Use Punch Shots To Improve Your Early Golf Swing Release (Video) - by Pete Styles
Use Punch Shots To Improve Your Early Golf Swing Release (Video) - by Pete Styles

It's nice I had a couple of shots so and just get a feeling of trying to delay my wrist release into the back of the ball. So I'm trying to prevent its early release, this early flick. And the feeling though I get when I hit a shot like that particularly, is very much of a punch shot. If you watch that shot again you'll identify the fact that it's a relatively short back swing and a relatively cut off follow through, quite a nice deep divot on a very low ball flight. I might going to have to wedge there when that ball flight came out pretty low.

And the feeling of doing that is to try and establish the de-lofting sensation of having the hands in front of point of impact. With the understanding that if I pre-release and early release and scoop to this element, I'm going to hit the ball quite high. And scoop underneath it, knock it in the sky, potentially hit the ball fat and not far enough. So, punching the ball with a wedge is getting my angle but maintaining my angle, staying left for a right-handed golfer, staying left, staying on top of it, delaying the hand action and hitting and curving the golf ball with a much lower ball flight. So when you go to the driving range, if you are struggling with the early and pre-release, I would encourage you to hit lots of wedge shots, lots of punch shots during your practice session, at the start particularly. But also intersperse the rest of your practice with punch shots. So if in the middle of your session you go back to hitting your full seven nine's, you know, as you start hitting your seven nine higher, and higher, and higher then you start to feel the pre-release in the scoop to drop back down to doing those wedges again. Those punch wedges, punch wedges, feel like you can get a hold of angle. Punch shots are probably the best tip I can give you to stop your early or pre-release.
2016-04-20

It's nice I had a couple of shots so and just get a feeling of trying to delay my wrist release into the back of the ball. So I'm trying to prevent its early release, this early flick. And the feeling though I get when I hit a shot like that particularly, is very much of a punch shot. If you watch that shot again you'll identify the fact that it's a relatively short back swing and a relatively cut off follow through, quite a nice deep divot on a very low ball flight. I might going to have to wedge there when that ball flight came out pretty low.

And the feeling of doing that is to try and establish the de-lofting sensation of having the hands in front of point of impact. With the understanding that if I pre-release and early release and scoop to this element, I'm going to hit the ball quite high. And scoop underneath it, knock it in the sky, potentially hit the ball fat and not far enough. So, punching the ball with a wedge is getting my angle but maintaining my angle, staying left for a right-handed golfer, staying left, staying on top of it, delaying the hand action and hitting and curving the golf ball with a much lower ball flight.

So when you go to the driving range, if you are struggling with the early and pre-release, I would encourage you to hit lots of wedge shots, lots of punch shots during your practice session, at the start particularly. But also intersperse the rest of your practice with punch shots. So if in the middle of your session you go back to hitting your full seven nine's, you know, as you start hitting your seven nine higher, and higher, and higher then you start to feel the pre-release in the scoop to drop back down to doing those wedges again. Those punch wedges, punch wedges, feel like you can get a hold of angle. Punch shots are probably the best tip I can give you to stop your early or pre-release.