Getting the Right Feedback During Your Practice Sessions

If you are practicing without feedback, it's like throwing darts blindfolded. The right feedback will help you practice more effectively and make the right changes.

Adam's Book - Practical Manual

Strike Quality: How you are striking the face of the club and how your golf club is interacting with the ground

• Using Dr. Scholls to see where you are making contact on the face (you could also use a dry eraser pen and mark the ball)
• A product like Divot Board can help diagnose ground contact (Jon & Adam's favorite solution)
• Gear effect: with your hybrids, fairway woods, and driver - face contact will impact your ball flight due to gear effect. For a right-handed golfer, striking it on the heel will impart more "slice-spin," and the toe will impart more "hook spin."
• Sometimes, a too high strike on the face will indicate a "fat shot," and a strike too low on the face will indicate a "thin strike."

Using ball flight as feedback:

• Using irons (to remove gear effect influence), particularly a long iron, will give you the best feedback on what's going on at impact with your swing path and face direction.
• The ball's initial direction will tell you which direction the face of the club was pointed at impact.
• Adam likes to use the curvature of the ball and where it ends up as his primary feedback.
• If it ends up too far left or right, typically, the fix will be closing or opening the clubface to counteract that miss.
• The curve of the ball will mostly tell you what your club path is. If your ball flies with no curvature, that's a good indication of your path. For example, if you hit a shot straight to the right, then your path is most likely to the right. If your ball does curve to your target, your club path is the opposite of what direction is curved. For example, if the ball bends from right to left and hits your target, your club path was in-to-out.

Using loft as feedback

• Getting launch angle from a launch monitor will tell you how you are delivering the loft of the clubhead (de-lofting or adding loft)
• Also, peak height is an excellent piece of feedback on how much loft was "delivered."
• Generally, players with less clubhead speed will need to launch the ball higher initially. 
• Shaft lean has a lot of influence on loft. If the shaft is leaning ahead of the ball at impact, it will remove loft and hit shots lower. If your hands are too far behind the ball at impact, it will add too much loft. Nobody wants a shaft leaning backward at impact!
• Working with wedges is a great way to experiment with delivering the loft of the club at impact. 
• Tour Striker and DST are two training aids that can help with shaft lean.

Launch Monitors can provide great feedback; here is a list of reviews on products we recommend:

• PRGR Launch Monitor
• Swing Caddie SC200+
• Rapsodo MLM
• Swing Caddie SC300
• SkyTrak

Video feedback

• We only recommend using video if you know what you are looking for, preferably working with a swing instructor.
• Don't go down the rabbit hole and trying to change things that are irrelevant to your swing.
• Check out the parallax effect.

Keeping track of where your shots end up

• When practicing, you can use a grid to track where your shots are ending up relative to your target. Are you missing short, long, left, right?
• Golf stats app that Adam mentioned

Working with a qualified swing instructor is perhaps the best feedback you can get, they will tell you what's really going on in your golf swing!

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