How to Stop Big Mistakes – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
How to Stop Big Mistakes – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer talk you through their five biggest areas of concern from their teaching experience. Are you guilty of swinging out of balance, or under clubbing? How about taking no practice swings, rushing your shots or aiming poorly? If so this video is sure to be a big help to improving your game and ensuring you don't make golf five biggest mistakes.

So Matt everybody loves a list of top 10 of this top 5 other top 20 of the other thing. I want to challenge you know with your top 5 mistakes that you think you see more regularly in club golfers. What are the 5 things that people at home could be doing differently to improve their golf. OK so yeah everyone does love a list and you can fill 5 up quite easily. Number one big one for me not swinging in balance. You will see you know players it's out in the Saturday competition and things like that all of a sudden let's take driver into instance pull the driver out the bag they have been making lovely controlled swings with the irons and all of a sudden this one a little bit of a hit now give it a bit more extra hit. All of a sudden they're all over the shop can't control the swing their not balanced their set up has changed for some reason as if to try and gain more distance. If they found themselves at that nice rhythmical swing a nice balance follow through that they have been getting into for the last 4 or 5 holes has gone out of the window, and they're not going to finish in balance any more and deliver some poor shots from that. So number one on the list would be make sure that you swing well within balance.

You talk to me about club selection and particularly under clubbing. Definitely so I've got 7 out here and if I was faced with something where I've got a shot where 160 yards is my best ever iron I hit my sweet 160 7 iron that flies through the air probably one in 10 shots. The rest of them you know I don't quite get that around about 150 what will find is which tend to remember that one shot that one shot that went 160 even though the majority you know the averages that one thing we just remember that one Hollywood shot so what will tend to see is we've got that good intention with it and then all of a sudden we make you know case where the ball dropped 10 yards into the water. So choosing a club and actually thinking beyond the flag a little bit more is the room for the ball to get past the flag can we just go up another club. So we don't quite catch it we're still going to get to our desired target. I think we see so many golfers have never been beyond the flag. They're always in that front area to where the danger it's always in the front the pond the bunker the hazard is always in the front. If you can make a promise to us that you're going to play to the back of the green you're going to take one more club than you think you're going to need you know leave the macho at home and you're going to play that one extra club that's definitely number 2 on our list.

This concept of taking practice swings or not taking practice swings. Yeah you know in lessons we'll talk to current guys about it do you have a practice swing no don't like to just get into it and hit it, and I think it's a hard game and you know sometimes it is quite hard motion which trying to make and actually replicate. So if we can just give ourselves a little bit of clarity with sort of a road map of what we're going to do on a rehearsal of it. Thinking whatever your one swing thought is whether it's you know feel I'm coming a little bit from the outside or whatever the shot is you are trying to hit. If you can clear that up with a practice swing in generate a feeling then when you actually come to hit the golf shot pulling the trigger you've already had an idea of what you want to do. So you should be able to actually get a shot to it with a better chance of executing it. I think that our concept of taking practice swings works really well with my next point and with number 4 on our list which would be the concept of rushing or definitely to avoid rushing on the golf course. Definitely whether it's bad thoughts going to the head some time to look you know target quickly just go get it over and done with we just not have a clear image of what we're trying to do. We don't have a good idea of what I'm trying to execute so you get into the ball you're not thinking positive just please if I get this out of the way quick hopefully it won't go as wrong and we all know that that doesn't happen so the practice swing in our rushing almost go hand in hand.

There was more thought that I would like to put on the list myself would be aiming correctly. Some golfers aim badly definitely you know I could stack up now if I took a target into account and not really aim to get a really nice shot like that one. Either in a bunker in the pond because I didn't take my time to actually plot my alignment out and give myself the best chance of hitting a shot like that one towards my target. If we aim at nothing we're going to hit nothing but very very well from golfers hit the ball well but not if there isn't a target. Therefore they don't get the result 100 percent so lots of different things that you could work on in your game but just go back through that list in just work out which ones are relevant to me which ones ring alarm bells in my head. Well that sounds like me I rush I don't take practice swings I don't aim correctly and if you can iron out those 5 different elements I'm sure you'll feel like you've got game importantly or golf shots improve by looking at those 5 biggest mistakes that golfers make.

2018-11-14

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer talk you through their five biggest areas of concern from their teaching experience. Are you guilty of swinging out of balance, or under clubbing? How about taking no practice swings, rushing your shots or aiming poorly? If so this video is sure to be a big help to improving your game and ensuring you don't make golf five biggest mistakes.

So Matt everybody loves a list of top 10 of this top 5 other top 20 of the other thing. I want to challenge you know with your top 5 mistakes that you think you see more regularly in club golfers. What are the 5 things that people at home could be doing differently to improve their golf. OK so yeah everyone does love a list and you can fill 5 up quite easily. Number one big one for me not swinging in balance. You will see you know players it's out in the Saturday competition and things like that all of a sudden let's take driver into instance pull the driver out the bag they have been making lovely controlled swings with the irons and all of a sudden this one a little bit of a hit now give it a bit more extra hit. All of a sudden they're all over the shop can't control the swing their not balanced their set up has changed for some reason as if to try and gain more distance. If they found themselves at that nice rhythmical swing a nice balance follow through that they have been getting into for the last 4 or 5 holes has gone out of the window, and they're not going to finish in balance any more and deliver some poor shots from that. So number one on the list would be make sure that you swing well within balance.

You talk to me about club selection and particularly under clubbing. Definitely so I've got 7 out here and if I was faced with something where I've got a shot where 160 yards is my best ever iron I hit my sweet 160 7 iron that flies through the air probably one in 10 shots. The rest of them you know I don't quite get that around about 150 what will find is which tend to remember that one shot that one shot that went 160 even though the majority you know the averages that one thing we just remember that one Hollywood shot so what will tend to see is we've got that good intention with it and then all of a sudden we make you know case where the ball dropped 10 yards into the water. So choosing a club and actually thinking beyond the flag a little bit more is the room for the ball to get past the flag can we just go up another club. So we don't quite catch it we're still going to get to our desired target. I think we see so many golfers have never been beyond the flag. They're always in that front area to where the danger it's always in the front the pond the bunker the hazard is always in the front. If you can make a promise to us that you're going to play to the back of the green you're going to take one more club than you think you're going to need you know leave the macho at home and you're going to play that one extra club that's definitely number 2 on our list.

This concept of taking practice swings or not taking practice swings. Yeah you know in lessons we'll talk to current guys about it do you have a practice swing no don't like to just get into it and hit it, and I think it's a hard game and you know sometimes it is quite hard motion which trying to make and actually replicate. So if we can just give ourselves a little bit of clarity with sort of a road map of what we're going to do on a rehearsal of it. Thinking whatever your one swing thought is whether it's you know feel I'm coming a little bit from the outside or whatever the shot is you are trying to hit. If you can clear that up with a practice swing in generate a feeling then when you actually come to hit the golf shot pulling the trigger you've already had an idea of what you want to do. So you should be able to actually get a shot to it with a better chance of executing it. I think that our concept of taking practice swings works really well with my next point and with number 4 on our list which would be the concept of rushing or definitely to avoid rushing on the golf course. Definitely whether it's bad thoughts going to the head some time to look you know target quickly just go get it over and done with we just not have a clear image of what we're trying to do. We don't have a good idea of what I'm trying to execute so you get into the ball you're not thinking positive just please if I get this out of the way quick hopefully it won't go as wrong and we all know that that doesn't happen so the practice swing in our rushing almost go hand in hand.

There was more thought that I would like to put on the list myself would be aiming correctly. Some golfers aim badly definitely you know I could stack up now if I took a target into account and not really aim to get a really nice shot like that one. Either in a bunker in the pond because I didn't take my time to actually plot my alignment out and give myself the best chance of hitting a shot like that one towards my target. If we aim at nothing we're going to hit nothing but very very well from golfers hit the ball well but not if there isn't a target. Therefore they don't get the result 100 percent so lots of different things that you could work on in your game but just go back through that list in just work out which ones are relevant to me which ones ring alarm bells in my head. Well that sounds like me I rush I don't take practice swings I don't aim correctly and if you can iron out those 5 different elements I'm sure you'll feel like you've got game importantly or golf shots improve by looking at those 5 biggest mistakes that golfers make.