![]() ![]() So if your path is 4 degrees inside-out, I want your club face 2 degrees open. The relationship I like to see is about a 2:,1 path to face. So if your ball is going to curve to the left, I want it to start to the right and vice versa. The ball flights I generally like to help create with most students would be push-draws or pull-fades. So to figure out how to curve the ball the way we want to, we need to look at the relationship between club face and club path. Golfers who fade or slice the ball generally swing outside-in, for the right handed golfer this is swinging more to the left. For a right handed golfer, inside-out would mean swinging more to the right which would generally create a hook or draw bias. Golfers tend to swing either inside-out or outside-in. The club path angle refers to the direction the club head is moving at the moment of impact. When it comes to which way your ball is curving, we now need to take a look at club path. Regardless of what you do, it’s only a bad thing if it curves away from your target (or a better way to phrase it for the more advanced player, over-curving your target). So if your club face is open you’ll almost always push the ball, and if it’s closed you’ll almost always pull the ball. ![]() Where the club face is pointing at the moment of impact is the primary controller of the ball’s starting direction. The data point I like to look at first is the club face angle. So with that said, I believe the best players own their curvature so that they can consistently shape their golf ball towards their intended target. Almost every golf ball struck will have some degree of curvature to it, certainly some more than others. Perhaps the best place to start is with this fact that you are not going to hit the ball perfectly straight consistently. These data points tell the story of why your ball flew where it did, so let’s dig in. To find these answers, it’s best to get yourself in a simulator and start charting your club face and club path numbers. The first step to correcting these misses is understanding why they happened. Regardless of what your miss is, all golfers miss their target at times. Some golfers may even suffer from all four of those directional misses. Some golfers slice, some golfers hook, and others may push or pull the ball. ![]()
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