What causes a pulled golf shot and how can I correct them? Now a pulled golf shot starts to the left of the target, travels straight through the air and finishes to the left of the target without any kind of deviation in flight. It’s caused when the actual club travels on an outer path cutting across the body and the clubface remains square to that path. So if the club travels in this direction, travelling to the left of the target and the clubface is also pointing in the direction that the club is travelling you’re going to get a pulled shot.

Now the way to actually correct this is not to alter the clubface but to actually alter the path. What you want to actually be seeing is the club to be moving slightly from the inside the square to slightly on the inside through the ball. Now that simple way of practicing this is by using two balls placing one ball on the outside of the other with just enough room to actually sit the club head. Now what will happen if you come from out to in, you’ll actually hit the outside ball first and then the inside ball after, so you want a nice and close.

And what you want to be doing is feeling like you move very much from the inside catching the inside ball first and then extending down towards the target. So once you get set up just give yourself that little bit of room, move it to the top of the swing and then down on the inside, clipping the inside ball and missing the outside ball. So if you are struggling with the pull, it’s predominantly caused by a path which travels from out to in. So first of all fix the path and hopefully you’ll fix your pulled golf shot.