Control The Trajectory of Shots Around the Green Using the Radius of the Swing Technique with Brandon Stooksbury

All right GoGolf365 members, here we go. Here's another short game tip I want to talk about; the radius of the swing. How you deliver the angle of the shaft at impact determines the trajectory of the shot. If you deliver a shaft that has a lot of forward lean, you take loft off the golf club, ball comes out lower. If you deliver a shaft that's more neutral or perhaps even backward leaning, then you got more loft, ball goes up. So I want you to think about the swing being a giant circle. The club’s moving around our body in a circle, and the radius is from the middle of our body down to the end of the club. If I swing such and really extend that radius, make that radius as low as I can for as long as I can, make it push the golf club as far away from my body as I can, that tends to produce a shot that comes out very low. This is because when I press that radius away from me, I deliver forward shaft lean. Conversely, if I let that radius fold up and shorten that distance here, then that means I've delivered less forward shaft lean, and more neutral to backward lean, and the club goes up more. So that produces a shot that has very high trajectory, comparatively. So you can learn how to manage the radius of the golf swing and hit different short game shots as a result. If you press it away from you, you hit it lower. If you allow it to fold, you hit it higher. You mix and match that technique with different types of wedges and you start to get lots of different options around the green. Try that the next time you're out, experiment a little bit with it. See what different kinds of shots you get, and you start to add different kinds of shots to your arsenal and that gives you more options. Manage the radius to manage trajectory. Leave me whatever questions you have. I'll be happy to get to as many as I can. This is a tough topic, but if you can figure it out, you get a lot better around the green.