Flipping at impact is killing your golf swing, so in today’s golf lesson, Todd Kolb shows you how to improve ball striking by eliminating this bad habit.
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A lot of amateur golfers struggle with how to stop flipping the golf club at impact, so we show you 3 golf swing tips to help you stop flipping at impact and start hitting better golf shots!
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Todd, how straight does that lead arm need to be during back swing
I do this flip but not all the time. Seems especially with my shorter irons or if I am trying to hit a longer club too hard. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks Todd, I am implementing these tips tomorrow. I believe you have hit my nail on the head. Lost my mid to long iron play almost 2 years ago. Constantly hooking and low left tops. Used to hit all irons straight. Very frustrating to hit a nice drive and miss the green from 130 yards, 30 yards to the left. Will let you know…..Randy in Ohio.
Helpful, easy to understand advice for the club golfer. thank you Todd.
I must be flipping because went to the range yesterday and struggled just to hit the ball , I’m going to keep the face square and swing up and back and straight through. I seldom take divots
I love this video!!! Thank you!!!
Thanks again, Todd. Your advice has been very helpful to me. You hit the nail on the head with your comment that, whilst techniques may work for tour pros, they are often not suited to amateur and club players, especially those of us who are older and who lack the pros' flexibility, physical strength and hand to eye coordination. I'm sure I'm not the only one who watches teaching videos which show the "right" way to do it and find it's simply beyond me. I appreciate that nothing comes easy, but it's vital to work within our limitations. You are one of relatively few who stress this.
If you are swing more vertical, don't you need to adjust lie angle of your clubs to match swing plane?
I love your videos !
I didn't understand the 45 degree angle instruction. Is it that the club face is 45 degrees back from square to the ball at the top of the swing?
When you hit the good shot at about minute 7:40 what I see is a relatively straight back swing as you advise, but with a good hip and pelvis turn back (as opposed to the error of swinging the club back behind you using only the shoulders without much hip turn, which does promote a flip) and at the top of the backswing you have your left wrist slightly bowed and the right wrist bent back in extension. Then on the downswing you definitely rotated the hips and pelvis very nicely. The reason that so many golfers who either have limited mobility in the hips, or simply don't work on turning the hips and pelvis back, flip the club face and produce either low hooks or, if they fight to keep the face open, push slices, is that they are doing all the swinging with their arms and don't turn the hips and pelvis toward the target. That always produces early extension as the arms race ahead of the hips. You showed a version of that at the beginning. I watched a very good player at my range the other day, who could easily drive over 300 yards, and he was working very hard on keeping the right wrist in extension as long as possible on the downswing. He even had a device that clamps on the wrist with a short rod and foam ball that would touch his forearm when the wrist was in extension, bent back. Then he did what you show, squared the face up by rotating his hips and pelvis on the downswing to finish facing the target. Of course, the right wrist does not stay in extension for the entire swing, it naturally releases just before the point of contact. But as you practice this, it feels like you are keeping the wrist bent back in extension until you strike the ball, and it definitely encourages and forces you to turn your hips and pelvis. The result when I did it was a swing that feels calmer and a big improvement in solid strikes and more distance. And to repeat, when it works well and produces good contact, trajectory and distance, the backswing as you show here involves taking the club head a bit outside and straight back and up, while it is the hips and pelvis and shoulders that actively turn back. The wrong way is, as you show, to take the club back behind you while failing to turn the hips, pelvis and shoulders back, which collapses the triangle formed by the arms and folds the left arm across the chest.
This guy is a great instructor. Makes a great point about amateur’s trying to do what the pros do and we have no chance 😂
I can’t seem to know hit it fat with a steeper angle swing. I swing flat to try and “scoop” the ball off the ground. Anything else and I hit it fat.
Great video, Todd. My problem seems to be at the top. I get the club started properly then suddenly come down very steep and dig a divot halfway to China. The deep divot stops my swing and I feel my rotation stops as well and you can imagine how bad a shot it becomes. What is the key to stopping this move and how do I get that clubhead wide and into the U shape bottom rather than the V shape I see wuite often. Thanks a bunch.
Hi Todd; I've always understood flipping to be allowing the hands to be behind the clubhead at impact rather than ahead creating shaft lean.