Shallowing Swing and Moving Swing Direction to the Right... CLUBFACE Feels?

[ballaholic]

Question for anybody who has done Trackman work to shallow the swing and move the swing direction to the right...

Have you noticed that the "feel" is to need to get the clubface more square/closed than you might initially expect?

Maybe it's just me but I was expecting to need to hold off the closure a bit because my instinct was that I was swinging more out to the right, thus introducing a greater possibility of losing shots to the left from hooks. I've noticed just the opposite...

The more I shallow the swing and bring angle of attack into positive numbers, getting swing direction from left (previously) to the right with positive AoA, while still keeping path near zero, the feel is that I actually have to work harder to square the clubface or else I will lose shots to the right.

It's totally counter to what I thought would happen and perhaps it's just a transatory feel as I get more accustomed to the new AoA and direction.

Perhaps I was used to a feel where the old leftward swing direction and steep swing needed the face much more to the right of the swing direction, and now with the more neutral (or rightward) swing direction the clubface needs to feel much more shut in relation to it.

The "feel" in the hands may be more related to swing direction than swing path?

Does this make any sense

 

[Jim Kobylinski]

I edited ballaholic post and added the bolded the important part

Reason being is that there are sooooooooooooooooo many faults that go back to open clubfaces. If your face is too open, from my experience, the majority of our brains won't let us swing too far right because we're going LOSE THE SHOT RIGHT! So we release early, we flip, we do allllllllllll kinds of stuff to square that face up to not lose it right.

Shockingly you square that thing up and you can now get that path out to the right a bit more.

 

[hp12c]

For me I TA right from the git go cause I know I have a tendency to open the CF, so the early TA really helps in not gettin so open the ball goes right, a really cool way to play golf really.