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Fix Your Flip
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A flip is a frustrating pattern. It's usually accompanied by the following symptoms
- It robs distance.
- It causes fat and thin shots.
- It causes an outside in path.
- It can cause toe hits.
- It can cause high weak shots
But, just because you have a flip doesn't mean you need to fix it today. If you want to maximize your performance with your flip, make sure you do it at the end of your rope. That means to focus on good arm extension and impact position so the flip happens as late as possible.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Cast, Practice Strategies, Release, Concept, Intermediate
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This concept video is if you're gonna flip do it at the end of your rope.
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So many golfers come on to the site battling a scoop flip of some kind where basically
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the the wrist is working a little bit more through going into flexion not really maintaining
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that extension arm gets stuck behind goes into trail internal rotation any of that stuff.
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So it ends up looking kind of more like this and you can hit some reasonable shots that
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you get away but it does seem to be a problem when you get to the longer clubs.
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So some golfers work on their release and just have a hard time really getting it.
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So I give a piece of advice to the golfers I'm working with if you flip and you've got
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a you know tournament that you're getting ready for and you just you know that you won't
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be able to fix the flip in time then how do you maximize what you're doing with the flip.
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And what I'll say is you want to make sure that you flip at the end of the movement or what
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I'll say is flip it at the end of the rope.
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So basically the guys on tour who tend to have more of this flip pattern though get down
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where the arms are pretty straight after impact and you'll see the flip just at the wrist
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kind of at the end of the rope kind of like this as opposed to flipping when they're
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still slack in the rope and keeping those arms bent.
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At least that will create some width down at the bottom which will help control the
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low point being in front of the golf ball.
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Now if you find that you do that and you're body may out behind the ball and hitting
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them fat then it means that it's probably more of a sequencing issue or an upper body
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position issue.
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But if you're going to work on just short term maximizing your flip getting into an impact
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position where your arms are fairly straight while they're flipping will tend to maximize
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your short term results.
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So that ends up looking a little bit like this.
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I'm going to in order to demonstrate this I'm just going to shift my upper body a little
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bit more than I would normally do and really just let the wrist pass kind of like so to
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close the face.
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Now I hit a little pole which is a normal pattern for a flipper so I might try and just aim
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a little bit more right and lay the pole or I will try to flip even a little bit more
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on the left side of my body to delay it or I could potentially hold the face open just
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a little bit more.
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Now you'll see that I hit those that one thin when you're flipping low point control
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tends to be an issue.
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So we'll see we'll try one more see if I can keep my chest down as I lunge in front to
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balance out the flip pattern.
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So that was a little bit better you know pretty solid contact little spinny but overall
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straight that would definitely be something that I could play.
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So if you're working on getting ready for a short term event and you flip just make sure
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that it happens through and after the ball and at the end of the rope that will help with
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your low point control and maximizing a slightly inconsistent pattern.
