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The Strel is combining 9 to 3 4 square and 9 to 3 motorcycle.

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Many golfers need to work on their face to path relationship and when they do they tend

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to lose the path.

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So one of the most common things that I see is golfers come in, let's say, with a club

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face that's wide open kind of like this.

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We're not a whole lot of shaft rotation and a little bit from the outside and they hit

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weak shots, but straight shots and with the driver it fades and they don't like how far it

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goes or how consistently they are.

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One of the first things that we need to work on is shaft rotation, getting the club

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face square to the path.

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So after they've learned to read feedback they say, alright, I can see that the club

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faces open to the path, I need to get that more closed.

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And then what they'll do is they will try to do the motorcycle move, but frequently they

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will steep in the path like this in order to close the face and now they hit these massive

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poles.

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So frequently what I do is while they're doing the shaft rotation or working on the motorcycle

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I'll just create the visual of force square.

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So we won't get into any of the details of how they can shallow it out or get the club

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to swing more into out.

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But I'll explain to them that when they close the face, if the path stayed out to the

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left they're going to hit big poles so they have to shallow it out a little bit more.

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Well everything that shallowes the club tends to open the face so that puts a higher

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priority on now doing that shaft rotation and doing that motorcycle movement.

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So what I've done here, I've taken the spray paint and drawn force square there.

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Normally I just use a T and mark it in the ground but you should be able to see that.

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And then I'll usually start golfers with the ball, T-UP right in the center of it.

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But I'll take away the ball, I should say this is the first step I do before I put the

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ball there and T-UP.

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I'll have them go back to that 9 o'clock position, close the club face and then try to get

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the club to brush the ground going from square number one to square number three.

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So basically back to here, close the club face, brush through there and then check in

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the finish position to make sure that it stayed close.

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So this forces them to pay attention to the path while focusing on the club face.

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And they do them together, it'll look something like close the club face, little on

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the toe, little bit of a pull so I probably was straight and then into box four, not quite

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enough one to three.

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But it allows me to figure out what I need to work on.

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It gives me a little bit better feedback than just doing, that was better there.

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So it gives me more feedback than just doing the 9 to 3 with the motorcycle.

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Those two skills have to go hand in hand because if you change your face the path relationship,

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your path will have to adjust as well.

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This is a great way to work on it, combining 9 to 3s or going into full swings but using

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the motorcycle with some type of path alignment like either the force square or the bowling

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alleys, I really prefer doing 9 to 3 in combination with the force square.

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Here we have the close up view.

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So again I'll normally just do this by carving a line like that, like I showed in the

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force square drill.

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But here we've got the spray paint to make that a little bit easier.

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I'm going to work on trying to get the club face closed but closed coming from here.

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Golfers tend to either come from the inside with it open or come from the outside with

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it closed.

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It takes a little bit of training and getting used to coming from the inside while still

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having it closed.

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So you get set up.

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You can do this either off the ground or on the tee.

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I usually prefer starting on the tee but we'll go for it.

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So you're going to go 9 o'clock, close the club face, swinging through so that it launches

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pretty straight even though the club face stayed close.

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You can then work this pattern up to fuller and fuller swings so we can do a little

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3-4.

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Close the club face.

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That one the ball launched left.

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So now I'll focus, I'll get the club face set and then I'll shift my focus more to the

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path.

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So club face closed.

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That one was much better in terms of the ball flight started a little right and then

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drew back.

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This is a great way to work on combining the face and path.

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You just visualize the path and you focus on the feel of the club face and together

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it allows you to get good feedback while you're putting in reps.