Stop Topping The Golf Ball Using This Guide (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles
Stop Topping The Golf Ball Using This Guide (Video) - Lesson by PGA Pro Pete Styles

I think one of the most frustrating shots for golfers and particularly beginners when they go out and play in the golf course is the top shot. Now a top shot is where the club would come down and hit the upper part of the golf ball. Anything above the equator would really be classed as a top shot, hits the top of the ball, the ball goes down. If you hit around the equator, we might class that as a thin shot and then lower than the equator, generally we’re going to be looking a better shots and the ball rising up into the air properly. So a top shot can actually be half an inch away from being a very good shot. And I think that’s where the frustration for a lot of beginners and improving golfers actually lies. Is that they feel they’ve made very really good set ups, really good backswings, they feel like everything is the same as it was on the previous shot, yet they lift up by half an inch, top of the golf ball and it goes stone cold along the floor. I'm going to try and hit myself at top; right over the top of the ball. Look at that skill, that ball has moved half an inch, I barely took the paint off the top of that ball.

Now if that happens to me on the first tee of a golf competition. I want the hole of the ground to – a hole in the ground to swallow me up and to die. You know if I made that swing a little bit lower, I would have the ball lovely flying up into the air, but over the top of the ball, barely take the paint of it and roll it straight across the floor. So if that’s happening to you on a regular basis, we need to understand how and why and what you can do differently to improve your shots. Now for a lot of golfers when they do that their mates will tell them, “They lifted their heads up.” It’s some kind of classic piece of advice. Probably they were told when they were topping the ball, “Oh yeah you lifted your head. And that’s always the problem, you know you looked up, don’t look up; keep looking down, we’ll watch the ball for you.” But actually that advice is slightly flawed. And hopefully the rest of the videos within this guide, are going to help you improve on topping the ball. So if this is your bad shot, this top shot that thins and goes nowhere across the floor then these next few videos are definitely going to help you out. 2015-10-09

I think one of the most frustrating shots for golfers and particularly beginners when they go out and play in the golf course is the top shot. Now a top shot is where the club would come down and hit the upper part of the golf ball. Anything above the equator would really be classed as a top shot, hits the top of the ball, the ball goes down. If you hit around the equator, we might class that as a thin shot and then lower than the equator, generally we’re going to be looking a better shots and the ball rising up into the air properly. So a top shot can actually be half an inch away from being a very good shot. And I think that’s where the frustration for a lot of beginners and improving golfers actually lies. Is that they feel they’ve made very really good set ups, really good backswings, they feel like everything is the same as it was on the previous shot, yet they lift up by half an inch, top of the golf ball and it goes stone cold along the floor. I'm going to try and hit myself at top; right over the top of the ball. Look at that skill, that ball has moved half an inch, I barely took the paint off the top of that ball.

Now if that happens to me on the first tee of a golf competition. I want the hole of the ground to – a hole in the ground to swallow me up and to die. You know if I made that swing a little bit lower, I would have the ball lovely flying up into the air, but over the top of the ball, barely take the paint of it and roll it straight across the floor. So if that’s happening to you on a regular basis, we need to understand how and why and what you can do differently to improve your shots. Now for a lot of golfers when they do that their mates will tell them, “They lifted their heads up.” It’s some kind of classic piece of advice. Probably they were told when they were topping the ball, “Oh yeah you lifted your head. And that’s always the problem, you know you looked up, don’t look up; keep looking down, we’ll watch the ball for you.” But actually that advice is slightly flawed. And hopefully the rest of the videos within this guide, are going to help you improve on topping the ball. So if this is your bad shot, this top shot that thins and goes nowhere across the floor then these next few videos are definitely going to help you out.