Pete Cowen, Master PGA Professional and coach to the stars gives a couple of easy pointers that will be sure to improve your short game.
“WHAT happens with most players who struggle with their short game is they don’t take into consideration how much natural forces have an effect on it. If you actually swing a club up and let it fall, what happens? Everything falls to the ground. It naturally wants to fall to the vertical. Every club in the bag wants to fall to the vertical.” – PETE COWEN
If i stand close to the ball, I get a natural force helping me to deliver the blow. But if I stand too far away, the club is getting further away from the ball and it wants to fall away from the ball. So I have to work a lot harder to get back to the ball if I have too much angle in the shaft or I’m standing too far away from it.
So with most amateurs, I’d much rather they get the shaft as near to the vertical as they can, even if they’ve got to hold further down on the grip nearer the steel shaft. Take whatever loft you want and make sure you get in tight to the ball. It doesn’t matter if the heel is off the ground. Let your arms hang.
What that gives you is a constant radius, an arm-length radius. Your club is not going to get longer and your arms aren’t going to grow either.
From there, virtually all you need to do is allow the club to flow back and from that position, the club will naturally want to fall back to the ground. If I swing it more around myself, the club wants to naturally fall away from the ball.
