If you’re struggling with the mountains, try focusing on the advice of Jonathan Yarwood’s 100 Best Golf Teachers.
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Everyone gets it wrong – it’s a guarantee in this game – but it can happen in many different ways. There they are slices and hooks, short and long, tops and pieces… you get the idea.
Unless you are a club testing robot, you will always encounter your fair share of bugs. The key to improvement is understanding why these errors happen and how you can fix them.
Today we will talk about thin arrows. For more, we turn to 100 best golf teachers Jonathan Yarwood.
Why did you hit weakly?
I hit it thin essentially means that you have no contact with the ground when hitting the ball. As we all know, the key to hitting the ball solidly with your irons is contact with the ball and then with the turf. However, when you hit weakly, you lack contact with the pitch.
Why is this happening? It all depends on where the lowest point of your swing is.
“Your worst point is behind the ball,” says Yarwood. “The club and the angle of attack go up when you hit it. What we see from elite players is that the angle of attack is decreasing.”
How to fix thin shots
As Yarwood notes, the key to a solid shot is to reduce the angle of attack when hitting the ball. To do this properly, you need to focus on shifting weight and pressure correctly.
From the top of the swing you want the weight and pressure to move to the lead side. Focus on the feeling of your lead side moving two to three inches closer to the target as your swing transitions from the top to your arms being parallel on the downswing.
“This way you put your hands forward, tilt the handle and reduce the angle of attack,” he says.
Try this exercise
If you want to perpetuate that feeling on the shooting range, try this simple exercise. Take your normal setup and backswing, but as you start the downswing, take a small step with your lead leg.
“You do this, the angle of attack decreases, the path turns to the left, the mass moves as it should,” Yarwood says. – You’ll crush it.
