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In this content video, we're going to talk about shanking the ball.

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Now, here's an example of a golfer shanking the ball, and basically what you'll see

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is that when they're making contact with it, they're hitting it on the hustle, or very

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much in the heel, and this causes the ball to shoot way off to the right.

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So the shank is probably one of the most frustrating shots, because it literally goes

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almost perpendicular to where you're trying to hit.

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It's basically a penalty stroke.

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They get in your head, they become hard to recover from.

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So we need to understand them, and we need to understand the movements that are going to

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kind of make you more susceptible to them.

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So we'll go through what I think are kind of the four big movements, and then the one thing

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to look out for as far as setup.

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So the simple answer here is that if I'm setting up to this T, when I make contact with

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the golf ball, I've moved the hustle has moved to where the golf ball is making contact

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with the face.

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So something is causing this club to move out that way.

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One of the most common, and the first thing that I look for whenever I hear someone's

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complaining about shanks is I look at early extension.

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So early extension, we have a whole section about it, but basically the body moving in towards

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the golf ball causing everything to look more like so.

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So my lower body is moving in closer, my upper body is coming back.

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Either of those two movements is typically if I don't change anything with my arms, you

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can see that that's going to cause the club to swing a little bit further out and make

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me susceptible to hitting the club on the hill.

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The next one is going to be the motor cycle.

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And so what I'll show you here is if I were to set up to the golf ball just like so

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or to the golf tee, because I want to be even more specific than golf ball.

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So if I was to simply rotate the face, I'll bring you back a little bit.

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If I was to simply rotate the face open, you can see that now when I get that face about

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30 degrees open or so, it's pointing in the general or the hazele is now moved closer

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to where it's going to be contact with the golf ball.

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This is a common one for golfers who typically haven't had a whole lot of rotation, and

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they've had a club face that's very open to the path and a path that's kind of coming

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steep like so.

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And then they start to get more of this body rotation and what ends up happening is that

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club face gets very very open early during the downswing.

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And there's just if you get that body rotation, you're going to have shaft lean, which

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makes it harder to close the club face and that's a likely possibility.

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I'm probably pretty much going to shake it.

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So in that particular case, I'm going to work on getting the club face to close a little

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bit earlier in the downswing, which will allow my body to continue rotating and not

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have the face wide open and the hazele exposed.

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So the third piece is going to be looking at this forearm plane.

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Essentially, when I make this good kind of a merry-go-round position and get down into my

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impact position, if you were to look from a down the line view, you'll see this forearm

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is roughly pointing in the general direction of golf ball.

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It's not very specific.

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It's not very, I would say, scientific to look at it just from a camera point of view.

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But what you'll see is that often, if I early extend or if my thorax backs up or if my

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trail leg moves in towards the golf ball, this forearm will get pointed more shallowly.

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Well, sometimes what'll happen is once I've corrected that lower body.

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So I'm no longer early extending.

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I'll still have this common pattern or I'll have this framework of this arm working

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more around my body and this kind of horizontal plane instead of down at the golf ball.

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So what can happen is just like so, it gets the club swinging a little bit too much

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into out, which can cause the hazele to lead and potentially cause the shank.

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It's kind of a good player shank or kind of an elite player shank, I should say, as

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opposed to leading the club face open is kind of more of one of the common ones, but

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typically not something you see at the real high levels.

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The fourth one, the next major movement, is going to be getting this trail arm straight.

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Now this is usually the golfer who's going to have an outside in shank.

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Frequently the shanks are going to come from getting the club a little bit too much under

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a little bit too open and it kind of swings exaggeratingly into out like so with the club

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face that's open.

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But it is possible to have an outside in shank and this is usually where I'm looking

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for that.

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So if I go up to the top of the swing and that right arm gets extended very soon so that

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it's pretty much straight when I'm making contact with a golf ball, well you can see

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that as I bend it that brings the club closer to me as I straighten it that takes the

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club away.

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So by straightening that arm too soon that's in some cases going to cause the hazele

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to move out towards the golf ball.

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This tends to be a little bit more common especially when we're looking at shanks around

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the green things like that, not so much with the longer irds.

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And then the last one which I think is one of the most commonly promoted but for me it's

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kind of the unicorn.

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It's pretty much the rare one would be standing too close to the golf ball.

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Now in general I think the most golfer stand too far away so that's why this is rarely

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the solution that I go for.

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Adding two close to the golf ball and hitting shanks is usually a sign that well I'm

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not kind of maintaining my spining.

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I'm not keeping my hips away from the ball so I'm early standing.

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I'm thrusting with that right side.

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It's one of these other movements that's usually the culprit and a quick fix can be standing

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a little bit further away but know that over time what usually happens is you start exaggerating

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the actual movement that's causing the shank.

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So just to run through again you're going to look at early extension which is either going

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to be that trail leg pushing in.

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The hips going in towards the golf ball or the upper body backing up you're going to look

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at the club face closer so as the club face getting closed early in transition or is it

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waiting and being very open down late.

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You're going to look at the forearm plane.

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When you're going to look at is that trail arm getting really really straight and then

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lastly you'll look at well how far away from the golf ball my standing and use a few

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pros.

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Use Jim Furik, he's one who stands very closely golf ball and last I've checked you know

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hasn't had a battle with shanking where there are some players who stand much further away

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who have some of those other moves who are more prone to having the shanks treatment.

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So it's a frustrating problem but as you see there are patterns to it and once you understand

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the patterns of the shank you can take away a little bit of the fear of it and know that

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if it comes in use that as feedback so that you can ultimately work on correcting your

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pattern.