Thin Golf Shot Drill 6: Two clubs to create extension (Video) - by Pete Styles
Thin Golf Shot Drill 6: Two clubs to create extension (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you feel topping and thinning the golf ball still is one issue that you probably have, you have to really consider, is the impact area through the golf ball. It’s how your arms are reacting. A lot of people when they’re worried and scared of topping the golf ball, they actually get more tense. They get tight over the ball. The difference when they make a practice swing, you might be making a practice swing with lovely extended arm positions but when you put the golf ball in there. You get tight and you get tense. You pull your arms and your hips over the top of the ball.

So here's really a good exercise to help you keep the extension that you require through the impact phase. I'm going to take two golf clubs, similar lengths out. I just got a wedge and a nine-nine. I'm going to hold them a little bit low down on the grip and I'm trying to make the best grip I can possibly make but I will lift the golf clubs off the floor. I repeat that, I don't want you to let the clubs hot the ground because the heads will bang together particular with the graphite shafts. You could have a problem with breaking shafts here. So grip them low down keep them off the floor and then they will be fine.

As I'm making my swing here, it’s a half length, half speed back swing and a half length, half speed follow through. So just let the ball show up the shots. But importantly I'm relaxing. I'm not fighting with the golf club. I'm not swinging it quickly from side to side and arguing with it. I'm letting the golf club pull me as it wants to pull me through. And you'll notice my arms really extend through nicely. And now I start getting the swing a bit longer and a bit quicker until I get to almost a full speed swing but all the way through the impact area. My arms are pulling out and stretching me through that phase. If I then go back down to just swinging with one club, it will feel very light of course. But I still want to encourage myself to have the same extension through the ball. And if I do that, I really feel the emphasis on pulling me forwards, taking a good impact position and stretching me out, very different from the bad one of pulling my arms in and leaning back.

So it’s a really good warming up exercise just to swing two golf clubs before you go out and play. Particularly if you struggle with topping the golf ball and your arms are prone to being pulled in. Swing this maybe 25 swings before you go out. Start off really short then start getting a bit longer and a bit quicker. Relax the hands and the arms. Let them pull you forwards. Don't fight with your golf clubs and then as you’re going out and playing. Keep relaxed. Keep smooth. Keep extending the hands and the arms through the impact area. That should encourage to stay down get much back the quality of strike on the golf ball and stop topping and thinning heads again.

 2012-11-28

So if you feel topping and thinning the golf ball still is one issue that you probably have, you have to really consider, is the impact area through the golf ball. It’s how your arms are reacting. A lot of people when they’re worried and scared of topping the golf ball, they actually get more tense. They get tight over the ball. The difference when they make a practice swing, you might be making a practice swing with lovely extended arm positions but when you put the golf ball in there. You get tight and you get tense. You pull your arms and your hips over the top of the ball.

So here's really a good exercise to help you keep the extension that you require through the impact phase. I'm going to take two golf clubs, similar lengths out. I just got a wedge and a nine-nine. I'm going to hold them a little bit low down on the grip and I'm trying to make the best grip I can possibly make but I will lift the golf clubs off the floor. I repeat that, I don't want you to let the clubs hot the ground because the heads will bang together particular with the graphite shafts. You could have a problem with breaking shafts here. So grip them low down keep them off the floor and then they will be fine.

As I'm making my swing here, it’s a half length, half speed back swing and a half length, half speed follow through. So just let the ball show up the shots. But importantly I'm relaxing. I'm not fighting with the golf club. I'm not swinging it quickly from side to side and arguing with it. I'm letting the golf club pull me as it wants to pull me through. And you'll notice my arms really extend through nicely. And now I start getting the swing a bit longer and a bit quicker until I get to almost a full speed swing but all the way through the impact area. My arms are pulling out and stretching me through that phase. If I then go back down to just swinging with one club, it will feel very light of course. But I still want to encourage myself to have the same extension through the ball. And if I do that, I really feel the emphasis on pulling me forwards, taking a good impact position and stretching me out, very different from the bad one of pulling my arms in and leaning back.

So it’s a really good warming up exercise just to swing two golf clubs before you go out and play. Particularly if you struggle with topping the golf ball and your arms are prone to being pulled in. Swing this maybe 25 swings before you go out. Start off really short then start getting a bit longer and a bit quicker. Relax the hands and the arms. Let them pull you forwards. Don't fight with your golf clubs and then as you’re going out and playing. Keep relaxed. Keep smooth. Keep extending the hands and the arms through the impact area. That should encourage to stay down get much back the quality of strike on the golf ball and stop topping and thinning heads again.