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This case study video is looking at using a yardstick to track your swing path.

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So I'm actually going to do a little case study on myself just to show you how different

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swing looks from down the line correspond to the path looking from overhead.

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So you can see over here on the track man that this particular swing had a two degree left

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swing direction, but I hit down on it 5.8 the tack angle this is a eight iron and so the

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club path was one degree into out basically hit a very straight shot just slight slate

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draw.

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So let me tell you how I've got this set up.

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I've got a golf ball six inches away from a meter stick and I've got these colored

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hashes at about at six inch increments.

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So what you'll see somewhere in between there is that first increment.

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So I've got the golf ball between two t's there's the first six inch increment.

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So you can see this is kind of like the bowling alley set up that I use, but we're going

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to be able to get a rough measurement with my eight iron.

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So what you'll see is from the down the line the swing is going to roughly match that

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forearm plane and then as it's coming down it looks like it's pretty straight compared

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to that forearm plane just slightly into out.

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Well what you can do with the overhead camera is you can track where it's crossing the

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meter stick.

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So here I've got five or there's a foot.

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So basically it's crossing a spot two feet behind the ball and six inches in.

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So if you took a alignment stick and kind of estimated so if you take your putter which

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is three feet and you subtract the grip which is a foot or if you put the grip down twice

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that roughly gives you a target of about where the club head is going to pass over on

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a pretty neutral swing.

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So now you can see I hit that solid.

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This was kind of just a stock shot.

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Now let's take a look at a swing that would be more of a stand up.

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So I attempted to get a little steeper with my arms and stand up or early extend.

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So you'll see that from the down the line the club path is coming well from the inside.

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This was so the swing direction was four degrees into out.

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I hit down four degrees so the club path was six degrees into out.

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What you can see from here from overhead is that basically the club is passing about the

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meter stick about six inches closer to the golf ball.

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So instead of crossing over on that line now it's crossing over on that line that's going

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to give it this trajectory of going more into out and you'll see that on the way through

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the club stayed away or further out compared to that meter stick as well.

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So from the down the line you'll see it go up and to the right this was kind of a more

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of a pretty good size draw for an eight-iron.

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Okay last we've got an outside in swing so this wasn't terrible in transition I probably

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could have thrown it out and cast it in a little bit more to be more representative

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but you can see it's coming from above the swing the impact plane and then going underneath.

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So from the down the line camera angle you would see subtly going from the outside to

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underneath.

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But from the overhead camera we can see quite a different story.

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So this is crossing the meter stick somewhere back here.

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So remember if we keep this kind of to scale right here was two feet behind the ball

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where it was crossing the meter stick that was giving me a pretty neutral path.

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Here was six inches closer that was giving me a much more inside out path about six degrees

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inside out.

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So now it's crossing almost a foot behind of the neutral path and so it could follow that

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trajectory but it's not going to what it's going to end up doing is it's going to become

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straight down that bowling alley and you can see it's already in line with the ball and now

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it's really darting over to the left.

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So this was a 13 degree outside in swing direction.

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Hit down on it four degrees so the club path was only 10 degrees outside in but you'll see

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roughly how it's crossing if I had the yard stick or meter stick even further down you'd

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be able to see where it was actually crossing much earlier.

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So one way to kind of measure your swing path and I use that term loosely is if you use

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an alignment stick or a yard stick and you roughly look at from either you can set up

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a camera on a slight angle or if you're just kind of observing where the club is crossing

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the meter stick that will help you experiment with your path.

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This is kind of one different way of looking at the path but it's similar to say the

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four square set up and so if you have a chronically outside in swing you can visualize where

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this would need to cross in order you could set up some type of feedback so that you

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can roughly six inches in to feet behind the ball with an eight iron would give you a spot

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right around there that you would want the club to cross if you were going to have a neutral

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path.

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Then you can let your brain kind of troubleshoot and figure out how it's going to actually

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get that to happen.

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So all three of these shots ended up fairly close to the target.

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One was 14 feet away, one was five feet away, one was two feet away.

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So they all ended up on the green in the right ballpark and one had very little curve,

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one had a big curve and a big draw and one had a big fade.

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So hopefully this overhead camera, little case study, helps you visualize the path especially

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when you compare it to what you'll likely see when looking from down the line.

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Hopefully this gives you a couple checkpoints when you're working on managing your club

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path.