Pete Finch – PGA Teaching Pro
If you are on the golf course and you are hitting pulls, you will already know about the plethora of problems that it can cause. But for anyone who is new to the game, who haven’t had pull shots before there are certain things that you need to know.
Generally with the pull shot as the club is travelling from out to in, the angle of attack is slightly steeper as the club moves off to the left-hand side. Now with the steeper angle of attack you will effectively deal off the club a little bit more than usual. And adding to that the fact that the club face is going to be pointing further left, all of a sudden that club which is slightly delofted with the steeper angle of attack is now even more delofted as the club face closes. So as the club travels off to the left-hand side and that club face closes to get matched up to the path, what is going to happen is a very, very strong and very, very long ball flight. You often find people who pull the shots will finish 10 to 15 yards past and left of their original target. And that is all to do what is happening with the angle of attack and dynamic loft at the point of impact. But is not only the problem with the pull shot. It’s the problem of how you get out of it because the only real way to hit a shot back to target is to open up club face. And this is where you start to get issues with big slices and this is what a lot of people do. People who slice the ball think that their issue is very much one of the worst things in the world, but if their club face was more closed than it actually is, they might be hitting pulls and have a problem in the opposite direction. Pulls and slices are very, very closely linked and you will often find people who start hitting pulls will eventually start hitting slices to get the ball back to target. So it is not just an issue of what happens to the pull shot, it is what happens as the club face tries to adapt to get the ball back to target. And like I said unfortunately, people who pull the ball can turn into people who slice it as well. 2016-10-11If you are on the golf course and you are hitting pulls, you will already know about the plethora of problems that it can cause. But for anyone who is new to the game, who haven’t had pull shots before there are certain things that you need to know.
Generally with the pull shot as the club is travelling from out to in, the angle of attack is slightly steeper as the club moves off to the left-hand side. Now with the steeper angle of attack you will effectively deal off the club a little bit more than usual. And adding to that the fact that the club face is going to be pointing further left, all of a sudden that club which is slightly delofted with the steeper angle of attack is now even more delofted as the club face closes. So as the club travels off to the left-hand side and that club face closes to get matched up to the path, what is going to happen is a very, very strong and very, very long ball flight. You often find people who pull the shots will finish 10 to 15 yards past and left of their original target. And that is all to do what is happening with the angle of attack and dynamic loft at the point of impact.
But is not only the problem with the pull shot. It’s the problem of how you get out of it because the only real way to hit a shot back to target is to open up club face. And this is where you start to get issues with big slices and this is what a lot of people do. People who slice the ball think that their issue is very much one of the worst things in the world, but if their club face was more closed than it actually is, they might be hitting pulls and have a problem in the opposite direction.
Pulls and slices are very, very closely linked and you will often find people who start hitting pulls will eventually start hitting slices to get the ball back to target. So it is not just an issue of what happens to the pull shot, it is what happens as the club face tries to adapt to get the ball back to target. And like I said unfortunately, people who pull the ball can turn into people who slice it as well.
