shoulder-plane

Different Shoulder Planes can produce different paths

August 12, 20252 min read

Shoulder Plane

Watch the video above to learn how there are different models for how to be consistent.  We don't try and fit people into ONE WAY.  We help you get your feel and your motion to be more consistent.  🤜💪

Video Transcript: If you're stuck at work and just want to read, you can either hit play and turn on Closed Captioning, or read below 👇

Today, we are going to take a look at two tour players and they both have great swings, but one's got a steeper shoulder, plane, and a more square face. The other one's got a flater shoulder plane, and open face. You're going to see how they, square the face coming through the ball.

Aaron Wise. We're going to take him back here. And I want you to take note of great takeaways using his body as he starts getting right here. You can really take a look at his shorter plane. It's very, very steep. Now let's compare that to Billy Horschel. As Horschel takes the club back right at his takeaway you can tell he doesn't have as much lower body rotation.

A little bit flat or shoulder plane, see how much different the shoulder plane looks there? Horschel his club face coming do w n, if we take a really good look here; the club face is a little bit more open. So then he has to use his hands a little bit. He has what we call a nice little hip stall when his hip stall, the hands release.

That's why he's got a really hard release. And we take a look at Mr. Wise, over here; what's really unique about him is his club face is a little bit more square, or it might look shut to you guys See that it's a little bit more shut coming in. So therefore he doesn't have to do anything with his hands and he can really just rotate through the shot.

That's why the club face looks a little bit different at the, at this point of the swing. What's really cool about both these guys. They both had different shoulder planes and different face angles, but they had great results. So there's multiple ways to do the golf swing, not just one.

Matt Strube is a certified golf geek who started playing golf later in life. He quickly developed a passion for the game, and in 1997, Matt and his partner wrote their honors thesis, ‘The Golf University’, that focused on bringing golf to the masses through specialized golf training programs. In 2012, Matt began working with Tim Overman at Golf in Motion Chicago to train his move and lower his handicap from 24 to 4 in just two-years. Matt has now partnered with Tim to bring simple and effective golf instruction to #AverageGolfers through an online workout style home training program. Matt currently works a day job in the corporate world. Tim Overman is the technical contributor to instruction articles, Co-Founder, and Director of Golf Instruction for True Motion Golf. Tim coaches golfers of all abilities out of his Chicago studio.

Matt Strube

Matt Strube is a certified golf geek who started playing golf later in life. He quickly developed a passion for the game, and in 1997, Matt and his partner wrote their honors thesis, ‘The Golf University’, that focused on bringing golf to the masses through specialized golf training programs. In 2012, Matt began working with Tim Overman at Golf in Motion Chicago to train his move and lower his handicap from 24 to 4 in just two-years. Matt has now partnered with Tim to bring simple and effective golf instruction to #AverageGolfers through an online workout style home training program. Matt currently works a day job in the corporate world. Tim Overman is the technical contributor to instruction articles, Co-Founder, and Director of Golf Instruction for True Motion Golf. Tim coaches golfers of all abilities out of his Chicago studio.

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