In this series he looks back at his classic lessons published in the magazine. Full Leaderboard. Instruction How to Stop Topping. March 20, Share this story Facebook Twitter LinkedIn. Topping your tee shots can be the most disastrous feeling on the golf course because this bad shot reverberates throughout every shot afterwards and can cause a round to be ruined.
A topped tee shot can lead you to a simple explanation of how the shot was hit and why it was so bad. There is a simple explanation to it, but the problem is then making the relevant adjustments so that the shot doesnt happen again. When any shot goes badly, it is important to check the fundamentals of the shot. Make sure the address position is perfect so that if there is a fault, you know for sure it is the swing.
The best golfers start the ball left or right of the target line and then curve the ball back towards the target. What will the ball do? Answer: The ball will start right of the target line and draw back towards the target. This is known as a push draw.
Answer: The ball will start to the right of the target line and will fade to the right. Keep in mind that the ball will curve away from the swing path.
In this example, both the club face and the swing path are to the right and the ball will curve away from the path. Answer: The ball will start to the left and curve to the right. This would be a pull fade or pull slice. Keep in mind that even though the face is closed to the target line, it is open to the swing path and the ball will curve away from the swing path. Hopefully, these examples help you understand the club face and swing path correlation and how they match up.
Once you understand these ball flight laws, it will help you read your own shots and possibly make in round adjustments. One potential cause of the pull shot left with the driver is you stop rotating. The hips and legs will stop and the hands and upper body will take over.
If you do not manipulate and push out to the right you can hit a pull shot with the driver. The Fix: Get a deep enough turn on the backswing and then keep turning through the ball. In any good golf shot, the shoulders do open and the best is facing the target somewhat at impact.
However, when this is the first move from the top, the end result is a shot that will either be a pull left or a pull left that slices significantly. The Fix: The golfer should work on sequencing and getting the legs and hips moving as the upper body stays back slightly as the downswing begin. One of the best at teaching this movement is George Gankas. While he does teach a rather rotational golf swing, it does start with the upper body staying back or closed as the legs begin the downswing.
When the hands are overactive in the golf swing, the end result can be a major hook if your path stays inside or a pull shot if your path is left.
This is the results of an improper release and maybe the many years of teaching of turning the toe over through the shot. Now the other problem, swaying during the backswing takes the swing arc further away from the ball.
This makes it difficult to get the body moved forward again to the good address position you probably ensured you had to start with. The result with both these situations is that they cause the arc of the swing to be to high when contacting the ball with the club.
Instead of the middle of the club striking the ball, it is continuing on the upstroke and the bottom of the club is what is striking the ball. As I mentioned earlier, the club is contacting the ball above its equator resulting in topping the golf ball with the driver. The best way to avoid such shots is to have a good understanding of the golf swing sequence.
Which breaks down all the possible errors that may be happening. We have a much wider selection of drivers these days and choosing the right one for you is important. The drivers we find today with the oversized heads can be a lot more forgiving when hitting a bad drive. The deeper face especially when the ball is teed up, can see you topping less often. More often than not, when we pull out a fairway wood we do so in the knowledge, we need to get some distance.
Perhaps we have bunkers to negotiate or a water hazard that it is imperative we clear. Giving ourselves the chance of making birdie or perhaps securing a par, hinges on getting the ball up close to the pin. Once again, we have put ourselves in the exact same position as when driving.
Trying to murder the ball and swaying away from the ball, trying to achieve the required distance. We might imagine we are the Tiger when swinging the club as fast as he does BUT. Remember the Tiger Woods practice routine was 12 hours a day.
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