You Need Square Club Face At Impact for Best Results - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
You Need Square Club Face At Impact for Best Results - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

Okay. So, you want to hit straighter golf shots, but that basically is focusing now on the clubface position at impact. So, let’s explain a couple of things about the clubface position. If the clubface is coming into the hitting area and the clubface is open, that means aiming to the right-hand side, that ball has to start its journey down the right-hand side, in which case it normally is a push or a slice. If the clubface comes in closed, which is now aiming to the left, you tend to get a pull, which is a straight flight to the left of target or we tend to get a curve, which is a hook and obviously square is what we like to hear the word square, that is now aiming down the ball to the target line, in other words that line that you are lining up and that’s where you want the ball to travel, so that explains the three different clubface positions, terminology wise.

So, you want to try and get the clubface back to the ball square. We’ve demonstrated the positions, so in your mind’s eye you know what we’re looking for, so how are going to achieve it? Well, the first thing is, we want you to get this feel of releasing the club, rotating the club, letting the hands do the job and from this we’re talking about the forearms. The forearms are a very, very key ingredient into the impact area. When we come to the impact area, the right arm should be rotating over and you can see my right arm is covering my left forearm, almost touching and if you see there, as the clubface comes into the ball, we stop. Look at the clubface. It’s perfectly square and it carries through the movement, my right forearm coming through and the club is now being released, so trying to get that clubface square impact is all about taking the club back and as we come through focusing on that right forearm, rolling over, trying to release that clubface.

If you don’t release this clubface, which most golfers don’t, you end up again with this position of steering the ball back to the chicken wing scenario, steering it and the ball tends to go down to the right, down the right, losing lots of distance by the way at the same time. So, it’s very, very important to work on this clubface getting back to the ball impact square. A good way of actually doing it to get this feel is to hold the club, put your left hand at the top and the right hand at the bottom of the grip. Now, if I try to do the movement now, swing the club back and through, you can see naturally my right forearm has gone over my left.

It’s a very easy sort of exercise to get the feeling. What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to get the feeling of what these hands and arms do, going back, going through. My right arm is rotating for the shot. It’s all about getting the feeling. And then we get over the ball, once you’ve done plenty of practice swings, rotating over, let’s put it into practice, like getting focusing on the right arm and there she goes. The right arm turning over at impact, the ball driven, good ball flight all because I got that clubface back to the ball square and I focused on coming into the ball and releasing that club, by letting those arms roll over and that is a very good exercise to get the feeling of what your arm, your forearm should be doing. Put it in to practice. It’ll take a couple of practice sessions, but you will get the benefit, so give it a go.

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Okay. So, you want to hit straighter golf shots, but that basically is focusing now on the clubface position at impact. So, let’s explain a couple of things about the clubface position. If the clubface is coming into the hitting area and the clubface is open, that means aiming to the right-hand side, that ball has to start its journey down the right-hand side, in which case it normally is a push or a slice. If the clubface comes in closed, which is now aiming to the left, you tend to get a pull, which is a straight flight to the left of target or we tend to get a curve, which is a hook and obviously square is what we like to hear the word square, that is now aiming down the ball to the target line, in other words that line that you are lining up and that’s where you want the ball to travel, so that explains the three different clubface positions, terminology wise.

So, you want to try and get the clubface back to the ball square. We’ve demonstrated the positions, so in your mind’s eye you know what we’re looking for, so how are going to achieve it? Well, the first thing is, we want you to get this feel of releasing the club, rotating the club, letting the hands do the job and from this we’re talking about the forearms. The forearms are a very, very key ingredient into the impact area. When we come to the impact area, the right arm should be rotating over and you can see my right arm is covering my left forearm, almost touching and if you see there, as the clubface comes into the ball, we stop. Look at the clubface. It’s perfectly square and it carries through the movement, my right forearm coming through and the club is now being released, so trying to get that clubface square impact is all about taking the club back and as we come through focusing on that right forearm, rolling over, trying to release that clubface.

If you don’t release this clubface, which most golfers don’t, you end up again with this position of steering the ball back to the chicken wing scenario, steering it and the ball tends to go down to the right, down the right, losing lots of distance by the way at the same time. So, it’s very, very important to work on this clubface getting back to the ball impact square. A good way of actually doing it to get this feel is to hold the club, put your left hand at the top and the right hand at the bottom of the grip. Now, if I try to do the movement now, swing the club back and through, you can see naturally my right forearm has gone over my left.

It’s a very easy sort of exercise to get the feeling. What we’re trying to do is we’re trying to get the feeling of what these hands and arms do, going back, going through. My right arm is rotating for the shot. It’s all about getting the feeling. And then we get over the ball, once you’ve done plenty of practice swings, rotating over, let’s put it into practice, like getting focusing on the right arm and there she goes. The right arm turning over at impact, the ball driven, good ball flight all because I got that clubface back to the ball square and I focused on coming into the ball and releasing that club, by letting those arms roll over and that is a very good exercise to get the feeling of what your arm, your forearm should be doing. Put it in to practice. It’ll take a couple of practice sessions, but you will get the benefit, so give it a go.