Shawn Cox Short Game Shaft Line Tip
It has been said over and over again that they shaft line is important in your golf swing. It is also extremely important in your short game as well. Shawn Cox gives a tip to help with the shots around the green by getting your shaft line lined up!
Video details
- Instructor: Shawn Cox
- Category: Lessons
- Topic: Short Game
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We've been studying the golf swing for many years with video cameras. There's a term, the swing plane, that we've studied on full swing—where the club goes back, how it swings down. We've actually found something in the short game that is a commonality amongst some of the best short game players, and that is that if you place the video camera in the right spot and you draw a line up the shaft line, when they take it away, the club swings up what we call the shaft plane. So, that would be a perfectly on-plane backswing for a short-game shot. Now, there's a way to practice this. What you're gonna do is pick a target. You don't— I prefer you don't go to an actual flag in the beginning. You just practice to what we call open space, and you put down a shaft or an alignment rod parallel to your target line, and what you're gonna do is you're gonna practice taking the club away to when the club reaches what we call parallel to the ground. If— when you reach parallel to the ground, the club should be parallel to this stick on the ground. The most common thing we see with amateurs is actually they get— by the time the club gets parallel to the ground, they tend to be inside. What that does is when they get near the ball, they have to stop too many things and then flip the club with their hands. We don't tend to see too many people outside. When you take it back, you're gonna pause right here, and you're just gonna do this as a warm-up exercise every time you come out to the course. And you're just gonna take it there, and then what you're gonna…