Golf Club Face Open Golf Lesson

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Golf Club Face Open Golf Lesson. This is another golf lesson from Mark Crossfield where Mark challenges your ideas around golf coaching and teaching ideas. Mark talks club face control and how maybe a open face is not quite what you have always though it was.

37 thoughts on “Golf Club Face Open Golf Lesson

  1. if you had asked “are there more ways than just opening and closing the
    face at address to change the dynamic loft and can you deliver the same
    loft with the face open or closed at address?” instead of “does an open
    face increase loft”, then I think you might have had some more informed
    answers. Just a thought

  2. Ding, ding, ding, light bulb switched on haha – don’t know any light bulbs
    that ding like but…. makes total sense now – I’ve had a feeling that the
    club head is behind my hands through impact (but never thought about the
    consequences really). However I’ve also got a slice, well here is me trying
    everything to sort it (well obviously not everything), when one (potential)
    fix could be that my hands are in front of the club head, hence club face
    open to path. For me, these videos are just a wealth of information, I’m a
    casual player who does want to improve, but hasn’t exactly got the most
    vast catalogue of knowledge at my disposal, and so to see such information
    really does inspire me to go out a practice at something other than just
    aimlessly hitting balls down the range so I feel “prepared” for a round on
    the course. Cheers mark, great stuff again.

  3. +Mark Crossfield im a lefty and i cant help but hit faded shots,(not
    slice’s) because my club face is open and puts spin on the ball. when
    ever i go to hit a draw it goes straight. and my divots and pointing way
    out the the right. should i worry about this even tho im a scratch
    player? if u read that cheers! keep up the vids. 

  4. Mark great video – I always wondered about the difference between dynamic
    loft and actual loft of a club. Now I know: thanks for the explanation. I
    guess the test was conducted with a 4 iron MP54 of 24 degrees actual loft?
    For in between shots say a 6 or 7 iron distance I’ve always favoured
    pushing the hands forward of a 7 iron making the loft more like a weak 6
    iron to carry the distance but this had varying results. Thanks to this
    video I understand the reason why – maybe I didn’t keep the dynamic or
    desired at impact. Interesting. Thanks

  5. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Mark. I used to do drills to promote
    hand release / hand action (jim flick, david blair stuff) which led to
    doing the opposite error to that of dragging the handle through, namely
    flipping the hands pre-impact. Hence i present a closed clubface and hit
    shots left.

  6. Very interesting. This sort of video is right up my street as I am a very
    technical person and knowing these three ways of changing loft will give me
    more weapons in my armoury to explain (and hopefully fix) some of my bad
    shots. I’ve got a lesson at the range tonight so I’ll experiment with this
    a bit.

    Thanks again for all the videos.

  7. If said for years that adjustable drivers create major issues! If you
    change the “loft” settings on most of them it changes the face angle only!
    This changes “effective” loft only not “actual” loft. And creates a need
    for pushing the handle forward or backward to compensate thus changing
    “dynamic loft”. IMO better to be fit with proper loft with neutral/ square
    club face that requires less adjustment in shaft lean/tilt

  8. Would you agree that plane angle is basically what you are explaining at
    this point? If you’re too vertical or flat or forward hands or late hands,
    these all make for different shots. Correct?

  9. It is very interessting but it doesn’t bring an answer to my problem. I
    struggle with to high ball with my driver but my attack angle is great, it
    is about 0 degres but my dynamic loft with an 8.5 driver is 16 degres and i
    don’t know how to reduce it ! Please someone help me !

  10. I heard this from another youtuber: The way tiger woods hits a cut shot is
    by feeling like the top of his left hand is facing target for as long as
    possible. It is similar to feeling like the handle is leaning forward. Lots
    of players play cuts or fades by opening the face with their grip when you
    can just feel the sensation that Mark is talking about

  11. im sure mark is convinced he is reinventing the wheel here or something.
    This is not new information and most keen golfers who actually want to
    improve will understand this …..all the comment from people who don’t
    understand generally aren’t that bother about improvement and more causal

  12. Wow great vid Mark.
    Sometimes I hit the odd squirty one to the right when I’m knocking it down.
    I now understand why.
    Thanks, this vid should really help my knock downs. 

  13. Great lesson. Something brand knew I never thought of. How about proper
    club position based on Wrist control I or cupped wrist at different parts
    of swing. You did a great lesson on the driver that had over 400,000 hits.
    You should talk about proper head position throughout the swing. Especially
    the top. 

  14. It feels like waaaay to long since we had some course VLOG’s – I really
    enjoy them and look forward till the next! Hopefully they start becoming
    more regular again

  15. Very informative … explains the concept well. I like to strike down on
    the ball hard and get large divots … normal flight tends towards a fade.
    I think this help explain why. Interesting. 

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