Stop Coming Up Short and Right on Approach Shots - Golf (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Stop Coming Up Short and Right on Approach Shots - Golf (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So you are maybe aware that you don’t always hit the green perfectly when you are hitting an approach shot with a mid or short iron, but do you ever look at the averages where you might actually miss those greens? Well let me tell you most people would miss the green short and right of their intended target and actually golf course designers and green keepers are aware of this and that’s where they build most of the hazards. If you look at most greens short right there will be a bunker, water hazard or problem run-off area because that’s where most club golfers actually miss.

And the research shows that this is because two issues the face is often open for lots of club golfers when they hit the golf ball resulting in left to right spinning slice shot for the right handed golfer. And also golfers don’t always hit the ball as perfectly as they might do in the driving range and they don’t get that maximum distance out of each club. So if I think from a 160 yards I can reach a 7 iron if I don’t hit it perfectly it will go a 150 or 140 yards. And if I hit my normal shape as an average club golf with face slightly open it curves from left to right therefore finishing short and right, in the bunker and in the hazards.

So if you know that fact, you know that your average or most people’s average shots short right for the right handed golfer we can account for that when we play the shot, we can account it with the club selection taking the club that we actually think will landed in back of the green with a good shot and therefore an average not brilliant strike should still get on to the green and maybe on to the front edge. We could also work really nice about rotating the hands into impact and not leave the club face in open position but work the hands into impact to try and square that blade up to, the ball flies to the center of the green run rather than the short right area. If you are still struggling with the slice maybe search a little bit deeper within the site for the slice correction tips, but this is more about your course management and awareness that short right is a problem area for you, short right is an area where the hazards would be, try and hit the ball longer, try and hit the ball straighter by changing your club and changing your hand action through impact. And if you can hit the green from these mid irons your scores will improve.

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So you are maybe aware that you don’t always hit the green perfectly when you are hitting an approach shot with a mid or short iron, but do you ever look at the averages where you might actually miss those greens? Well let me tell you most people would miss the green short and right of their intended target and actually golf course designers and green keepers are aware of this and that’s where they build most of the hazards. If you look at most greens short right there will be a bunker, water hazard or problem run-off area because that’s where most club golfers actually miss.

And the research shows that this is because two issues the face is often open for lots of club golfers when they hit the golf ball resulting in left to right spinning slice shot for the right handed golfer. And also golfers don’t always hit the ball as perfectly as they might do in the driving range and they don’t get that maximum distance out of each club. So if I think from a 160 yards I can reach a 7 iron if I don’t hit it perfectly it will go a 150 or 140 yards. And if I hit my normal shape as an average club golf with face slightly open it curves from left to right therefore finishing short and right, in the bunker and in the hazards.

So if you know that fact, you know that your average or most people’s average shots short right for the right handed golfer we can account for that when we play the shot, we can account it with the club selection taking the club that we actually think will landed in back of the green with a good shot and therefore an average not brilliant strike should still get on to the green and maybe on to the front edge. We could also work really nice about rotating the hands into impact and not leave the club face in open position but work the hands into impact to try and square that blade up to, the ball flies to the center of the green run rather than the short right area. If you are still struggling with the slice maybe search a little bit deeper within the site for the slice correction tips, but this is more about your course management and awareness that short right is a problem area for you, short right is an area where the hazards would be, try and hit the ball longer, try and hit the ball straighter by changing your club and changing your hand action through impact. And if you can hit the green from these mid irons your scores will improve.