Thin Golf Shots Causes And Cures (Video) - by Pete Styles
Thin Golf Shots Causes And Cures (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now we’re going to look at a particular type of shot that probably plagues most golfers at some points in their career. And it's quite a frustrating golf shot, and for some it can even be a painful golf shot. But for a lot of golfers it's frustrating because when they get it, the more they try and get rid of it, the more they get it. And it’s actually a thin shot or some people might even call it a skinny shot or a top shot. And I'm going to try and explain this one to you first by a quick demonstration.

Lined up, this is deliberate by the way, so don’t go writing comments telling me that’s in there [Phonetic] [0:00:40]. There you go. That’s a thin with a 5 iron and I can actually feel that straight back through my fingers, the vibration through the shaft, the sort of buzzing nature of the shaft. It almost feels like it's giving you electric shock. You try that on a cold frosty morning with a 3 iron, you'll know about it. I tell you. And what happens to that shot? Generally it will fly quite straight. Generally thin shots fly on line and straight but just very, very low. And the problem really here is that I'm actually hitting above the equator of the golf ball. So with my red line of my golf ball here, I'm actually striking above the redline. So it's kind of the bottom edge of the golf club or even the bottom two grooves hitting the middle of the top part of the ball. The higher we hit on the ball, the less distance it will go. And sometimes you'll just bang the ball straight down into the ground. There might even be what looks like a little divot, a little depression in the ground just in front of the ball. Now it’s really the club hitting the top forces the ball down into the ground. Sometimes you'll catch it mid part of the ball and it might fly a foot or two off the floor and just go whizzing across the ground. And again that's nearer to a better strike. And then the lower the club goes, the higher the ball goes upon the club face. That's when we start to get nearer to the sweet spot and get better strikes. So a thin shot goes very low, generally quite straight, probably not as far as you intended it to do unless you've got a sand wedge. And then you are expecting the ball to go high and the thin shot goes low and probably goes further than you intended it to do. You'll get the feedback through the hands. You'll get the feedback through the noise and you'll feel that thin shot. So in these next few videos, let's investigate how that thing is happening and how we can correct it more importantly. 2016-07-08

Now we’re going to look at a particular type of shot that probably plagues most golfers at some points in their career. And it's quite a frustrating golf shot, and for some it can even be a painful golf shot. But for a lot of golfers it's frustrating because when they get it, the more they try and get rid of it, the more they get it. And it’s actually a thin shot or some people might even call it a skinny shot or a top shot. And I'm going to try and explain this one to you first by a quick demonstration.

Lined up, this is deliberate by the way, so don’t go writing comments telling me that’s in there [Phonetic] [0:00:40]. There you go. That’s a thin with a 5 iron and I can actually feel that straight back through my fingers, the vibration through the shaft, the sort of buzzing nature of the shaft. It almost feels like it's giving you electric shock. You try that on a cold frosty morning with a 3 iron, you'll know about it. I tell you. And what happens to that shot? Generally it will fly quite straight. Generally thin shots fly on line and straight but just very, very low.

And the problem really here is that I'm actually hitting above the equator of the golf ball. So with my red line of my golf ball here, I'm actually striking above the redline. So it's kind of the bottom edge of the golf club or even the bottom two grooves hitting the middle of the top part of the ball. The higher we hit on the ball, the less distance it will go. And sometimes you'll just bang the ball straight down into the ground. There might even be what looks like a little divot, a little depression in the ground just in front of the ball.

Now it’s really the club hitting the top forces the ball down into the ground. Sometimes you'll catch it mid part of the ball and it might fly a foot or two off the floor and just go whizzing across the ground. And again that's nearer to a better strike. And then the lower the club goes, the higher the ball goes upon the club face. That's when we start to get nearer to the sweet spot and get better strikes. So a thin shot goes very low, generally quite straight, probably not as far as you intended it to do unless you've got a sand wedge.

And then you are expecting the ball to go high and the thin shot goes low and probably goes further than you intended it to do. You'll get the feedback through the hands. You'll get the feedback through the noise and you'll feel that thin shot. So in these next few videos, let's investigate how that thing is happening and how we can correct it more importantly.