Robin Symes, Author at SwingStation

Golf Beginners Guide – 6 Weeks to the Course

Often starting out in this game can feel overwhelming, with all the information you feel you need to learn, from equipment, to how do you address the ball and make a swing, how do you use different clubs, and you have the different aspects of short game. Often, with the lack of structure in…

Low Spinning Wedge Shot

How to Hit a Low Spinning Wedge Shot One of the best shots to watch a Professional play is the wedge shot from between 40m – 70m. The ball has quite a low flight, hits the green, bounces once or twice and stops dead. I’m sure you have thought, how do they do that? …

A Slice Cure

Motor Bike Drill to cure your slice If you are a player whose golf ball starts to the right and then slices further to the right while in flight, then there is no doubt that at impact your clubface is open (pointing right of target), and also open relative to the direction of your…

AIMPOINT EXPRESS

The Future of Green Reading with AimPoint Express What’s everyone doing with their fingers on the greens these days? It’s a new green reading system called AimPoint Express which is helping players like Adam Scott, Stacy Lewis, Lydia Ko, Hunter Mahan, Charles Howell III, Ben Crane, Daren Clarke, Kim Ha Neul, Brain Guy, Anna…

Chipping Yips Cure

2 Tips to Cure the Yips Are you a player who gets more anxious the closer you get to the hole? The free flowing Driver and Iron swings start to get short and yippy as the hole becomes clearer to your eye? If you do some research on the yips, you might come up…

The 5 Must Do’s To Hit It Long!

5 Golf Tips to hit it longer 1 – SETUP Grip the club across the base of the fingers in the left hand. You will achieve the quickest, most powerful snapping of the wrists through the ball this way. The optimal angle of attack for the greatest distance is 5 degrees up at impact.…

Strike It On The Up

How to hit up on a driver First of all, I would like to give the credit for this drill to Andrew Rice. He is an instructor in America, and I believe this was his idea. Hitting up at impact is a key to being able to drive the golf ball well. Hitting up…

Pressure Points

Pressure Points in a Golf Swing Do you suffer from any of the following faults? Early Extension (Backswing) – This is where your hips will get closer to the ball, resulting in a posture change from address. If you have this fault, you will find it difficult to strike the ball solid; you might also…

Feel Your Follow Through

Different Follow Throughs Take a look down a regular driving range, what is very normal to see, is players of all levels hitting balls with one club, making one type of swing, hitting one type of shot to a sole target. This one repetitive movement would be fine if golf was only played on…

How To Transfer Your Weight

Weight transfer in the downswing A key move in an efficient swing is to be able to transfer your weight to your left side during the downswing. We all have that image of the top players as they transition into the downswing, and how they post into the left side; it looks strong, athletic…