Golf Basics - Lesson by Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Golf Basics - Lesson by Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how a good set up, a great grip, improvements in your posture and balance, combined with a one-piece takeaway and a balanced follow-through will help any beginner improve their golf. Cutting through the confusion of golf instruction can be important for golfers of all standards - never is that more important than for beginners. Follow the advice in this video and hopefully you'll be on your way to better golf.

Now our aim as golf coaches is to appeal to everybody within the golfing spectrum and try and make sure everyone is able to improve their golf by finding videos and tips that are appropriate to them. Yes now if you're a beginner golfer there's a risk that you look at the Internet and you go “Wow there's so many different pieces of information.” What's pertinent and it's baffling isn't is what was pertinent to me rather than been baffled by 10 different videos about 10 different elements of the golf swing. So Matt Fryer go through 5 sort of key check points things that we can really work on to help us as golfers as beginner golfers focus on the right things next time we go to the driving range. Yeah you know if we have like a beginner's basics as we call it number one let's have a look at the grip how are we going to hold the golf club. So let's say a right handed golfer left hand is going to be the lead hand up at the top, right hands going to be on the bottom here. Quick tip for that what we want to see is something where the right and once we've got that on the little creases here it's pointing back towards our arm pits, the left hand as we've got it and it's something where it starts in the thing is a bit more on the wrapping over so as you're looking down now we see a bit more of the back of the hand a tendency just to put it on it's in the palm and we're not seeing any of the back of that hand. So fingers and over back of the hand, right hand on see this little line back into the armpit. So check point one for a beginner golfer is just to get a hold on the golf club correctly because this is so much influence over everything else that happens. Now check point 2 are you talking about the posture the way we stand so the golf ball is a beginner. Yeah it's a good way to look if you think of 2 things we are going to look athletic or we're going to look old and rounded. I know I'd like to look athletic myself so exactly if you have a perfect demonstration the key things that you've got there you're gonna number one in your rounded basically we just slump down towards the golf ball where we're not making the most of our frame. In your athletic one you've taken a stance where your nice and tall the hips go back a little bit we've maintained a straight back just a little bit of flex in the knees when all of the sudden we've got a nice set up there it's not there round that one from here.

That nice set up feel it's still strong it feels more athletic. Yeah definitely you feel bigger and in yourself. I feel that we could start to work on point 3 which would be a good simple one piece take away. Yeah exactly one of the things that we'll see a lot is people just using their hands and their arms all the sudden the body shuts down arms are just getting wrapped around the torso a bit too much. Good tip I'd like to see a lot of my beginners going with this something where we get the bottom of the club looking into the torso as we take it away to now much just my stomach my arms are all working as one unit and I'm working away even some time just placing it into the stomach like this taking that grip can feel take away a little bit more. Nice easy to get everything working as one to great exercise that flat piece take away feel because if you can start that swing in the right way then hopefully that swing can move up to the top in the right way to give you an idea of what that top position should look like for the beginner. For a beginner you know if you're going to try and keep it as simple as possible we're not going to go too long a lot of people are trying to make the swings too long and we see a lot of things here where the arms are collapsed if we can try and keep this lead arm as straight as possible if it's slightly flexed it's not the end of the world but if we can get something where our hands are pretty much level with our head and this left arm now for me being a right handed golfer is pretty straight we're going to go be into a pretty good position. OK I think we see a lot of club and amateur golfers when they start playing they do try and make swings that get too long and anyone that sees the club round here this is not a great place to be particularly for that beginning golfer going to find out that's a huge degree of inconsistency by swinging that far around.

So we've got this good posture good grip one piece take away not too far here. Point number 5 the last one has got to be that balance position hasn't it. Yeah definitely if you think of you know any other sport as well when do you see anyone falling over sort of boxing at tennis or think everyone stable you know we've made this athletic posture at the start let's make the most of it. We've got something where we're trying to control that club back toward the ball on a small target so to be able to do that we need to be able to be balanced and finish in a position where we're able to control the swing the club all the way throughout the swing. So once you've gone through those points we're just going to make a swing now and just try and hold the finish and it's always taking a photo of you and you just going to hold it for a second. Nice and balanced a lot easier to deliver more of a centered strike and I think as an overall package what we notice there is Matt made that swing look quite simple. Now obviously he's been doing this for a long time but if you can make your swing feel simple it often will be simple to repeat and as a beginner there's nothing more important to us than consistency been able to do the same thing each time to produce a similar result. So if you can go to the range cut through the baffling Internet or reading too many books think focus on those 5 key points that Matt has talked us through hopefully that will help all golfers but specifically the beginning golfer.

2018-11-09

In this video PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand how a good set up, a great grip, improvements in your posture and balance, combined with a one-piece takeaway and a balanced follow-through will help any beginner improve their golf. Cutting through the confusion of golf instruction can be important for golfers of all standards – never is that more important than for beginners. Follow the advice in this video and hopefully you'll be on your way to better golf.

Now our aim as golf coaches is to appeal to everybody within the golfing spectrum and try and make sure everyone is able to improve their golf by finding videos and tips that are appropriate to them. Yes now if you're a beginner golfer there's a risk that you look at the Internet and you go “Wow there's so many different pieces of information.” What's pertinent and it's baffling isn't is what was pertinent to me rather than been baffled by 10 different videos about 10 different elements of the golf swing. So Matt Fryer go through 5 sort of key check points things that we can really work on to help us as golfers as beginner golfers focus on the right things next time we go to the driving range. Yeah you know if we have like a beginner's basics as we call it number one let's have a look at the grip how are we going to hold the golf club. So let's say a right handed golfer left hand is going to be the lead hand up at the top, right hands going to be on the bottom here. Quick tip for that what we want to see is something where the right and once we've got that on the little creases here it's pointing back towards our arm pits, the left hand as we've got it and it's something where it starts in the thing is a bit more on the wrapping over so as you're looking down now we see a bit more of the back of the hand a tendency just to put it on it's in the palm and we're not seeing any of the back of that hand. So fingers and over back of the hand, right hand on see this little line back into the armpit. So check point one for a beginner golfer is just to get a hold on the golf club correctly because this is so much influence over everything else that happens. Now check point 2 are you talking about the posture the way we stand so the golf ball is a beginner. Yeah it's a good way to look if you think of 2 things we are going to look athletic or we're going to look old and rounded. I know I'd like to look athletic myself so exactly if you have a perfect demonstration the key things that you've got there you're gonna number one in your rounded basically we just slump down towards the golf ball where we're not making the most of our frame. In your athletic one you've taken a stance where your nice and tall the hips go back a little bit we've maintained a straight back just a little bit of flex in the knees when all of the sudden we've got a nice set up there it's not there round that one from here.

That nice set up feel it's still strong it feels more athletic. Yeah definitely you feel bigger and in yourself. I feel that we could start to work on point 3 which would be a good simple one piece take away. Yeah exactly one of the things that we'll see a lot is people just using their hands and their arms all the sudden the body shuts down arms are just getting wrapped around the torso a bit too much. Good tip I'd like to see a lot of my beginners going with this something where we get the bottom of the club looking into the torso as we take it away to now much just my stomach my arms are all working as one unit and I'm working away even some time just placing it into the stomach like this taking that grip can feel take away a little bit more. Nice easy to get everything working as one to great exercise that flat piece take away feel because if you can start that swing in the right way then hopefully that swing can move up to the top in the right way to give you an idea of what that top position should look like for the beginner. For a beginner you know if you're going to try and keep it as simple as possible we're not going to go too long a lot of people are trying to make the swings too long and we see a lot of things here where the arms are collapsed if we can try and keep this lead arm as straight as possible if it's slightly flexed it's not the end of the world but if we can get something where our hands are pretty much level with our head and this left arm now for me being a right handed golfer is pretty straight we're going to go be into a pretty good position. OK I think we see a lot of club and amateur golfers when they start playing they do try and make swings that get too long and anyone that sees the club round here this is not a great place to be particularly for that beginning golfer going to find out that's a huge degree of inconsistency by swinging that far around.

So we've got this good posture good grip one piece take away not too far here. Point number 5 the last one has got to be that balance position hasn't it. Yeah definitely if you think of you know any other sport as well when do you see anyone falling over sort of boxing at tennis or think everyone stable you know we've made this athletic posture at the start let's make the most of it. We've got something where we're trying to control that club back toward the ball on a small target so to be able to do that we need to be able to be balanced and finish in a position where we're able to control the swing the club all the way throughout the swing. So once you've gone through those points we're just going to make a swing now and just try and hold the finish and it's always taking a photo of you and you just going to hold it for a second. Nice and balanced a lot easier to deliver more of a centered strike and I think as an overall package what we notice there is Matt made that swing look quite simple. Now obviously he's been doing this for a long time but if you can make your swing feel simple it often will be simple to repeat and as a beginner there's nothing more important to us than consistency been able to do the same thing each time to produce a similar result. So if you can go to the range cut through the baffling Internet or reading too many books think focus on those 5 key points that Matt has talked us through hopefully that will help all golfers but specifically the beginning golfer.