Keys Of Staying Behind The Ball When Hitting A Golf Shot (Video) - by Peter Finch
Keys Of Staying Behind The Ball When Hitting A Golf Shot (Video) - by Peter Finch

When staying behind the ball when you're hitting tee shots, what are the key points that you need to check for? Now in the previous video I’ve explained about swing center, and how you want to be keeping the chest behind the ball impact to allow you to hit it on an ascending angle of attack. But we’re just going to point out some other key body positions that you need to be looking for throughout the swing and that impact to make sure you are staying behind that ball. Now you can see I’ve got a rather elaborate belt here.

But this is just to explain a little bit more about hip movement and actually lower-half positioning throughout the swing to enable you to stay behind the ball. Now I've already spoken about setup. So it’s just getting that ball position a little bit just inside the left heel. Not too much towards the toe, just inside that left heel so you can hit it on the ascent, and so your swing center is behind the ball. Now the rest of the setup what you want to be seeing is you want to be seeing that club obviously behind the ball. But you want to be seeing your shoulders tilted away from the target. If you think about that swing center and the circular kind of arc that the club takes around the body. If that swing center is tilted more off to the right-hand side, the more up this arc is going to be traveling through the point of impact. It does reach a natural tipping point. If you are kind of doing this, you’re obviously never going to get back to the ball. If you are getting set up, the first key point that you want to be looking at is getting that tilt away with the shoulders whilst keeping those hips nice and level. Now what this allows you to do is turn it away nice and wide. The hips rotate. The shoulders rotate. And as you are coming through the ball, what you want to be seeing are those hips to be turning, those hips to be rotating, the weight to be transferring off to the left-hand side. But you still want to be maintaining that amount of shoulder tilt, and you still want to be keeping the swing center behind the ball. So the key points you want to be looking for at impact is your weight to have been transferring left, your shoulders to still be tilting right, and your hips to be opening. Now what this will do, this will give the combination of the upward angle of attack. It will give you the combination, the power and the turn, and it will allow you to still stay behind the ball. Once you’ve actually hit through and then it’s transferring the remainder of your weight off to the left-hand side, extending that club down towards your target, and hopefully hitting a nice drive. Wouldn’t that be nice? 2016-06-07

When staying behind the ball when you're hitting tee shots, what are the key points that you need to check for? Now in the previous video I’ve explained about swing center, and how you want to be keeping the chest behind the ball impact to allow you to hit it on an ascending angle of attack. But we’re just going to point out some other key body positions that you need to be looking for throughout the swing and that impact to make sure you are staying behind that ball. Now you can see I’ve got a rather elaborate belt here.

But this is just to explain a little bit more about hip movement and actually lower-half positioning throughout the swing to enable you to stay behind the ball. Now I've already spoken about setup. So it’s just getting that ball position a little bit just inside the left heel. Not too much towards the toe, just inside that left heel so you can hit it on the ascent, and so your swing center is behind the ball. Now the rest of the setup what you want to be seeing is you want to be seeing that club obviously behind the ball.

But you want to be seeing your shoulders tilted away from the target. If you think about that swing center and the circular kind of arc that the club takes around the body. If that swing center is tilted more off to the right-hand side, the more up this arc is going to be traveling through the point of impact. It does reach a natural tipping point. If you are kind of doing this, you’re obviously never going to get back to the ball. If you are getting set up, the first key point that you want to be looking at is getting that tilt away with the shoulders whilst keeping those hips nice and level.

Now what this allows you to do is turn it away nice and wide. The hips rotate. The shoulders rotate. And as you are coming through the ball, what you want to be seeing are those hips to be turning, those hips to be rotating, the weight to be transferring off to the left-hand side. But you still want to be maintaining that amount of shoulder tilt, and you still want to be keeping the swing center behind the ball. So the key points you want to be looking for at impact is your weight to have been transferring left, your shoulders to still be tilting right, and your hips to be opening.

Now what this will do, this will give the combination of the upward angle of attack. It will give you the combination, the power and the turn, and it will allow you to still stay behind the ball. Once you’ve actually hit through and then it’s transferring the remainder of your weight off to the left-hand side, extending that club down towards your target, and hopefully hitting a nice drive. Wouldn’t that be nice?