I COULDN'T SQUARE the clubface until I DISCOVERED THIS 

I never new i was swinging with an open club face until I watched this video. For the past 3 years, I've been working on my swing path frusterated with results. This video was the exact issue i needed to fix. Instantly straightened out my drive and even hitting nice high draws. Thank you sir!

This is an important video for most golfers I’d say. People try to square it far too late and there’s not enough time which is why we see 90% of golfers hitting the same weak slice. It’s so important to start closing the face WAY earlier in “transition” than most would think.

This is legit one of the best golf instructional videos I've seen. This is a Game Changer!! I've always struggled with Rotation and Feels of my Lead & Trail hand/wrist to get the timing right. Thnx Sir Eric!

I changed from a strong grip to a neutral grip three days ago so I needed this video because I was hitting flop shots with my irons 😂

Following a recent case of “Shank-itus” which arrived from nowhere, I experimented with slightly closing the face at setup, allied to a limited and slow backswing and another EC tip (slight right foot back) I have found both the consistency and distance that I have never previously had. This has promoted a H/cap fall from 18 to 12. Top instruction.

Very helpful video. I’ve been struggling with a push slice because I’ve not been rotating my arms. Some different advice had it in my head this was a negative motion. Good to see that all pros including Rahm morikawa etc still do this

Great video. I've been only playing for 5 months and was taught to not to use my wrists and just trust my full rotation during the whole swing. At times I've hit it well when I rotate properly but as a beginner golfer I haven't found that consistency during my follow through so at times that makes me hit a slice with my irons. I got the same tip of your video from another coach a couple days ago and it has helped me immediately. Thanks!

Thanks again, Eric.......all these videos are getting me back on track.

Eric, I discovered just yesterday that I tend to focus on the leading edge of my irons and I need to be instead focusing on the sweet spot. This is especially true with my wedges. I practiced on doing this with a 58 degree and stopped thinking about my back swing. I turned my hands down more through impact and compressed the ball making sure to deloft my club face more. I began to hit these nice powerful shots. Hit that wedge 75 - 80 yards! I'm now one less club farther. Shorter back swing, more distance. Accuracy was excellent!

I don't know why RU-vid didn't recommend your channel earlier but every video I've watched is gold. Thank you

Best video of hand action I've ever seen . Thanks!

Clearest and most complete explanation I've seen. Point glove logo or palm away from the target. Thanks! It finally makes sense

Great video hoping this helps me tomorrow at the range. Developed a case of the yips and now every shot longer than 8 iron Im hitting terrible push slices. Have been off from golf for the last couple years, shot an 89 in my second round of the year and was feeling good about where I was at but the golf gods humbled me very quickly as since then its felt like Ive never swung a club in my life

Dear Eric, I learn from this video: I work at you´re squad move, to bring the left knee out in the delivery position and go back in the Set-up position. But I work on it at a wrong way. I concentrate me to my left knee. So it is difficult. Here I learn, the crunch is more important. The left knee goes more automatic out by the crunch on the right side. Thank you very much, Erich

Eric, this is brilliant, I’m eager to get to the range and try, thank you. ‘curious, I assume - this same rotation applies for Driver ?

Good stuff again, Eric! Can you offer tips for using the Hanger with a right wrist dominant swing? Is it as simple as reversing the left wrist pattern?

I started trying to hit golf balls a little over a year ago. My most-frequent "good" shot is a push. (That is to say, the ones that aren't tops or fats or whiffs. Not a slice. I do slice, but less than 2% of the time.) I tried out your advice in this video on the range just now, and my good shots were mostly pull-draws. I mean, the balls were DRAWING. I've never seen myself hit a draw before. So, true, i was going crazy left, but it's a big step for me after going crazy right forever.

A simple way of understanding and visualizing what you suggest is “keep the face of the club looking down at the ball” i.e. square to the swing arc in the takeaway and last part of the downswing. Karsten Solheim of PING discovered a golf club face will find balance and align itself with toe and face square to the club’s swing arc line automatically if mass of the club head mass is moved around heel-to-toe until it does; the physics underlying the Anser putter, PING EYE irons and every high MOI cavity back design since then. A simple way to get the face consistently square at impact is to align the face by putting everything in- feet, spine bent, hips shifted laterally to target and open, shoulders just past parallel, hands over lead hip and pulled down in ulnar deviation, club in line straight with lead arm, etc. - with face aligned to target at the spot on ground the ball will release off the face. Go back and forth to from the “all parallel” conventional address start-of-swing position to impact a few times, waggling the club up so the shaft is horizontal. Moving between from impact - address - downswing shaft level waypoints slowly allows seeing, feeling, understanding intellectually and reflexive brain how everything needs to move. Setting up in the impact position and using a Vardon / Interlaced grip applied with pad of trail hand up over lead thumb will allow the club force to move hands and toe of club so face stays square to the swing line in the takeaway and as club comes down at impact more or less automatically. If starting from the impact position why should it not come back there, every time? Moe Norman said that a lot while hitting shot after shot to target because he learned intuitively to starting by first aligning as I suggest at impact before moving back to the start of swing address position The genius of the Vardon grip is how it maxes out extension / flexion / radial deviation / ulnar deviation of the wrist at key points in the swing very consistently IF the golfer lets the swing force move the wrists by using light grip pressure and not trying to steer the club head with the hands. The downswing forces are too great and it is a battle you can’t win! As explained above the physics of modern cavity back clubs will align themselves more or less square to the swing line automatically and you just need to put the ball where the face comes square to the target not at impact but just as the ball releases off the face. Because of the way the face moves aligns square to the swing arc the ball must be impacted at point slightly inside if center >+ (so aim there not dead + center on the ball-target line) and expect the face to rotate few degrees as the ball compresses and releases.

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You mention pronation (or snap the wrist) & supination of the arms/wrist. It's difficult for us amateurs to time when to snap our wrists. One tip to consider is to consciously avoid pronation and simply release the hands/wrists. Let the arm flow thru hitting the ball and let the follow thru or momentum change the hand/wrists.

This is the number one thing i think golfers should be taught, closing the club face with their wrist. this is what fixed all my slices.

Wow! What a great drill! Just tried my swing slowly at home to find I’m doing exactly what you said, been practicing this feel and can’t wait to take it to the range, thanks 👍🏻🏌️‍♂️

EXCELLENT Lesson!

Eric - as a corollary to this, have u ever experimented with playing with a shut face at address and keeping it shut through back/trans/down and rotate through to square it through impact (kind of like Azinger used to do or Duval)? Not sure if you’d advise this or not. More along the lines of the pro you met with a few years ago outside of Carmel, CA. With the throw release where the face was set closed even before takeaway

My swing thought that seems to work best is glove logo to ground earlier in downswing.

This open face is the root of so many evils. It leads to flipping, poor contact, fat/thin shots. I kind of knew this, but in my mind my face was square. Finally realized NO, my clubface was still open even though I thought I was square. So I had to exaggerate closing the face (by rotating the knuckles down feel), which then puts me in square position. So right now I feel like I close the face a crazy amount. But it seems to be the right amount, because my shots are fairly straight. I am not missing to the left.

I guess it's important to balance the amount of wrist rotation with how much shaft lean you naturally have, or are looking to have ? Not enough shaft lean, and you will start to pull left.

I like it. Trying to implement

OK, so how do you manipulate the wrists into flexion without getting tension in the arms and becoming someone with a hit action rather than a swing?

The hanger is an awesome training aid.

Those wrist angles will be very contingent on your grip to ensure the proper matchup

Great video as always 👍. Question is…Even with a strong grip you need to do all this?

4:50 Amazing how different the release through the hitting is between Rahm and Rory. Rory has much more of a rolling release, which requires a lot of timing and precision. Rahm on the other hand has weak grip, max out on the bowed left wrist and just holds on through the hitting. In my opinion, that is the reason, why Rahm is more consistent.

Pretty sure the open club face has forced me to develop an over the top/early extension move whch now is hard to get rid of. Quick check using this technique seems like a step in the right direction however I find it uncomfortable in my lead wrist, like I'll develop a tendinitis or something. I guess I have to learn to bow the wrist yet keep it relaxed?

What I want to see in this video is “what can go wrong if you don’t do it right”, kind of thing. Because I’ve tried this and I get the weirdest results: shanks, extreme steepness in the divot resulting in the ball popping up sky high with little to no distance. I think all instructional videos should contain a “how to not do what I am showing you today”.

Are the arms really rotating??? I never have that feeling and to me the arms simply turn to the target only because of body rotation. But what do I know with my 2 rounds just below 80?

What do you think of that : the professionnal golfers have to close the club face in the transition or in the downswing because their swings are very fast. (Without that their club face would be open at impact) ?

I have been close the face to the shaft early in the back swing. I have a hard time on the timing trying to do it on the down swing. Is that okay or should I work on the timing on the down swing?

Going to the range and use this right now.

i have the prosendr and i feel like my club face is open when coming through with it on. think my grip is too strong?

Cogorno, does this match with what you and Mike Milanka talked about in your right arm and wrist video? Seems like you’re saying we should have more forearm rotation than he does.

Does the right/trail wrist STAY bent like that through the entire swing? If so why have I never heard anyone talk about that. I think for myself I'm so worried about post impact/followthrough and what my hands and wrists need to so that it effects my backswing etc.

Having the glove logo 'face the target' at impact may depend on how you grip the club. If a player has a super strong grip - that glove logo wouldn't be facing the target - or else that club face will be extremely closed.

This is what's killing my game. Can't hit long irons or long hybrids because I have it in my head to swing harder. The harder I swing, the more open the club face. Gotta practice this.

Is this the same thing for driver?

This is the same regardless of iron or driver?

Can you do that? YES YOU CAN!!

Why not close the face then grip it, rotate it back to square at address then swing to eliminate any timed rotation, a La Shawn Clement

It almost should feel like a tennis or ping pong top spin shot???

Shot tracker Eric.

You're almost there, but not quite yet...

Great video. The only thing missing is an explanation of why the flex in the lead wrist needs to increase from its initial position. At the start of the golf swing, the club is outside the hands and the club face is set square to the ball and the target. With a neutral grip the lead wrist is slightly extended (cupped) If the club is taken to parallel at the start of the back swing and the relationship between the hands and the club maintained, at parallel, the club head will be outside the hands and the face will be on a path, which if reversed, would result in the club face approaching the ball on a straight line, neither in to out or out to in, and square to the ball and and target. The lead wrist would still be slightly extended and there would be no need to add flexion to the lead wrist. The need to increase the flex in the lead wrist at the top of the back swing or during the downswing stems from the change of the position of the hands relative to the club head and the movement of body's center mass toward the target and away from the target line. In the downswing, when the shaft is parallel, the club head is not in front of the hands as it was at parallel in the back swing. Dropping the hands hands at the start of the downswing brings the hands lower and closer to the body relative to where they were at the beginning of the swing. During the downswing the body's center of mass moves linearly toward the target and away from the target line changing the position of the hands at impact relative to their initial position. The amount of flex in the lead wrist as the club approaches the ball has to be greater than the amount of flex in the lead wrist at the start of the swing and the take away because of the change in position of the hands relative to the club. The alternative is to time the supination of the lead wrist and the pronation of the trail wrist to square the face to target. As Brooks Koepka says, "set the wrist and let it rip."

There are no secret moves in golf. Also no magic moves. It’s all hype.

QUESTION.....Jack Nicklaus once said in an interview, I'm paraphrasing. It's better to have a closed club face on the downswing that an open one. If it's closed it's easier to hold the face off at impact rather that trying to square it and or flip at the bottom. Eric do you agree with that?