How To Stop Hitting Fat Shots In Golf – Make It Simple

The video above will walk you through how to stop hitting fat shots in golf. Through a live lesson, we not only get a good look at a new training aid that is coming to market soon, but we also see how it instantly stops the student from releasing the club to early.

Transcript – You feel a little bit of right arm there when you’re hitting it a little fat. That’s all that is. Right. So your arms still getting a little bit deep. And so when you get it deep, then you feel the need to kind of fire that tricep and shoulder, and that’s what’s causing you to hit down on the ground a little steep. So, again, this goes back to what we were doing yesterday of getting that left side to help pull through a lot more quickly and dynamically.

Go to the top. So that should already be pulling you back. And see, once you. You’re already here and start straightening that leg. Rotate your hips out of the way. There you go. That shallows out your swing. Think of your golf swing in terms of anytime you’re out playing and you’re, you know, you hit a bad shot or whatever, unless, and this is going to be a tendency is to kind of hit back behind it a little bit because you’re firing that right arm before your body’s kind of cleared out of the way and shifted pressure back to the left.

Okay, so there’s two different ways to think about the golf swing. There’s steepening moves, and they’re shallowing moves. That’s really what it comes down to. It’s like when you’re hitting it fat, you’re too steep. Right? Does that make sense? Club’s just coming down too sharply to the ground. If you’re hitting it thin, you’re too shallow. So anytime you think about when you’re hitting a bad shot, think of it as, okay, I hit it fat, I came down steep, I took a deep divot, I hit behind the ball, I’m too steep. What can I do to shallow out the swing and stop hitting fat shots in golf now?

And it’s really simple with the fundamentals I’ve given you so far, there’s only, like, two things. You only have two choices, right? If you’re going to shallow out your swing, lateral movement shallows out your golf swing. So Mo Norman liked to have that big lateral, and he didn’t want the knee to fold, so he was like this, and he talked about his magic move was getting like this. This is a shallowing move. Axis tilt or secondary tilt? My spine falling back because my hips are moving forward. That’s a shallowing move. Okay.

This is a steepening move. And then this is a steepening move. This is a steepening move. Right? So lateral movement and rotation are your shallowing moves. And rotation can happen with your body, can happen with your hands. That’ll make the club go way inside, be too shallow. So that’s how you start thinking about when I’m hitting a bad shot. So when you feel that you’re hitting the ground there, your swing is too steep. What do I need to do to shallow?

So the first thing would be making sure you get left and get that hip cleared out of the way. That’ll instantly shallow out your swing. So let’s try and feel that that left side is helping pull you back to the left and see what happens to your angle of attack. Now you hear the difference. You just barely brush the grass, right? Exactly. And your divot was way up here, not way back here.

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