Why Your Ball Isn't Going Where You Want

I located this video over at golftipsmag.Com and truely liked the way it defined ballflight. Joseph Mayo makes it quite simple... However I'll try and make it even easier once you watch it!

Obviously that is the "New Ball Flight Laws" at work, however Joseph makes it quite easy:

1. The face points to where the ball starts
2. Then the ball curves away from the path. (The path creates sidespin on the ball.)
3. Rolling your wrists is a NO-NO! (Thank you for saying it out loud, Joe!)

I know it sounds a little strange but I'll try to make it even clearer. I'll explain it so it doesn't matter whether you're left- or right-handed.

Let's say you need to make the ball curve from proper to left. Traditionally you've got been advised to factor the face to the left and swing out to the right. If you do that, the ball will start going left (it really is wherein the face is pointing) and the path makes it spin even farther left.

In other phrases, this could create a duck hook. Not good.

Instead, because you want the ball to start out to the proper and then curve back to the left, you want the face to factor to the proper when you hit the ball. This makes the ball start off to the proper. Then you need to swing out to the right (an in-to-out swing direction), which places sidespin on the ball to make it curve returned to the left.

This offers you a ball that hooks towards the target. That's what you want.

Many of you are scratching your heads as to why this works. HERE'S WHY YOU GET CONFUSED: To make the ball curve from right to left, the club path has to be aimed uarther to the right than the face is aimed; if it isn't, the ball won't curve from right to left. Check out the following diagram. The dotted line shows where you want the ball to go. The red curves show where the ball actually goes:

As long as the path goes further right than the face is aimed, the ball will curve to the left. BUT if the face is aimed to the left of the target, the ball duck hooks (for a right-hander) or banana balls (for a left-hander). And if the club face is aimed further right than the path, the ball curves the wrong way! That middle diagram shows what you want to do. To get the desired left-to-right ball flight and have the ball go TOWARD the target, BOTH the face and path must be aimed to the right; it's just that the path is aimed FURTHER right than the face.

And of direction it really works just the opposite in case you need the ball to twist from left to right: Both face and route ought to be aimed to the left of the target line, however the direction have to be aimed further to the left than the membership face.

This isn't always a hard concept but know-how it does venture maximum people. I desire this helps you get your ball curving the way you need.