How to read your ball flight
An excellent article written by The Golf Drill Guru titled “What is Your Ball Flight?” examines the Nine ball flight rules. In this article, the Guru goes over the matrix formed from the interaction between the Clubface Angle and the Swing Path, and the nine resulting ball flights:
This is an excellent article to read, and it has given me the knowledge to watch the ball flight to determine what I have done wrong.
A friend of mine suffers from a pretty aggressive slice. We went out to the range, with this article in the back of our minds, and worked on the Guru’s slice drills to overcome this.
We didn’t completely cure his slice, but he was hitting the ball much more consistently as he learned to close the clubface and worked on the timing to square the face on impact.
