Why Does My Golf Ball Always Block Right? (Video) - by Natalie Adams
Why Does My Golf Ball Always Block Right? (Video) - by Natalie Adams

Why does my golf shot always block right? The reason that your golf shot is blocking out to the right is just simply you are not swinging the club head along the target line with the club face aiming at the target as you do this. See quite easy to show you if we use the two different color alignment poles, if we are looking to hit the ball along the red target line, to hit a straight shot in that direction we would want the club head traveling along that target line along that red pole with the club face aiming down the red pole the ball would travel down the red pole. If you are hitting a block you are swinging more along that yellow line there. So as you are swinging the club, into the ball the club head is approaching from inside the target line and then its traveling across the target line to the outside. So you have got an in to out swing path and as you are doing that the club face is aiming in the direction of that swing path, so it gives you a straight shot but it flies right and misses the target on the right.

So what we have got to do is straighten that up so that rather than having the in to out swing path you are actually swinging down the target line. So here is a great little drill to help you do that, if you take two of your head covers, what we want to do is block that area on the inside of the target line. So we will put one head cover into that position there, and then if we take the other head cover and we put it onto the outside of the target line, so we have created a channel between those two head covers where we can now swing the club through. If I have got an in to out swing path from this position back I would be swinging back and then if I swing back in I would hit the first head cover and then into the second head cover. And that would cause my block, so what we are going to do here is we are just going to work on swinging back and swinging in around the first head cover rather than into it and then swinging inside the left hand head cover there, rather than straight into it as well. Take the ball out to start with, make some small slow practice swings and then once you start to get the feel for how to travel down that target line correctly start to speed the swing back up. Once you feel you are more of the correct pace to how you normally swing then reintroduce the golf ball, setup and just swing so that you swing through the head covers. That will get you to hitting some really straight golf shots and you will no longer block it to the right. Try that at the range and then you should see you are a lot straighter when you go out onto the golf course. 2014-05-21

Why does my golf shot always block right? The reason that your golf shot is blocking out to the right is just simply you are not swinging the club head along the target line with the club face aiming at the target as you do this. See quite easy to show you if we use the two different color alignment poles, if we are looking to hit the ball along the red target line, to hit a straight shot in that direction we would want the club head traveling along that target line along that red pole with the club face aiming down the red pole the ball would travel down the red pole. If you are hitting a block you are swinging more along that yellow line there. So as you are swinging the club, into the ball the club head is approaching from inside the target line and then its traveling across the target line to the outside. So you have got an in to out swing path and as you are doing that the club face is aiming in the direction of that swing path, so it gives you a straight shot but it flies right and misses the target on the right.

So what we have got to do is straighten that up so that rather than having the in to out swing path you are actually swinging down the target line. So here is a great little drill to help you do that, if you take two of your head covers, what we want to do is block that area on the inside of the target line. So we will put one head cover into that position there, and then if we take the other head cover and we put it onto the outside of the target line, so we have created a channel between those two head covers where we can now swing the club through. If I have got an in to out swing path from this position back I would be swinging back and then if I swing back in I would hit the first head cover and then into the second head cover.

And that would cause my block, so what we are going to do here is we are just going to work on swinging back and swinging in around the first head cover rather than into it and then swinging inside the left hand head cover there, rather than straight into it as well. Take the ball out to start with, make some small slow practice swings and then once you start to get the feel for how to travel down that target line correctly start to speed the swing back up. Once you feel you are more of the correct pace to how you normally swing then reintroduce the golf ball, setup and just swing so that you swing through the head covers. That will get you to hitting some really straight golf shots and you will no longer block it to the right. Try that at the range and then you should see you are a lot straighter when you go out onto the golf course.