What You Can Expect Now You Have Improved Your Early Golf Swing Release (Video) - by Pete Styles
What You Can Expect Now You Have Improved Your Early Golf Swing Release (Video) - by Pete Styles

So if you’ve now gone ahead and successfully made the changes and started to reduce the early or prerelease and started to hold the club into a better position, a better angle of attack, what we now expect, what’s the added benefit of doing this? Well, the first consideration would be you’d probably get a lower and slightly more penetrating ball flight. That’s going to make you a better golfer when you’re playing in windy conditions or into a headwind particularly, that allow more penetrating ball flight will definitely benefit you.

That in turn should give you a little bit more distance. You’re going to stop scooping the ball up in the air and hitting it too high, so more penetration and a little bit more distance to the shot. The other consideration might be that when you strike the golf ball, you should get a cleaner contact particularly if you were in sort of a bad lie or grassy lie. So, if there’s lots of grass behind the ball and you’re coming in with a flick and a scoop and a lift, that’s not really going to work out well for you. If you can have your hands ahead and strike down, you get a steeper angle of attack, a steeper contact, more ball and then turf, less turf ball, you get a better contact. That in turn, should actually give you a high degree of backspin. So when you’ll steep into the back of the gold ball with a nice lofty club, you create loads of spin loft, you create loads of spin. So when you’re landing the ball on the green, you might start to see it bite and spin on the green better, than if you drag the loaded grass and loaded mud into impact and then scoop the ball up in the air, your spin loft and suddenly your contact on the golf ball would reduce, you get too many flyers and that sort of thing. So, scooping the ball is not going to work for you in terms of generating spin. So a steep angle of attack and a better lag and release and a lack of an early release and a slightly later release, more distance, more penetration to the flight, a little bit more distance and more spin when the ball comes down, it sounds like a recipe for well stroke iron shots. 2016-04-20

So if you’ve now gone ahead and successfully made the changes and started to reduce the early or prerelease and started to hold the club into a better position, a better angle of attack, what we now expect, what’s the added benefit of doing this? Well, the first consideration would be you’d probably get a lower and slightly more penetrating ball flight. That’s going to make you a better golfer when you’re playing in windy conditions or into a headwind particularly, that allow more penetrating ball flight will definitely benefit you.

That in turn should give you a little bit more distance. You’re going to stop scooping the ball up in the air and hitting it too high, so more penetration and a little bit more distance to the shot. The other consideration might be that when you strike the golf ball, you should get a cleaner contact particularly if you were in sort of a bad lie or grassy lie. So, if there’s lots of grass behind the ball and you’re coming in with a flick and a scoop and a lift, that’s not really going to work out well for you.

If you can have your hands ahead and strike down, you get a steeper angle of attack, a steeper contact, more ball and then turf, less turf ball, you get a better contact. That in turn, should actually give you a high degree of backspin. So when you’ll steep into the back of the gold ball with a nice lofty club, you create loads of spin loft, you create loads of spin. So when you’re landing the ball on the green, you might start to see it bite and spin on the green better, than if you drag the loaded grass and loaded mud into impact and then scoop the ball up in the air, your spin loft and suddenly your contact on the golf ball would reduce, you get too many flyers and that sort of thing.

So, scooping the ball is not going to work for you in terms of generating spin. So a steep angle of attack and a better lag and release and a lack of an early release and a slightly later release, more distance, more penetration to the flight, a little bit more distance and more spin when the ball comes down, it sounds like a recipe for well stroke iron shots.