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This drill is face alignment at different points in the swing.

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So I've got a video where we talk about this face, the three major ways that you can

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adjust the face, but I want you to see that it's not just down at impact we can apply

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it universally.

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And a couple of the key times when we're going to want to look at this or lead arm

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parallel in the downswing shaft, parallel in the downswing or shaft parallel in the

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follow-through.

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So the three main ways that I can close the face would be by using the whole shaft,

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moving the shaft forward backward, which would look either like this or like this.

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Those are the same things, just two different ends moving.

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Rotating the face, open closed.

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That'll look the same regardless.

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Or lowering the handle closes the face, raising the handle opens the face or raising the

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club closes the face, lowering the club opens the face.

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So that's what it looks like down there at the bottom and it's kind of easy to see.

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Now let's look at what happens when we're in the downswing.

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So if we're looking at the pattern when the lead arms about parallel here, we can see that

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rotating the face with the motorcycle closes it, extending the wrist, kind of re-hinging

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and pulling narrow, opens the face.

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So from face on, that closes it, that opens it, from face on, that closes the face, that

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opens the face.

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The shallow movement that we want to do in order to allow that body rotation also opens

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the club face, which is part of the reason why you need that motorcycle to balance that

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back out.

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Same thing we can get down into this position here.

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This would be opening the face, this would be closing the face, that is closing the

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face, that is opening the face and then the one we really like, that shaft rotation

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opens the face or closes the face.

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Then as we go into that follow-through position, the same thing's going to apply, I can

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rotate it more, open our clothes.

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I can open it by lowering the club, I can close it by raising the club up.

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So you'll see that a lot of golfers get into this club face is open and then they close

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it by re-hinging as opposed to fully unhinging and allowing the shaft rotation to close

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it.

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Then the last one would be, this closes the face, this opens the face.

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That's another one where in trying to get everything to extend out there, a lot of golfers

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are used to closing it by having the shaft move, the entire shaft move and you'll see

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that a lot in that follow-through position if I've closed it by bringing, by using the

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shaft, it'll show where the club is weighted a little left.

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So what you'll tend to see is in that ideal swing or the stock swing model, you're going

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to tend to see fully unhinging, which opens the face.

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You're going to see the club staying out there, which closes, or sorry, opens the

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face.

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So the main closing that they'll have is more with that shaft rotation as opposed to moving

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the whole shaft to move the face.

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Hopefully it helps you visualize when we talk about face-to-path relationships or if we're

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talking about the club faces in a position where you'd have to do something like

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chicken wing or like scoop in order to square it up.

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This is what we're talking about.

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It means that your balance of steepest in shallows and your balance of the face open and

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closing isn't matching up for the pivot that you're trying to train, but since the

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face is happening first, oftentimes fixing the face-to-path relationship will help clear

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up a lot of the pivot problems.