Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
By some estimations eighty to eighty five percent of golfers at some point in their life will struggle with slicing the golf ball and it is one of the most frustrating parts of the game. Because it doesn't hit the ball as far as you'd like and it puts the ball in the trees down the right hand side. So let's look at a couple of key components of why golfers generally slice the ball and how we can encourage them to reduce that slice the first concept would be that the idea that golfers reverse pivot. Now reversed pivot sounds complicated but basically it's the idea that from the set up position being from time here we've got a fifty fifty body weight distribution the reverse pivot looks like this we get the body weight going too far this way on the back swing and then we get the body weight going too far this way on the downswing and the golf will often find after hit the ball there on the back leg spinning out of the ball and that would be a reverse pivot. So if someone is reverse pivoting what's a great exercise that we can give them to work on. It's about shifting the body weight correctly so to shift the body weight correctly we're going to make them do this. We're going to get them in a set up position here and if you're reverse pivot you try this exercise you set up here you swing back in you step back to all of your body weight has got to have come back to the right leg because the left leg is in the air and stepping across.
So now behind the ball now my downswing I then step back again onto my front leg and that concept of step back step in as I hit the ball stops me from doing exactly what I was doing in the first place which was the reverse pivot. So it's almost a complete one hundred eighty degree difference from where we were. So as a golfer now setting up to the ball we want to make this idea of the reverse pivot a thing of the past. So we step back, and we step through and you can see that after I've hit that shot I'm fully forwards fully on to my left leg and I actually hit quite a good shot there even though I've had. a little step in between because it carries my body weight to go the right way. Now another exercise that you might feel beneficial would be a pause at the top of your swing and this is the stop the golfer that slice is the ball by coming over the top. So anyone that swings the club to the top rotates their upper body to early and then swings down is going to have a swing direction swing path that goes left. So to avoid that to stop that happening we're going to put a pause at the top of the swing this time it'll be swing to the top stop louder club to drop down than to turn the body through and by changing the synchronization of the swing a little bit turn Paul and return rather than up and over by changing the synchronization. That's a great way of helping you to stop coming over the top help you drop on the inside and get you drawing the ball. So if you reverse pivoting you coming over the top think about the two step weight transfer drill, and think about the pause at the top to bring the club on the inside drop and hopefully that will help you cure your slice.
2018-08-24 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
By some estimations eighty to eighty five percent of golfers at some point in their life will struggle with slicing the golf ball and it is one of the most frustrating parts of the game. Because it doesn't hit the ball as far as you'd like and it puts the ball in the trees down the right hand side. So let's look at a couple of key components of why golfers generally slice the ball and how we can encourage them to reduce that slice the first concept would be that the idea that golfers reverse pivot. Now reversed pivot sounds complicated but basically it's the idea that from the set up position being from time here we've got a fifty fifty body weight distribution the reverse pivot looks like this we get the body weight going too far this way on the back swing and then we get the body weight going too far this way on the downswing and the golf will often find after hit the ball there on the back leg spinning out of the ball and that would be a reverse pivot. So if someone is reverse pivoting what's a great exercise that we can give them to work on. It's about shifting the body weight correctly so to shift the body weight correctly we're going to make them do this. We're going to get them in a set up position here and if you're reverse pivot you try this exercise you set up here you swing back in you step back to all of your body weight has got to have come back to the right leg because the left leg is in the air and stepping across.
So now behind the ball now my downswing I then step back again onto my front leg and that concept of step back step in as I hit the ball stops me from doing exactly what I was doing in the first place which was the reverse pivot. So it's almost a complete one hundred eighty degree difference from where we were. So as a golfer now setting up to the ball we want to make this idea of the reverse pivot a thing of the past. So we step back, and we step through and you can see that after I've hit that shot I'm fully forwards fully on to my left leg and I actually hit quite a good shot there even though I've had. a little step in between because it carries my body weight to go the right way. Now another exercise that you might feel beneficial would be a pause at the top of your swing and this is the stop the golfer that slice is the ball by coming over the top. So anyone that swings the club to the top rotates their upper body to early and then swings down is going to have a swing direction swing path that goes left. So to avoid that to stop that happening we're going to put a pause at the top of the swing this time it'll be swing to the top stop louder club to drop down than to turn the body through and by changing the synchronization of the swing a little bit turn Paul and return rather than up and over by changing the synchronization. That's a great way of helping you to stop coming over the top help you drop on the inside and get you drawing the ball. So if you reverse pivoting you coming over the top think about the two step weight transfer drill, and think about the pause at the top to bring the club on the inside drop and hopefully that will help you cure your slice.
