Can you explain this please? How can you close the face with the body? thx
The answer to that brings up a dichotomy of sorts - so I'll have to elaborate a little to give you the clarification to my statement. In either case, the player usually has a sense of where the clubface is - and in this case he knows he needs to get it square from the wide open position half way down - the body stops and the hands flip - solution - not the best. This is one way to close the face - stop the body motion - usually subconsciously. Of course, that's not the type of body motion I was referring to.
Secondly, there are plenty of strong grippers like Duval, etc. that rotate the body through more to "hold off" the face from closing - taking advantage of the fact that the more the upper left arm stays across the chest coming down the less it externally rotates (closes the face). In this case more body motion means keeping the face from closing. While that body motion has more rotation - it's not what I had in mind with the left arm movement in relation to the body - since it holds off the closing of the clubface.
Finally, here is what I was referring to: Let's assume that his current swing hits the ball at the "target" - most of the time. In order to get the face closed from the wide open halfway down location - you have a body stall and a flip - both help close the face (body stall allows the left arm to move back down and across the chest (away from the midline - i.e. abduct) which closes the face via externally rotating the upper left arm. Now, if you ONLY work on getting rid of the flip then you've removed one of the "closing" items and shots will go to the right - you need to add something that will move it left - as I mentioned in the previous posts - lots of options to do that - maybe stronger grip at address, more closed clubface at address, and on and on and on. One of those options is to allow the face to close more by allowing the body to turn on the downswing more, rotate through better - if you do that with A) the idea that you want to close the face with the body rotation and/or B) you don't do it in such a manner that creates the left arm sliding back and up across the chest - internally rotating the upper arm and therefore "opening" the clubface - you'll close the clubface more if you keep the left arm relatively the same in relation to the body.
Putting it another way- if you keep the left arm in the same relative feel to the body at the top and moving down - then more body rotation closes the clubface more. It's just a simple thought - as if you were chipping and wanted to hit the ball more left - one way - have more pivot rotation with the arms and hands relatively fixed in relation to the body - in that case less rotation before impact hits it more right or creates a situation that delivers the clubface in a more open clubface position at impact, more rotation before impact delivers the clubface looking more left at impact.
Hope that helps explain the perspective.
