Learn from Your Ball Flight – Trajectory, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Learn from Your Ball Flight – Trajectory, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

One of the skills that I try and pass on to golf is in every lesson that I ever give, is the ability to diagnose what the golf ball is doing and therefore what your swing was doing to produce that ball flight. Lot of amateurs come to see me for golf lessons and they say, I don’t know what I am doing wrong Pete but the ball always rolls across the floor. So we look at what would be causing that golf ball to roll across the floor or conversely what would be causing that ball to go too high in the air, then we can learn about how you are actually hitting the golf ball and improve your technique based on that. So if you are hitting the ball very low there could be a couple of factors that would be causing this.

One reason maybe the impact position when you strike the golf ball, it doesn’t have enough loft on the club face, that could be ball is too far back, handle is too far forward and swing is too steep down on the golf ball just chopping the ball and forcing it forward. So you would consider about how to change ball position and hand position. Also if your golf ball is quite low it might be that it’s coming a little bit low on the club face, a bit towards the thin end of the context or it might be that the club is hitting a little bit high upon the ball as well, above the equator little bit towards the top and then if that’s happening we can look at how and why your arms are achieving that whether they are pulling up, whether it’s a spine angle change, whether the ball position is too far forward. So try and diagnose the ball flight particularly if it’s too low. If the ball flight is too high it will often indicate a bit of a scooping angle into impact. So I have the ball too far forwards in my stance have the handle leaning behind the golf ball and have a flick or wrist hinge through impact trying to scoop the ball up into the air, on the good ones that I hit, the ball flight would be too high, but on some bad ones, it might actually be fat and grounding the club before impact or thin, lifting up over the top of the ball and catching the top and thinning thing. So it’s important to understand and diagnose your ball flights to understand and diagnose how you are actually striking the ball. Next time you are playing or practicing really carefully watch what that ball does and have a little think about how you are affecting the flight by improving your impact position.

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One of the skills that I try and pass on to golf is in every lesson that I ever give, is the ability to diagnose what the golf ball is doing and therefore what your swing was doing to produce that ball flight. Lot of amateurs come to see me for golf lessons and they say, I don’t know what I am doing wrong Pete but the ball always rolls across the floor. So we look at what would be causing that golf ball to roll across the floor or conversely what would be causing that ball to go too high in the air, then we can learn about how you are actually hitting the golf ball and improve your technique based on that. So if you are hitting the ball very low there could be a couple of factors that would be causing this.

One reason maybe the impact position when you strike the golf ball, it doesn’t have enough loft on the club face, that could be ball is too far back, handle is too far forward and swing is too steep down on the golf ball just chopping the ball and forcing it forward. So you would consider about how to change ball position and hand position. Also if your golf ball is quite low it might be that it’s coming a little bit low on the club face, a bit towards the thin end of the context or it might be that the club is hitting a little bit high upon the ball as well, above the equator little bit towards the top and then if that’s happening we can look at how and why your arms are achieving that whether they are pulling up, whether it’s a spine angle change, whether the ball position is too far forward. So try and diagnose the ball flight particularly if it’s too low. If the ball flight is too high it will often indicate a bit of a scooping angle into impact. So I have the ball too far forwards in my stance have the handle leaning behind the golf ball and have a flick or wrist hinge through impact trying to scoop the ball up into the air, on the good ones that I hit, the ball flight would be too high, but on some bad ones, it might actually be fat and grounding the club before impact or thin, lifting up over the top of the ball and catching the top and thinning thing. So it’s important to understand and diagnose your ball flights to understand and diagnose how you are actually striking the ball. Next time you are playing or practicing really carefully watch what that ball does and have a little think about how you are affecting the flight by improving your impact position.