Club Handle Should Be In Front Of The Golf Ball At Impact (Video) - by Pete Styles
Club Handle Should Be In Front Of The Golf Ball At Impact (Video) - by Pete Styles

Now, we should all know by now that there’s a huge amount of information and stuff happening in your golf and lots of things to work, a lot of things to improve on. But there’s one sort of overriding fundamental. I think it’d be well-worth thinking about in a good impact position to really ensure and make sure that you are getting into this position and that would be to deliver the club to the ball with the handle in front of the club head.

So another way of thinking about that would be hands ahead of the golf ball at impact. So the handle is leading the way towards impact and the club head gets there after the handle has won the race. Now, I want to say won the race. I want you to imagine those – an imaginary finishing line between the golf ball in my nose. So the golf ball in my nose, there’s a line up here and we want the hands to cross that line before the club head crosses the line. If the club head crosses the line first, the hands are going to be back at the time the club reaches the ball. If the hands are going to be leading the way, they’ve crossed the finishing line first. Now, it’s a great fundamental for the whole feeling of your golf swing particularly with your shorter clubs. The only one club you can maybe get away of with having the handle back would be the driver when the ball is a long way forward and the stance is way up on that big tee peg that the club head might get there right about the same time or even win the race slightly. But with all of your high ends, hybrid clubs off the deck, certainly your short times get the handle into the back of the golf ball first. It’s a great feeling particularly to improve the quality of your strike, that feeling of hitting down on the golf ball. So you hit the ball first and then the turf. Any golfer that’s struggling by hitting the ground first, the chances are the club head is releasing too early, hitting the ground before you get to the golf ball and then scooping up on the ball and we get that flicking sensation rather than hands winning the race an striking down. In this next little miniseries, we’re going to investigate a little bit more about how the hands can work in front of the golf club for impact and how that’s going to improve your game. 2016-08-18

Now, we should all know by now that there’s a huge amount of information and stuff happening in your golf and lots of things to work, a lot of things to improve on. But there’s one sort of overriding fundamental. I think it’d be well-worth thinking about in a good impact position to really ensure and make sure that you are getting into this position and that would be to deliver the club to the ball with the handle in front of the club head.

So another way of thinking about that would be hands ahead of the golf ball at impact. So the handle is leading the way towards impact and the club head gets there after the handle has won the race. Now, I want to say won the race. I want you to imagine those – an imaginary finishing line between the golf ball in my nose. So the golf ball in my nose, there’s a line up here and we want the hands to cross that line before the club head crosses the line.

If the club head crosses the line first, the hands are going to be back at the time the club reaches the ball. If the hands are going to be leading the way, they’ve crossed the finishing line first. Now, it’s a great fundamental for the whole feeling of your golf swing particularly with your shorter clubs. The only one club you can maybe get away of with having the handle back would be the driver when the ball is a long way forward and the stance is way up on that big tee peg that the club head might get there right about the same time or even win the race slightly.

But with all of your high ends, hybrid clubs off the deck, certainly your short times get the handle into the back of the golf ball first. It’s a great feeling particularly to improve the quality of your strike, that feeling of hitting down on the golf ball. So you hit the ball first and then the turf. Any golfer that’s struggling by hitting the ground first, the chances are the club head is releasing too early, hitting the ground before you get to the golf ball and then scooping up on the ball and we get that flicking sensation rather than hands winning the race an striking down.

In this next little miniseries, we’re going to investigate a little bit more about how the hands can work in front of the golf club for impact and how that’s going to improve your game.