Aim Perfectly Every Time – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Aim Perfectly Every Time – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you to understand how to aim your body and your golf club correctly for every golf shot. We will focus on the aiming points including the hips, the shoulders, the feet and the golf club. Following this, we will use a visualization technique similar to standing onto train tracks.

Golf as we know by now is a target orientated game every time we hit a golf shot we have a target. Be it the par 3 that we're standing on today Matt where we've got a flag down here on the green where we are aiming for pretty standard on the par 4 par 5. It might just be the fairway if you're in the trees and you're trying to hit it out to the trees the target might be the gap between the trees. My point being there's always a target now we can't aim at that specific target we've pretty much lost as golfers it might be that we hit the ball beautifully but completely in the wrong direction because that aim is not good enough consistent you know and we're not confident with that aim. So Matt talk me through that sort of bullet point of how we can aim correctly as a golfer. Definitely there's some great points that you know no one aiming to target the so many people especially when you go on the range as well and practicing you know generally practice your aim you'll just get on the baseline stand square to the mat and hit it forward. So you know picking a target to aim at is a massive thing and then we'll see also about those guys and girls watching this video now who are slicers of the golf ball and they change their aim for the shot we've all seen and we aim down the left to bring it back in on the right which is compounding the problem. So we can aim correctly to start with and then work around there we should be able to build a consistent swing, and the 1st thing I'd like to do is if I can put the image of a train track in everyone's mind.

We know that there are 2 sides to a train track we have a right and a left, and generally is that train is going straight down the track those rail lines never cross and they never get closer together. So what we have is our ball to target is the outside the right line of that at that train track and then we have our body alignment which is going to be the inside left train track, and what we'd like to see is that that parallel. So my 1st tip for aiming like you say would we pick a target whether it be the flag or a point on the fairway, and I trace back down that line and try and pick an intermediate target something that on the tee box on the fairway. It might be there's a defect that weakened and align our club face to firstly and I'll just put a highlighted spot there on the camera for all the sort of maybe stand behind and look down. Definitely a if you look at the draw a line you'll see a lot on tour you know guys in this position with the club holding it and they just dissecting that target drawing back down and they meet that intermediate target. It's worth noting by the way Matt sorry to interrupt it's worth noting that you're not allowed to do what I've just done put a leaf down in front of you but that is designed just so we can see what we're aiming for here we've got a target line that stood behind his pick straight line belief is the intermediate target. Now that can be good focus well yeah definitely a lot easier to aim at something that's a foot in front of us as opposed to something that's 250 yards in the distance. So from here what I'd be doing is just making sure that the lead edge of my club is running perpendicular to that so I now know that this club is aiming at my intended target.

From here I can then build my set up around it now knowing that I've got that square if I were to get my body off it's very apparent that I'm not parallel to that line. So from here generally what I'd like to see people do is start with the feet close together because we can see that they're in line and parallel to this. I'd have my club in and my 1st checkpoint is going to be my feet then I'm going to go up to my hips then I'm going to go up to my shoulders and I want to say that each one is corresponding to the other one and that club on the ground is not just your toes but it actually traces your body. Yeah exactly it just gives me a really good vision of where I want to be so I get in and then I step out from here, and what I can see now is that I've built something where I've got a parallel line to my ball to target line with my feet now called open my hips and we'd see that it would be off that. OK so I want to see again that that would be square to ease it comes up to my hips, and again the shoulders and the shoulders are a massive one because as we know we swing the club with our hands and our arms. If the shoulders are up generally they're going to follow the shoulder line the club will swing on the direction of where the shoulders are. So the biggest one is trying to get the shoulders you could stand a little bit open with your feet and have square shoulders and swing Well you could stand square with you feet in hips, but really shot with the shoulders and see that you coming too much from the inside.

To the point being you feel you shoulders are actually more important where the ball goes than you think? Definitely if we can get those square I would completely agree with you because you see so many people stand nicely, but actually when they have the ball maybe not in the center of the feet. If I look this way for a driver for example we often have the ball more forwards in the stance for a driver opens amount and so often we see the shoulders open like that yes there we see the shoulders open. We cut across and slice the golf ball. So I think the point there is alignment of feet to target is really important but then make sure your body follows. Yeah definitely it's you know checklists all the way up obviously you know if we can get them all as one fantastic and it's going to be a lot easier to build a more consistent swing and consistent set up. So it would be again just running through that face is the key one get that line to start up with build it from there take our points from here and once I've got this good setup. Now I can hopefully deliver a swing that is running down that intended target line. Do you think you'd still be using this intermediate point maybe it's a feeling of peace patching the golf ball well over the top. Yeah definitely you know not talking about alignment but what is called face alignment. If we can try and feel that we were getting that face pointing at that intermediate target throughout the swing if I was just concentrating I wouldn't be thinking about my shoulders in my golf swing on my knees if I focused want to build this really nice setup where everything is parallel.

I think right OK on the do is get that face looking over that target of selected. If I can do that I should see a shot that's going to work towards my intended target, but obviously alignment specifically important for all shots more so with the driver because it's a bigger club eight degrees off line equals further. Yeah exactly the further target the modest version you're going to see if you are aiming Just off and with the driver as well when we do see that one that we alluded to earlier when we get a guy who's aiming for 30 yards off you actually swinging even further across the golf ball and compounding that problem, and then that's a driver covered. So a line in putting again super important. Yeah definitely that is the smaller target. Yeah exactly if you can do exactly the same thing here with an intermediate target obviously on a short putt let's say a 6 footer where there's not going to be loads of breaking. Almost comes down to a little bit more mechanical like stroke where you are trying to get the perfect strike and get it will stray over that target otherwise it will miss the hole. This target's going to help you out massively. So to wrap all that up and summarize everything we're where I became quite strongly picking an intermediate target in front of where you think you should be aiming. So aligning nice and correctly maybe to the flag maybe to the middle of the green middle of the fairway but picking a target aiming over the top of it feet, knees, hips, shoulders all nice and square drive through putter, but also making sure that you do that when you practice as well, and if you can get all that alignment practice to take it on to the golf course have some confidence in you alignment we think you going to hit straighter more accurate golf shots.

 2018-12-18

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you to understand how to aim your body and your golf club correctly for every golf shot. We will focus on the aiming points including the hips, the shoulders, the feet and the golf club. Following this, we will use a visualization technique similar to standing onto train tracks.

Golf as we know by now is a target orientated game every time we hit a golf shot we have a target. Be it the par 3 that we're standing on today Matt where we've got a flag down here on the green where we are aiming for pretty standard on the par 4 par 5. It might just be the fairway if you're in the trees and you're trying to hit it out to the trees the target might be the gap between the trees. My point being there's always a target now we can't aim at that specific target we've pretty much lost as golfers it might be that we hit the ball beautifully but completely in the wrong direction because that aim is not good enough consistent you know and we're not confident with that aim. So Matt talk me through that sort of bullet point of how we can aim correctly as a golfer. Definitely there's some great points that you know no one aiming to target the so many people especially when you go on the range as well and practicing you know generally practice your aim you'll just get on the baseline stand square to the mat and hit it forward. So you know picking a target to aim at is a massive thing and then we'll see also about those guys and girls watching this video now who are slicers of the golf ball and they change their aim for the shot we've all seen and we aim down the left to bring it back in on the right which is compounding the problem. So we can aim correctly to start with and then work around there we should be able to build a consistent swing, and the 1st thing I'd like to do is if I can put the image of a train track in everyone's mind.

We know that there are 2 sides to a train track we have a right and a left, and generally is that train is going straight down the track those rail lines never cross and they never get closer together. So what we have is our ball to target is the outside the right line of that at that train track and then we have our body alignment which is going to be the inside left train track, and what we'd like to see is that that parallel. So my 1st tip for aiming like you say would we pick a target whether it be the flag or a point on the fairway, and I trace back down that line and try and pick an intermediate target something that on the tee box on the fairway. It might be there's a defect that weakened and align our club face to firstly and I'll just put a highlighted spot there on the camera for all the sort of maybe stand behind and look down. Definitely a if you look at the draw a line you'll see a lot on tour you know guys in this position with the club holding it and they just dissecting that target drawing back down and they meet that intermediate target. It's worth noting by the way Matt sorry to interrupt it's worth noting that you're not allowed to do what I've just done put a leaf down in front of you but that is designed just so we can see what we're aiming for here we've got a target line that stood behind his pick straight line belief is the intermediate target. Now that can be good focus well yeah definitely a lot easier to aim at something that's a foot in front of us as opposed to something that's 250 yards in the distance. So from here what I'd be doing is just making sure that the lead edge of my club is running perpendicular to that so I now know that this club is aiming at my intended target.

From here I can then build my set up around it now knowing that I've got that square if I were to get my body off it's very apparent that I'm not parallel to that line. So from here generally what I'd like to see people do is start with the feet close together because we can see that they're in line and parallel to this. I'd have my club in and my 1st checkpoint is going to be my feet then I'm going to go up to my hips then I'm going to go up to my shoulders and I want to say that each one is corresponding to the other one and that club on the ground is not just your toes but it actually traces your body. Yeah exactly it just gives me a really good vision of where I want to be so I get in and then I step out from here, and what I can see now is that I've built something where I've got a parallel line to my ball to target line with my feet now called open my hips and we'd see that it would be off that. OK so I want to see again that that would be square to ease it comes up to my hips, and again the shoulders and the shoulders are a massive one because as we know we swing the club with our hands and our arms. If the shoulders are up generally they're going to follow the shoulder line the club will swing on the direction of where the shoulders are. So the biggest one is trying to get the shoulders you could stand a little bit open with your feet and have square shoulders and swing Well you could stand square with you feet in hips, but really shot with the shoulders and see that you coming too much from the inside.

To the point being you feel you shoulders are actually more important where the ball goes than you think? Definitely if we can get those square I would completely agree with you because you see so many people stand nicely, but actually when they have the ball maybe not in the center of the feet. If I look this way for a driver for example we often have the ball more forwards in the stance for a driver opens amount and so often we see the shoulders open like that yes there we see the shoulders open. We cut across and slice the golf ball. So I think the point there is alignment of feet to target is really important but then make sure your body follows. Yeah definitely it's you know checklists all the way up obviously you know if we can get them all as one fantastic and it's going to be a lot easier to build a more consistent swing and consistent set up. So it would be again just running through that face is the key one get that line to start up with build it from there take our points from here and once I've got this good setup. Now I can hopefully deliver a swing that is running down that intended target line. Do you think you'd still be using this intermediate point maybe it's a feeling of peace patching the golf ball well over the top. Yeah definitely you know not talking about alignment but what is called face alignment. If we can try and feel that we were getting that face pointing at that intermediate target throughout the swing if I was just concentrating I wouldn't be thinking about my shoulders in my golf swing on my knees if I focused want to build this really nice setup where everything is parallel.

I think right OK on the do is get that face looking over that target of selected. If I can do that I should see a shot that's going to work towards my intended target, but obviously alignment specifically important for all shots more so with the driver because it's a bigger club eight degrees off line equals further. Yeah exactly the further target the modest version you're going to see if you are aiming Just off and with the driver as well when we do see that one that we alluded to earlier when we get a guy who's aiming for 30 yards off you actually swinging even further across the golf ball and compounding that problem, and then that's a driver covered. So a line in putting again super important. Yeah definitely that is the smaller target. Yeah exactly if you can do exactly the same thing here with an intermediate target obviously on a short putt let's say a 6 footer where there's not going to be loads of breaking. Almost comes down to a little bit more mechanical like stroke where you are trying to get the perfect strike and get it will stray over that target otherwise it will miss the hole. This target's going to help you out massively. So to wrap all that up and summarize everything we're where I became quite strongly picking an intermediate target in front of where you think you should be aiming. So aligning nice and correctly maybe to the flag maybe to the middle of the green middle of the fairway but picking a target aiming over the top of it feet, knees, hips, shoulders all nice and square drive through putter, but also making sure that you do that when you practice as well, and if you can get all that alignment practice to take it on to the golf course have some confidence in you alignment we think you going to hit straighter more accurate golf shots.