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This troubleshooting video is coming into the golf ball with the club face open.

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So again, golfers fall into some patterns and they tend to get, it's end to gravitate

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towards certain either club face alignment or path control or power generation, but they

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fall into some patterns.

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And one pattern that can be a challenge to work around is having the club face open.

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So if we say that's relative least square because I'm going to have a little bit of

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shaft lane, they'll fall into a pattern of having the club face working more like this.

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What that'll look like is when you get to about this shaft parallel position where you can

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get a good view of the club face, it'll be pointing well up towards the sky, kind of like

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that, as opposed to closer to spining or just past parallel would be a little bit more

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square.

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So if it's open like this, if I was then to have that same shaft lane and body rotation,

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that club face would remain open.

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So what usually happens is if you get into this open pattern, you'll either stall in

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flip to try to hit it straight or to what you'll do is it's open like this and you'll

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tend to get a little bit more outside in.

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So now that starts straight, but because I chicken wing had a very leftward path, that's

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going to tend to start or it's going to start straight, but it's going to slice off to

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the right.

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The good news is if you're struggling with the club face open, there's really only

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a couple different solutions.

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One is changing your grip from the start.

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So if I take my normal grip, just like this and then if I extend my arms out and that's

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pretty much vertical, you may want to consider adjusting the grip and we have video that

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walks you through the process.

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I like for that.

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If you rule out that it's not grip strength, then it's one of the movements.

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There's really only two places where I'm going to break down this club face closing.

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One would be not starting the shaft rotation early enough, so working on the motorcycle

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either with the left wrist or the throw-risk catch or the motorcycle with the right wrist.

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Or below waist height, if my release pattern is geared around having no shaft rotation or none

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of the continued motorcycle, then I don't want to get into a neutral club face position

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and then have to reopen it, so my brain will tend to err on just keeping it in open position

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to set up for a little bit more of an outside in release.

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I'm either going to work on that shaft rotation early or I need to work on that continued

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shaft rotation late and getting that motorcycle movement to continue later or getting

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into some of that supination so that I can get good arm extension and good club face closing

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on the way through.

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With a little simpler than if you're coming into the golf ball with the club face too

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closed, but that doesn't mean that it's not frustrating.

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Be patient with yourself, use accurate feedback.

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If you start working on closing the face, you should start to see golf balls that launch

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a little bit lower and you should see no curve off to the right, because you're closing

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the face to the path of relationship, that means they should either go pretty straight or

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even have a draw to them.

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If you're not getting that feedback, then even if you feel like you're closing it, you're

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probably not, you're just working around this pattern of having the club face open and

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that's something that you ultimately want to resolve, especially when it comes to the

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longer clubs, because having the club face a little bit closed will allow you to get

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some of that good body positioning or body rotation, which helps create the optimal launch

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angle for the longer clubs like the driver.