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This video is discussing open halfway down.

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So in this video, we're going to discuss a couple of the key reference times when you're

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looking at your swing on down the one video.

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What should you look for as club-based control?

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This is really driven by a member question that I got about if your wrist is cup to the top

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of the swing.

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So I thought it'd just be easier to discuss the club-face from that key shaft parallel

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delivery position and then work our way backwards and basically understand what's going

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on when are the common times to lose control of the club-face.

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So the check point is basically looking at the club when it's parallel to the ground.

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I'd say this is about as open as you would want to be and this would probably be about

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as close.

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So somewhere in between those is going to give you a relatively easy and straightforward

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closing in the club-face.

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So you've already done a fair amount of it.

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All you have to do is keep pivoting and extend those arms and close the face a little

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bit more as opposed to if the face is really open at this point.

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Oftentimes you have to close it so fast that it's really hard to timing control with

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the driver.

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Be it's hard to control low point because you will usually have to stall to get that extra

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little closing zip.

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So what happens if you are open here?

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So the next checkpoint I would go back to is the top of the swing.

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So many golfers have long thought that you want to have that the club-face pretty much

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parallel to your forearm at the top of the swing.

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That's not a bad reference point because to get it parallel to the top of the swing it's

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going to be closer to flat rather than open.

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We know down it impact we want to have it roughly 25 degrees more flex than where it was

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it set up.

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The neutral grip that means I'm going to be flat or slightly bowed at impact which means

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if I have the wrist pretty flat at the top of the swing then I don't have to do quite

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as much changing of the wrist on the way down.

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So if you have the club-face in a very open position kind of like this where the toe

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is pointing straight down and you have the club-face in an open position here then I usually

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find that's telling me that you tend to keep the club-face pretty consistent during the

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whole downswing.

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I would focus then on trying to get that wrist to feel almost like a dust and Johnson

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and feel like it's more flat so that then when you come down it'll be much easier to get

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into that checkpoint.

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Now if you have it cup to open at the top of the swing the next thing you want to do

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is look at well when did it get open is that because I started with a really weak grip

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and then even though my wrist was in a good position I was pretty open at the top of

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the swing or what is very common is I will fan the club open and have a lot of rotation

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during the backswing or it's fine through here and then I fan the club open as I go to

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set the wrist to help me kind of pull down on the club almost like I'm using an axe.

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So the checkpoints would basically be like in the takeaway I want to make sure that I

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didn't fan the club open from the takeaway to the top of the swing that I didn't fan

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the club open and then from the top of the swing to that shaft parallel delivery position

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making sure that I didn't fan the club open during any one of those three phases.

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If I did that's where I want to put some emphasis to keeping better control the club face.

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If you struggle with having the club face really open then one drill that I like to combo in

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is having the club up here at about parallel and then making almost like a baseball swing or

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just turning and basically feeling like the club face stays square and then slightly closed on the

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way down. If you're used to fanning it in the takeaway then even doing this drill you'll probably

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spin the club open like this just from a natural movement that you've trained with the forms

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and it'll be beneficial for you to start training the club face thing a little bit more

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square to the path of moving on. So the shaft parallel club face position from down the line

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is very useful diagnostic for looking at your face to path relationship. If it's open too much

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at that point then circle back and look at either the top of the swing or shaft parallel in the

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backswing so you can figure out when you're opening the face so you can find the fastest way to correct it.