Why is your driver playing tricks on you Well, many of you don't understand the fact
that the face of the club, you realize why they call it a twist face with tailor-made
is because the face of the club is round. It's not square. So for those of you who hook
the ball too much, you don't realize that the face looks more open at a dress than it is in reality.
And you're here trying to close it, the square it up, and you end up hooking the ball. Also
you'll notice that many of the logos like the little tailor-made logo, right there is situated
more toward the heel. Many of you are setting up between the, the logo and the toe of the club, and
then you get unnecessary gear effect to the left, or you're hitting them way too much in the toe.
And that's, what's causing offline and weak shots with the driver. You don't want to miss
this show. We're going to tell you all about the stuff that you didn't realize about your driver.
So even my Callaway driver notice the logo is a little closer to the heel as well.
So what I did, and this is perfectly legal. It's U S G a conforming, and I got the letter
straight from the U S GA representative himself saying that semi permanent lines on the top of
the clubhead on the crown are fine. You just don't want them on the face. So our little decals here
for our GC Hawk and our GC quad would not be legal in competitive play because they affect
the face. So you can't have anything on the face, but you can have something on the crown
of the club. What this will do is give you a much better idea of how you're setting up. So,
so many of my students, when they set up because of a logo was closer to the heel, they don't
realize that they're actually setting up between the logo of the ball and the toe of the club.
And that's going to have nasty consequences as far as the gear effect. So when the ball hits the
toll, the club, it loads the shaft and the shaft kicks the head around the ball. So it'd be like,
if you were playing soccer and you kick a soccer ball to make a curve to the left,
you're actually kicking to the outside of the ball with the inside of your foot. So for those of you
who are slicing the ball, there's a perfect remedy for your slice. Imagine the club face as being the
inside of your foot. You close it just like you would have with the foot. And then you swing,
see the blur of the club. You swing to the right of your target and watch what happens.
The ball curves violently to the left. So that would be, you know, a duck hook
for the better player. That's what they're trying to avoid. And that's why you'll see
most of the players on tour like Colin Morikawa, and Dustin Johnson. They are notorious for hitting
fades. And if they're don't, they're not getting their fades. Collin tends to over,
over cut it. That's when he gets in trouble and DJ tends to pull it. And when it doesn't cut,
that's when he gets in trouble. So they're trying to make that fade the power fade very repeatable,
but it's very difficult to hit a power fade when the face of the club is too closed, or
if you're hitting the ball toward the toe of the club. So what you want to do when you have these
lines there, see how the logo of the driver is now in line with the center of the golf ball.
So then I can bring that out to the left there's for my fade. And now I'm just going to deliver to
the left of my intermediate point and let it fade back toward the center of the fairway. Here we go.
And there's that DJ ball that stays straight. Let's see what we got on that.
So notice the set, you know, nice center, basically a hair off the toe. And I got
154 side spin left. That's virtually a straight draw. And because I hit it just a little above
the equator, I get very low spin. So my carry was almost two 80 and a nice 310 yard drive.
So for a hundred miles, 110 miles an hour, that's pretty gosh, darn efficient. So if I perform
a little bit more closed and I'm trying to square up the club,
because I find that the club face looks just too open. Now I'm going to send
that in the set just a little bit more to the right for the draw. Here we go.
So what ends up happening now is you can see is way more curvature to the left on that.
So now that's robbing me of a lot of juice. So that was 107 miles an hour hit that right in
the center of the face. But because my club face was four degrees close, that's all that happens,
right You take that and you want to square it up. You're closing at a good four to five degrees.
Now your side spin is seven 50 to the left and you end up with very little backspin. So the ball
just dies right out of the sky. And now my total distance is two 60. I just lost 40 yards. That's
not, you know, that's not fun at all. So if I come back to a more respectable face, and for
most of you who tend to hook the ball, the key is really simple. Let the soul of the club lay flat
on the ground. So when you let it lay flat on the ground, can you see how the face looks open to you
Right So if I set up right here, you can see that face looks open and that looks square well,
in reality, that's a good four degrees close. I can see the Chevron on my club pointing well left
of the ball. Whereas this is pointing at the ball. And all I got to do is do that. And now I've got a
very closed face. So if you add close face-to-toe shots, then, then you're really not enjoying your
driver one bit. Okay. So get some lines on it so that you can identify the blur of the club.
And what you're going to do is you're going to send the blur above the tee. So watch the blur.
See that. So I can see the blur is basically splitting the T here.
And then when I put a ball on that, you can keep your eyes on the tea.
And we're just going to split the T with the blur of the club. Here we go.
Now that went in the direction I wanted to,
but I think I caught that a little bit off the toe. So I still got three 10 down the left center.
Notice is catching a part of the green there. Yes. So that toe hit the face was only closed. not even
one degree and the side spin on that is 94 to the left. So that's what prevented me from getting my
fade. So had I hit that in the center of the face that ball would have probably started fading back
toward the center of the fairway. And instead I'm going to be probably maybe left rough left center
of the fairway. Okay. So if now you understand for many of you, you're going to have to line it up
off the inside line and feel like the logo of the, of the club is going to the outside of the ball.
So let's see what happens now, when we go in that direction.
Oh man, that's good.
So another 310-yard drive. Now we've got center contact 1.2 face open, and we got a gorgeous fade,
you know, 350 side spin to the right. And my backspin's still pretty low as 1700 RPM.
So that's not killing me at all. Especially these new low spin. This is the LS head from Calloway.
And I can go all day with that and keep it under 2000 RPM and really get the most
out of my drives. Okay. So beware of the logo to help you with that use some white electric tape
works really well. I've had this on my club the whole year and it's not moving it's
it does a really good job. And if I peel it off, it won't leave a mark B. You want to, you know,
make sure that once you know where that clubhead is going to pass, don't try to square it up.
For those of you who are hooking the ball, for those of you who tend to slice the ball,
it's probably because your grip club relationship is way too open and you'll need to close the face
and you'll probably need to strengthen the grip and just think about that beautiful
soccer kick. That's really going to help you, you know, negate that fade or that big slice
curvature on it. And then you'll be able to start bringing it back to the center of the fairway.
Okay. So hope you guys enjoyed that. And we look forward to bringing you some awesome
driver videos real soon. we're on our way down to Connecticut at the end of July,
where Sav and Mu are going to be competing in their fourth event. And, I'll be there watching
along and cheering along. And we've got some awesome clinics happening down there at the
same time. And I'm looking forward to talking to you all about that. When we get back all the best.