Really important part of understanding the shank is firstly, checking on where about you're hitting it from. So making sure that it is the heel that you're hitting from as you think. But in also seeing how much you can exaggerate your correction before you actually get it to the center. I see an awful lot of golfers who do shank the ball the second they get the first ball up into the air. They think that’s it they are cured of the shanks. What they don't realize is they could be hitting the ball right across in the very corner of the golf club, still hitting it from that area. And that will produce a straight golf shot, quite a good looing golf shot but the margin of error is the tiny. There is very little difference between a straight one and shank. The next time they go out on the golf course then I hit two straight ones and a shank and once I've got the shank they’ll keep shanking it the moment it has caught the shank s and they struggle to get rid of it.

So it’s really important that when you are shanking the golf ball, you not only move it to the club face but you try and move it to the center or even slightly to the toe end of the golf club, just to eradicate that shank shot from being in there. Give yourself a much bigger margin of error. You look at the golf club, the biggest part is in the center or towards the toe. So, it goes towards the heel. It gets a lot smaller. The heel protrudes quite a long way and starts shanking the golf ball every quickly. So I'm going to use some face tape. You get face tape from most good proto shop or even just masking tape or parcel tape from home if you don't have a proto shop to go to. You stick the tape on the club face and it should mark where you hit the shot from. Now if I shank this first one. I'm going to push out. I'm going to hit on the hosel and it shoots off straight sideways right across the floor. And if I look on the face tape, I can just see a little rip and a little bundling of the tape right in the corner. And that shows, how it feels, and the sound and that I can see it, one of the most destructive shots in golf.

So now I'm going to use the face tape to see how good my correction can be. I'm going to make my swing and try and get the ball straight to be much more towards the center, buoying towards the toe if possible. So I make my shot. And I can put it down towards the center of the golf club and I've moved it right across towards the toe end here. Now, we might normally suggest, actually that’s a bit too far in the toe but if you’ve been shanking the golf ball, that’s exactly where you need to be aiming. You need to get the ball, not just on the face but well away from the heel. Buy yourself a big margin of error. If this is my normal shot and I've got about an inch and a half of safety to keep it in that center area. Using the face tape in practice is really important. Then when you go into the golf course and you're hitting shots, look for the mud, look for the grass, look for ball imprint on the face. Make sure it’s center. Even if the ball flew beautifully high and landed on the part of the green, if your marking isn’t towards the neck, tell yourself it’s not quite good enough. Because if that’s happening already, you know, the shank is just around the corner. So don't be tempted the use the heel part at all. Use the center. Use the toe and use the face tape to give you the really accurate feedback of how you'll swing worked and where the ball would actually hit on the face.