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Do you sometimes have difficulty getting the ball in the air, or you hit “worm burners”, or low shots but you do not understand why. Let me shed some light on this for you.

Most people think, like I used to think, that in order to get a golf ball off the ground, you need to try swinging up on the ball, or try to lift it off the ground. Actually these actions produce the opposite result desired. Swinging up produces an opposite reaction, a downward reaction of the ball. In contrast, swinging down on a ball, or hitting the ball on the downswing, produces the opposite reaction, the upward reaction of the ball. The is one of Sir Issac Newton’s Laws of Physics states, ‘For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction’. So if you hit down on the ball the ball will go up.

Another factor that comes into play is the golf club. The clubs are designed to achieve a degree of lift according to the loft of the club. The loft of a four iron is less than the loft of a nine iron. The four iron will get the ball in the air enough to allow it to go longer where the nine iron will get the ball a lot higher for closer shots you want to land softer.

The only club you should be hitting on the upswing is the driver because there is so little loft.

Once I understood the principle, a light bulb went of in my head and I was able to start the process of improving my golf game and lowering my golf scores.

I hope this helps you as much as it helped me.

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