Look at your Divots for Feedback Swing Cures - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
Look at your Divots for Feedback Swing Cures - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

When on the golf course, it’s a hard enough place as it is, but when we start to hit bad golf shots, sometimes your best friend can be divot and the divot is the piece of earth that you take hopefully just as you hit the ball, but the direction of the divot is so, so important to actually see what you’ve done with the swing. So, a better way would be to kind of demonstrate the difference between divot and that perfect divot is a divot, here we got the two sticks going straight down towards the camera and from here the perfect divot will start just at the back of the ball and go straight through following these two lines and be round about the size of a five-pound note.

That’s the sort of best sort of size for the divot, the ideal divot if you can possibly say it’s an idea divot. Okay. But if you find yourself, you’ve hit the ball and all of a sudden the divot has actually come in and has come in a this angle where it is now coming to the left-hand side, it means that obviously the clubface has come across and if the clubface has come across it can create two different shots. The first one is if the clubface is aiming in the direction of the divot, the ball will travel in a straight line to the left-hand side. It’s called a pull, so it can go straight left. But as the club is also coming across the ball, if the face was a little bit more open, then you’d actually end up with a sort of squeezing sort of sensation where you’ve got allowance across the ball, the ball has started left and the ball travels to the right and so you slice the ball, so you can get the pull, straight at left and the cuts, the slice from the divot coming across the line.

If we set up and we actually find that the divot has come through to the right-hand side, then it’s just like reversal. The first thing is that that clubface was on line for the divot to the right of our target line, the ball is just going to go straight to the right, it’s a push, but that ball might also start to the right and then curve it’s way back, which we call a draw or a hook and that’s because the clubface, when it was actually at impact, was actually coming with the clubface slightly closed, but we were still traveling outside that line. So, if we travel that way and the divot aims to the right it’s a push or a curve back and if the divot is coming across it’s straight left or left to right, so you can learn and awful lot from your divots.

So, when you’re on the golf course, look at that divot, look at the actual direction and from that at least you know how you are swinging the club on the way down, so try and put that into practice. So, if you see yourself coming across the ball in the golf course, set yourself back up, swing the club and then try and hit a little bit more out, because at least that way you won’t actually be encountering this divot coming across the ball. The only best place to do it is on the golf course, but when you’re on the golf course and this happens, this can help you tremendously, so don’t be frighten at having a go, so you’ve got the information there, take it on board and use it next time you play.

 2013-08-07

When on the golf course, it’s a hard enough place as it is, but when we start to hit bad golf shots, sometimes your best friend can be divot and the divot is the piece of earth that you take hopefully just as you hit the ball, but the direction of the divot is so, so important to actually see what you’ve done with the swing. So, a better way would be to kind of demonstrate the difference between divot and that perfect divot is a divot, here we got the two sticks going straight down towards the camera and from here the perfect divot will start just at the back of the ball and go straight through following these two lines and be round about the size of a five-pound note.

That’s the sort of best sort of size for the divot, the ideal divot if you can possibly say it’s an idea divot. Okay. But if you find yourself, you’ve hit the ball and all of a sudden the divot has actually come in and has come in a this angle where it is now coming to the left-hand side, it means that obviously the clubface has come across and if the clubface has come across it can create two different shots. The first one is if the clubface is aiming in the direction of the divot, the ball will travel in a straight line to the left-hand side. It’s called a pull, so it can go straight left. But as the club is also coming across the ball, if the face was a little bit more open, then you’d actually end up with a sort of squeezing sort of sensation where you’ve got allowance across the ball, the ball has started left and the ball travels to the right and so you slice the ball, so you can get the pull, straight at left and the cuts, the slice from the divot coming across the line.

If we set up and we actually find that the divot has come through to the right-hand side, then it’s just like reversal. The first thing is that that clubface was on line for the divot to the right of our target line, the ball is just going to go straight to the right, it’s a push, but that ball might also start to the right and then curve it’s way back, which we call a draw or a hook and that’s because the clubface, when it was actually at impact, was actually coming with the clubface slightly closed, but we were still traveling outside that line. So, if we travel that way and the divot aims to the right it’s a push or a curve back and if the divot is coming across it’s straight left or left to right, so you can learn and awful lot from your divots.

So, when you’re on the golf course, look at that divot, look at the actual direction and from that at least you know how you are swinging the club on the way down, so try and put that into practice. So, if you see yourself coming across the ball in the golf course, set yourself back up, swing the club and then try and hit a little bit more out, because at least that way you won’t actually be encountering this divot coming across the ball. The only best place to do it is on the golf course, but when you’re on the golf course and this happens, this can help you tremendously, so don’t be frighten at having a go, so you’ve got the information there, take it on board and use it next time you play.