Tee peg in top of grip for online backswing, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles
Tee peg in top of grip for online backswing, Golf (Video) - by Pete Styles

So, here's another great drill for you just using the humble tee peg to help you improve the positions you can get to in your backswing. As I set up to the golf ball here, I'm actually taking an alignment stick and lay the alignment stick pointing exactly down my target line, parallel to my target line so my ball to the target line here.

I then take my address position to the golf ball. I've got my tee peg stuck in the butt end. Then I make my takeaway and just turn the club away from the ball and just notice how the tee peg will start to point onto the yellow line. I want to feel like it's in a groove now and it's going to run down the yellow line and feel like the yellow line could be extended as far this way and as far this way as possible, almost like standing on a big train line.

The butt end of the tee peg should run up and down that yellow line. If I was to take the golf club away incorrectly, the club would point off the yellow line, too flat, or too steep, it would point off the yellow line on the inside. So, it's a really good way of getting the feel for taking the club away on plane is to run the tee peg up and down the yellow line.

Now, if I can turn sideways now using this yellow line, so I'll actually imagine we've got it there, the golf ball sits on the yellow line there. I'm going to turn away. I'm going to run the tee peg up and down the yellow line and I can feel how that's grooving a really nice stroke that would ultimately deliver the club head, the opposite end of the tee peg, now feel over the club head onto the yellow line to hit the golf ball.

If my tee peg points off line, the club head would be there and if the tee peg points inside, the club head would be here or I would have to make an adjustment in my stroke. That's the thing with this drill is we don't want to have to make compensatory movements and compensatory adjustments.

So, we can run the tee peg down the yellow line, back down the yellow line again. That should really give you a good, helpful aid of how that can help you stay on plane and on line for straighter golf shots.

 2013-01-22

So, here's another great drill for you just using the humble tee peg to help you improve the positions you can get to in your backswing. As I set up to the golf ball here, I'm actually taking an alignment stick and lay the alignment stick pointing exactly down my target line, parallel to my target line so my ball to the target line here.

I then take my address position to the golf ball. I've got my tee peg stuck in the butt end. Then I make my takeaway and just turn the club away from the ball and just notice how the tee peg will start to point onto the yellow line. I want to feel like it's in a groove now and it's going to run down the yellow line and feel like the yellow line could be extended as far this way and as far this way as possible, almost like standing on a big train line.

The butt end of the tee peg should run up and down that yellow line. If I was to take the golf club away incorrectly, the club would point off the yellow line, too flat, or too steep, it would point off the yellow line on the inside. So, it's a really good way of getting the feel for taking the club away on plane is to run the tee peg up and down the yellow line.

Now, if I can turn sideways now using this yellow line, so I'll actually imagine we've got it there, the golf ball sits on the yellow line there. I'm going to turn away. I'm going to run the tee peg up and down the yellow line and I can feel how that's grooving a really nice stroke that would ultimately deliver the club head, the opposite end of the tee peg, now feel over the club head onto the yellow line to hit the golf ball.

If my tee peg points off line, the club head would be there and if the tee peg points inside, the club head would be here or I would have to make an adjustment in my stroke. That's the thing with this drill is we don't want to have to make compensatory movements and compensatory adjustments.

So, we can run the tee peg down the yellow line, back down the yellow line again. That should really give you a good, helpful aid of how that can help you stay on plane and on line for straighter golf shots.