Hitting your shots fat is a very common fault where you are bottoming out your swing before the ball and taking too much dirt. Let’s check one or two things and give you drills you can try to help avoid those fat shots.
To begin with, hitting it fat sometimes often means that your body has stopped rotating. And as a reminder, your lower body should feel like it initiates that that first movement down and then continues through. I’m rotating my pelvis all the way through.
And if you stop that, sometimes the hands then start to zing, catch up and they hit back to show you what that looks like, like that. So what do we want instead? We want to just keep on moving the hips. So here’s a little drill you can do to feel this. Put the club up against your hips. I’m going to put a whole bunch of slack over on there on the trail side or the right side for right handers.
And I want you just to rotate. And when you stop check to see that that club is matched up perpendicular to the target line, matched up or or at least all the way through a 90 degree rotation there. So that’s that’s a full rotation that we’re getting. If you’re not rotating, if you’re or you’re sliding, that’s going to be a problem.
OK, the second thing I want you to check is what’s going on with your wrists. You might be dumping the club with your wrists. So what you’ll do in this drill is bring the club back. Make a ninety degree angle with your wrists and then rotate and stop with them straight. Notice I did not hinge. So when you do this drill, it’s a 90 degree to straight what that does. It helps the timing out so that you don’t dump the club early and hit it back.
So try these two drills. I’m sure they will help you improve your shots and stop hitting them fat.
