Golf - What Causes A Fat Shot
CAUSES OF A FAT SHOT - PGA Professional Robin Symes explains what causes a Fat Shot and on his website provides a complete list of fixes and drills. Transcript So you have a heavy shot and you want to know why. You're about to start looking at articles and tips to see if you can cure your heavy shot. Before you do that let me give you a little bit of help in understanding why a heavy shot happens. A heavy shot will happen because the bottom of your arch is too much to the right side of the ball. It's happening too early in the swing. Alright, if you can learn to move the bottom of your swing, the lowest point of your swing more to the left, you'll fix your heavy shot. I can't go through all the reasons in this video why that could be happening, why the bottom of your swing is too much to the right side of the ball, but I can give you some ideas and some things to check. I'd address one of the most common faults of not getting the bottom of your swing in the right place is ball position, perhaps the ball being too much to the left in the stance. A good swing bottom of the swing happens too early. Don't think it's the ball position just too much to the left. I've seen players with ball position extremely to the right. This causes them to compensate and hang back on their right foot, again, it creates a low point too much to the right side of the ball. Body position and set up, we're looking for reasonably 50/50 left foot to right foot. Players who've got too much weight on their right foot, perhaps the upper body tilted too much away from the target, and if they don't compensate and they stay in this position it will cause the low point to be to the right side of the ball. Backswing, one of the most common faults is the backswing sway where there's a big lateral movement to the right. They'll need to be a big compensation back to the left to hit the ball solid, but often with the sway to the right the player stays there. Again, the low point happens early, and we get a heavy shot. During swing you need to look out for a good transition. We're looking in the downswing for an early transfer of weight to the left foot. That's very important to be able to bring your low point onto the ball. If you hang back on the right foot, again, the low point will always happen too early, making it difficult to hit the ball solid. Lastly, the way you release the club. If you're somebody that early releases the club head, the club head gets released early and we have a scooping movement for the ball. Again, that will cause the low point to be too much to the right side of the ball. As I said, I can't go through all of the reasons, but basically you need to look for a way of moving your low point more to the left in the swing. Hopefully some of the reasons I've given you there will allow you to look through the correct articles and the correct tips helping you fix your heavy shot. For Online Lesson with Robin visit swingstation.com/online-lessons/ Visit my Blog: www.swingstation.com Find me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/robinsymesgolf Find me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/robinsymes Visit my Academy www.rnygi.com
