Stop And Left Hand Causes Golf Blocked Shots (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Stop And Left Hand Causes Golf Blocked Shots (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

So if we’ve understood now that the blocked shot the one that goes straight out to the right without a great deal of curve is cause for two issues. Firstly the club is coming too much from the inside. Then secondly is the club faces square to the path rather than closing to the path. If it was closing to the path or closed to the path, the ball would have more potential chance of drawing in from right to left. The reason why that club face is held open and held to the right of target too much is often down to the stubborn left hand, a left hand that refuses to release the golf club at the right time.

So we often see golfers that would hold the face open here with their left hand as a right-handed golfer face points too far right, then maybe the club releases much later on. But we know we've got to be releasing the golf club down towards the golf ball at the right time to have that club face coming round more square. So if a blocked shot for you is because the face is too far to the right, here’s a great little exercise to let the hands release a little bit better. And generally speaking it's quite a simple exercise. We could pop the feet together. If I put my feet together and I just think about making an L shape swing. So my L shape swing is the L shape on this side like the letter L and then the L shape on this side like the letter L. So if I swing L shape to L shape, L shape to L shape that motion will allow those hands and arms to release through correctly. In a wider swing, I might have my L shape here but I might have it in a straight line here. My left hand hasn't released the club. So to hit these little L shape exercise is a great way of letting that left hand release. So I've just got myself an 8 iron, put the ball up on the tee peg here because we don't need to worry too much about the strike of this. It’s just to get the feel of this left hand releasing and rotating. Set up dead opposite the ball with my feet touching each other, pick a target that only needs to be fifty yards away and just L shape to L shape. And as I let my hands release, you can see how my hand released over and I got myself around to a nice L shape follow-through. That action and engraining that action into your swing should definitely reduce the amount of blocked shots you're currently hitting. 2016-07-13

So if we’ve understood now that the blocked shot the one that goes straight out to the right without a great deal of curve is cause for two issues. Firstly the club is coming too much from the inside. Then secondly is the club faces square to the path rather than closing to the path. If it was closing to the path or closed to the path, the ball would have more potential chance of drawing in from right to left. The reason why that club face is held open and held to the right of target too much is often down to the stubborn left hand, a left hand that refuses to release the golf club at the right time.

So we often see golfers that would hold the face open here with their left hand as a right-handed golfer face points too far right, then maybe the club releases much later on. But we know we've got to be releasing the golf club down towards the golf ball at the right time to have that club face coming round more square. So if a blocked shot for you is because the face is too far to the right, here’s a great little exercise to let the hands release a little bit better. And generally speaking it's quite a simple exercise.

We could pop the feet together. If I put my feet together and I just think about making an L shape swing. So my L shape swing is the L shape on this side like the letter L and then the L shape on this side like the letter L. So if I swing L shape to L shape, L shape to L shape that motion will allow those hands and arms to release through correctly. In a wider swing, I might have my L shape here but I might have it in a straight line here. My left hand hasn't released the club. So to hit these little L shape exercise is a great way of letting that left hand release.

So I've just got myself an 8 iron, put the ball up on the tee peg here because we don't need to worry too much about the strike of this. It’s just to get the feel of this left hand releasing and rotating. Set up dead opposite the ball with my feet touching each other, pick a target that only needs to be fifty yards away and just L shape to L shape. And as I let my hands release, you can see how my hand released over and I got myself around to a nice L shape follow-through. That action and engraining that action into your swing should definitely reduce the amount of blocked shots you're currently hitting.