Golfer silhouetted against a sunrise at the top of the follow-through

Golf

Your path, not your face. The face is 1.2° from square to target — near enough. The swing comes 4.2° across it, and that is what opens the face to the path and bends the ball right.

+5.4°mean face-to-path
-4.2°mean club path
41full swings

What to change

From 17 Jul 2026. Computed from 41 full swings of 53 logged — warm-up chips excluded, they were hiding it. One thing. Not six — six is a way of changing nothing.

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Fix the path, not the face

32 of 33 full swings, mean -4.2°, spread 2.1°.

It causes 77% of the gap that bends your ball. The face causes 22%.

Ball finishes right of target on 23 of 41 full swings, by 14.2 yards on average.

Where the video overshoots youThe drill aims at a push-draw — ball starting right, curving left. You don't need to get that far. Your path only has to come back toward zero: at 0° path your current face gives a 1.2° fade, which is as straight as golf gets.

Golf Downswing Drill | Fix Out-to-In Swing Path & Hit Straighter Shots

GOLFTEC · 2:54

Transcript read in full before it was chosen. It names your exact fault in its first sentence — club path too many degrees out-to-in — then gives the cause (hands moving out toward the ball too early, shoulders opening too fast, tilting left instead of right in transition) and one drill: a second club off your trail foot at 45°, pull the hands down to match the shaft. It has a checkpoint you can measure: hands in line with the middle of the trail bicep early in the downswing. It never once tells you to close the face — which matters, because your face is already 1.2° from square and closing it would turn your fade into a hook. No sales pitch.

A wide, misty links course at dawn

Six shots said one thing. Fifty-three said another.

What each club actually does

Measured, not hoped for. Ordered longest first.

ClubBest carryBest totalMean f2pBest smash
3 Woodlongest138.2172.9+7.51.72
6 Iron144.0166.5+4.61.52
5 Hybrid116.6149.7+5.11.43
8 Iron115.3136.5-0.21.60
Sand Wedge86.596.7+4.11.15

Is it working

path: new. First session this fault has led.

Not enough data yet

1 session logged. A trend line needs at least 4 to mean anything — anything drawn now would be noise with a slope. This fills in as you play.

A golf ball resting at the lip of the hole

Every shot, or it didn't happen.

The log

Every stroke TrackMan saw, pulled from the session report. A dash means it wasn't tracked — recorded as missing rather than guessed.

2026-07-17

53 shots · 5 clubs
TimeClubPathFaceF2PAttackSpinSmashCarryTotal
10:008 Iron2840.113.3
10:018 Iron-5.4-12.3-6.9-7.619331.4312.835.0
10:018 Iron-5.7-4.61.1-6.424411.4511.430.4
10:018 Iron-3.3-10.1-6.8-1.813631.5910.832.4
10:028 Iron-3.2-7.7-4.522471.3812.232.8
10:028 Iron-3.1-7.7-4.7-5.918671.5216.443.0
10:038 Iron-0.5-1.2-0.721251.4813.138.1
10:038 Iron10.3-10.6-20.9-2.913171.516.924.7
10:038 Iron-1.1-11.4-10.2-7.120961.4716.342.8
10:048 Iron7.6-12.2-19.822571.4717.347.9
10:048 Iron-4.33.37.644781.3551.485.4
10:058 Iron-4.44.59.020471.2650.186.0
10:058 Iron-4.3-1.03.342221.3064.9100.3
10:058 Iron-2.46.18.530771.1593.2122.4
10:068 Iron-2.24.36.553751.36115.3136.5
10:068 Iron21390.332.5
10:068 Iron-7.4-4.13.31831.2452.289.0
10:078 Iron-0.5-8.8-8.311961.6034.669.6
10:078 Iron-6.7-3.53.237401.3192.7129.8
10:088 Iron-5.28.013.2-6.666721.2395.7115.6
10:088 Iron-7.9-7.9-0.118281.4183.8121.1
10:088 Iron-4.9-1.23.713521.4775.8113.1
10:098 Iron-5.44.710.0-5.125551.1184.8118.3
10:098 Iron-7.91.19.1-4.549581.31110.8131.4
10:10Sand Wedge-4.1-2.61.5-3.151831.1080.890.3
10:10Sand Wedge-4.0-4.4-0.4-6.573921.1586.596.7
10:11Sand Wedge-4.17.811.874420.9654.567.5
10:11Sand Wedge-5.4-1.93.5-5.591481.0276.483.6
10:135 Hybrid-5.20.75.9-6.527901.34106.6138.4
10:145 Hybrid63660.228.9
10:145 Hybrid76240.438.3
10:145 Hybrid-2.41.94.3-5.322021.33107.7140.5
10:145 Hybrid-1.93.25.1-7.748391.43116.6149.7
10:173 Wood679983.286.3
10:183 Wood-5.63.08.6-0.667091.17114.9128.7
10:193 Wood-0.33.23.521431.721.935.5
10:193 Wood-1.93.65.633441.26122.0145.5
10:466 Iron40400.335.0
10:476 Iron-2.014.116.1-2.761671.30122.0134.4
10:476 Iron-3.24.27.451951.38126.9152.5
10:476 Iron-2.6-4.5-1.911631.2635.670.0
10:486 Iron46020.334.6
10:486 Iron-7.7-4.43.3-5.728931.4769.1105.3
10:486 Iron-6.31.37.6-1.135101.3298.2135.6
10:486 Iron-3.7-10.1-6.414931.5213.147.3
10:496 Iron-3.33.06.3-5.144391.39144.0166.5
10:503 Wood0.0-4.0-4.07591.620.332.2
10:513 Wood43224.125.8
10:513 Wood3663113.2140.5
10:523 Wood-5.510.315.838501.13117.9146.1
10:533 Wood3623138.2172.9
10:533 Wood-4.910.415.315321.1477.4114.6
10:533 Wood339596.9115.9

What to capture

Send the report link after the next session — this rebuilds itself.