Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today were going to talk about the face and path relationship. OK So we're going to pretend that this is my path where I'm trying to go if my faceace and my path are going in the same direction the ball is going to go pretty straight on that particular line provided I'm lined up where I want to go. If the path starts moving into right field and a face starts pointing into left field you've got a path it's going maybe into 10 degrees if you have a face that's 10 degree closed to the target line you have a 20 degree difference between your path and your face so you get a big snap hook. If your path is 10 degrees in to out and your face angle is 3 degrees open there's a 7 degree differential. So now you're going to hit the ball left to right it's probably going to hook too much but at least you starting to narrow that gap.

So remember if you can get your face in your path to work very close together you're going to hit a lot of straight golf shots when the face and the path go in different directions that's where you start in a lot of foul balls. So remember in order to hit a ball from right to left is a right handed player provided we could have the center we want our path to be just a little bit to the right of our face so if our face is left of the path we're going to draw. If you want to hit it left or right we want the path a little bit left of the face if the face is right in the path you're going to cut shot I didn't say that you had to have a path that was X. in a face that was closed 15 degrees left of that or right or open right at the bottom line is you want your face your path very very close together to get it straighter. Remember if the face is left or the path it draws if that faces right in the path of it cuts remember go have some fun with it and have some fun working on a trackman to figure that correlation.