Probably the biggest benefit for keeping your head behind the golf ball as you are hitting the ball is going to be the added distance it will create. We see these real big power hitters on the tours, on the TV. And when they hit the golf ball you've really got a feeling that they've taken their bodyweight to their rear side and driving the body weight forwards very aggressively. But leaving the upper body and the head back and really that's a case of getting their head and the upper body out of the way to give the bottom half of the swing and the club head as it comes through, lots and lots of room to come through really quickly. Because if the head gets in the way, as the club comes through, it's got nowhere to go.

It almost gets in its own way with the swing. So the head staying back will add an awful lot of distance to your game. The next thing we can do by keeping the head behind the golf ball at the point of impact is actually improve the direction of the shot. It just changes the swing path into a nice position, so the swing should be coming through on a nice line into the back of the ball. Well if the upper body gets too far forwards you’ll often find the golfer comes over the top a little bit, hits down on the golf ball a bit too much and can cause problems with the line of the swing. So keeping the head back behind the ball should add distance, and should also add a little bit of sort of more accuracy to your game if you like.

The third issues, the third benefit if you like of keeping your head back behind the golf ball is just the simplicity that your head is a nice anchoring point for your downswing. So as you set up to the golf ball your head's going to remain quite still at the setup. You turn back slightly. Now your head doesn't really do a great deal in your downswing. Anyone that’s got their head up and down too much or sliding into the golf ball too much, you don't really have this simple, almost like fulcrum center of the circle, and the fulcrum there to turn around. We've got the head going up and down too much.

One final issue, probably the most important issue for a lot of golfers with the bigger clubs anyway is the angle of attack. Now the angle of attack is what we use to describe the angle that the club will be coming down into the golf ball on here. So if the angle of attack is too steep, we're going to find the club will just come crashing down into the back of the ball potentially de-lofting the golf club. But also if the angle of attack is too shallow we might find that the club actually bounces into the floor first. We hit fat shots with that. The head getting too far in front of the golf ball is generally going to be increasing the angle of attack and making this too steep.

So we swing to the top, we slide the head too much to the left and then hit down, we're going to end up hitting punch shots, very low shots, big crushing deep divots. This might work with your wedges because you’ve got enough loft and enough bounce on the way to get to the ball to pop up again. But if you're playing with you driver, your 3-wood, hybrid clubs, long irons, and you are getting too far left you're just going to hitting down on that golf ball too much hammering down on it, and changing the angle of attack and just hitting the golf ball too low. So there are four key benefits for keeping your head back behind the golf ball in your impact position.