WHY They Lie ⬇️
If you go to a club fitting and the fitter pulls out a lie board, RUN! This is not an accurate way to fit your clubs to the correct lie angle.
The “lie angle” of your golf club is basically the angle formed between the shaft and the clubhead. When you hit a golf ball, ideally, the entire sole of the club contacts the ground. Hitting the ball well is a lot harder when you hit with one edge of the club (toe/heel) closer to the ground than the other.
To fix that issue, the “lie angle” is adjustable on many clubs. It’s a big reason to get fit for clubs!
However, if your club fitter tries to use a lie board (what the ball is sitting on here), you can get a lot of poor feedback. Here is why:
🔹 If you happen to contact the board early, you’ll get inaccurate feedback
🔹 If you happen to lean the shaft backwards at impact (common mistake), you’ll get inaccurate feedback
🔹 There’s a chance you miss the board entirely (thin shots)
The easiest way to FIT for LIE ANGLE is simple – draw a VERTICAL LINE on the golf ball, put some tape on the club face, and make sure the line is straight up and down!
This will ensure your clubs are fit to the proper lie angle.
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Video credit: Mike Finney (Twitter & Vimeo), DOI @ Louisville Golf Club
22 Comments
Man reading these comments, it’s very clear people don’t see the purpose of this video😂 he’s showing you that EVEN IF the shot is fat, you’re going to get a tad bit better of a hit then if it was on grass. Therefore, giving you “false results” in practice using these boards where you may not think you hit the ball as fat as you did… I will never understand keyboard haters lol.
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That’s not how you hit a golf ball
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Clarely u Nevar hit club before in golf. This ball wood had been bad in terms of club strike. Losor
This is testing lie angle. Nothing else. Stop.
That’s why I don’t like using the sim at PGA superstore. I’ve hit so many shots that should have been SHITE and were nice shots on the sim.
Worst players I know swear by this mat…
That would’ve been a serious beaver tail 😂
i never knew a golf ball could jiggle
Chunked
Song?
Video made by a person who has no idea what a lie board is for…….
Would not have thought that the ball usually jumps off the ground/tee because the rubber underneath it is being compressed ?? Really fun slo-mo tho !!!
Playing on a nice course you more likley than not took a decent sized divot and thats why it did that if you pick the ball just alittle more then it would be perfect
the magical levitating ball
the lie board is going to show you hit a fat shot so its doing exactly what its supposed to do.
Lie board didn't lie. They're not meant to tell you where you hit the ball on the club.
Love how that elastic deformation turns into kinetic energy
Yeah science!
This is the sample of the bad swing on your indoor practice matt😂
Would I only love ot of my balls lifted up just before impact.