Skying Drives and other problems

[ThePuttKing]

Hi

My Dad is going through a tough time on the golf course at the moment.

He is skying his drives really badly (usually only hitting the ball 50 yards !) and hitting everything else fat especially iron shots. The drives he hits well go miles right.

Are these two related and what advice can I give him to improve matters ?

Many Thanks !

[GregJWillis]

Re: Skying Drives and other problems

The skys and fats are related. The rights are probably not. Use this to help him in the sky's and fat shots.

The rights are going to be a bigger problem where there can be several things as the reason. Not knowing enough about it will be a bit lengthy to describe, so go here and have him do the right hand drill, then come back with questions. He might be doing it just fine and needs other help.

[ThePuttKing]

Re: Skying Drives and other problems

Thanks for your help.

I've noticed one thing about his set up which is unusual. He stands a long way from the ball and his arms and the club are in a straight line. I keep telling him to drop his hands a touch so he creates a slight angle but he says it feels awkard.
I don't know any golfer who plays like this. I hope I've described this so people can understand. It looks roughly like this:
O
/ O
/ O
/ || I know that looks daft but the 3 / represents his
arms and the club. There is no angle.

Does this cause problems ??

[gord962]

Re: Skying Drives and other problems

Ahhhh, the Natural Golf approach.

I know many of the older gentlemen I have played with have had a swing like you described. I'm not sure how they do it, but some shoot close to par!

[Mr_Change]

Re: Skying Drives and other problems

sky is cause from a too steep attack angle on the ball, the same thing cause a fat shot. usally the weight has remained on the back foot instead of being transfer to the front foot. The differene between the two is ball position, if your ball position is too far forward the club will strike the ground way before the ball thus is your fat shot. A sky on the other hand happens when the ball is to far back in the stance the club strikes the ball on such a steep downswing the ball pops straight up.

Two things should help his problem, weight transfer and correct ball position.