Using a tennis racket is a great way to teach yourself clubface control.
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Ed. Note: This version of Play Smart is published in partnership with XXIO.
Having a square clubface is important if you want to hit the ball straight. If you are a few degrees on or off, the ball can miss your target by a wide margin.
But clubface awareness is not something most recreational golfers possess naturally. When they go through their swing, the clubface does all kinds of things, and rarely does it result in a shot hitting the line.
Working with clubface awareness is very easy if you have the right equipment. And in this edition of Play Smart, XXIO ambassador Nathalie Sheehan shows us how.
How to work on clubface awareness
A tennis racket may seem like an odd thing to bring onto the golf course, but it can actually be a useful tool for working on clubface awareness.
The surface of a tennis racket is much larger than that of a golf club. And if you rotate it, you can easily see which way the face is facing when you hit the tennis ball. If you can attach a tennis racket to your golf club, then you can see how the same principle applies to your clubface.
“If we think about what we would like to do in tennis and put the racket back in square,” Sheehan said, “you can see that the clubface is wide and you can see that the clubface is square.”
If you’re someone who struggles with the slice, you’ll see the racket face open up and skyward with touch, while the opposite is true with the hook.
“That’s a great idea to fix some of the things that might be going on in your swing,” he says.
If you struggle with clubface control, grab a tennis racket and head to the range. If you can find the square of a tennis racket by touch and apply those same principles to the golf swing, you’ll be hitting it straight faster.
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