Take Your Improvement To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles
Take Your Improvement To The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles

So as with any changes that you might have made to your golf game in the past, changing the hand action that you’ve just done here through the golf ball to slow your hands down. That’s going to take quite a lot of time to bed in, particularly because it’s right to the vital points of impact, it happens very quickly. It’s very difficult to get feedback on this change of path of ball flight.

So if we want to change the ball flight, the best place to do this is on the driving range with a bucket of the golf balls. To take this change to the golf course immediately might be quite tricky, because you might start to see ball flight you’re not used to seeing. So if in the past, you’ve overused your hand action, you’ve had the ball hooking and flicking in this way, you might have actually started to see the ball go too far left. You might have compensated for that by aiming further to the right. If you’re no longer making the fault or the change with the hand action, but you’re still aiming right, you’re going to have a lot of really great straight shots, straight off-line to the right of target. So you might consider if you are overusing your hands and you’re flicking them in this way, you might have seen the ball going lower than you expected and actually rolling out further. So the change now, you’re hitting the ball better, is that the ball might go a little bit shorter, but it might stop a little bit quicker, which is actually a good thing for most of your iron shot. You don’t want the ball to land on the green and roll over the back. You want the ball to land on the green and put the breaks on. So by having a squarer face at impact, we don’t need to aim to the right-hand side anymore. We don’t need to hit the ball a million miles with 30, 40 yards with a roll, we can hit the ball dead straight to the flag. And hopefully, when the ball comes down on the green, it will land and stop. But those changes might take some time to bed in, but I have to remind yourselves of how to do this a few times on the golf course. So ideally, do this, first, on the driving range. Second, on the golf course in practice rounds where you can drop another ball then have another go if it doesn't work out. And then thirdly, take it out into the golf course in a competition. But do it in those orders, and hopefully that’s the most successful way you can find to use less hand action and stop this ball over rotating and hooking left. 2016-05-02

So as with any changes that you might have made to your golf game in the past, changing the hand action that you’ve just done here through the golf ball to slow your hands down. That’s going to take quite a lot of time to bed in, particularly because it’s right to the vital points of impact, it happens very quickly. It’s very difficult to get feedback on this change of path of ball flight.

So if we want to change the ball flight, the best place to do this is on the driving range with a bucket of the golf balls. To take this change to the golf course immediately might be quite tricky, because you might start to see ball flight you’re not used to seeing. So if in the past, you’ve overused your hand action, you’ve had the ball hooking and flicking in this way, you might have actually started to see the ball go too far left. You might have compensated for that by aiming further to the right. If you’re no longer making the fault or the change with the hand action, but you’re still aiming right, you’re going to have a lot of really great straight shots, straight off-line to the right of target.

So you might consider if you are overusing your hands and you’re flicking them in this way, you might have seen the ball going lower than you expected and actually rolling out further. So the change now, you’re hitting the ball better, is that the ball might go a little bit shorter, but it might stop a little bit quicker, which is actually a good thing for most of your iron shot. You don’t want the ball to land on the green and roll over the back. You want the ball to land on the green and put the breaks on. So by having a squarer face at impact, we don’t need to aim to the right-hand side anymore. We don’t need to hit the ball a million miles with 30, 40 yards with a roll, we can hit the ball dead straight to the flag. And hopefully, when the ball comes down on the green, it will land and stop.

But those changes might take some time to bed in, but I have to remind yourselves of how to do this a few times on the golf course. So ideally, do this, first, on the driving range. Second, on the golf course in practice rounds where you can drop another ball then have another go if it doesn't work out. And then thirdly, take it out into the golf course in a competition. But do it in those orders, and hopefully that’s the most successful way you can find to use less hand action and stop this ball over rotating and hooking left.