Senior Golfer 9 - Allow an over the top swing (Video) - by Pete Styles
Senior Golfer 9 - Allow an over the top swing (Video) - by Pete Styles

Have you ever listen to people talking about their golf swing, myself included, we're always talking about the fact that we don’t want to slice the ball, that’s a really common bad shot. But we have to appreciate a certain time in someone's golf for a certain time in someone's life and flexibility wise. Drawing the golf ball is physically more difficult to do.

So, if from standing from a side on position, swinging the golf club nicely to the top, it's far easier to turn my shoulders throw in front of me and slide it back across the ball out to in swing which would play more of a left to right sort of shape, rather than taking the golf club to the top, dropping the elbow back in, keeping it tuck in here as you dynamically shift your hips across, hitting from the inside and working the hands. That's a lot more difficult to do. And that's one of the reasons why we see a lot of golfers classically slicing and fading the golf ball.

On a level in which rather someone will able to hit the golf ball straight or draw or in fade on demand on request. For a lot of people with physically -- have limitations would often allow them just to hit to fade. As long as it's a fade and not a slice, as long as it's a control fade and not a random pull on one hole and a big ole slice back on the next hole. So, we have to work through a point where we can hit a nice control fade. And that would be fairly feasible for most people.

So, again, if I can bring David back in. He's going to set into the golf ball over on this side. If I just step back here. Well, you can go ahead and make a backswing again. And from the top position here. For a lot of golfer, it's much easier for them to let the upper body unwind and let the golf club come slightly outside the line drift it back across the golf ball. Although we would prefer if you could get the club drop down behind moving the hips out of the way, bring the club from the inside and release. It is physically far harder to do that.

So if you feel that your natural action -- just up to the top again for me, David -- is from here to unwind the shoulders and let the club come across, that's OK. Just make sure you're allowing for a fade in the rest of your game and that should work nicely for you.

 2012-09-18

Have you ever listen to people talking about their golf swing, myself included, we're always talking about the fact that we don’t want to slice the ball, that’s a really common bad shot. But we have to appreciate a certain time in someone's golf for a certain time in someone's life and flexibility wise. Drawing the golf ball is physically more difficult to do.

So, if from standing from a side on position, swinging the golf club nicely to the top, it's far easier to turn my shoulders throw in front of me and slide it back across the ball out to in swing which would play more of a left to right sort of shape, rather than taking the golf club to the top, dropping the elbow back in, keeping it tuck in here as you dynamically shift your hips across, hitting from the inside and working the hands. That's a lot more difficult to do. And that's one of the reasons why we see a lot of golfers classically slicing and fading the golf ball.

On a level in which rather someone will able to hit the golf ball straight or draw or in fade on demand on request. For a lot of people with physically — have limitations would often allow them just to hit to fade. As long as it's a fade and not a slice, as long as it's a control fade and not a random pull on one hole and a big ole slice back on the next hole. So, we have to work through a point where we can hit a nice control fade. And that would be fairly feasible for most people.

So, again, if I can bring David back in. He's going to set into the golf ball over on this side. If I just step back here. Well, you can go ahead and make a backswing again. And from the top position here. For a lot of golfer, it's much easier for them to let the upper body unwind and let the golf club come slightly outside the line drift it back across the golf ball. Although we would prefer if you could get the club drop down behind moving the hips out of the way, bring the club from the inside and release. It is physically far harder to do that.

So if you feel that your natural action — just up to the top again for me, David — is from here to unwind the shoulders and let the club come across, that's OK. Just make sure you're allowing for a fade in the rest of your game and that should work nicely for you.