Clubface Angle

Our New Rules Essential Skills series continues.  The first week we got your Pre-Swing to be solid.  The second and third week we got you to hit the ball solidly.  The forth week we swung the club with rhythm.  This week I want to have you focus on the #1 key to direction control - club face angle at impact.

Over the years, I have heard teachers and players claim that this happens automatically if you do some other move correctly (usually with the body).  I also hear too many times about how the hands are not trustworthy.  These thoughts are flat out not true. The New Rules way of thinking says golf is about being skillful.  The squaring of the club face will seem to happen automatically for the golfer who has practiced and become skillful at this move.

The video I have included has been viewed almost 8,000 times and it contains the drills I recommend to become skillful and eventually make it where your clubface seems to square up automatically.  Clubface awareness is an Essential Skill that every golfer must master to hit the ball to the intended target.

"The New Rules of Golf Instruction" continues to gain momentum with golfers and golf instructors alike.  I spoke to a group of PGA professionals in the Tennessee PGA Section on Monday, Nov. 30 and a second semester group at the Professional Golfers Career College on Tuesday, Dec. 1.  Follow the link above to download this critical book for your ultimate improvement.  Long time PGA professional Bobby Greenwood told me he thinks New Rules has a chance "to change golf instruction and golf improvement to a logical approach that guarantees success for the golfer."