Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
If you're a golfer trying to improve the shots you play in the course you should always be looking for feedback. Feedback constantly from the ball flight from the distance from the sound from the divot from a mirror from a video camera even from your friends and certainly from a trusted coach, but one area you can get a lot of feedback and I think most people literally wipe away the feedback is the club. The club itself would give you some really good feedback in terms of where you struck your clubs are a relatively new you might even be able to see exactly where the ball hits on the club face in every single shot if not what you could do is simply just wipe the club face clean. So there's no markings on the face then when you hit your shot it should imprint to a degree where abouts you've hit the ball a black face on my drive his really good at showing that up if you're struggling to see that what you could do is get some partial tapes of wrapping tape put that over the club face not in competition I stress but in practice put some wrapping tape over there and then hit the ball and you'll see actually where abouts you strike the ball you can do exactly the same thing with your irons because quite often when you're hitting an iron shot you actually have some more floor some grass or some dirt stuck to the club face and what I stress about most golfers wipe that away is they they hit the shot they see the club face is muddy straight over to the tile give it a good rub off and pop the club back in the bag. What they're not noticing is that they might be hitting the ball away from the center and they don't necessarily feel it they don't necessarily see it and it can cause them problems if you're consistently hitting a ball more towards the front side than it should be.
So it's more towards the tower with them it's weak spot it can be twisting the club which can make the ball go to the right. It can be reducing the distance and increasing the height of your shots of the ball. Not going far enough like wise if you're moving the ball towards the heel too much and it starts to hit down towards the heel area and again it reduces the distance you hit the shot and actually it could end up in a position where actually catches the shank catches the whole of the club and that will give you a shank that shoots straight over to the right hand side over here. Likewise with the driver hitting too much the toe end the heel to the top to the bottom will all affect the direction and the distance those shots go and they can be quite good feedback markets in terms of a fault in your swing you might be swinging the club off line or off plane you might be simply standing too far back from the ball in the first place. All of these things can cause problems in terms of the strike and it's great feedback and we should be utilizing that feedback rather than wiping it away and throwing the club back in the back. So next time you go to the range in practice and particularly next time you're on the course playing Have a good look at the club face every time try and read the clues of what the club face is telling you to help improve your got scores.
2018-09-10 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
If you're a golfer trying to improve the shots you play in the course you should always be looking for feedback. Feedback constantly from the ball flight from the distance from the sound from the divot from a mirror from a video camera even from your friends and certainly from a trusted coach, but one area you can get a lot of feedback and I think most people literally wipe away the feedback is the club. The club itself would give you some really good feedback in terms of where you struck your clubs are a relatively new you might even be able to see exactly where the ball hits on the club face in every single shot if not what you could do is simply just wipe the club face clean. So there's no markings on the face then when you hit your shot it should imprint to a degree where abouts you've hit the ball a black face on my drive his really good at showing that up if you're struggling to see that what you could do is get some partial tapes of wrapping tape put that over the club face not in competition I stress but in practice put some wrapping tape over there and then hit the ball and you'll see actually where abouts you strike the ball you can do exactly the same thing with your irons because quite often when you're hitting an iron shot you actually have some more floor some grass or some dirt stuck to the club face and what I stress about most golfers wipe that away is they they hit the shot they see the club face is muddy straight over to the tile give it a good rub off and pop the club back in the bag. What they're not noticing is that they might be hitting the ball away from the center and they don't necessarily feel it they don't necessarily see it and it can cause them problems if you're consistently hitting a ball more towards the front side than it should be.
So it's more towards the tower with them it's weak spot it can be twisting the club which can make the ball go to the right. It can be reducing the distance and increasing the height of your shots of the ball. Not going far enough like wise if you're moving the ball towards the heel too much and it starts to hit down towards the heel area and again it reduces the distance you hit the shot and actually it could end up in a position where actually catches the shank catches the whole of the club and that will give you a shank that shoots straight over to the right hand side over here. Likewise with the driver hitting too much the toe end the heel to the top to the bottom will all affect the direction and the distance those shots go and they can be quite good feedback markets in terms of a fault in your swing you might be swinging the club off line or off plane you might be simply standing too far back from the ball in the first place. All of these things can cause problems in terms of the strike and it's great feedback and we should be utilizing that feedback rather than wiping it away and throwing the club back in the back. So next time you go to the range in practice and particularly next time you're on the course playing Have a good look at the club face every time try and read the clues of what the club face is telling you to help improve your got scores.
