Older Golfers: STOP Topping Fairway Woods! Use This Eye Trick

This essential golf instruction addresses common golf swing mistakes that lead to topping the golf ball with fairway woods. Learn practical golf tips to understand why golfers lift their bodies and how to correct this issue. Implement these strategies to significantly improve ball striking and achieve more consistent shots.

The first thing that golfers do to try to get the ball in the air because they don’t have the swing speed is they lift their body up. They take their head and they try to pull up and get the ball up in the air. Now, when you come up and out of it, of course, the club comes with you and you hit the top of the golf ball. Here’s the feel I want you to have. If you think that’s the move that you’re doing, what I want you to feel is that when you finish your golf swing, I want you to feel like your trail eye, which is your right eye for a right-handed golfer, is a little bit lower than your lead eye. Everybody see that? So, here’s my eyes, right? I want my right eye, my trail eye to be a little bit lower than my lead eye. When my eyes are positioned like this, then I maintain my posture. If my eyes are level like this, my head comes up. I have had very little success in my 30 plus years of coaching golf by telling people to keep their head down or their head still. Okay? Just doesn’t work. I don’t know if that if that works for you, I maybe great, but for most golfers, it just does not work. But when we focus on the eyes, of course, we instinctively change the head position, but it’s a much easier concept. If you feel like you’re trying to lift the ball in the air and you’re topping it, when you finish your golf swing, make sure your trail eye, your right eye for a right-handed golfer is a little bit lower than your lead eye, and you’ll naturally stay in posture.