Golf Tips: Club Face and the Ball

It is great that we have such a fantastic resource in our own Frogger pro Kris Moe! We’ve put together some quick instructional videos for you which are invaluable! They can all be found on the Frogger YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/froggergolf. This week’s featured tip relates golf with other sports. Kris Moe uses a tennis racquet to show us the relation of the face to the ball. Square face. Round ball. It is the same with the golf club and golf ball. We are ultimately trying to deliver the face to square at impact. http://youtu.be/x-2LbVnYdxg Swinging a tennis racquet around can actually be quite beneficial for getting the feel of certain golf shots. We know that in tennis or ping pong turning the wrists over on a shot can produce overspin and a curve from right to left, for right handed players. Conversely we know that cutting across the tennis ball from outside to inside and keeping the racquet from turning over will produce a curved shot from left to right, for right handed players. Those two shots have equivalents in golf. The first is a draw and the second is a fade. So grab your tennis racquet and take some swings. Try to concentrated on the position of the face and see what it feels like to turn it over or cut across it. Translate those feelings to your golf swing.