Stop Over Rotating Your Hands In The Golf Swing And Regain Control Of Your Ball Flight (Video) - by Pete Styles
Stop Over Rotating Your Hands In The Golf Swing And Regain Control Of Your Ball Flight (Video) - by Pete Styles

One of the key fundamentals that goes into actually hitting the golf ball straight each time is making sure that when you do strike the golf ball you have got the clubface in a squarer position towards the target as you would want to hit the ball straight. So, if we want to hit a really, really straight ball flight, it doesn’t have any real curve to it. We need to have the clubface nice and square to that target line or the target path.

So, as I go ahead and setup here, I take really good care in picking out a target, aiming everything in the right direction and making sure that my clubface is that square. But then as soon as I move away from the address position, the clubface is nowhere near square, it has to be offline very, very quickly in the backswing. And actually throughout the whole swing, the club points nowhere near the target, all the way down through the swing until it comes very much back to impact. And the impact is only square for fraction of a second, and then it’s left so open square and closes very, very quickly through the impact face. And it’s really important at that point I get the club as square as possible. Now one of the things that enables me to do that is the control and the rotation of my hands and arms and forearms. So, at some point we understand the clubface must square up and then release through to a close position. Now lots of golfers struggle with having the face open too often and slicing the ball out to the right hand side. But increasingly we see good players, actually have too much rotation of the forearms, effectively hawking the ball too far down the left hand side because their hands and forearms are doing too much through the impact zone. So, in this next series of videos we are going to investigate the issues that that create and how we can go about solving that problem for you. 2016-05-02

One of the key fundamentals that goes into actually hitting the golf ball straight each time is making sure that when you do strike the golf ball you have got the clubface in a squarer position towards the target as you would want to hit the ball straight. So, if we want to hit a really, really straight ball flight, it doesn’t have any real curve to it. We need to have the clubface nice and square to that target line or the target path.

So, as I go ahead and setup here, I take really good care in picking out a target, aiming everything in the right direction and making sure that my clubface is that square. But then as soon as I move away from the address position, the clubface is nowhere near square, it has to be offline very, very quickly in the backswing. And actually throughout the whole swing, the club points nowhere near the target, all the way down through the swing until it comes very much back to impact. And the impact is only square for fraction of a second, and then it’s left so open square and closes very, very quickly through the impact face. And it’s really important at that point I get the club as square as possible.

Now one of the things that enables me to do that is the control and the rotation of my hands and arms and forearms. So, at some point we understand the clubface must square up and then release through to a close position. Now lots of golfers struggle with having the face open too often and slicing the ball out to the right hand side. But increasingly we see good players, actually have too much rotation of the forearms, effectively hawking the ball too far down the left hand side because their hands and forearms are doing too much through the impact zone. So, in this next series of videos we are going to investigate the issues that that create and how we can go about solving that problem for you.