Weekly golf tip with Brad Redding (July 12, 2016)

Many of my students know how much I like alignment rods. I use them to help people have a target line, and help them train grooving the proper swing path. I use them in putting. In short, there are really hundreds of ways I can use them as a training/practice aid. One of the ways I use them the most is to improve a student’s swing path. I place one rod on the ground. This is their target line. The ball would go directly in front of that rod. I place another rod at the other end of the rod in the ground on the angle of the club shaft at address. This would represent their swing plane.

Most golfers tend to swing the club inside the shaft plane, lift to the top and then come over the shaft plane in the downswing. So I help them reverse that loop by the club going above the back alignment rod and then under it on the downswing. I call this move up then in and then under. Here is where the Plane Finder comes into play. I cannot set up this station on a mat for obvious reasons. The Plane Finder allows me to set it up on a mat and it also can be used on turf.

This story was originally published July 12, 2016 at 5:16 PM with the headline "Weekly golf tip with Brad Redding (July 12, 2016)."