Strike Your Hybrid Pure – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Strike Your Hybrid Pure – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer give you tips on how to improve the ball striking of your hybrid golf club. Changing the ball position will encourage a cleaner strike every time. The focus will be placed on the lie of the ball and how that can affect the ball position for the desired strike with a hybrid golf club.

For a lot of golfers for is nothing more scary than trying to hit a long iron off a tight lie 3 or 4 and God forbid you've still got one or 2 iron. I mean that definitely should have gone a long time ago. The big thing that's come into the game of golf over 10 15 years has made those long irons a lot less scary for lot of people to these guys taking a hybrid golf club and putting it in your bag instead of a long iron 1- 2 iron certainly maybe 3 - 4 irons these days as well. A hybrid golf club has made the game a lot easier for people encouraging golfers to hit the ball further from a sort of a standard or substandard lie the fairway where they need that this hybrid golf club has a lot of weight low and seep underneath the golf ball quite a lot of loft on the club face. Often a nice long graphite shaft which encourages club head speed to this please ideally designed to sweep the ball up into the air and hit those long shots from the fairway. A lot of club golfers be struck with with the long irons but sometimes the technique isn't quite right the technique isn't quite there but the hybrid golf club sometimes these clubs are called utility clubs of course they can do a lot of different jobs like utility vehicle. They do a lot of different things like we need to understand the technique behind them. So Matt give me the basics of where a hybrid should be your whole position and use that.

OK so like you've alluded to there it's a replacement for a longer iron so there's knowing that as we're going off past that from somewhat to driver we're moving the ball back up towards our lead foot. So if I turn to this camera here now what we'd like to see is something where I've got 3 hybrid out here this ball position now is getting quite close towards my lead here all that so I've got center of my body here and it's just starting to work. OK somewhere where maybe you'd have a 5 wood or a 7 wood if you got one of those or 3 wood it's going to be working back up towards my lead foot. I'm just going to stop you there, through the issues the golfer would find if they had the ball in the wrong place what it be if it was too far back yeah from here to show you going to come down to steep on. It's not got a lot of loft on it and with these it's sort of the mix like you said it's a utility between the iron and the wood and it has got quite a big sole on it not as big as you 3 wood or your 5 wood or fairly large sole and what we want to do is get this actually get this riding the turf a little bit, and if we get it too far back in our stance we're going to find that we come down too steep and that almost becomes irrelevant that sole now so we're not going to be able to get it up in the air with the lack of loft on it as well. So ball too far back is too low with a hybrid you say so if you've got a hybrid club you struggling to get it in the air that's point there is maybe that will assist you to pop back in your stance and you just delofting hitting the floor.

The opposite then the ball to far forward. Generally what probably you are going to find quite a few of them not which sometimes get extend or get it to have you know seen it's too far up here we get it too much and again in the sky it stalls a little bit and also like the contact isn't going to be great the think the biggest point for me with a with a hybrid and even a fairway wood.We see that there's not a lot of loft on them so people are trying to get into the point where they're helping them. So thin shots occasionally fat shots and if you catch it it goes almost stalling too high could be the ball too far forwards too low is the ball too far back. OK Now talk me through the changes that we might make with up ball position in relation to the lie it we've got. Cause a hybrid very versatile lots of different lies yeah obviously again it's got the big sole on it it can be used out the rough if you were trying to get you know I say a one or 2 even 3 4 irons out of the rough very hard to hit those out of the rough with these we can pop it a little bit further back so we would get a little bit steeper it's got a shallower face than your irons.

So it would get under the ball little bit and help it get out of those little bit of the snarly lie it would pick it up out of those just by popping it a little bit further back towards center not completely back in center, but just a tiny bit more maybe half an inch an inch from where we normally play. It occasionally might be hitting a hybrid club it was on a small tee maybe playing into a past 3 so we teed up a little slightly to switch it up in the air or maybe a 180 190 par 3 or position here we go a bit more forward you think? Yeah again just trying to we're not trying to get down on it as much from me I want to see people take try and take tiny divots with hybrids and fairway woods. I wanna see that the just just doing it when we get it on the take number one how high the actual ball is off the ground there forget it too high with a high but it is a very shallow face like you eluded to a second ago if we get it too high up in the air as if we want a driver or a fairway wood we could go under it. So just pegging or pepper it slightly like you would and I am pretty much because it's a shallow face and again just trying to get that little brush of the turn as we go through it. So it is actually quite a lot of detailed information in that little video there but talking about a ball position that's well left of center for the right handed golfer taking a normal high because look if we have a ball sitting in the rough we play back a little bit more to sit down if we're playing on a good lie on a tee peg we play a little bit more forward to sweep it up. Yeah if you've got it too far back position you still come out too lower too far forwards it's going to come out thin fat or to far high. Loads of different variations, but if you can get that ball position correctly you can get your setup in the correct position for the hybrid club and you can sweep it away nicely as Mat said just nipping together nicely not taking a big divots it's just bruising that to do you should get these hybrid clubs real good strong parts of your game and replace those difficult hits with the long irons.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer give you tips on how to improve the ball striking of your hybrid golf club. Changing the ball position will encourage a cleaner strike every time. The focus will be placed on the lie of the ball and how that can affect the ball position for the desired strike with a hybrid golf club.

For a lot of golfers for is nothing more scary than trying to hit a long iron off a tight lie 3 or 4 and God forbid you've still got one or 2 iron. I mean that definitely should have gone a long time ago. The big thing that's come into the game of golf over 10 15 years has made those long irons a lot less scary for lot of people to these guys taking a hybrid golf club and putting it in your bag instead of a long iron 1- 2 iron certainly maybe 3 – 4 irons these days as well. A hybrid golf club has made the game a lot easier for people encouraging golfers to hit the ball further from a sort of a standard or substandard lie the fairway where they need that this hybrid golf club has a lot of weight low and seep underneath the golf ball quite a lot of loft on the club face. Often a nice long graphite shaft which encourages club head speed to this please ideally designed to sweep the ball up into the air and hit those long shots from the fairway. A lot of club golfers be struck with with the long irons but sometimes the technique isn't quite right the technique isn't quite there but the hybrid golf club sometimes these clubs are called utility clubs of course they can do a lot of different jobs like utility vehicle. They do a lot of different things like we need to understand the technique behind them. So Matt give me the basics of where a hybrid should be your whole position and use that.

OK so like you've alluded to there it's a replacement for a longer iron so there's knowing that as we're going off past that from somewhat to driver we're moving the ball back up towards our lead foot. So if I turn to this camera here now what we'd like to see is something where I've got 3 hybrid out here this ball position now is getting quite close towards my lead here all that so I've got center of my body here and it's just starting to work. OK somewhere where maybe you'd have a 5 wood or a 7 wood if you got one of those or 3 wood it's going to be working back up towards my lead foot. I'm just going to stop you there, through the issues the golfer would find if they had the ball in the wrong place what it be if it was too far back yeah from here to show you going to come down to steep on. It's not got a lot of loft on it and with these it's sort of the mix like you said it's a utility between the iron and the wood and it has got quite a big sole on it not as big as you 3 wood or your 5 wood or fairly large sole and what we want to do is get this actually get this riding the turf a little bit, and if we get it too far back in our stance we're going to find that we come down too steep and that almost becomes irrelevant that sole now so we're not going to be able to get it up in the air with the lack of loft on it as well. So ball too far back is too low with a hybrid you say so if you've got a hybrid club you struggling to get it in the air that's point there is maybe that will assist you to pop back in your stance and you just delofting hitting the floor.

The opposite then the ball to far forward. Generally what probably you are going to find quite a few of them not which sometimes get extend or get it to have you know seen it's too far up here we get it too much and again in the sky it stalls a little bit and also like the contact isn't going to be great the think the biggest point for me with a with a hybrid and even a fairway wood.We see that there's not a lot of loft on them so people are trying to get into the point where they're helping them. So thin shots occasionally fat shots and if you catch it it goes almost stalling too high could be the ball too far forwards too low is the ball too far back. OK Now talk me through the changes that we might make with up ball position in relation to the lie it we've got. Cause a hybrid very versatile lots of different lies yeah obviously again it's got the big sole on it it can be used out the rough if you were trying to get you know I say a one or 2 even 3 4 irons out of the rough very hard to hit those out of the rough with these we can pop it a little bit further back so we would get a little bit steeper it's got a shallower face than your irons.

So it would get under the ball little bit and help it get out of those little bit of the snarly lie it would pick it up out of those just by popping it a little bit further back towards center not completely back in center, but just a tiny bit more maybe half an inch an inch from where we normally play. It occasionally might be hitting a hybrid club it was on a small tee maybe playing into a past 3 so we teed up a little slightly to switch it up in the air or maybe a 180 190 par 3 or position here we go a bit more forward you think? Yeah again just trying to we're not trying to get down on it as much from me I want to see people take try and take tiny divots with hybrids and fairway woods. I wanna see that the just just doing it when we get it on the take number one how high the actual ball is off the ground there forget it too high with a high but it is a very shallow face like you eluded to a second ago if we get it too high up in the air as if we want a driver or a fairway wood we could go under it. So just pegging or pepper it slightly like you would and I am pretty much because it's a shallow face and again just trying to get that little brush of the turn as we go through it. So it is actually quite a lot of detailed information in that little video there but talking about a ball position that's well left of center for the right handed golfer taking a normal high because look if we have a ball sitting in the rough we play back a little bit more to sit down if we're playing on a good lie on a tee peg we play a little bit more forward to sweep it up. Yeah if you've got it too far back position you still come out too lower too far forwards it's going to come out thin fat or to far high. Loads of different variations, but if you can get that ball position correctly you can get your setup in the correct position for the hybrid club and you can sweep it away nicely as Mat said just nipping together nicely not taking a big divots it's just bruising that to do you should get these hybrid clubs real good strong parts of your game and replace those difficult hits with the long irons.