works. So let's get a really strong grip by doing what I just talked about. And then let's also let's feel that face closing throughout the swing. So as I mentioned, that closing of the club face is going to come from bowing the lead wrist, extending back the trail wrist.

So I want you to feel that throughout several points in the swing. So I want you to get that strong grip and I want you to get that club face pointing to the ground about right here, about halfway back in the back swing. So you can see here my lead wrist is bow to my trail wrist is extended back.

Then I want you to go up to the top and feel that same thing. I want you to feel the emblem of your glove pointing up to the sky in the palm of your hand, pointing up to the sky. You can see there I've got some good bowing. My wrist can see that club is very closed. And then I want you to come down here and I want you to feel again like that club face is pointing down toward the ground.

We're closing that emblem of the club, pointing down toward the ground where bowing that lead wrist, extending back that trail wrist. Then we're going to come to impact lots of shaft, lean square club face. Then we're going to come around into the full finish, do lots of reps. He can do this in the house, in the office, do lots of reps, really getting comfortable bringing that club back really close with a strong grip.

And that's just going to promote everything you want at impact. You see, if you have a weak grip and you leave that face open, well, we have to do something at impact to square up the face. Otherwise we're just going at the ball a mile to the right and your brain isn't going to let you do that. So what you're going to do if you come down here, we grip open face.

What I see almost every single person do is they stand up and flip at it. If we have that club face closed now and we have that strong grip and we're using those strong wrist angles now, if I stand up and flip at it, look what happens. It's going to go way to the left. So now I've got to get my body rotating.

I got to stay in my posture. I got to get my hands in front in order to square up that face. So practice those wrist angles, work toward those pausing reps, work into doing it in a really slow, fluid rep, and then work toward doing faster and faster swings. And then at that point, what I want you to do is pair this up with what we call the tennis racket drill.

Now you can find this tennis racket drill in the move course. And I want you to go the move course now and go to that tennis racket drill and pair it with this. And once you get to where you're doing swings, what you're going to do is you're going to take this alignment stick here and you can do this.

I just made this. You can you can take a block of wood, drill a hole in it. But if alignment sticking it, pull noodle on it, whatever you want to do, what I want you to do is put this alignment, stick in the ground in front of your golf ball along with your target line. And what you're going to do is you're going to be always closing the face, A-B-C, always closing the face, always be closing.

You're going to try to come in and get this ball with that really strong face angles to get that ball to start to the right. And if you do that, that's going to allow you to get the hands in front and really compress the ball. You're going to hit the most compressed shots of your life. But the reason why it's important to do the tennis racket drill is because we have to get this ball, this excuse me, in this club, showering out at the club is not shallowing out.

Right? If let's say I'm coming down steep and I'm closing the face, there is no way that ball is just going to go left and left. There's no way I'm going to be able to get it to start to the right. So I have to get this club shadowing out. So that's why this drill is deadly. If you get it combined with the tennis racket drill from the from the move course.

So just click the instruction tab, then click the the top speed system and then go to the move, then go to that tennis racket drill, compare it with what we're doing here and you're going to start really compressing the ball, play well, and I'll talk to you soon.