I'm here at the beautiful Bali National Golf Club. This is hole number one,
a magnificent hole.
And Paul has written into us at Search 4 Scratch in our program and asked about
a problem that he's having, where he's hitting behind the ball consistently.
He's attempting to squeeze the ball off the turf but is hitting a couple of
inches behind the ball. So I thought I'd offer some suggestions to Paul.
It might help him to strike his irons a little bit more solidly so he can
achieve his goal of lowering his handicap. So, Paul you know,
that's quite a common thing with ball striking particularly a better player like
yourself to get more solid contact on the golf shot.
Now not seeing your swing,
I'm going to just take a bit of a stab at a couple of areas that I think might
help you.
Typically what happens when people aren't striking the ball and then the turf,
but they are striking the turf,
then the ball is that the path of the stroke can tend to be too inside,
too out moving. So the path of the clubhead's moving this way too much.
And what happens is the golf club, as it's moving in the bottom of the arc,
tends to touch the ground before touches the ball.
So the bottom of the swing arc,
because the path of the swing is tilted too much to the right creates
a bottoming out of the swing that's behind the ball.
So what we're going to need to do, is to get that path a little bit straighter,
a little bit more in line with the target,
so that the angle of attack of the clubhead, as it's traveling down,
strikes the ball and then strikes the turf as you term,
squeezing it off the turf or squeezing the shot.
So what we can do in this situation,
and it's again not knowing your stroke,
but knowing that that's what you do is that we're going to make a golf swing.
That's going to feel a little bit more like the golf club is getting in front of
you earlier Paul, it's going this way earlier,
instead of what happens for a lot of good players like yourself,
where the club can get behind you and fold down this way too much.
And you can see when that movement happens in the swing,
which is a very natural movement of the club.
But when it gets a little bit too much, this way,
the club's pointing out there and then the body hanging back on the right leg a
little bit too much, we tend to get the turf and then the ball, so,
we're going to work a little bit differently.
We're going to feel like from the top of the golf swing,
that the golf club's moving more in front of you and more to the left of you.
More in front and more to the left.
And there's a term used in golf called covering the ball with the right side and
a lot of good players are taught this.
And the reason they're taught it is because it's very normal for a lot of good
players en they get to the top of their back swing,
for the top of their spine to tilt away from the target and to drop that
club into that very shallow arc, which creates the problem we're talking about.
So we're going to change the shape of the way the spine works.
So instead of the top of the spine, moving away from the target at the top,
like this,
it's going to stay very stable and to do that where you're just going to get the
right shoulder and right side of our body to rotate more around the left side
of the body like this. So the golf swing will look a little bit more this way,
we're going to feel like it's going this way and round more. Round this way.
So if you like,
it's a little bit more rotational this way and not tilting this way
so much. So you make little half swings, Paul, this is what I'd suggest,
where you swing the golf club, where your left arm is horizontal.
And then the feeling is a little bit out with your arms in the club and then a
little bit left and rotate around. So I'll hit a little shot.
Half swings are good when you're doing this,
covering the ball with that right side. Small backstroke,
swing it back halfway round like that.
And what I've got there is I've got perfect contact.
So I've got ball first ground second,
and the club kept rotating around. And Paul, I think that this is ideal for you.
If you can do this. So top of the back swing, right side,
the arms and the right shoulder, feel a bit this way they go round.
It keeps the top of the spine stable.
The angle of attack is a little steepy you get that squeezing effect you're
looking for and you'll hit more solid shots. So,
I appreciate you sending the question into us Paul.
We wish you the best of luck and send us some feedback on how that's going.
And we hope that helped you.
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