Brian Manzella for Golf Magazine, Golf.com & FRONT9 - Hold it like Ernie Els
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Yup.
Robbierob99
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Limiting left arm & club unit rotation DOES not mean can not go normal. You can do both.
Going normal doesn't necessarily have anything to do with left arm & club unit rotation. Thats my opinion anyway.
Going normal doesn't necessarily have anything to do with left arm & club unit rotation. Thats my opinion anyway.
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Kevin Shields
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But you can do that and still have the face come in late.
Kevin Shields
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I suppose, but if the face was neutral at certain points the head could just come in late and it would have the same effect
Robbierob99
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I don't understand why you'd have to or want to aim left.
Like Brian says, you aim where if you hit it straight (say 0 path and 0 face angle) you are still okay (like the middle of the green). The only objective is to swing with your normal path and have the face slightly open to that path ("hold off" / face coming in late / limit left arm and club unit rotation) so that the ball baby cuts to the right. So, let's keep this simple, we are trying to only manipulate 1 variable, the clubface.
Undoubtedly there is more than one way to skin this cat (i.e. open the face at address and forget about holding anything off -or- normal grip and fan it open a touch on the way back so it has a delayed start on squaring up -or- maybe weaken your RIGHT hand grip kind of like you might do on a chip) but I contend that the way Ernie did it here (HOLDING IT OFF) might be the easiest... It is for me anyway. It's also the only way I can still throw up consistently similar Swing Dir & AoA and, consequently, CLUB PATH numbers.
I see no need to aim "mega left."
Like Brian says, you aim where if you hit it straight (say 0 path and 0 face angle) you are still okay (like the middle of the green). The only objective is to swing with your normal path and have the face slightly open to that path ("hold off" / face coming in late / limit left arm and club unit rotation) so that the ball baby cuts to the right. So, let's keep this simple, we are trying to only manipulate 1 variable, the clubface.
Undoubtedly there is more than one way to skin this cat (i.e. open the face at address and forget about holding anything off -or- normal grip and fan it open a touch on the way back so it has a delayed start on squaring up -or- maybe weaken your RIGHT hand grip kind of like you might do on a chip) but I contend that the way Ernie did it here (HOLDING IT OFF) might be the easiest... It is for me anyway. It's also the only way I can still throw up consistently similar Swing Dir & AoA and, consequently, CLUB PATH numbers.
I see no need to aim "mega left."
Kevin Shields
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You would definitely need to aim well left unless you instinctively swung more across your body, in which Brian explicititly said not to.
Robbierob99
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I miss-fired there on saying "no need to aim mega left."
I guess its semantics though... You aim straight at where you would be okay with a STRAIGHT shot going with a plan to deliver a slightly open club face so it fades to that right pin.
My mistake!
I guess its semantics though... You aim straight at where you would be okay with a STRAIGHT shot going with a plan to deliver a slightly open club face so it fades to that right pin.
My mistake!
Kevin Shields
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I miss-fired there on saying "no need to aim mega left."
I guess its semantics though... You aim straight at where you would be okay with a STRAIGHT shot going with a plan to deliver a slightly open club face so it fades to that right pin.
My mistake!
It's justthtthe face would start more right
Robbierob99
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Got it.
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