Don't Release Down the Line with a Driver - Release Left
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
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Very very good visual education!! cant thank you enough!
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great visual
hi but how do you account for all those pics of many great golfers extending fully after impact and then the right forearm rotating over the left ? that is imagine the emblem on the glove on the left hand facing forward at 9 o'clock position but has ;disappeared' under the right hand at 3 o'clock position. cheers
We find in our lessons that controlling the face angle (the face to path metric in Trackman) is easier to do when your focus on upper arm rotation around the body and not forearm rotation. Yes - there are many players historically that did a very strong forearm rotation through impact. But if you look at a player like Max Homa or Xander Schauffele I think you will see how they do what we discuss here.
Would you say that this promotes more of a fade shot and is this why a lot of the top pros are now playing a fade? Great video
For both a fade and a draw you want to impact the ball with the arms more on the right side of the torso and the hips rotated left of the target line. So I don't consider this a draw vs a fade concept. You shouldn't see the right wrist flat at impact - it should still have some extension and doesn't get straight until more or less meeting up with the belt buckle which is left of the target. You see this on both pro level draws and fades. Thanks for watching.
I had the same question…I’ve been working on exiting low & left with my coach, but can’t figure out how to hit a draw from this type of release….I’m a 3.4 hdcp for context
@flakuchis uh try a high and right exit then, I'm not as good as you, I'm a 5.7 but "high and right" always draws it for me (but I try not to since I tend to hook badly when I'm too in to out"
I get the concept and it does help , makes for a very open stance but still works well and allows me to really attack the ball . What a shame you go down that pay here , e mail there and join here route … you would make more money just keeping it going on u tube and not trying to gain punters . Ninety percent on here dont have the time or money for lessons .. thats why we are here ..
Thanks for the note - there are lots of pros that have some opening of the lead foot foot/open stance. So hopefully the visual helps you with better impact. Appreciate the comments on the call to action to check out some of our other training options. We will try to make sure they are subtle.
I am working on a body release with my irons and seeing great results. What about the driver with this release?
We teach trying to get the same general feel for all the clubs. You are not trying to move the weight of the club down the target line, you are rotating left through the impact zone and the club get in front of the body post impact and then of course goes around to the left side on the follow through. The feeling of moving the handle in a circle left keeps the wrist angles stable at the point of impact and that gives you much better control of your club path and angle of the club face relative to the path that you and measure in Trackman. If you visualize that you are moving the clubhead down the target line at the point of impact the wrist angles simply are changing too much and it is harder to be consistent from our experience. So rotate left through impact and feel the handle going in an arc left of the target is something we teach for all the clubs.
Not sure I follow the logic at the 3:00 minute mark. When you talk about the wrist going more into flexion as it moves into flexion I don't think it has to rotate the face necessarily does it? Can't you do that wrist flexion in a straight line the way you demonstrated you show the face dramatically rolling over.
Thanks for the question - what we were trying to highlight is if you have a lot of the right wrist going from extension to flexion to chase the ball down the target line that will tend to change both the club path and the face angle through impact and that leads to more dispersion. If you look at what Nate is doing in slow motion there clearly is a wrist motion, but it responds more to how the upper arms rotate and is not an active flex. Notice right after the 3:00 mark how he talks about the soft left elbow. That continues the upper arm rotation to the left to try to continue the arc of the elbows fluidly through impact. When you try to chase the clubhead down the target line you will flex the right wrist faster and that changes the arc so chub path and club face are not as stable. Clearly the right wrist goes from extension to flexion from the end of transition to the end of the swing. But you don't want to amplify that motion by chasing the ball. Hopefully this helps, it is about maintaining your swing arc through impact and that keeps the face to path pretty stable when you do it like Nate demonstrates.
@@AltaViewGolf that makes perfect sense. Thank you
Moe Norman did not say so.Can you compare yours with his swing pls.
Lol moe is the greatest ball striker of all time but his description of his swing wasn't always accurate...moe did exit left, he did it better than anyone ever and he dient believe he did...but he did...
What about with irons?
Same principle - focus on moving the weight of the iron up and left with the body and arm rotation as well and it creates the proper impact angles in the hands and arms. You don't release the angles at the ball, you are swinging the club up and left. So at the point of impact that is before the wrists and hands release and that give you forward shaft lean and control of the face angle which you associated with the extension of the trail side wrist and the flat or bowed lead wrist at impact.
A year later, wow !
Thanks for watching.
Arnold Palmer had success with club head down the line
Clearly there are lots of ways that people release and visualize how to move. What we have found for most of our students is that you are actively creating an arc through the impact zone, nothing is really "straight line" in the golf swing. And freely rotating the hips and trunk left is something you see on most modern swings. A lot of students we work with have early hip extension and then the wrists tens to flip through impact and that makes is really hard. So we have had success helping people feel that the weight of the club moves on an arc and your full release point comes when the body is rotated well left of the target as the arms comes around to the front of the trunk.
@@AltaViewGolf I agree, I'm working on my flexibility to help with my early extension. Take care
And most NBA three point shooter greats don’t realize they’re shooting and landing 4-5 feet in front of where they took the jump shot. They all FEEL up and down in the same spot, but they end up 5 feet forward. Same thing with them being “square” to the basket. Reality, their entire right side starts to point toward the basket, so essentially their shooting form is slightly rotating them in the air counter clock wise (for right handed shooters). The NBA stars will all tell you the opposite- yet they do it. Same with the PGA pros they’ll tell you all their feels and their opinions- but truth of the matter is they’re probably doing something very different in reality.
That may be what you FEEL but def not whats happening
Not sure exactly what you mean - there is of course a point where the right arm is straight and the right wrist is straight and that is generally about 45 degrees post impact from the face on view and then it continues that the left arm folds in and the club head continues an arc in a circle left. What Nate is really trying to execute is a fluid motion of the trunk and upper arm rotations such that the center of mass of the club head is moving in a very fluid arc to the left before, at, and post the moment of impact. Nothing in his rotations is trying to generate a straight line following the ball down the fairway.
@3:45 I feel like this has been a trend last few years but as of late I think its pretty clear that's not whats happening. If this was actually happening you know there would be absolutely no power and prob a weak right shot. However, it can be a good feel for some but not a blanket feel. @@AltaViewGolf
This looks like a hold off ... This is going to lead to HUGE BLOCKS.
if you rotate your hips it squares up. if you just slide left without turning, you block slice
This IS the modern move for sure. Foley and most all top tour coaches teach this motion. Foley been teaching it for years. You MUST aggressively move to the left post impact. Watch the front foot of most every tour player as they roll around their heel and fan the foot towards the target, through and after impact, to allow the motion to continue left. if not they'd break their ankle. This is a big boy move for sure and if you want distance it's THE motion to work on.
Push slices too
No it doesn’t… it straightens things out… always pull to the left
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Can a 73 yr old man do this swing?
You're not going to get the same club head speed at Nate, but one of the things that you can notice in his swing is he keeps the spine straight during the golf swing. As you get older and you want to make sure you avoid injury, you want to make sure the spine maintains a pretty stable tilt throughout the swing. So yes - you can use these principles and you'll see that it maintains a stable spine and that is great for any age golfer. Thanks for watching!