In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer know that shanking the golf ball is one of the most frustrating elements that any golfer can encounter during their career. Utilizing some of these key points will hopefully stop the shanks for good. Setting up with adequate space between the golfer and the golf ball is a great starting point. A second key point would be to swing the golf club on a more inside path, where the hands return close back to the legs in the downswing. This exercise can further be reinforced by placing an obstruction outside the line of the golf ball which if hit would indicate a shank is still an issue.

One of the most frustrating aspects of anybody's golfing game and also one of the woods that we've got Cockney rhyming slang for is the shank. All this Cockney rhyming slang for the old Larry Lanks, Lucy Locket there Is a few more as well I'm sure we'll think of. Words like that are things we want to hear people often you know don't even like to say they word shank because think they're going to catch the unmentionables so I'm going to call it the shanks.

So if you've got the shanks or if you're prone to throwing the odd one in you know how destructive they are in terms of ruining your round but also ruining your confidence. Now Matt you're going to go some pretty good advice about how you can understand what your swing is doing to create the shank but also a drill or an exercise to stop the shank. Yeah definitely and as we as we said just before we do that we've got to understand when we are shanking where it's coming from on the golf club so we've got you know 2 types of shank we've got one we'll see this one is the most predominant one where it's coming from the heel of the golf club.