Why You Need This: In this video, you’ll get some great tips on how to stop pulling iron shots.

First, you’ll get a recap of what you’re doing with your club path and club face to hit these pulls.

Then, you’ll learn what exactly is causing you to pull the ball.

A big problem that causes you to pull is your right shoulder coming up and over in the downswing.

This is putting your club on an out-to-in path.

To fix this, you’ll see a quick drill that’ll help keep your right shoulder closer to your body.

Start out practicing some swings at roughly 60% of your normal speed, then progress up to hitting full speed shots.

Watch this video now to find out what’s causing you to pull your shots...

And get a great “trick” to get your club on the correct path!

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:04

Video Transcription:

All right, sick and tired of pulling the ball? You get up, maybe you’re in the middle of the fairway, you come over the top, pull it into the bunker left. Or you’re on the tee box, even worse.

It’s like at this hole here, we’ve got out of bounds to the left, and all of a sudden I come over the top, I pull the ball directly left, it goes out of bounds. It doesn’t get any more frustrating than that, for sure.

One of the things that’s happening, I’ll go over one of the keys we need to do correctly to stop pulling, and I’ll also go over what’s causing the pull in general.

If I’m pulling the ball, first off, a pull is when your ball starts to the left, and then doesn’t really curve much either way. So it’s not hooking, it’s not slicing, we’re just pulling it straight to the left. What that means is number one, my face is closed.

Whichever direction the ball starts is going to be the direction my face is pointing at contact. If I’m starting to the left, my face is going to be closed and pointing to the left, just like that.

Now the second piece is, my ball is going to curve away from the path. So since it’s not getting a lot of curve, it means that the path and the face are pretty much going the same direction. So I’m coming over the top slightly, doesn’t have to be a ton, my face is closing down, and I’m getting that straight pull to the left.

Now what’s going on that’s causing this, is my right shoulder is staying high and coming on out in front like that. So if I’m getting the pull, my shoulder’s staying up and it’s working this way out in front of my body.

I’ll go ahead and hit a little demo shot here. Now that’s going straight to the left, and I feel like I’m just kind of getting this right shoulder coming down on top of the ball.

Well if I’m doing this correctly, or in a good golf swing if I’m staying in my posture, my right shoulder’s going to be working more down into my body.

I’m getting some right – what’s call right side bend – so I hit this ball, I’m staying in my posture, and now my shoulders are staying in their tilt as I’m coming on through.

If I look at this from face on, let’s imagine I’m going toward the camera, my shoulders are staying into the tilt. Now if you look at my left side of my body, my left shoulder’s kind of working up high.

If you look at the right side of my body, my right shoulder is working into my side. That’s allowing me to stay in the tilt.

As my right shoulder works into my side in the downswing, that’s going to give me a position to where I can come squarely through the ball and have some forward shaft lean still compress this golf ball.

A good way to feel this, stand straight up and down. I want you to tilt your right shoulder into your body, into your side. Then I want you to go ahead and open up like we would be in the release, and that’s going to put you about where you would be as you’re releasing the golf club, working that right shoulder in.

I’m going to go ahead and work on this a few times in some practice swings. Now I’m going to set up, I’m going to come into my downswing, my right shoulder’s working closer to my body.

Then as I come on through, I’m releasing, staying in my posture. My hips are working back this way out of the way, my shoulders are staying in their posture as I get the release. Then I can come on around.

After you’ve done a few of those, we can go ahead and start that out, start trying that out, coming all the way on through. You can see how that allows me to get this right shoulder moving squarely through the ball, the hand to move through the ball, and I’m going to be going pretty straight.

I’m going to do about 50 or 60 practice drills pausing, making sure that I’m in the right position, making sure that right shoulder’s working kind of in. Then I’m going to go ahead and do 50 or 60 practice swings without any pauses, nice fluid motion.

Then I’m going to start out with some nice, easy shots, just going about 60, 70 percent. There, I’ve stayed in my posture, even over did that one a little bit, made sure I came a little bit more out to the right, inside out.

Then once I get the feeling for that, now I can go ahead and kick it up to full speed and I should be able to hit these nice, straight shots that are compressed.

Another bonus for this, is that if I am getting that right shoulder to kind of work down and through, that allows me to cover the golf ball and get a lot more forward shaft lean, because now my hands are in a position to where they can get more forward shaft lean on the club and I can cover the golf ball.

I feel like the ball sticks to the face, and it’s almost going to suction to the face for a good five or six inches through impact. That’s only going to be the feeling, it’s not actually happening, but that’s going to be a great feel for you to have if you’re using that right shoulder properly.

If we want to have one more quick thing here I think will really help with this, is my left arm as I’m coming through contact, is going to feel like it’s a little tighter to my body.

Because my left shoulder’s working up, my left arm is kind of against my chest, and then as I come on through, both arms are going to go out away from my body and be nice and relaxed. Now we can see the left arm is coming up at that point.

So to recap, pausing in this position, getting the right shoulder close to the body, keeping my body in the posture. I’m going to feel like my left arm is close to my body, I’m going to feel like that ball can suction-cup to the face as I’m coming through contact, and I’ll be able to hit those nice and straight.

Let’s try it out. There we go, that one’s dead straight, nice and solid, compressed. Good luck to you guys, work on those keys, get your reps in. You’re going to be compressing the ball better than ever. I’ll see you all soon.