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This concept video is pop ups are steep.

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So I know many golfers occasionally struggle with hitting the sky ball, you know, right

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off the top of the club.

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So I'm going to break that down for you so that you can see exactly what's happening and

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know once and for all what's causing it.

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If you are hitting a pop up, then you are steep and there's really only two ways that you're

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going to get steep enough to hit this pop up.

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Because you'll see if the club is behind the golf ball, if I have the grip back here, then

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if you look from the face on view, you would see that I'd make contact.

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Even if I hit the ground, I would hit contact in the middle of the club or maybe

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high on the club, but definitely not on the crown.

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The only way that I'm going to hit and make contact on the crown is if I have the grip

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significantly leaning forward.

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So many golfers struggle with the pop up in trying to stay on top of the ball, not having

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enough extra silver, not let their upper body kind of fall away.

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They get that upper body leaning on top and they'll even take little steep divots and they'll

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hit it right off the crown and pop it up.

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The other option, the other common way that golfers get steep down at the bottom is more

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with the release.

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The lunge of the upper body having the upper body on top, I would say is 90% of the

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pop-ups that I see.

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So very much getting that upper body on top will have the club coming down and if you

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don't have the ball tee up really low, you're going to tend to pop it up.

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So you'll see, I can do that one again if I'm lunging kind of on top of it and I extend

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my arms, hit that one up near the top of the club, not quite on the crown.

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I've got to hit the ground in order to do that.

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So the other one would be the more of the release pop-up which would come from down the

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line getting the club more kind of outside through there.

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So getting the club outside with more of the internal rotation release will tend to get

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the ball to hit the top of the club just like I did there.

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Coming from that steep path or steepening really late.

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So if you're hitting a pop-up, I almost guarantee that it's one of those two different

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patterns.

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And so what I usually go at first is trying to do nine to three shots where you're

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getting enough tilt behind the ball, making sure that you don't hit it fat because a

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lot of golfers lunge forward because their arms go too early instead of extending through

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the ball out in front of it, they extend down at it.

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But if you're back behind it and you'll be able to hit through the middle of the club

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kind of a piercing higher launch but flatter flight trajectory shot.

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Doing that a few kind of nine to three's and then what you'll have to do is work through

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some of the bracing drills to get used to staying behind as those arms extend.

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It's usually a common barrier to work through for any golfer who struggles with pop-ups

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is the feeling of being powerful or hitting the ball hard while staying back.

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Some golfers only feel power when they're really lunging forward as opposed to being able

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to stay back and have a good solid release and get more speed in the clubbed as opposed

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to a lot of force.

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So if it's more the release style where it's coming this way then doing a gate drill

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or putting something on the outside or working on your motorcycle and your owner deviation

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so that you can unhing and supinate while staying behind.

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That will help shallow things out give you more center face contact as opposed to hitting

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it off the crown from getting too steep.

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If you're too lazy yet steep or either lunging forward or more of that internal rotation

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style release.