What Can I Learn From The Trajectory Of My Ball Flight? (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Can I Learn From The Trajectory Of My Ball Flight? (Video) - by Peter Finch

What can I learn from the trajectory of my ball flight? Now when you’re out on the course, how high and how low your ball goes, is a key indicator of your angle of attack. If the ball comes out very low, this usually means you have a steep angle of attack; you’re striking down on the ball, that you are lofting the club, and send it out on a very low trajectory. If you have a high trajectory, this normally means you have a shallow angle of attack, so the club is coming very shallow through impact, and you are helping the ball off up in to the air. Now it’s easy to identify the different ball flights, and you can do it by tracing it back to your angle of attack. Now if the ball is coming out too low, you could be struggling with not getting enough height and landing it softly on the green, if the ball is coming out too high, you could be struggling with getting distance and actual penetration on your iron shots.

Each one of these needs to be fixed and needs to be traced back to your angle of attack. The easiest way to get your angle of attack correct is to check your ball position. Now with a seven iron, so middle iron the ball position is just forward and center in the stance. As the irons get shorter, down to a sandwich, the ball starts in the middle and then they work their way up forward until we get to the driver in the three woods, which is just inside the left hill. Now working on your ball position is a very quick and guaranteed way to improve your angle attack. Start every shot with your feet together and then take the appropriate steps. So for a driver, it’s a little step to the left, and a big step to the right and that will set the ball just inside the left hill. And if you’re playing a nine iron, a little step left, a little step right and that will get the ball in the center of the stance. So if you are struggling with the trajectory, trace it back to the angle of attack and the ball position. Don’t go out onto that courting a low shot thinking that’s fine. If you are hanging only 20 feet off the ground with the driver, you could be coming far too steep in to that ball. Grab your self a lesson, have a look at your angle of attack and hopefully you can improve the trajectory of your shots, and improve the way your ball is flying through the air. 2014-05-29

What can I learn from the trajectory of my ball flight? Now when you’re out on the course, how high and how low your ball goes, is a key indicator of your angle of attack. If the ball comes out very low, this usually means you have a steep angle of attack; you’re striking down on the ball, that you are lofting the club, and send it out on a very low trajectory. If you have a high trajectory, this normally means you have a shallow angle of attack, so the club is coming very shallow through impact, and you are helping the ball off up in to the air. Now it’s easy to identify the different ball flights, and you can do it by tracing it back to your angle of attack. Now if the ball is coming out too low, you could be struggling with not getting enough height and landing it softly on the green, if the ball is coming out too high, you could be struggling with getting distance and actual penetration on your iron shots.

Each one of these needs to be fixed and needs to be traced back to your angle of attack. The easiest way to get your angle of attack correct is to check your ball position. Now with a seven iron, so middle iron the ball position is just forward and center in the stance. As the irons get shorter, down to a sandwich, the ball starts in the middle and then they work their way up forward until we get to the driver in the three woods, which is just inside the left hill. Now working on your ball position is a very quick and guaranteed way to improve your angle attack. Start every shot with your feet together and then take the appropriate steps. So for a driver, it’s a little step to the left, and a big step to the right and that will set the ball just inside the left hill. And if you’re playing a nine iron, a little step left, a little step right and that will get the ball in the center of the stance. So if you are struggling with the trajectory, trace it back to the angle of attack and the ball position. Don’t go out onto that courting a low shot thinking that’s fine. If you are hanging only 20 feet off the ground with the driver, you could be coming far too steep in to that ball. Grab your self a lesson, have a look at your angle of attack and hopefully you can improve the trajectory of your shots, and improve the way your ball is flying through the air.