Never ‘top’ the ball again
Martin Chuck from Tour Striker Academy has some terrific insight on why golfers top the ball and how you can avoid it in the future.
If you want to eliminate topped shots from your game, you need to understand why they happen in the first place.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
In most cases, topping the ball is simply a defense mechanism.
When your downswing is too steep, your brain senses you are about to stub the club into the ground.
So, to prevent this and likely hurting yourself, it signals you to bend your elbows…
Or flip your wrists…
Or lift your body…
Or other “compensations” to avoid ramming the club into the turf.
Now, the traditional way to fix this is with hours and hours of lessons…
Because trying to override your brain’s natural instincts is really hard…
And it takes a long time.
So, after 35+ years teaching this great game, I’ve learned…
It is much easier to fight fire with fire.
That was the idea behind the Tour Striker 7-Iron (and Pitching Wedge).
As you can see below, it looks kinda strange and sorta hard to hit…
But that’s the point — it forces your brain to compensate…THE RIGHT WAY.
First, it teaches you the important difference between address position and impact position.
And, to hit the ball well with this club…
You must use the right angles and power levers that make sense to your brain.
In other words, you will have no need nor desire to bend, flip or “stand up” out of your shots ever again.
Ok, so that’s WHY it works.
Here is HOW it works:
1. Thanks to its raised leading edge…
It trains you to deliver the club with all-important, “forward shaft lean.”
So, instead of hitting the ball thin…
You learn to compress it with the center of the clubface.
