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This concept video we're going to take a look at the scoop.

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So the scoop or the flip is a release move and it's an extension of the lead risk but

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more importantly it's a flexion of the trailer.

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So it's going kind of like this and it's long been described as a higher handicap problem.

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It's frequently described to try to help the ball in the air but I'm going to break

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down what I think is actually happening, why golfers do it and then ultimately why you

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would have to do in order to change it because I don't really think that for most golfers

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it's an attempt to help the ball in the air especially if they continue to do it once

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you've told them that you're scooping and you don't need to hit it high in the air.

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So if we're looking at the scoop you'll typically see a rator around here the body will

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tend to stall and the risks will tend to straighten kind of like this.

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This would be that scoop or flip release.

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What it really does is it squares the club face but it does so by moving the shaft backwards.

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So I talk a lot about how you create speed and how you control the path and how you control

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the face as the three main drivers of a golf swing.

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So the scoop in my mind is more of a how you control the face because if you let's imagine

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I'm hitting it perpendicular to the camera like this and in this position right here you

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can see that the face is pointing way over there.

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So my brain has to figure out how to solve the equation and get that black line pointing

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at the target.

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Well the easiest way to do it and one of the fastest ways that I can do it is by scooping

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or flipping my wrist like this.

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That is essentially the same as if I was here and I move the grip backwards keeping the

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face perpendicular to the grip that closes the face and makes it point more to the left.

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So what a lot of golfers will do is they will flip in order to square the face.

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If you take this golfer who flips and you try to get him to continue rotating so the

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body doesn't stall you try to get shaft lean.

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What ends up happening is they have no chance to square the face.

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They hit really weak thin blocks or shanks and they have a hard time buying into the solution.

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So what you have to do is you have to square the face in a different way.

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You've got two different methods.

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You could either re-hinder the wrist to close the face so you could hinge the wrist this

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way.

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That's not the best method or you could simply twist the shaft more by using the motorcycle.

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And ideally you should do that earlier in the downswing as opposed to trying to do it

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down at the bottom and do it later.

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So if you're going to replace the scoop there's a few different things that you're going

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to have to do.

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You're going to have to work on the timing of your arm extension.

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So if I'm used to scooping then I'm probably used to my arm straightening very early

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in the downswing and being almost straight at impact.

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So if I keep that timing but I take away the scoop by closing the face with shaft rotation

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I'm going to hit it way left.

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The other one that I'm going to need to do in order to fix the scoop is to rotate the

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shaft to close the face instead of use the path of the club to close the face.

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So from down the line that would look like this, if the face is open there I could scoop

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to square the face or I could rotate the club face and that allows me to continue rotating

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and the rotation version gives me a much better sequence, low point, wide point.

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So when the club head is getting furthest away from me is going to be delayed which helps

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give me some margin of error.

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So work on body continued rotating, timing of the trail arm and squaring the face with

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rotation.

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That recipe has worked for me over the years of getting people out of the scoop pattern

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and into a more tour of release.