Hi, Robin here with a quick tip for anybody struggling coming over the top. It's a common
fault that normally causes an arced in swing path, the club head traveling to the left
of the target of impact, causing pull shots, slice shots, loss of distance, can even effect
contact. Where sometimes quite a difficult fault to find a fix for. Perhaps if this is
your fault, you've tried many different ways, I hope this concept I'm about to give you
now, this feeling I'm about to give you, can be the one that finally solves this over the
top movement.
Even you can find a way of getting the club shallowing out, even flattening out a little
bit and go from hitting a slice to the right, to even hitting a little bit of a draw, if
you can put into play what I'm about to explain to you. So when you look at players who've
got a good transition, what I mean by transition is the change of direction from back swing
to down swing, there's a very common look to their left side, their left shoulder. When
they reach the top of the back swing and they start down, the left shoulder, actually moves
from behind here slightly closer to the ball and closer to the target.
So it's sort of diagonal movement to the right side of the target. Say from behind, it'll
look like it moves slightly closer to the golf ball. It's this movement which allows
the arms to stay on plane and the club to shallow out. Players who come over the top,
quite the opposite. The left shoulder will move quickly away from the golf ball, with
no movement, as I say, no movement to the right side of the target, it's almost moving
to the left side of the target.
It's this movement which brings the arms and the club outside, encouraging the club to
come across the ball at impact. So the feeling, it's not so much a drill, it's just a feeling
I want you to try to put into your swing. Is once you've reached the top of the back
swing and you feel a little bit of weight on your right foot, I want you to feel like
you push off your right foot and push your left shoulder diagonally to stay towards the
right side of the target. You'll feel a little bit of weight going into the front of your
left foot when you do this correctly.
I say this movement will ensure your arms are staying a little bit more behind you.
The club's got a chance to shallow out. Then once you've made that initial transition,
you feel the club head a little bit more behind you, then you can start to turn through the
ball as normal. Try to get a little bit of feeling in a practice swing first. I'm giving
this a little bit of an exaggeration just so you can see. But then if you can put that
into your swing, and I'll just say there's probably a little bit of a mental challenge
there.
People who tend to come over the top and slice the ball to the right, you're scared of hitting
the ball to the right, so we tend to move away and swing to the left. When you get this
feeling of moving a little bit to the right side of the target, there's a mental challenge
there, because that's the direction you don't want to go in. But it's a little bit if a
game of opposites, if you can get this movement to the right side of the target, the club's
coming down more inside, and actually a more in to out path will encourage the ball to
go this way, not to the right.
Let's give it a try. So I got a little bit of a draw from the right side, starting down
the right side and drawing back. This is a feeling to solve over the top, which I haven't
heard too many people talking about. So hopefully it's something that's fresh to you, and if
you've tried many things, I'd like you to give this feeling a try. It's quite simple,
it's not really a drill it's a swing feeling. From your right foot, push your left shoulder
to the right side of the target in the transition. Once you've made that initial move, let yourself
turn through the ball.
And if you achieve that, I can almost guarantee you'll find that the over the top movement
reduces, even you might even start shallowing the club out and change your ball flight from
a fade to a little bit of a draw. So really hope that helps, and thanks for watching as
always.