Turning Up The Speed But Remaining Square In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Turning Up The Speed But Remaining Square In The Golf Swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

If you’ve been able to successfully complete the drill and the exercise in the previous video where we were keeping the club face square over a relatively short swing. We’re now going to start developing a longer swing, a more powerful swing, more traditional kind of full swing, but still trying to keep this club face as square as possible to the target. So we are looking at 7 iron shot now hitting out that was your normal 7 iron distance might be, got a couple of balls lined up in front of me.

Now the key thing from the first drill, the short drill that we did was making sure the club face is square and setup with a nice square stance and taking the club back in a relatively square position. Now if you are really struggling with delivering the club face square on your longer swings, we might have a couple of areas that you should look at. One of the biggest concerns is that people get a bit overactive with the hands, so it tends to be too much work with the hands on the backswing and on the downswing, you got to be effectively a bit flicky and a bit scoopy. So coming down into the ball this club face is very very open and then very light in the swing, it snaps closed, almost goes like a door very very open and a snapshot and I think snapshot is not aiming down the target line for very long at all open, open, open, closed and you will go to golf there so there is a few shots right after the right, a few shots way out to the left, very few down in the middle, and the golf we really able to feel the difference between the open and the closed so we hit one right and we hit one left, so a golf that hits this first one with the open club face and then carve out to the right hand side over this way and the next shot see I'm going to use my hands, I' m going to use my hands more, so they flip their hands over and hit one down on the left hand side going that way and they can't really feel why there was a difference. If you didn't see those two shots they are about 90 maybe even a 100 yards apart once the right, once the left. The swings to all intents and purposes were the same but the club face position was very open on one and very closed on the other and it was because I didn't keep the club face square for long enough and I was getting a little bit too handsy. Other things that we can look out to ensure that you are keeping the club face as square as possible for as long as possible is making sure that through the hitting area you are pulling down with your left hand ready for impact and you are not just flicking with your right hand. We don't want to come down and just fire the right hand. We got to pull down nice and square with the left hand keeping that turning through the target. Being relatively aggressive as you turn through the ball to try and help keep this club face square for as long as possible and also use lots of feedback. When you’ve hit shots on the range let's say you hit 10 shots, look where those shots finish, look at how they finish left or right of target and use that to improve your technique to try and keep your club face square to target for as long as possible.

 2016-08-19

If you’ve been able to successfully complete the drill and the exercise in the previous video where we were keeping the club face square over a relatively short swing. We’re now going to start developing a longer swing, a more powerful swing, more traditional kind of full swing, but still trying to keep this club face as square as possible to the target. So we are looking at 7 iron shot now hitting out that was your normal 7 iron distance might be, got a couple of balls lined up in front of me.

Now the key thing from the first drill, the short drill that we did was making sure the club face is square and setup with a nice square stance and taking the club back in a relatively square position. Now if you are really struggling with delivering the club face square on your longer swings, we might have a couple of areas that you should look at. One of the biggest concerns is that people get a bit overactive with the hands, so it tends to be too much work with the hands on the backswing and on the downswing, you got to be effectively a bit flicky and a bit scoopy.

So coming down into the ball this club face is very very open and then very light in the swing, it snaps closed, almost goes like a door very very open and a snapshot and I think snapshot is not aiming down the target line for very long at all open, open, open, closed and you will go to golf there so there is a few shots right after the right, a few shots way out to the left, very few down in the middle, and the golf we really able to feel the difference between the open and the closed so we hit one right and we hit one left, so a golf that hits this first one with the open club face and then carve out to the right hand side over this way and the next shot see I'm going to use my hands, I' m going to use my hands more, so they flip their hands over and hit one down on the left hand side going that way and they can't really feel why there was a difference.

If you didn't see those two shots they are about 90 maybe even a 100 yards apart once the right, once the left. The swings to all intents and purposes were the same but the club face position was very open on one and very closed on the other and it was because I didn't keep the club face square for long enough and I was getting a little bit too handsy.

Other things that we can look out to ensure that you are keeping the club face as square as possible for as long as possible is making sure that through the hitting area you are pulling down with your left hand ready for impact and you are not just flicking with your right hand. We don't want to come down and just fire the right hand. We got to pull down nice and square with the left hand keeping that turning through the target.

Being relatively aggressive as you turn through the ball to try and help keep this club face square for as long as possible and also use lots of feedback. When you’ve hit shots on the range let's say you hit 10 shots, look where those shots finish, look at how they finish left or right of target and use that to improve your technique to try and keep your club face square to target for as long as possible.