How to Aim the Club Face to Improve Your Golf Swing

Video Transcript

"Hello I am Arthur DeBolt on behalf of Expert Village. In this previous video we checked out how to grip the club. Well, now we are going to learn how to aim the club face. You would be amazed at how many people aim the club face in the direction that has nothing to do with where they want the ball to land. So, what I am going to show you is that, because of the way you learn how to grip the club you must pin your left arm against your body on your ribcage, before you come forward and you bend forward to set the club. When you reach at this point, adjust the face of the club so that it is perfectly square with where you want the ball to land, and set it behind the ball. You set your left foot and index, which means that you have now aimed at the bottom of the swing, the ball sitting on the line of flight, and you set a spot out here, piece of dry grass, broken tree or whatever, that gives you the line in which you can look down at the spot and get 90 degrees. So that when you swing the club, you are going to be able to get the club face to go through on a perfectly square out. I am going to give you one demonstration here how it works, now each club that you are going to be using will be relative to where you place the ball in accordance with those lines. So, if I press and put this ball dead center on that access, that means that I am going to use a five iron, because the five iron is the bottom of my swing. If I want to use a six iron, I am going to move this back a quarter of a ball, and then a seven iron will be half ball, and so forth until you get to the nine iron, and anything after the nine iron is relative to how far back you need to do it, in accordance with what the swing or the shot that you are trying to make. So, I want to emphasize that five iron index is right in the center of the ball. Your aim is relative to squaring the club face to the line of flight of the spot you put out front there."