Golf tips: How to avoid skied drives
- Friday, 12 September 2008
- 3 Comments
Avoid having too much weight on your left side through impact
There are a number of causes behind a skied drive but the underlying problem is having too much weight on your left side through impact.
Firstly, in the address position check that your ball position isn't too far back, your hands aren't too far forward and the clubface isn't closed. Now practice hitting a series of shots keeping 60% of your weight on your right side throughout.
This should shallow off your angle of attack helping you find the middle of the clubface once again.
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Add your commentsJune 10 15:27
Gerry Green
Very helpful. Out of the blue I have started to sky the occasional drive. in other parts of my game I have become aware that I am getting to/through the ball too early and getting ahead of my swing. Taking these two things together I think I now know the cause of my occasional skied drive.Knowing with certainty the cause of a fault is the certain route to a cure.
December 18 13:07
Pete Gerdes
Thank you so much for this tip. I had just recently lapsed into hitting pop-ups (skied drives) off the tee.
By gettinng more behind the ball and distributing my weight approx 55/45 in favour of the right side - the drives are zinging once again out of the centre of the clubs.
Incidently the pop-ups got so regular as to damage the top edge of my driver. Now you have sorted me out it is off to the pro shot for a new one.Once again my sincere thanks and have a great Christmas.
Pete Gerdes
April 23 18:23
t stanbury
i have been hitting off the heel of the driver getting no distance usually i can hit about 180 straight down the middle cant fathom out what has gone wrong i have real trouble with shifting the wieght forward hence 180 yds