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The drill is playing with face and path.

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So a lot of you have one specific face to path relationship that you like and that's a great

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way to play golf.

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But learning how to adjust the face to path relationship is a great way to understand

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your ball flight, it's a great way to understand variety in the release, it's a great way

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to understand the overall movements we're trying to build here in the golf swing.

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So to play with face to path, basically what we're going to do is we're going to try

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to extremes.

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We're going to really close the club face and then use the path to make it go relatively straight

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and then we're going to really open the club face and use the path again to make it go

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relatively straight.

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Now we're probably going to have very different loft so it's going to go different heights

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and it's going to fly different trajectories but overall we should still be able to get

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it to launch fairly straight just by playing with this face to path relationship.

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If you're used to being more of an over the top slicer it's going to feel very weird

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to have the club face close to the path and still try to get it to go straight and if

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you're a giant draw or hook of the golf ball, if that's your normal tendency then you're

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going to struggle when we get the club face more open and you have to swing a little

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bit left.

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So I usually do these in 9 to 3 or half style swings but to adjust the face to path or major

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options are going to be these wrist movements here so flexion extension possibly some

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pronation supination down at the bottom but primarily flexion extension to adjust the

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face to path relationship.

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Our other option is to change the grip in our hands but for this drill for playing around

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with this I want to do it mostly with your normal grip and just by doing different wrist

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combinations.

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So most of you are probably used to having the club face to pretty square and just keeping

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that square relationship something like that.

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So what we're going to do for the first one is we're going to really close the face and

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then we have to swing on an exaggerated end-out path so that when it passes the ball the

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super closed face is pointing at the target.

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So I'm going to go to waist height, close the face a lot and then use a path swinging

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well into out to make it launch straight.

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If I were to close the face to the path and then do just a normal path you can see that

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that would launch very much to the left.

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So that's why we've called this playing with the face to path relationship because we want

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to get used to being able to work in this larger range.

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So I'll do that again.

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You're going to go to about waist height, close the face as much as you can you can see.

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Now when I did that I do want you to notice the club head didn't move.

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If the club head moves then I'm adjusting the face to path relationship and the path.

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The club head stays in place.

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I'm adjusting the face to path relationship.

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So I take it back to about waist height, close the face and then try to use an exaggerated

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end-out path to get that thing to launch straight.

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And I'm hitting off a tee just to make it easier for contact because when I start adjusting

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the path that drastically if I'm coming way from in to out.

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I don't know if you heard that but it'll be very likely that I'm going to bottom out behind

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it because the more that I move the path in and out the more it moves the bottom of the swing

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backward.

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So now we'll do the opposite.

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So we're going to get to roughly the same starting position where I'm going to bring

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it to about here.

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But then instead of closing the face we're going to do what's going to feel uncomfortable

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with me we're going to open the face.

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So now if I were to use more of a neutral path this thing would basically hit a little

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flop shot that goes way off to the right.

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So what I want to do instead is I basically want to come over the top to get this to launch

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closer to the target.

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So I take it back.

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So I'm going to open the face and then I'm going to try and come way over the top to get

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this thing to launch straight.

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One of these may feel much easier for you to do and that reveals what your swing tendencies

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or your swing biases are.

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For example you can see that I'm having a much easier time coming from the end out position

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that is my natural tendency is to have more of the club face close to the path and swing

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a little end out which produces a powerful draw but it limits my short game.

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If I get here open the face it's very uncomfortable for me to swing a little bit more

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to the left that's part of the reason why I tend to struggle with the short game because

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that doesn't feel quite as comfortable for me.

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So playing with face to path can help you understand your natural tendencies how to adjust

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them with just the changing the face to path relationship and then ultimately give you some

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references and some feelings that you can use when you're then taking it back to training

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your full swing.