Sliding Past The Ball Causes Golf Blocked Shots (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Sliding Past The Ball Causes Golf Blocked Shots (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

The observant amongst you will appreciate my bag is now moved and it’s moved for a reason. It's going to be there for a tip and a little second. So one of the second reasons why you might be blocking the golf ball to the right a little bit too much is actually because you might be swaying or sliding too much, a little bit too much with your bottom half through the downswing. So from a good address position here we've got the turn to the top. We want a nice uniform turn back down. But if I slide my bottom half, this bit and this knee particularly drives too much forward.

I’ve effectively driven past the ball, and I haven't started to rotate enough yet. So it's too much lateral with the hips, too much lateral with the hips. It drops the club too much to the inside. I then don't have enough to square the face up. So if I'm down the line this way up to the top, slide the bottom half a little bit too much, don't have time to square the club face up and I could block the ball and spin out to the ball from there. So my bag’s now moved over to this side to help me out with this little tip. I am going to line up down this way, put my left foot right near my bag. And effectively that works now as a barricade to stop my body going through too much. So I can feel how as I move through the shot, my left hip is going to hit up against my bag. And I don't really want to be knocking my bag over, so it works as a really good sort of aid to stop me sliding my hip. I can turn through here and feel I am up against my bag. Just nestling my foot, my knee on the bottom of my shin against it but I'm not barging into it. If I was to barge into it here and move across, it would start to go too early. And that's a really good way of then me then going back to hit some proper full-speed swings, that feeling of turning against my left hip rather than sliding through my left hip. And hopefully if you can avoid that sliding past the ball with your hips you can also reduce the amount of blocked shots you're hitting.
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The observant amongst you will appreciate my bag is now moved and it’s moved for a reason. It's going to be there for a tip and a little second. So one of the second reasons why you might be blocking the golf ball to the right a little bit too much is actually because you might be swaying or sliding too much, a little bit too much with your bottom half through the downswing. So from a good address position here we've got the turn to the top. We want a nice uniform turn back down. But if I slide my bottom half, this bit and this knee particularly drives too much forward.

I’ve effectively driven past the ball, and I haven't started to rotate enough yet. So it's too much lateral with the hips, too much lateral with the hips. It drops the club too much to the inside. I then don't have enough to square the face up. So if I'm down the line this way up to the top, slide the bottom half a little bit too much, don't have time to square the club face up and I could block the ball and spin out to the ball from there. So my bag’s now moved over to this side to help me out with this little tip. I am going to line up down this way, put my left foot right near my bag.

And effectively that works now as a barricade to stop my body going through too much. So I can feel how as I move through the shot, my left hip is going to hit up against my bag. And I don't really want to be knocking my bag over, so it works as a really good sort of aid to stop me sliding my hip. I can turn through here and feel I am up against my bag. Just nestling my foot, my knee on the bottom of my shin against it but I'm not barging into it. If I was to barge into it here and move across, it would start to go too early.

And that's a really good way of then me then going back to hit some proper full-speed swings, that feeling of turning against my left hip rather than sliding through my left hip. And hopefully if you can avoid that sliding past the ball with your hips you can also reduce the amount of blocked shots you're hitting.