Square the ClubFace at Impact - Difference between high&Low hadicappers

[HOT CHILLI]

I think pros and low handicap' hardly using twistaway on their backswing, halfway downswing their clubface is about 45* open and they have the ability to really bow/roll(like twistaway)
their left wrist/turn left elbow in and square the clubface, the pivot&really fast hands&centrifugal force helps them...

On the other hand for high handicap' using twistaway is necessary because if they start their downswing with 30-70* open clubface, they won't be able to square it up unless they find A way their way(although they swing is slower).

Now to the artistic part -

20 handicap without twistaway -

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Well he finds a way to square that clubface...somehow(fli...)


4 hanicapp' with a 110* open face at the top -

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He Finds a way to square the face...bow/roll/turn left wrist halfway down


Scratch golfer with 80* open clubface 3 feet before Impact -

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Now the pros, 80-110* open Clubface at the top -

Rod Pampling -

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Phil Mickelson -




Tiger -

 

[Richie3Jack]

I think Bubba Watson uses a little twistaway. Or at least it looks like it as it appears his right ring finger is facing him on the follow through.

I think all of this comes down to pivot. Low handicappers and pros can pivot and that helps square up the clubface whereas the high handicappers don't really pivot or the quit pivoting or it's out of sequence, etc and they need a twistaway to square up the clubface.

I'm a low handicappers and former pro. I will occasionally use the twistaway move if I've been hitting fades and I can't afford to hit one right. Doesn't happen a lot, but it's pretty effective.



3JACK

 

[Kevin Shields]

Hot Chili, great vids. Keep em coming.

A few thoughts. Just because Tour pros do something doesnt mean its optimal. Most Tour pros development probably went something like this. As a junior they were underplane out to the right flippers who developed a hook. Then got some "Golf Digest" type instruction that said to toe up the face halfway back and get the face more open. Most have really fast pivots and still leave the club behind a bit, never really curing their paths. There is alot of full rolls out there that I could describe as save moves. These guys are enormously talented and are world class at squaring the face. They are all deathly afraid of hooking it and associate anything less than toe up as closed. I'm just not too convinced that this way is the best seeing as how Tiger, the most talented player ever, took nearly two years to get out of the right trees doing it.

BTW, is it not hilarious that Kostis says Mickelson has "quiet hands"

 

[birdie_man]

Neat post doubled.

 

[jenhaoyen]

i don't understand why you would label them as high / low handicappers.
Some people I know who hits ball very well have terrrible short games and they are high handicappers. It has nothing to do with high / low handicapps.