What Causes A Pushed Golf Shot? (Video) - by Dean Butler
What Causes A Pushed Golf Shot? (Video) - by Dean Butler

So the question is what causes a push shot? Well let’s explain first of all what a push is. If I set myself up to the ball here, in relation to the sticks going straight down, and I was to hit a push, a push would leave my club face and take its journey to the right of the target and stay in a fairly straight line. So it’s not like a typical sort of slice that’s going left or right, instead of going straight down here, it starts on the path to the right and it stays on that, on that direction so that’s the push okay. What causes it tends to be one or two different things, but the most common fault we’re going to show you, is to do with your swing path. Is when you take a club back too far on the insides, what do I mean by this, if I was to take my club back and go right around here on the inside around my body, which you call a flat swing, but sort of ways I’m taking the club around the trunk too much what tends to happen then is from here the body tends to move forward and the hands then come back in and if you can see that club face hopefully you can see that club face is aiming to the right hand side and the ball is going to start its journey down there, so that’s what tends to cause a push, isn’t it what we call it in to out swing, remember I’ve gone too much on the in, then I’m hitting out.

So a very, very simple solution here, what I have done is I’ve put two golf balls about round about sort of eight to 10 inches behind the ball and what I want to do here is if I said to you right just focus on here taking the club back without catching the two balls, so from here look at the difference in the swing position this time. Now from here remember where we were just a minute ago, when we were taking too much on the inside that would have resorted to going back on catching the ball as we actually took the club back. So a very simple exercise is to put two balls down and about sort of eight to 10 inches behind and concentrate on taking that club back missing the two balls. So it will feel a bit more up and down too, that’s how it will feel. But remember a push is a straight shot to the right and it basically comes from a swing that is in to out. This simple sort of drill here can eliminate that fault very, very quickly indeed. 2014-08-01

So the question is what causes a push shot? Well let’s explain first of all what a push is. If I set myself up to the ball here, in relation to the sticks going straight down, and I was to hit a push, a push would leave my club face and take its journey to the right of the target and stay in a fairly straight line. So it’s not like a typical sort of slice that’s going left or right, instead of going straight down here, it starts on the path to the right and it stays on that, on that direction so that’s the push okay. What causes it tends to be one or two different things, but the most common fault we’re going to show you, is to do with your swing path. Is when you take a club back too far on the insides, what do I mean by this, if I was to take my club back and go right around here on the inside around my body, which you call a flat swing, but sort of ways I’m taking the club around the trunk too much what tends to happen then is from here the body tends to move forward and the hands then come back in and if you can see that club face hopefully you can see that club face is aiming to the right hand side and the ball is going to start its journey down there, so that’s what tends to cause a push, isn’t it what we call it in to out swing, remember I’ve gone too much on the in, then I’m hitting out.

So a very, very simple solution here, what I have done is I’ve put two golf balls about round about sort of eight to 10 inches behind the ball and what I want to do here is if I said to you right just focus on here taking the club back without catching the two balls, so from here look at the difference in the swing position this time. Now from here remember where we were just a minute ago, when we were taking too much on the inside that would have resorted to going back on catching the ball as we actually took the club back. So a very simple exercise is to put two balls down and about sort of eight to 10 inches behind and concentrate on taking that club back missing the two balls. So it will feel a bit more up and down too, that’s how it will feel.

But remember a push is a straight shot to the right and it basically comes from a swing that is in to out. This simple sort of drill here can eliminate that fault very, very quickly indeed.