Definition of OTT vs. Swinging Left

[jimmydean]

Kevin,
Not to sound too naive, but how do you zero out your path and square your clubface? Is it how you address the ball with the club or on the down swing? I hit puuls and pull hoks when I swing left. How can I keep the cluface square to path or zero it out like you say?
thanks,
Jimmy

 

[Mike O]

Every player, even the worst chop, swings on a flat inclined plane thru impact. That plane has a base, or baseline. If you imagine a roof, it would be the gutter. If you are traveling down the plane, no matter how much left or steep that plane is, it is still going out to the base. So if you contact the ball on the way down it will push your path more right of where it is to the naked eye, or Trackman's horizontal plane line. So even if you swing 10 degrees left (horiz plane) but hit 5 degrees down on the ball, your true path of the club will be in the neighborhood of 7 degrees left depending on how steep the swing is because the downward pushed the path less outside in.

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[Kevin Shields]

Kevin,
Not to sound too naive, but how do you zero out your path and square your clubface? Is it how you address the ball with the club or on the down swing? I hit puuls and pull hoks when I swing left. How can I keep the cluface square to path or zero it out like you say?
thanks,
Jimmy

Jimmydean, what can I tell you? Its hard if you havent matched your face and path up like that before. Unfortunately, you have to know for sure that you arent swinging too far left. If you hit down about average with a mid iron, you only need a degree or two left to zero it out.