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Hi, Iím Rotary Swing Instructor Clay Ballard, and in this Rory McIlroy Swing Review weíre
going to talk about one thing that every single great golfer in the history of the game has
always been able to do, and thatís control their club face through impact.
Thatís one common thing that everyone has to be able to do to play great golf.
Now, if you struggle with flipping the club through impact, if you struggle with hooks,
with slices, with hitting the ball too low, this video is really going to help you out.
I would imagine that if youíre looking online for golf instruction, youíre struggling at
least with one of those, because if not youíd be hitting just fantastic golf shots around
the course, all day long!
If you learn how to control your left wrist -- especially your left wrist -- youíre going
to be able to control the club face and be able to hit much more consistent, solid golf
shots.
First, letís start out by looking at Rory here, on the left side of the screen.
For this video, weíre going to pay particular attention to the Velcro logo that is on the
back of your left wrist, on your golf glove.
We can see his logo is kind of pointed out in front of his chest here.
Heís a little bit below waist high.
Heís got great lag here still, really built up a lot of lag, and heís got the club in
a good position.
Now letís watch that left wrist as he comes through impact.
As he comes through impact, youíll notice that heís turning that left wrist.
You can really see it here.
Heís turning that left wrist counterclockwise, to square the face.
This is something that produces a lot of power, and itís very effortless power.
It doesnít take a lot of physical energy or a lot of physical force to be able to do
this.
A lot of this is done through centrifugal force of just letting that club head release
by keeping the hands very, very soft.
But now youíll notice at impact, now his logo on the Velcro of his glove is pointed
toward the target.
He has essentially rolled his wrist counterclockwise to help square the face.
You also notice that the logo -- or if he had an arrow shooting out of this Velcro logo
on the back of his left wrist -- it would be facing straight ahead.
For those of you that would be cupping, your logo would be facing up toward the sky.
If youíre really delofting the club, hitting it very, very low, then you could bowing the
wrist too much and having this logo pointing down toward the ground.
I rarely see people that over-bow with their wrist through impact, but it does happen.
On the right side of the screen, this is a picture of me.
I put on a golf glove, and this is a knitting needle.
I use these for putting, to help my alignment sometimes.
I put a string, tie them on there, but Iíve just fastened the Velcro on my grip with the
knitting needle under the little hole thatís in the left side of my glove.
Iím going to go over the four basic movements of the left wrist, and how these are going
to affect the golf ball.
If you can imagine, this blue needle that you see is representing the angle of the face.
Here my left arm is in a neutral position and Iím using the natural loft of the club,
and this blue needle is nice and flat.
Again, this is just a representation.
This is not exactly whatís going on.
The blue needle is not an exact representation of what the club face is doing, but it gives
you an idea of how manipulating your wrist can change the club face.
The first thing Iím going to do is the most common thing that I see -- one of the most
common mistakes in golf -- and thatís cupping the wrist through impact.
You can see that this wrist has a lot of cup in it.
What Iíve done, essentially, is Iíve added about 45∞ of loft to this club head.
If youíre cupping this severely, you will not be able to hit the golf ball far, whatsoever.
It doesnít matter if you have 200 mph swing speed.
If youíre cupping like this, the ball is going to go too high and itís not going to
get the distance.
If youíre someone that tends to just slide right under a sand wedge, or maybe you hit
your 5 iron letís say 150 yards, and then you hit your 3 iron 150 yards, and you hit
your 3 wood 160 yards -- it doesnít seem like youíre getting much more distance, the
longer clubs you get -- youíre probably cupping through impact and adding a lot of loft to
the club face.
When you do this, youíre just not going to get a lot of distance.
Big time problem for people that struggle with distance is cupping the club face through
impact.
Now, the opposite of this -- what youíre going to need to feel for a while to improve
this -- would be to bow the wrist through impact.
Now, this is what I see most all really good golfers bow their wrist through impact somewhat,
unless they have a real strong grip.
Weíre not going to get into that on this video.
If you bow your wrist through impact what youíre essentially doing is delofting the
club face.
Now Iíve taken 20-30∞ of loft off this club face, so Iíve taken an 8 iron and Iíve
turned it into a 5 iron.
Thatís why the pros hit it so far, because theyíre delofting the club.
If we were looking at Rory from face on, we would see that his wrist is slightly bowed.
It wouldnít be nearly as bowed as mine is on the right side, but it would definitely
be bowed.
Heís delofting the club, and thatís how you can hit an 8 iron 170 yards like the pros
do.
Itís going to help to compress the ball more, get more spin on the ball, or better spin
on the ball, and really create a penetrating trajectory.
If youíre playing in a lot of high winds, youíre going to need to know how to bow your
left wrist, and bow both wrists, to deloft the club face.
Now, the last two ways to move your wrist would be counterclockwise, which, now the
needle is pointing behind my body, so the back of my left wrist would be pointing toward
the left rough.
If Iím doing this, Iím going to struggle with hooks because itís closing the club
face.
Then the most common is opening -- whoops, going the wrong way here -- opening the club
face.
Now this needle is pointed over towards the right rough.
Youíve held the hands open the entire time, you havenít learned how to rotate your wrist
counter clockwise, and youíre blocking them and youíre slicing to the right over and
over again.
Thatís what I see the majority of the time with your higher handicap golfers; theyíre
going to leave this wrist open and never square the club face.
Youíre not going to get that good compression on the ball if youíre doing this.
The club is essentially sliding across the ball, and youíre losing a lot of distance
when this happens.
OK, for those of you who are not members of the website yet, this would be a great time
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Itís going to show you exactly how to release the club head properly, and itís going to
give you a series of drills to learn how to release the club head properly, so that you
can start having better compression and hitting the ball straighter and farther, and more
solid every time.
Itís going to be very easy for you to do if you follow this step-by-step process.
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I look forward to seeing you guys in the future on the site, and good luck with your golf
game!