This Golf Lesson post is going to discuss a topic I feel hurts more golfers than any swing technique I can think of.  The funny thing is it usually doesn’t start showing symptoms until the golfer has reached a high level of skill.  The your swing looks weird so let’s make it look better disease.  This is where Trackman can level the playing field.  I tend to not get caught up in a lot of swing techniques with my students.  I wonder if that makes me look like I don’t know what’s right or wrong.  Or maybe it makes me look like I just don’t care.

To me, impact and ball flight are what I work mostly with.  I look at the whole swing as series of events that lead to a collision with the ball and how they interact with each other gives me clues as to what ball flight will happen when they’re off.  I have one student currently playing on the Gateway Tour that has an incredibly strong grip that he off sets with a ton of lag.  Every time I see him, he comments on his grip or tells me stories of other pros commenting on his grip.  I continually have to reinforce him that his grip works for him.

A few months ago, he went and hit on a trackman and gave me his data sheets.  This data was the most powerful piece of confirmation I could give him.  Here’s a piece of technology telling us both that his grip produced a clubface angle that was repetitive and useable.  This is where trackman pays huge dividends for the unorthodox swinger.  It compares impact and ballflight to impact and ballflight.  it doesn’t care what your swing look likes and neither should you.

Here’s a look at his swing:

Here’s a look at his numbers with 6 iron:

Trackman Club Data

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