Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you using the flight scope about understanding club face and club path when it comes to the deep plane and this is some very interesting stuff we're going to talk about this morning because it's very very prevalent in today's teaching. As we were taught those of us a little bit over 42 right now we were always taught that the club path control the starting direction and the clubface influence curvature. Now we know now that that is totally 100 percent incorrect because of the flight scope and the trackman and we've understood now that this phase angle control 65 to 75 percent of the starting direction of the golf ball and the path influences the curvature and came in this very very different than what you've heard before. Now I want to talk to you about what a common scenario that we see that I've got close up here on the screen when we talk about the path of the face. Now this ball started a little bit to the left and hooked OK so let me kind of go through the numbers and help you understand where we are. The ball started 1.7 degrees to the left OK we can see that the path was 2.3 degrees to the right and we see this face angle is 5.6 degrees closed. So what do we see? As a player we would see the ball start a little bit left of our target and then it would hook OK now here's where the dog starts to chase the tail conventional instruction back in the day would have said oh I had it left so I did something more to the right. Now what that would cause is very interesting the more the right you swing with the left path the more that slants the more the ball starts left the more it hooks.
So what we now know with flights scope launch monitors is that this is not a path issue this is a face issue. So if you were to take this particular player and you were to tell them to swing further to the right. If this club face was still the same with the path it would further to the right club face stays the same 5.6 degrees left that angle slants and all of a sudden now they hit bigger hooks so what they do they start swinging even further to the right bigger slant bigger hook. So all of a sudden now we've started to realize that because we can see things with the flights scope the Trackman that we've never seen before we now understand how the face angle influences the starting direction and how the path influences the curvature. So this particular player has a wonderful path you would think we need to do is get the face angle a little bit less left of the relative path. So what happens if the closer I get the path of the face the angle if I get the path of the face angle to be very close to one another the more spread out there all the more the ball will hook in this particular analysis. So if I get that face a little bit more open at impact the ball's not going to hook quite so much so remember without the flight scope without the trackman it is very very difficult for you to see true path and true clubface. So remember if you don't understand the roll between the face angle and the path you're going to have a lot of trouble as an instructuror getting the student to do exactly what they need to do. So hope that helps a little bit I really opened my eyes over the last couple years working with this stuff and I tell you it really really makes a difference so if you can't do much and golf the 1st thing I would do is make sure that you can try to afford a flight scope or a track man and it will really really help your instruction 1000 percent if you can afford one find somebody that has one that you can borrow you can rent it.
2019-05-30 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you using the flight scope about understanding club face and club path when it comes to the deep plane and this is some very interesting stuff we're going to talk about this morning because it's very very prevalent in today's teaching. As we were taught those of us a little bit over 42 right now we were always taught that the club path control the starting direction and the clubface influence curvature. Now we know now that that is totally 100 percent incorrect because of the flight scope and the trackman and we've understood now that this phase angle control 65 to 75 percent of the starting direction of the golf ball and the path influences the curvature and came in this very very different than what you've heard before. Now I want to talk to you about what a common scenario that we see that I've got close up here on the screen when we talk about the path of the face. Now this ball started a little bit to the left and hooked OK so let me kind of go through the numbers and help you understand where we are. The ball started 1.7 degrees to the left OK we can see that the path was 2.3 degrees to the right and we see this face angle is 5.6 degrees closed. So what do we see? As a player we would see the ball start a little bit left of our target and then it would hook OK now here's where the dog starts to chase the tail conventional instruction back in the day would have said oh I had it left so I did something more to the right. Now what that would cause is very interesting the more the right you swing with the left path the more that slants the more the ball starts left the more it hooks.
So what we now know with flights scope launch monitors is that this is not a path issue this is a face issue. So if you were to take this particular player and you were to tell them to swing further to the right. If this club face was still the same with the path it would further to the right club face stays the same 5.6 degrees left that angle slants and all of a sudden now they hit bigger hooks so what they do they start swinging even further to the right bigger slant bigger hook. So all of a sudden now we've started to realize that because we can see things with the flights scope the Trackman that we've never seen before we now understand how the face angle influences the starting direction and how the path influences the curvature. So this particular player has a wonderful path you would think we need to do is get the face angle a little bit less left of the relative path. So what happens if the closer I get the path of the face the angle if I get the path of the face angle to be very close to one another the more spread out there all the more the ball will hook in this particular analysis. So if I get that face a little bit more open at impact the ball's not going to hook quite so much so remember without the flight scope without the trackman it is very very difficult for you to see true path and true clubface. So remember if you don't understand the roll between the face angle and the path you're going to have a lot of trouble as an instructuror getting the student to do exactly what they need to do. So hope that helps a little bit I really opened my eyes over the last couple years working with this stuff and I tell you it really really makes a difference so if you can't do much and golf the 1st thing I would do is make sure that you can try to afford a flight scope or a track man and it will really really help your instruction 1000 percent if you can afford one find somebody that has one that you can borrow you can rent it.
