Fix Your Faults

The specific miss, what causes it, and the drill order that removes it. The highest-intent guides on the site.

14 guides

How to Fix a Slice: What Causes It and How to Stop

A slice is not one fault. It is two numbers that disagree with each other, and until you know which of them is yours, every tip you try is a guess.

12 min read

Beginner

How to Stop Chunking Chip Shots: The Chili Dip Fix

The club thuds into the ground, the ball dribbles four feet, and you are still forty yards from the pin. A chunked chip is the most demoralising shot in golf and one of the most mechanical to fix.

10 min read

Beginner

How to Stop Hitting Fat Shots and Chunking the Ball

Hitting the ground first is not clumsiness. It is a swing whose lowest point sits behind the ball, and the ground is simply the first thing in the way.

11 min read

Beginner

How to Stop Topping the Golf Ball and Hitting It Thin

Nobody tops the ball because they lack strength or talent. They top it because the club head is higher off the ground at the ball than it was at address.

11 min read

Beginner

Whiffing the Golf Ball: Why You Miss It Completely

Missing the ball entirely is the most humiliating shot in golf and one of the least serious. It has two causes, both mechanical, and it responds faster than almost any other fault.

9 min read

Intermediate

How to Fix a Hook: Why the Ball Dives Left and How to Stop

A hook is the miss that arrives once you can actually release the club, which is why it is so demoralising. The ball is being struck well and finishing in the trees.

12 min read

Intermediate

How to Fix a Push and a Pull in Golf

The ball flew beautifully. It just flew at the wrong target. A push and a pull are the two misses that come with no curve at all, which makes them the hardest to read and the easiest to fix once you know what you are looking at.

11 min read

Intermediate

How to Fix a Shank: Why the Ball Squirts Sideways

A shank is the only miss in golf that arrives with no warning and no curve. The ball does not bend away from the target, it leaves at almost a right angle to it, and nothing in the swing felt wrong.

12 min read

Intermediate

How to Stop Coming Over the Top: Fix the Transition

Coming over the top is not a mistake the arms make. It is the body doing exactly what instinct asks of it, in the wrong order, at the one moment in the swing where order is everything.

12 min read

Intermediate

How to Stop Skying the Driver: Pop-Ups Fixed

The ball climbs almost vertically, lands 90 yards ahead, and there is a fresh white scuff on the top of a driver you paid a lot of money for. The mark is not damage. It is a diagnosis.

11 min read

Intermediate

How to Stop Swaying in the Golf Swing

Turning and sliding feel almost identical from the inside, which is why swaying survives years of practice. From outside, they look nothing alike and they produce completely different strikes.

11 min read

Intermediate

Inconsistent Golf Ball Striking: Why and How to Fix It

You hit one out of the middle and spend the next four holes trying to work out what you did. Inconsistent striking is rarely a broken swing. It is usually one variable moving around while everything else stays fine.

12 min read

Intermediate

Losing Distance in Golf: Why It Happens and What to Do

You are playing the same clubs off the same tees and coming up a club shorter than you did three seasons ago. Distance loss is rarely one thing, and it is almost never the thing golfers assume.

11 min read

Advanced

Putting Yips: What They Are and How to Get Rid of Them

The stroke is fine in your hands until the ball is there, and then something takes over that you did not ask for. The yips are real, they are documented, and they are not a character flaw.

11 min read