Shallowing the golf club has its advantages, but don’t do it if you have the following things out of place:
🔹 The clubface
🔹 The clubface
And
🔹 The clubface
When you shallow the club, the face gets more open – that’s all there is to it. So if your clubface is open to begin with, you have a very small chance at shallowing the club AND hitting better shots.
I want you to play better. So get the face in place first 👊
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what are the actual advantages to
shallowing the golf club and what does
shallowing even mean we talk a lot about
shallowing the golf club but we never
really talk about the benefits of it and
so we’re going to talk a little bit
about that today but we first need to
understand what it is so we have this
thing called attack angle when we hit a
ball right and so the club can move very
sharply down into the ball or it can
move a little bit shallower or or think
about an airplane like landing on a
Runway can come in much smoother and
lower and kind of shallower into the
ball that’s not actually what we’re
talking about when we talk about
shallowing the golf club we’re actually
talking more so about the pitch of the
shaft in the downswing and so what I’m
referring to there is the more I pull
this club head back behind me and the
club gets more horizontal people call
that a more shallow position if I push
the club head more in front of me and
the club gets more vertical well that’s
called a more steep position but what’s
more important in my opinion than the
pitch of the shaft is actually where the
club head itself is located so we know
as coaches right that most people
struggle with an outside in swing path
not everyone but a majority of golfers
that struggle they have a path that
works a little bit too far outside in so
at its at its core shallowing the club
or pushing the club head further behind
the player in the downswing that
essentially aims the swing Direction in
the club path to be slightly more from
the inside hence negating some of the
fade bias or the slice bias the player
might fight with their outside in path
so that’s kind of benefit number one is
it helps kind of get the path working a
little bit more from the inside but
obviously that can that can be too much
too we can we can have this club too far
underneath the plane and swing too far
out to the right and hit big Hooks and
blocks right so there’s kind of this
balance here now we always talk about
how rotated a player is as well and
everybody wants to get to impact and
have all this shaft Lane and have two
cheeks to the camera and have their
chest be open and all these great things
we see tour players do well what people
don’t understand is rotation on the
downswing or getting more open that is
something that steepens every single
part of the swing so if I just took my
hands right here and I rotated 10 more
degrees all of a sudden my club went
from a more shallow position to a more
steep position and so in a vacuum if I
took just that one change and I made my
golf swing and I had 10 more degrees of
rotation I’m going to be very steep on
the ball I’m G to fight big pulls and
big wipe Cuts right so shallowing is
actually something we can match up with
rotation because shallowing is something
that shifts the path from the inside and
rotation is something that shifts the
path from outside in and so now you can
kind of take the benefits of both and
blend them together you’re able to swing
pretty straight into the ball if you
shallow the club and rotate really well
there’s a lot of benefits to that the
more open a player typically gets the
less Club face rotation you tend to see
sometimes right the other benefit to it
is a lot of people will actually early
extend or move their pelvis in and an
attempt to late shallow the club so
there’s a difference between shallowing
the club early in the swing and late in
the swing if you’re someone who shallows
the club early in the swing it means
that at this point here the swing
direction is programmed to be very
straight from here all you simply need
to do is like we said rotate and stay in
posture well if you’re someone who
starts the transition in a steeper
position where the club head itself is
more in front of you and you stay in
posture and rotate you are going to jam
this club in the ground and you’re going
to have a path it’s way outside in so
what I’ll see a lot of players do if
they get steep with the club or push
this in front of them in transition is
they will actually l the down swing push
the pelvis in get the chest to come out
and what that does is it actually
shallows the club and it gets the player
further from the ground so that they
don’t jam it into the ground and so if I
use this stick here to represent my
spine angle and I use this club to
represent kind of the relationship
between the two if I simply came down
Steep and then pushed my pelvis in you
can see how that club wants to pull a
little bit more behind me so the club
head itself is shallowing but obviously
I’m moving my hips in my chest is coming
up out of the shot I’m going to face
some face control issues uh and some
strike issues as well so that’s one
thing that shallowing kind of allows us
the opportunity to do if we can shallow
the club early in transition we now have
incentive to keep our pelvis back keep
our chest down and in the shot and
rotate now if you don’t do that if you
shallow the club nicely in transition
and you do kick your pelvis in this is
where we’ll start to see the path get
way too far from the inside and the
player struggles with with blocks and
hooks
now the last kind of benefit here is a
little bit tricky okay the height of the
handle at impact plays a very large role
in how much face control a player can
have Okay so let’s say I’m that player
that’s a little bit steep in transition
and I early extend well I’ve never seen
anyone come through and hit their leg so
what what you’re actually going to see
players do is they’re going to push
their hands out forearm roll to the
right late and they end up with this
handle that’s very very vertical at
impact and so when the handle is super
vertical at impact any twist to the grip
points the club face more offline now if
I did the extreme if I really shallowed
the club and really kept my pelvis back
now if I got the club like insanely tow
up and low handle here the same amount
of twisting actually doesn’t point the
club face offline as much and so there’s
a benefit here to having the handle
return around the same plane but not
excessively higher than it started at
impact remember when the club is pointed
a little bit more towed down or think
about the ball being below your feet
where does the ball typically go for a
right-handed golfer typically wants to
go to the right well that’s because of
how the face sits with the LI angle
right so as I raise this handle the face
points to the right more closing is
going to be required to get that ball
online so those are some of the benefits
to shallowing thanks for watching the
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