How To Successfully Work The Golf Ball (Video) - by Pete Styles
How To Successfully Work The Golf Ball (Video) - by Pete Styles

For a lot of golfers I think the concept or the idea of them working the golf ball is almost a little bit above them, they’re not convinced that they should be trying to work the golf ball, they don’t really understand the concept of how and why. So in this little next miniseries, I’m hopefully going to explain to you why bending the golf ball or working the golf ball is something that you should be considering doing. Maybe not on every single shot but it’s certainly an idea that you could contemplate, and hopefully using the tips in this next series of videos, you’ll feel a bit more confidence about doing it.

What we consider working the golf ball is a shot where the ball is going to curve intentionally. Now we can curve the ball from right to left, left to right or even we can hit the ball higher or lower than a normal shot. So if I’ve normally got my 7-iron, I’m going to aim the ball straight and it’s going to fly at medium sort of height. If you can ever see an advantage in hitting a different shot to that, either hitting the ball deliberately lower maybe because there’s a crosswind or a head wind, or deliberately hitting the ball, maybe there’s a tailwind, you want to get the ball up a little bit more flying further. Well, maybe you’ve got yourself stuck in the trees or behind the tree where you want to hit the ball out to the right and curve the ball away from a pond on the right hand side of the fairway or vice versa, hit the ball left and fade the ball right back onto the green. There are opportunities and chances where you could actually start to work the ball deliberately to help improve your golf. Now they shouldn’t just be the sort of preserve of the best players, now we’ve all seen the guys on TV deliberately curving the ball, drawing and fading it with or against the wind. But club golfers can also benefit from hitting these types of shots. Like I stress, it’s not every single shot we don’t always approach the ball thinking I’ll curve it this way, curve it that way, hit it high, hit it low, quite often wind is going to settle, this is just a standard 7-iron, this is just a standard tee shot. But there are those opportunities on the course where curving the ball left, right, up or down are actually going to help us and benefit us. This next miniseries of videos is going to help you to work the golf ball. 2016-08-24

For a lot of golfers I think the concept or the idea of them working the golf ball is almost a little bit above them, they’re not convinced that they should be trying to work the golf ball, they don’t really understand the concept of how and why. So in this little next miniseries, I’m hopefully going to explain to you why bending the golf ball or working the golf ball is something that you should be considering doing. Maybe not on every single shot but it’s certainly an idea that you could contemplate, and hopefully using the tips in this next series of videos, you’ll feel a bit more confidence about doing it.

What we consider working the golf ball is a shot where the ball is going to curve intentionally. Now we can curve the ball from right to left, left to right or even we can hit the ball higher or lower than a normal shot. So if I’ve normally got my 7-iron, I’m going to aim the ball straight and it’s going to fly at medium sort of height. If you can ever see an advantage in hitting a different shot to that, either hitting the ball deliberately lower maybe because there’s a crosswind or a head wind, or deliberately hitting the ball, maybe there’s a tailwind, you want to get the ball up a little bit more flying further. Well, maybe you’ve got yourself stuck in the trees or behind the tree where you want to hit the ball out to the right and curve the ball away from a pond on the right hand side of the fairway or vice versa, hit the ball left and fade the ball right back onto the green.

There are opportunities and chances where you could actually start to work the ball deliberately to help improve your golf. Now they shouldn’t just be the sort of preserve of the best players, now we’ve all seen the guys on TV deliberately curving the ball, drawing and fading it with or against the wind. But club golfers can also benefit from hitting these types of shots. Like I stress, it’s not every single shot we don’t always approach the ball thinking I’ll curve it this way, curve it that way, hit it high, hit it low, quite often wind is going to settle, this is just a standard 7-iron, this is just a standard tee shot. But there are those opportunities on the course where curving the ball left, right, up or down are actually going to help us and benefit us. This next miniseries of videos is going to help you to work the golf ball.