Your Five-Step Plan
Determine Impact Point
To get the right mindset for impact point, let’s start by defining the low point. Trackman defines it as the distance from the club head’s geometric center to the lowest point on the swing arc at the time of maximum compression.
To simplify that and put a picture in your mind, stand completely upright and hold your lead arm out horizontal to the ground. Move your lead arm across your chest, and then back toward the lead side creating the trace of an arc. Now do the same thing but tilt over in into a golf posture. The point where your fingertips would be the farthest away from your chest yet closest to the ground would be the low point of this respective motions. Very important: The low point in your golf swing is not necessarily where your clubhead bottoms out. I would define that as the impact area, or impact point.
The most important part of the impact point is simply being aware of it and knowing your tendencies.
No matter how inconsistent you think you are, there will always be a definable pattern. Simple reference drills like the picture above can work very well. Spot tees or any type of landmark relative to the ball, so after it is struck, you can determine where the club initially touched the ground. If you are on mats, try to find a morning with some accumulated moisture on the mat itself and determine strike and reference impact point relative to the ball, then note your tendency over multiple golf swings.
