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If you are going to have shaft lean at impact, then you need to have the face slightly closed to the path or else you will hit the ball way off to the right. There are only a few movements that close the face to the path. One is the motorcycle/screwdriver movement during transition, the other is turning the club in your hands before you swing. The last one is during the rotation of the forearms through impact, but that is the hardest and least advisable one to mess around with.
In this drill, you will simply react to the curve of the ball and find a grip that gets you to hit a "straight" shot. This doesn't mean that this will be your grip forever, but it lets you know that with your current swing path and direction, there is a grip that will hit a straight shot. As you work on other pieces of the swing, you will be more comfortable making slight grip changes if you go through this exercise.
Tags: Drill, Intermediate, Beginner
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This drill is called 5 degree grip changes. This drill isn't experimental drill while you're
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going through the setup phase. So what I want you to do is you're going to go through the
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grip routine and take your normal grip. And then you're going to hit a shot and for the
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purpose of this drill you're going to watch the ball flight and you're going to see what it does.
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If it curves off to the right instead of trying to change your swing path which sometimes I will
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tell you that you should do, I'm going to have you just experiment with the grip so you can
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see the power of where you have the hands on the club and how they affect ball flight. So the way
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you'll do it is you take your normal grip and then you'll take your trail hand or right hand for
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right hand and golfer and you'll grab the club and you'll just relax your fingers so that you can
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spin the club five degrees and then re-grip. Now every time you do that you're going to tell me,
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oh man this feels totally weird and I want you to understand that you only change the grip
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five degrees but the weighting of the club is going to feel a very very different.
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Now what you may find is even though the weighting of the club is different you strike the ball
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better and it goes you know more in the direction that you're looking for and this is a good
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initial way to fine tune ball flight while you're going through the position layer.
