Mishits are a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad experience out on the golf course — but they happen to even the best of golfers.
Whether it’s chunking a shot, skulling a shot, topping a shot, or one of the old classics (hooking or slicing a shot), these types of mishits often occur due to poor clubface control and allowing your swing to come off plane.
When this happens, you probably find yourself hitting off either the heel or toe, leaving you with a pressure-packed recovery shot just in order to limit strokes.
But wouldn’t it be nice to avoid hitting it off the heel or toe and finally becoming a ball-striking machine? Of course! And GOLF Top 100 Teacher Brian Mogg has an simple secret to help work on correcting that issue.
Do this to help correct mishits off either the toe or heel
In the video above, Mogg shows how placing a simple piece of tape on your clubface can help cure those frustrating mishits off either the toe or heel.
The tape helps bring awareness to where your clubface is and the club’s path during your swing, so you can work at avoiding making contact with the tape at impact.
Says Mogg about placing the tape on your clubface: “It’s obviously not going to affect too much of the ball performance, so what it’s going to do is show if you’re hitting it on either the heel or the toe.”
So if you’re a player who tends to hit off the heel of the club, put the tape on that part of the club, trying to frame your clubface outside of that. Do the opposite if you’re someone who typically hits it off the toe.
“It’s just a really good way to kind of remind yourself where you want to make contact,” says Mogg. “If you’re not hitting the ball solid, and it’s heel or toe pretty blatantly, just put a piece of tape on one side of the club and consciously make sure you miss it coming down.”
Since the tape provides you instant feedback while hitting balls at the range, you can make the necessary adjustments and (hopefully) start to see better ball-striking emerge.
