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16/06/2026

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Spinning out and watching the ball sail right? It might not be what you think.

Most golfers who spin out assume their body is too fast. Often it’s the opposite — the arms are getting left behind. The body rotates open, the arms can’t keep up, they get stuck behind the chest, and the ball leaks out to the right.

The fix isn’t slowing your body down. It’s getting your arms working back in front of you.

Here’s the drill.

Set up with your trail foot dropped back — big toe roughly in line with your lead heel. Make your swing to the top, then feel your arms drop down into the space you’ve created in front of you.

That dropped-back foot pre-sets your body so it can’t out-spin your arms. It trains them to work down and in front rather than getting trapped behind you — which tidies up your sequence and straightens out your start line.

Get the arms back in front, and the spin-out sorts itself out.

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15/06/2026

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If you sway off the ball in your backswing, this drill sorts it in seconds.

Swaying — sliding the pelvis laterally to the trail side, too much and for too long — is one of the most common causes of inconsistent strike. The further you slide back, the more ground you have to make up to get forward again before impact. And getting forward is crucial for a controlled low point and a powerful strike. Slide too far and you simply run out of time to recover it.

Here’s the fix.

Place a golf ball under the outside of your trail foot. Now make your backswing.

That small bit of instability does the work for you — it encourages your trail hip to push back and around, rotating rather than sliding laterally away from the target. You physically feel the difference between turning into your trail side and swaying off it.

Some lateral movement is natural — but rotation is the priority. Get that feeling, and you keep yourself in a position where getting forward through the ball is easy.

Better rotation = controlled low point = more consistent, powerful strikes.

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11/06/2026

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08/06/2026

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If you’re trying to get rid of your over the top move — stop messing with your arms first.

Before you try to lay the club down, manipulate your wrists, or whatever the latest tip told you to do — check that your body isn’t the thing screwing you over.

Here’s what we often see with golfers who come over the top. The upper body leads the lower body in the downswing. And I don’t just mean in rotation — I mean in sway. They get from the top and their upper body drifts too far ahead of their lower body.

That move alone wants to throw the club out and over the top once you add the rotation in.

So you can try to lay the club down with your arms all you like. But if the sequence underneath is wrong, all you’ll really do is open the face more, slice it more, and maybe catch the odd shank along the way.
Fix the big thing first.

From the top, you want the lower body to shift and rotate first — leading the upper body into the downswing. That alone does a huge amount to shallow the club, or at least get it dropping lower behind you and away from that over the top path.

Sort the sequence before you fiddle with the small stuff. The small stuff often sorts itself out once the big thing is right.

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07/06/2026

Why does your practice swing feel so good — and then your real swing feels horrible?

Often it’s not nerves. It’s the clubface.

When you make a practice swing, the only job is to swing the club. You’re just swinging a metal stick around your body. And most people do that with a lovely sequence — nice shift, nice rotation, nice release.

Then you put a ball there and the task completely changes. Now you’re not just swinging the club — you have to organise the clubface to send the ball up and at your target. And that’s where the trouble starts.

Take a player whose face is very shut at the top. To square that up by impact, they’d need a load of rotation and side bend to get the handle forward enough — we’re talking Dustin Johnson levels of mobility. Most club golfers simply don’t have that.

So what happens? They can’t just shift and rotate like they did in the practice swing, because the ball would shoot miles left. They have to do something else to save it.

Usually that something is hanging back through impact — dropping the head and trail shoulder back to lift the handle and point the face more to the right. And that completely wrecks the sequence.

Two things follow. Your strike becomes really hard to manage. And the swing feels horrible — because of that sudden compensation you’re forced to make.

That’s the whole answer. In the practice swing you’ve got nothing to organise, so you flow. With a ball there, you’ve got to rescue the face — and it feels awful.

Yes, there are players who get into extreme face positions and still strike it beautifully. But they’re outliers, not the rule.

Get the face to a sensible position at the top — not so shut you have to open it, not so open you have to close it — and you take away the need for that compensation.

Do that, and your practice swing and your real swing finally start to match.

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06/06/2026

Early release is something a lot of golfers get told to fix the wrong way.

The common advice? “Hold the lag.” Keep the angle between your lead arm and the shaft for as long as you can coming down.

And for some players, that cue genuinely helps — often because it nudges them into getting more forward without realising it.

But here’s another way to look at it. everybody releases the club.
Everybody lines the shaft back up with the lead arm at some point. So it’s often less about whether you release, and more about where it happens.

An early release will often come down to one of two things — trying to square the face, or not getting forward enough.

Think about it. If I get to the top and don’t move forward, how do I reach the ball? I tend to give up the angle early just to get down there. Stuck on the back foot, club into the ground behind the ball.

Take that same intention to release — but move forward instead. Same release, but because I’ve shifted forward and rotated through, it tends to happen later.

So rather than focusing on holding on through the ball, it can be worth trying to get forward and around — and letting the release happen later on its own.

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05/06/2026

How a couple of dots on the inside of your elbows can take you from slicing it to drawing it — in a matter of minutes.

The way your arms are rotated has a huge effect on your ability to close the clubface through impact.

For most slicers, here’s what we see — the trail arm dot points inwards towards the body, and the lead arm dot points outwards towards the camera. That arm position encourages the face to open through impact. And that’s your slice.

Want to see a draw instead? Flip it.

Trail arm dot pointing more towards the camera. Lead arm dot pointing more towards the middle of your body.

That simple change sets the arms up to close the face on the way through — and that’s what turns your slice into a draw.

Get those two positions right and you can change your ball flight in minutes. No swing overhaul. Just a smarter set of arms.

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04/06/2026

Most golfers hit a shot and ask “how was that?”

Wrong question.

Your finish tells you more than you think — it’s a checkpoint for what you did through the ball. And most golfers never look.

Yes, you can hit good shots with poor technique. But that’s timing — you’ll hit the good one, you just won’t repeat it.

Impact’s too fast to think about. Your finish isn’t. Hold it, and it tells you the truth.

The strike tells you what happened. Your finish tells you why.

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02/06/2026

If your golf swing looks rushed, violent, or out of sync — this is for you.

Most golfers who struggle with sequencing fall into one of two camps.
Camp one — you fire your upper body too early. You slam down and out to the left, no grace, no power. Depending on your face, you’ll tend to see pulls and slices.

Camp two — you slide your lower body too hard while your upper body hangs back and under-rotates. This one tends to produce blocks and hooks.

Different misses — but the root is the same. Your sequence is out of order.

One of the keys to good sequencing is this — your lower body starts moving towards the target while your chest and arms are still completing the backswing. It’s not the only piece of the puzzle, but it’s a big one, and it’s where a lot of golfers go wrong.

The problem? That feeling can be hard to learn with a club in your hand. You overthink it. You force it.

So here’s a drill that helps it click.

Grab something heavy. Hold it out in front of you, stand side on to the target, and throw it down the range. (Or somewhere you can do get it)

When you throw something heavy, your body naturally sequences from the ground up (if you want to get any sort of distance) — the lower body leads, the upper body follows, the object launches. That’s the feel you’re chasing in your swing.

Learn the throw. Then take it to your golf swing.

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