Stop Topping Golf Balls and Losing Distance!
One of the many frustrating things that can happen to you out on the course is hitting the ball thin, in order to stop topping golf balls you need to think about shallowing the angle of your swing.
Topping the golf ball is a distance robber and if you are unlucky also results in a cut being made in the cover of the ball.
But the worst result is usually a blow to your confidence, you line up the next shot and it is very difficult to put the possibility out of your mind that you will do the exact same thing again.
Which makes learning the theory to stop topping golf balls an important weapon.
Topping the golf ball or hitting the ball thin, results in a strike that hardly gets the ball into the air, this type of shot is also known as a ‘grass cutter’.
But why does it occur? Usually you ‘top’ the ball when you try to lift or scoop the ball into the air. What is happening is you are mentally thinking that you need to somehow help the ball into the air.
This is a common fault when you have a tight lie and sense that you somehow need to get under the ball to help it into the air.
Well getting the ball into the air is the job of the loft of the clubface, yours is to swing in a shallower arc in order to stop topping golf balls and become more consistent.
Try to imagine that the bottom half of your swing is currently in a ‘v’ shape. You approach from high almost digging into the ball. What you need to do in order to stop topping golf balls is to make that swing turn into a ‘u’ shape.
In other words topping the golf ball will not occur if you shallow the bottom of the swing arc and allow the clubhead to travel parallel with the ground for a longer distance before and through the ball.
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