Inside Out
/The Inside Out Path:
What is the inside out path?
We’ve heard the term used for years but do we really know what it means? Well it’s simple.
Let’s think of a club traveling up the backswing and down the thru swing on the same path. What would be the result.
Depending on how much you allowed the club to release would dictate how much the ball would draw, if you are a right handed swinger, considering your grip is square.
Now if we took the club back on that same path, but at the top allowed our arms to drop a little bit more before we started swinging through the hitting area, we would be swinging through on a flatter plane, or on an inside out move.
Some golfers get confused about path thinking that to swing inside out they must take the club back inside abruptly.
If the club is taken back inside there is only two paths to come through on, straight out to the right or over the top.
That is one of the reasons why so many golfers slice.
Now add tension to that swing and what do you have, a banana ball, and the longer the club with less loft the more the slice. You see the inside out move does’nt happen at the start of the swing, it happens down at the bottom when the hips clear and the chest tells the arms to go out.
But if we take the club inside on the backswing or get tense at the top we’ll never obtain a natural inside out move.
A good drill to feel a natural path is to stand straight up with the arms and club straight out. Feel how the club stays away from you back and through.
You see more and more tour players do this drill before the hit a shot, why? Because it gives them the feeling of maximum arc, which if allowed, will keep the club on the correct plane for your height and build all by itself.
While your doing this drill feel how your gripping the club with your hands and not your arms. Also feel how the chest is making the arms move and the club opens and closes naturally all by itself.
Make a couple of swings prior to each shot and try to have the same feeling during the actual swing. That’s what the golf swing is, a series of feelings!
By doing this you’ll find that your slice will be corrected and the inside out path will happen all by itself.