Hi guys my name is Aimee Cho a golf professional do you guys know what a smash factor is if
you practice with Flight Scope Xi tour or the mevo it gives you the smash factor data
on there we are going to talk about what it is and also use that to see how efficient
your strike is and also help you lengthen your iron make sure you subscribe like the
video and comment down below how your golf game is now back to the golf lesson smash
factor is basically the ratio between your golf ball speed and your club head speed it's
measuring basically how well your swing is transferring into power and with the pga tour
players for their drivers smash factor top notch is usually right around 1.50 for 7 iron
anywhere between 1.35 and 1.40 those are really fantastic numbers and for a regular golfers
to get there the secret there is to hit the sweet spot on your club face it makes everything
so much more efficient if you can do that consistently today I am going to focus on the
lack of squareness of the club face at impact that causes you to miss the sweet spot top
two reasons for that number one is the misalignment if you start your shot with misalignment for
example you are aimed way right of the target like 20 yards right now you are looking at
your target way over to the left now you are going to compensate and alter your swing plane
your clubface orientation during the swing and you are going to miss-hit that way and
if you miss-hit obviously your face won't be square it will be either open or close at
impact and that's really going to lower your smash factor that means even though your club
head spin might be super fast you are still not transferring all that power into the golf
ball and hit it short okay so alignment is very important the easiest thing you can do for
that is pick out an intermediate target a lot of tour players do this where they go
behind the golf ball and they pick out a spot you know different colored grass blade right
in front of the ball maybe 6 inches 8 inches and they are going to take that as an intermediate
target and align up their club face and then their feet parallel to that so that is one
way of doing it on the golf course off the golf course a lot of the tour players actually
use the alignment stick during their practice range sessions even before their tournament
round they would always put the alignment stick down that's how it's important the alignment
is and how easily you can get away from squareness so I want you to always use the alignment
stick when you are on the driving range so two things intermediate target and alignment
stick now the reason number 2 is I actually I am going to show you that with a noodle like
clubface okay reason number two is the squareness of the clubface see if you don't start your
swing with a square face if you start with a closed face like this or this some people
actually tell me that they hit it a lot square if they set up this way with clubface like
super shut it may work for a little bit but I don't want you to get in the habit of doing
these little gimmicks because in the long run it's going to hurt your golf swing than more
than help you so always start with square clubface and then if you look at the tour
players they all have different swings you know they all have different swings but if
you take a look at their impact zone which is from about 8 o'clock to 4 o'clock right
in here they are almost identical in this area right here so if you take a look their
clubface travels fairly straight there is not that much rotation but a lot of regular
golfers tend to rotate around a lot right in this area that's no good so from here you
want the clubface to be facing the target as much as possible in this area slight arc too
but not too much so I want you to understand that if you have a chance really focus on
your clubface and work on 8 to 4 a lot you can small chip shots this way and once you
understand how it feels we can go ahead and put it into your golf swing alright so pretend
like you still have the noodle on your face wow my clubface looks so tiny now alright
so you want that noodle to stay facing the target instead of flipping around right so
really going to make sure of that focus oh I hit that really good guys wow super square
and it felt off the sweet spot amazing so if you check out your club face orientation
at set up during the swing and also check out your alignment it's really going to give
you higher chances of hitting that sweet spot shot after shot after shot and we love that
right so try and find the sweet spot that way improve your smash factor it's going to
help you to hit the golf ball a lot longer with less effort we like the sound of that
thanks for watching if you have more questions please come to my ask aimee section leave
your questions there I will make you a q&a out of those questions see you guys in the
next video if you are interested in taking a private online lesson with me or you want
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