So for now we’ll have a little look at the reasons behind the blocked shot. One of the primary reasons why people block the ball and this happens for good players, tour professionals and the club golfers, amateur golfers as well. Because they find that they sometimes spin out too much with the lower body which creates the blocked shot. Let's just understand the term spinning out. So setting up to the golf ball normally, we're going to turn everything back nicely in unison towards my rear leg, my right leg for me.

Then in the downswing everything is going to turn down to impact and I want to turn through to a big finish. So there is an element of spinning and turning through the balls, one of the greatest ways that we derive power and get some energy into the golf swing. But the idea of spinning out would be that from the top of the swing here, the lower body actually goes too quickly and it spins too early this way. And effectively my upper body then gets thrown upwards, hence the sort of spinning out of the shot.

Now from down the line, you can see the net effect of that spinning out was actually going to drop the golf club too far back behind me as well. So I swing up to the top and then I spin out. So my hips go this way, my body goes this way. The club gets dropped too far behind me. And again don't forget a blocked shot comes when the club is a long way behind. So the club is now a long way behind, effectively it's a bit stuck. Now from this position, if I don't release that club head in time the club head will stay open. It will effectively be on the square line to the path.

So the path is to the right. The club face is to the right. That ball is going to balloon down that right hand side without a great deal of chance of coming back. Really the only way I can rescue that spun out position would be to then find my hands and really work my hands too aggressively which is going to be a bit flippy. So it's like a block flipped position. It’s actually one of the old faults that Tiger used to have way, way back in the day when Tiger was playing some of his best golf. The one bad swing you could sometimes make was getting a bit stuck behind him where his hips had spun out a little bit too much.

One of the best ways you can actually get rid of that spinning out focus position is actually feel like you're trying to hit a little bit more of a fade. Generally speaking to hit more of a fade, the club's going to come out more in front of your body. You're not going to have the club dropped in behind you which is the fault. And actually the hips are going to be a little bit quieter. When the hips are quieter, your body will be a bit more stacked on top. So if that was the spinout block, the fade is going to feel a little bit more here where the upper body and the lower body turn in unison, and we come across the ball a little bit more.

So if you feel like a blocked shot and spinning out is your bad shot, maybe go to the driving range and just work on trying to hit some fades where the body's a bit more stacked rather than spun out. And hopefully that will be one of the reasons how you can stop blocking the ball, and start hitting that ball a little bit straighter.