Face-on
Hanging back.
The trail side still owns the strike. Film face-on and watch Address to Impact.
Face-on · Address, Top, Impact
What's going on.
The strike happens with the trail side still in charge. Face-on, you have not moved through the ball, so the low point stays behind it. Fat, thin, or a high weak ball that will not hold a line.
What's already OK.
A full mid-iron with intent is already a swing. The club just meets the ball while the trail side still owns the hit.
The one thing.
Push the ground toward the target as the club goes through the ball.
The drill.
Through the doorway
A mid-iron. Imagine a doorway just past the ball, opening toward the target. Camera face-on. Stock full swing.
10 rehearsals, then 10 balls.
Send the club through the doorway toward the target. The trail side does not get to keep the strike.
Film again.
5 full mid-irons, face-on. Share the best. The next look is only this idea.
Face-on at Impact the trail side is no longer the owner. Address to Impact shows the swing going through the ball, not falling back off it.
- Watch Martin Chuck 0:01–0:53
- Watch Titleist TPI (Greg Rose) 0:28–2:07
- Watch Titleist TPI 0:50–2:20
- Through-the-doorway: 10 rehearsals, then 10 balls
- Film 5 face-on mid-irons and share the best
Watch these clips.
Official YouTube. Start times are the bit that teaches this idea, not the whole channel.
Watch the hang-back picture: fire and fall back off the trail foot, high and weak to the right. Stop before the FlexClick pitch. That face-on trail-side strike is the idea.
He names hanging back as the opposite of a useful shift. The ground never hits back, so the strike stays on the trail side. Watch that, not the slide definition.
They tie a fat mid-iron to hanging back, not getting under the lead side. That is the face-on cost. Skip the rest of the live Q-and-A.