As a European golfer what’s not to love about Ian Poulter, particularly in the Ryder Cup, but to our American viewers I’m sorry, I’ll talk more about his golf swing. There is one thing to not love about Poulter’s set up, and it’s something that if an armature golfer, club golfer was to copy it I’d probably advice against it. And that’s the fact that Poulter has his hands quite along way back during the setup position. So during Poulter’s set up, he’s a square left tall player as well, which I’m little bit more open the way I like to teach but when Poulter sets up to the golf ball, he actually sets his hands up to a level if not slightly behind the golf ball. And that’s not a position we encourage for a lot of club golfers. A lot of club golfers from that position, will actually ground the club out before the ball or lift the club up and flick it and hit fat and thin shots and not very consistent between the two. Position we would rather look at is actually having the hands left of centre for the right handed golfer ahead of the golf ball and making a straight line through the shaft through the left hand and arm and up to the front shoulder.

So that would be the preferred position, and the reason for that is that because that’s going to imitate the impact position. Impact should be hands ahead, body weight on to the front side, so by having the hands back here it’s quite a big change to get into that position. And actually when you watch Poulter, he does start with his hands behind which is not convectional, but during the impact phase perfectly conventional gets into a great impact position, covers the golf ball. But for a lot of club golfers, anytime you set up with a bit of compensation, or a bit of a mistake, sometimes it’s difficult to get out of them over compensate for it. So for a lot of club golfers I would encourage you to set yourself up with your nice mid iron and have the handle pointing at your left hip, and then grip it from there and avoid the hands back in Poulter set up.