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Practice Swing Drill – Fix your Pop-Up and Skies!

November 28, 2024May 6, 2008 by SirShanksAlot

Practice Swing Drill ~ Fix your Pop-Up and Skies! Problem: The player’s weight tends to remain on the front foot into the downswing. Result: The swing becomes extremely steep, and tends to travel out to in. Especially with woods, this problem tends to lead to a shot that goes extremely high, and doesn’t travel very … Read more

Ball Sweep Drill – Cure your Pull and Pop-Ups

November 28, 2024June 2, 2006 by SirShanksAlot

There is one major difference between the proper swing for a driver, and for an iron. That difference is the angle of attack. The angle of attack refers to the angle at which the club is coming at the ball into impact. For irons this angle should be steeper, as to help get the ball into the air with lots of spin. With the driver however, the angle of attack should be very shallow, as the club is designed to sweep the ball off a tee.

A Simple Drill An Over-The-Top Steep Swing Path

November 27, 2024October 16, 2012 by SirShanksAlot

If anyone has ever given you hard time after skying a tee-shot with a comment like ‘I hope you brought your defroster’ then you’ll enjoy this next drill. Skied tee shots and chunks are often caused by the same swing fault — and over-the-top, steep downswing. Since a large majority of the golfing population suffers … Read more

Fix Getting Underneath It

November 8, 2010 by SirShanksAlot

Many players suffer from fat shots. Instead of laying the sod over the ball, quite often you can get underneath the ball and pop it up, or sky it. The ultimate symptom that causes this swing fault is an overly steep swing into impact. As this video shows, the most common fault for such a steep swing is poor ball position. If the ball is placed too far back in your stance, you can’t properly sequence your downswing. Instead you’re forced to release your wrists early, and it becomes very easy to pop it up. The simple fix – keep a close eye on your ball position. One of the easiest ways to do this is to simply place a shaft on the ground, pointing at your ball – setup to the ball, and you’ll get instant feedback on your ball position in relation to your stance.