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This video is discussing the three consistency keys.

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So virtually every golfer I've ever worked with expresses the desire to be more consistent.

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All right, we all want to hit our good shots more often.

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But often times when I ask them, well, what does a consistent golf swing look like?

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They give me kind of a, I don't know, look and they'll start talking about the grip or

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their setup or their backswing or whatever.

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So in this video, I'm going to try to share with you the three keys that I look for when

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I'm looking at consistency.

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And I'll try to tie in a few of the big movements, how they relate to consistency, as well

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as some of the kind of older old school versions or old school tips, the golfers have used

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in order to develop more consistency and what it actually changes.

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So the three keys in my mind to consistency are looking at swing plane, looking at low point

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control and looking at face to path relationship throughout the swing.

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If you can master those three keys, swing plane, low point face to path, you can usually

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develop a swing that produces relatively straight shots, relatively solid contact, relatively

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little curve.

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And really, that's the easiest shot or that's the most repeatable pattern that I found

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when most of my golfers.

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Golfers who struggle with either their swing plane or their low point control or their

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face control tend to be less consistent.

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Golfers who struggle with all three of those tend to be really inconsistent and tend to have

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very poor misses.

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So in this video, we'll just jump into each of those three keys.

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The first one would be looking at swing plane.

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So if we're looking from the down the line camera angle, we're basically looking at

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from about waist height through waist height, where is this club swinging?

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Is it swinging more along a path going out to the right like this?

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Is it swinging more along a path going out to in like that?

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Is it swinging along a path that's very vertical and up and down?

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Is it swinging along a path that's more shallow or more horizontal?

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So all those factor into ideally what we're trying to create with our swing plane.

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Now I can't just stand here and give you a recipe like, okay, set up to the club and draw

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line up the shaft.

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That's exactly where you want it because that's not really how it works.

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But it's important to understand that if you have a swing plane that's coming massively

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into out massively out to in is extremely flat on the way through or extremely upright

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on the way through unless you're hitting a club where you want that path, it's going

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to lead the inconsistency.

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So somewhere around, if you put the camera so that it's in line with the back of your

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hand from this down the line view and then you were to draw up a plane there, it'll typically

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be a little higher than where it was set up and you can use that as a reference from

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about waste height through to about waste height.

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If it follows pretty close to that path, you'll tend to have straighter shots, you'll

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tend to have less dramatic misses.

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Okay, so that helps with more of the shape of the curve but that doesn't really help with

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solidness of contact especially with your second shots.

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So you could be dead on plane and shoot a million because you hit a foot in a half

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behind the golf ball or you top the ball.

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So that's where looking at the face on camera and looking at low point control is a big

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issue.

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So from the face on camera, now we're looking at low point control.

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So now we're looking at the width of this circle along whatever path it's swinging

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on.

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So I'm looking at is the circle centered here, is the circle centered here, is it more

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of a squished circle like an ellipse or is it have a very pronounced kind of high to

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low contact.

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A lot of golfers struggle with either getting the club to swing up really quickly or getting

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the club to swing very narrow on the way through.

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Golfers tend to be more consistent with their long game, tend to have a wider look through

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the follow-through.

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The component I measure on 3D is arc width and I find there's a high correlation between

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the arc width graph and a golfers perceive level of consistency.

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So if I look at this face on view and it's got kind of a nice flat shallow bottom to

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the swing out in front of the golf ball and it's really wide and the down the line has

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a look that's pretty much on plane.

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I'm probably going to be pretty consistent in terms of my solidness of contact.

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Now as far as the last look or last piece which is looking at more direction we're going

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to look at the face-to-path relationship.

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So golfers who tend to be more consistent with their longer game tend to have a little

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bit faster closing the club face early and then a little bit slower or more gradual

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closing in the club face late.

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So even if it looks like they're on plane and the face on view isn't too bad then typically

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what'll happen is the club face comes in really open and then tries to square up very

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late.

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The rare exception it will come in very close and then use some type of chicken wing hold

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off move on the way through to open it back up.

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That typically will also show up from the face on view.

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So if you're really struggling with consistency take a look at these three elements.

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So look at swing plane because that's absolutely related to consistency of off-light.

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Look at low point control and how the arms are either widening or if they're narrowing

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and look at the club face control.

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So we'll do a little nine to three where we try to focus on face control, swing plane,

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and wide point.

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So the three keys to consistency I got really good turf contact maybe just a slight

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pull because of maybe an upper body lunge but overall that was a really solid strike demonstrating

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those three keys.

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We did the opposite or if we did a bad version where I'm going to have a little bit more

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of a scoop throw it out in early extend.

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You can see that I made solid contact luckily on that one but I struggled with face control

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because of the face the way I was controlling the face more with the flip, less with the

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motorcycle and I struggled a little bit with toe contact because of the narrowness on the

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way through.

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So as you can see you can use these two camera looks in order to help really dial in what

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is causing you problems whether it be contact, whether it be ball flight, whether it be

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start line and now you know the three keys to mastering your individual consistency.

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Now originally when I was designing this video I contemplated adding these last two pieces

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but they're a little bit harder to just observe and that would be looking at kind of

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tempo and tension.

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So tempo or sequencing the more that you use your body early and the arms late,

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typically that's going to relate to this wide point from the face on view or this is

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going to relate to that low point control from the face on view.

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Typically golfers who have more early arm action and more aggressive arm action will

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tend to have a little bit more of a flip style or scoop style release and now you'll

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see that a flip style or scoop style release becomes a problem because of what it does

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to low point control and often what it does to the face to path relationship.

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But you can have a flip style or release and still be on plane.

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So these golfers typically hit the ball relatively straight but complain of contact,

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complain of distance.

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In addition when you have too much tension in your arms it's really hard to let the club

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shallow which is means it's really hard to have even tempo and nice sequencing and when

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the club tends to steep in transition it will tend to get shallow late and so it can

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cause a swing path or swing plane that gets shifted way out there or if you feel that

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that's going to happen then it allows you to have more of a wrist roll or kind of more

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of a swivel style release or flip style release on the way through where your hands

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are doing more flexion extension instead of arm extension coupled with a little bit

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of forearm rotation.

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So what you'll start to see is that yes these three things are the three observable

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ways you can use video to look at your consistency but you do also want to factor in some

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of the old school things of tempo and tension because those can impact or have a profound

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impact on either one of these key components that consistent.