Stop Topping The Golf Ball, How Can I Correct The Problem (Video) - by PGA Instructor Peter Finch
Stop Topping The Golf Ball, How Can I Correct The Problem (Video) - by PGA Instructor Peter Finch

How can I stop topping the golf ball? Now a topped golf shot is when you coming to impact the club bottoms out a little bit too early and it swings on, catches the ball just above the equator, hits it down into the ground pops it up and it just dribbles on just off the tee, and only goes really above 30 yards or so at the maximum if you are hitting a driver. Now it’s a shot which plagues golfers across the world and it’s a massive, massive problem and it is also compounded by people giving conflicting advice. Now something that you will hear so much if you top the ball is that you have lifted your head through impact. And this is something which you can ignore from now on and just focus on this tip. When you top the golf shot, the most often cause is the spine angle straightening through the impact area so as you come through the spine angle straightening and the hips moving forwards, not so much the head jumping up and down but the spine angle actually shifting, and if that’s not the cause then it’s the arms as you come through impact actually recoiling and moving up towards the body. And what this effectively do, it shortens the length of the club it brings it up over the ball or just above the equator which will cause the top.

If you don’t can’t top the golf shot, concentrate on maintaining a good posture throughout the swing but more importantly actually turning through and extending the arms down towards the target. You can almost use a little bit of a drill where you hit just a little half shots and if you get through impact and shouldn’t find that you arms have recoiled into this position, you are going to be hitting those little top shots. Try and ensure that those arms are extended through the impact area. So again, just use this little half swing drill, a bit pulls as you hit and try and get the feeling that those arms have extended down towards the target. Now once you have had a few of those practice drills try and move that into the full swing technique. So get yourself settled over the ball, keep the posture nice and steady and as you move through try and extend those arms down towards the target. So if you are topping the ball give those couple of tips a go and hopefully that will become a thing of the past. 2014-11-14

How can I stop topping the golf ball? Now a topped golf shot is when you coming to impact the club bottoms out a little bit too early and it swings on, catches the ball just above the equator, hits it down into the ground pops it up and it just dribbles on just off the tee, and only goes really above 30 yards or so at the maximum if you are hitting a driver. Now it’s a shot which plagues golfers across the world and it’s a massive, massive problem and it is also compounded by people giving conflicting advice. Now something that you will hear so much if you top the ball is that you have lifted your head through impact. And this is something which you can ignore from now on and just focus on this tip. When you top the golf shot, the most often cause is the spine angle straightening through the impact area so as you come through the spine angle straightening and the hips moving forwards, not so much the head jumping up and down but the spine angle actually shifting, and if that’s not the cause then it’s the arms as you come through impact actually recoiling and moving up towards the body. And what this effectively do, it shortens the length of the club it brings it up over the ball or just above the equator which will cause the top.

If you don’t can’t top the golf shot, concentrate on maintaining a good posture throughout the swing but more importantly actually turning through and extending the arms down towards the target. You can almost use a little bit of a drill where you hit just a little half shots and if you get through impact and shouldn’t find that you arms have recoiled into this position, you are going to be hitting those little top shots. Try and ensure that those arms are extended through the impact area. So again, just use this little half swing drill, a bit pulls as you hit and try and get the feeling that those arms have extended down towards the target. Now once you have had a few of those practice drills try and move that into the full swing technique. So get yourself settled over the ball, keep the posture nice and steady and as you move through try and extend those arms down towards the target. So if you are topping the ball give those couple of tips a go and hopefully that will become a thing of the past.