- Well welcome back to sunny Naples, Florida.
Adam Bazalgette here, founder of Scratch Golf Academy
and two-time PGA Teacher of the Year winner.
We're gonna talk today about how to include,
how to improve I should say, your club path,
lotta times it's referred to swing plane.
Hopefully got some helpful advice for you here.
Stay tuned.
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Okay so how to improve your club path,
this is something there's a lot of topic of discussion on.
It is very very important because the club path,
or if you like the swing plane,
has a big determining factor not only on your direction,
but also to some extent how solidly you hit the ball.
It isn't as difficult as you think,
I hopefully have got a couple good ideas for you here.
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So let's get into it.
What is required?
And what we're gonna focus on primarily here
for the next couple of minutes
is the bottom half of your playing circle,
less the top half.
If you can get the bottom part right,
the bottom of this circle,
you will have a great deal of success
hitting the ball where you want to.
And to a large extent the top half will take care of itself.
There's two real things you've gotta remember
and two things you've got to adhere to.
Number one, interesting little teaching aid here.
It's a hammer, or it's a mallet on a shaft.
Number one, and this is gonna sound over simplistic
but it can be really helpful to you.
The job of the golfer is to strike the ball
so that it goes forward and towards the target.
Simple enough right?
You'd be amazed how different to that
a lot of people's swing path is,
they're coming out, they're coming in,
they're coming too much down.
You take a little mallet like this
and literally just set up,
it'll be so obvious to you what would be required
to tap that ball forward.
Big mistake a lot of people make
is rolling the club and getting it behind them.
There's no way you're gonna do that with this.
Yeah it would feel completely counter instinctive.
So whatever would be most obvious and most simple
to tap the ball forward would be a great indicator
of what you should be feeling in your plane.
Now you'll notice this club face doesn't twist dramatically.
It doesn't stay completely hooded.
It just has a very natural, small pendulum
that relates to the target line.
So take a little golf club, tap the ball forward like that,
believe me, that is gonna get you on the right track.
Let's ghost it with a golf club
and you'll see how they move in much the same fashion.
I'm not a big fan of this toe up thing over here.
I think the toe would typically be,
a little bit more forward.
I think that's much more natural.
So number one remember,
your job is to create a motion that taps
or compresses the ball forward towards the target.
It really isn't that difficult to do
if you play around with something like this.
Number two, you have to do it
in keeping with the design of the golf club.
So if the golf club's designed about like this.
That represents your circle.
So your circle is gonna represent something like that.
The golf club has this design, you go way under that,
that's pretty difficult to do and if you go way above it
less you have a nice re-route or something
that's difficult to do.
So two things remember,
Number one, create a natural swing path.
If you picture me slapping my hand,
or the mallet that drives the ball forward
towards the target.
And number two, just do it in something that is in keeping
with the design of the golf club.
You can fiddle around with those
and I'd definitely get something like a seven iron
or an eight iron or whatnot
and just do some of these little baby half-swings
from about hip high to hip high.
Play around a little bit, hit some 20, 30 yarders.
This thing is not that difficult and again
if you can master this a little bit,
believe me you'll be well on the way
to the rest of the swing plane.
All you do is add a little bit of speed.
Okay then I hope that helps you.
Gives you ideas on how to improve your club path.
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Hope this helps you get on track with your swing plane.
Hope it makes it a little simpler for you.
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