Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro

Here is a couple of great corrections that I think are going to help you if you have been swinging the club too flat around the body. So from a good set up position too flat a swing is going to look like this and then coming down to the ball like this. The issues there are the fact that the wrists don’t hinge correctly in the back swing. If the wrists rotate in the back swing and roll over but don’t hinge up we are going to get issues with the club coming too flat.

So setting the wrists up is quite an important part of this good back swing, so turning the club back to round about hip level that is driven mainly by the shoulders but now important that we set the wrists up in to a good position. So from here get the wrists pointing upwards. Now we can see how the shaft points down following this line down to the golf ball rather than the two flat position that we had. So instead of rotating forearms we want to be hinging wrists, so it’s back, hinge the wrists, set them up in to a good position that’s helped us get the club up rather than be too flat.

The next point it comes that is actually your chest position in relation to the ball, this comes out of keeping the chest down and over the ball will help keep the swing a little bit steeper. If we consider what the flat swing would look like the club would roll back behind as this way, this left arm now starts to pull my chest up and I lay the club off. And so only through the ball, my chest is pointing up, drop the club up to the inside and hit that big block shot down the right or even the flat shot in to the ball. If I can keep my chest over the ball a bit more, set my wrists up a little bit, the swing will now start to look a lot steeper, staying down over the ball keeps the club in front of me, fat my chest up, drops the club behind and hit that block out to the right hand side.

So video yourself, again get that camera from down the line and consider what your hands look like in the backswing, picking them up rather than rotating them too far behind you and also chest over the ball to keep your posture nice, keep the club on line rather than setting your chest upwards dropping the club from the inside and fatten the ball out to the right hand side which is the problem with that flat golf swing.