Try not to go ‘over the top’ - Brasier Golf
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Try not to go ‘over the top’

‘Over the top’ is an expression that we often hear in everyday life, however, when used in golf it’s from players or analysts after a shot is heading out of bounds!

But what exactly is any golfer doing when they make this undesirable move. In a nutshell, a golfer swings ‘over the top’ when, for whatever reason, their arms and right shoulder move closer to the target line coming down than they were going back. You can see this clearly when standing behind a player who’s having this problem.

What we are all trying to do in the first part of our forward swing is keep our shoulders turned away from the target line just enough for the arms to swing the club down either along, or a little inside, the plane of the upward swing. I would estimate that about 90 percent of all golfers swing over the top of their full shots. Why? Because of faulty pressing preparations, and faulty backswings. Sir Isaac Newton said ‘Action and reaction are equal and opposite’.

Swinging over the top is mostly an irresistible involuntary reaction to a bad grip, terrible alignment or posture leading to a poorly-shaped backswing.

Out of Bounds: Recently overheard on the driving range ‘l used to be indecisive, but now I’m not so sure’!