Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We’ve established that the faults of the pulled golf shot is often the issue with leaning back at the point of impact, take too much bodyweight on the rear leg, pulling across the body, dragging the ball to the left hand side of center, leaning back here, coming across outside. So in order to stop that happening, we’ve talked about loading up to the top correctly, good balance, good right knee flex. Now is the part of the downswing to play its role and it’s really important that during the downswing we sequence the motion correctly. It’s not just the case of moving everything all in one go or moving some bits and not other bits. It’s a case of sequencing the motion correctly.
If I swing up to the top, I’ve got lots of my body turned to the right to now my nice powerful position. But if I move my hands and my arms first, the club goes out in front of me and I keep my bodyweight on my back leg and that for most golfers is the issue with the pulled shot. So from down the line, we make a nice turn to the top and then I turn my shoulders and my hands go this way. From here the club works across the back of the ball, the bodyweight stays back and that’s the classic pulled shot. What we would like to see is from the top of the backswing everything sequences nicely starting from the ground upwards, so the feet push across which moves the knees, which moves the hips and there we go. We start driving across with the hips across this way. The body starts to turn to the left. The belt buckle starts to open. The right heel starts to lift. As that happens the hands and arms are busy dropping in behind onto a nice swing path so they come through the ball more from the inside to the outside rather than turn the body come from the outside to the inside. So sequencing from the feet upwards, knees, hips, chest, shoulders, all working together to turn the club to the right position. So from here, the bad one to the top up the body and across the good one from here, use the lower body first, get the lower body driving, get the hands dropped in behind into position, then stay down, then extend the hands and the arms through. And if you achieve that successfully you’ll feel that the swing comes much more from in to out might create a straighter or even a draw shot and should definitely avoid throwing it over the top and pulling back across which is a clear sign of leaning back and poor sequencing of your downswing. 2016-09-30 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
We’ve established that the faults of the pulled golf shot is often the issue with leaning back at the point of impact, take too much bodyweight on the rear leg, pulling across the body, dragging the ball to the left hand side of center, leaning back here, coming across outside. So in order to stop that happening, we’ve talked about loading up to the top correctly, good balance, good right knee flex. Now is the part of the downswing to play its role and it’s really important that during the downswing we sequence the motion correctly. It’s not just the case of moving everything all in one go or moving some bits and not other bits. It’s a case of sequencing the motion correctly.
If I swing up to the top, I’ve got lots of my body turned to the right to now my nice powerful position. But if I move my hands and my arms first, the club goes out in front of me and I keep my bodyweight on my back leg and that for most golfers is the issue with the pulled shot. So from down the line, we make a nice turn to the top and then I turn my shoulders and my hands go this way. From here the club works across the back of the ball, the bodyweight stays back and that’s the classic pulled shot. What we would like to see is from the top of the backswing everything sequences nicely starting from the ground upwards, so the feet push across which moves the knees, which moves the hips and there we go.
We start driving across with the hips across this way. The body starts to turn to the left. The belt buckle starts to open. The right heel starts to lift. As that happens the hands and arms are busy dropping in behind onto a nice swing path so they come through the ball more from the inside to the outside rather than turn the body come from the outside to the inside. So sequencing from the feet upwards, knees, hips, chest, shoulders, all working together to turn the club to the right position. So from here, the bad one to the top up the body and across the good one from here, use the lower body first, get the lower body driving, get the hands dropped in behind into position, then stay down, then extend the hands and the arms through.
And if you achieve that successfully you’ll feel that the swing comes much more from in to out might create a straighter or even a draw shot and should definitely avoid throwing it over the top and pulling back across which is a clear sign of leaning back and poor sequencing of your downswing.
