Written by Adrian Fryer on Friday 7 September 2012
Just because your ball curves to the right and misses the target on that side, it doesn’t mean you hit a slice. A slice is a ball flight that starts left of the target and finishes right of it. But a push fade is a shot that starts right of target and moves further right through the air. If you relate...
Written by Chris Ryan on Thursday 16 August 2012
The driver requires an upward hit and to do that, the spine needs to lean away from the target. Because the ball is positioned forward and our right hand is lower than our left hand at address (for a right-handed player), we should naturally have some spine tilt in place before the swing starts. But what many amateurs do incorrectly is...
Written by Lee Scarbrow on Friday 29 June 2012
Golfers that snatch the club away to start their swing will find this move leads to a chain reaction of other poor swing moves, resulting in a wide dispersion and inconsistent strikes. A simple way of preventing this snatchy takeaway is the hover the club to the ball in the address position, as TG Elite Pro Lee Scarbrow explains in this...
Written by Rob Watts on Thursday 10 May 2012
It’s the shot every golfer wants to hit off the tee but one that requires the courage to aim right and trust your technique. The key point here is that to launch the ball high and start right of target, your clubface must be open at address. As TG Elite Pro Rob Watts explains in this golf video tip, by swinging...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Thursday 10 May 2012
What most golf magazines and websites rarely talk about is the importance of rhythm in your golf swing. Swinging with a rhythm that’s right for you helps to syncronise the swinging of the arms with the turn and unwinding of the body. In this golf video tip, TG Elite Pro Adrian Fryer demonstrates a drill that will help you discover your...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Thursday 10 May 2012
You’ve heard it 100 times but yet the majority of amateur golfers still start their downswing with the upper body, which throws the club outside the line and often results in a weak slice. If you were to imagine for a moment that you hitting a ball from a very high tee peg, how would you set-up to the ball? This...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Thursday 10 May 2012
In an effort to hit the ball further off the tee, there’s nothing to be gained from swinging the club faster if you don’t strike the ball out of the sweetspot. In fact, as the great Jack Nicklaus said, making sure you strike the ball pure out of the middle of the clubface every time is the most important part of...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Wednesday 16 May 2012
Many club golfers struggle to strike their fairway woods correctly because they lose their posture during the swing, causing them to top the ball along the ground. As TG Elite Pro Adrian Fryer explains in this golf video tip, a great mental image to help become more successful with this shot is to imagine there’s a coin underneath the ball and...
Written by Adrian Fryer on Wednesday 11 April 2012
You can promote the ideal level angle of attack with a fairway wood by ensuring the shaft is vertical at the point of impact. As TG Elite Pro Adrian Fryer explains in this video tip, when you do this you present the maker’s loft to the ball. This gives you the optimum launch angle so you can hit your...
Written by Rob Watts on Wednesday 11 April 2012
Power is created in the backswing by coiling the upper body against the lower body. This stretch, the difference in rotation between the hips and the shoulders, is called the ‘X’ Factor. A way you can increase yours is by keeping the lower half of the body nice and stable during the backswing, as TG Elite Pro Rob Watts...
Written by Rob Watts on Thursday 8 March 2012
Amateur golfers often overcomplicate their driving method by thinking too much about their swing plane among other factors that affect where the ball goes Sometimes, a simple swing thought could be the answer to hitting longer more accurate drives, as TG Elite Pro Rob Watts explains in this golf video tip.
Written by Rob Watts on Friday 16 March 2012
This may be a contradiction in terms, but limiting the amount of moving parts in your golf swing actually increases the power you can generate. As TG Elite Pro Rob Watts explains in this golf video tip, moving your head up and down or side to side actually means you rotate your upper body less, which means you create less coil. The...
Written by Rob Watts on Thursday 22 March 2012
Power in the golf swing is created through rotation, transfer of weight and a loading of the club in the downswing. It’s this third source TG Elite Pro Rob Watts is focusing on in this video tip, helping you deliver maximum power into the back of the ball by the right elbow hugging the ribcage in the downswing. This helps deliver...
Written by Steven Orr on Tuesday 10 January 2012
Your typical driver comes with around 10 degrees of loft on the clubface but if you look at the stats from the top Tours, players actually launch the ball at around 15 degrees. So how do they acquire this extra height? The answer is that they set up much differently with their driver than they do with their irons, as TG...
Written by Steven Orr on Tuesday 10 January 2012
When the clubhead works up and down on a neutral plane during the swing, that increases your chance of hitting the ball squarely with the clubhead working down the target line. The slice occurs when the player applies a glancing blow to the ball with the club working across the target line from out-to-in. As Steven Orr explains in this golf...
Written by Tom Denby on Thursday 17 November 2011
Creating power in the golf swing depends on how our body coils up. The more the shoulders turn over the hips, the more potential energy can be created and then unleashed at impact. An easy way to create body turn and therefore power is to think of these three key moves, explained by TG Elite Pro Tom Denby in this golf...
Written by Tom Denby on Thursday 17 November 2011
During the golf swing, your sternum is an accurate representation of where the bottom of your swing arc will be. For iron shots, it needs to be ahead of the ball to ensure you hit down on it. But with the driver, it needs to be in line with or just behind the ball, as TG Elite Teaching Pro Tom Denby...
Written by Tom Denby on Thursday 17 November 2011
Weight transfer towards the target not only improves our angle of attack but is also helps the arm get into the right position in the downswing to deliver the club squarely to the ball at impact. Amateur often keep their weight on the back leg during the downswing, resulting in weak and inaccurate drives. This video tip from TG Elite Teaching...
Written by Sergio Garcia on Monday 5 September 2011
While his struggles on the greens are well documented, Sergio Garcia’s driving is without doubt one of his strengths. Sending it out there over 290 yards every time on average, you could learn a lot from the way the Spaniard drives the ball. Watch this exclusive video tip below that should give you a few extra yards, courtesy of TaylorMade.
Written by Richard Ellis on Friday 23 September 2011
To hit a draw shot, the clubhead needs to be traveling on an in-to-out path through impact. For this to happen, we need to create the space for the hands and arms to travel in this direction. This means, therefore, that the hips need to rotate in the backswing, as TG Elite Pro Rich Ellis explains in this golf video tip.