I'm shanking the golf ball. How do you get rid of the shanks?

Answer 1

You need to get your weight back, make sure your not bent over to much. Your moving towards the ball. I need to see you swing. You can go to www.pga.com improve your game section and find some drills to work on. You have to get your confidence back. This is a hard subject for me to write about. Don't forget next month is free lesson month with PGA pro's. www.playgolfamerica.com

Answer 2

relax, you'll work it out. It's just that you've shoved it into your head and now you are worried about it and making it happen by that worrying. Normally a shank (hitting the ball at an angle away from you) is caused by hitting off the toe or because the club face is open (turned away from you) at contact. Make sure you aren't rolling your wrists into an open position during or after the backswing. You may also start shanking if the swing path is crossing the inside of the ball, making you hit the ball with the toe. A third alternative that may apply in your case, because of the in-out swing, is that you have exagerated this too much and are coming across in the direction of the shank (pushing the ball that way with your swing direction). I have never had this problem-I get the pull-yank instead because my swing is more out to in (slice swing). Look at you club position at the bottom of your swing and look at your divots to see which of the three possible causes is most likely. And then fix it. It may be a question of timing, turning your body early, leaving the clubface open-just getting ahead of yourself. Good luck. Hard to say without actually seeing what you are doing.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I have had this problem off & on throughout my 30 yrs plus playing the game. It usually comes down to 2 things.
Over grippping the club, squeezing too hard, loosen the grip.
Or standing too close to the ball. Just move back away from the ball slightly, grip the club as if you were holding a small bird and didn't want to hurt it, and swing away!

A bad case of the shanks is the most frustrating thing that can happen to a golfer. Don't let it into your head or it will plague you forever.

Answer 5

Some of the answeres you got are surely going too make u shank if you listen too them, u can only hope the advises are given in a heartly matter, now too the answer:
A shank ( a shot hit so close towards the heel of the club that the ball almost comes of the shaft of the club ) occurs when your weight distribution goes from the heel or the middle of your foot towards the toe, you are probably setting up with too much weight on your heels ( it has nothing too do with how much weight you have on your left or your right foot ). Try too rock forward and backwards gently untill you find an even weight distribution between heels and toes then swing and make sure you can keep your balance when you finish your swing.
Good Luck.

Answer 6

The shanks are all in your head. The definition for the word shank is a bad shot off the hosel of the club face. Since I can't analyze your swing, and you don't know what your doing wrong either, my advice is to not think about them. Don't go to the range or play for a week. spend the time on the putting green.

Answer 7

Another way to improve your shanks is improving contact point on the ground (sounds obvious)...

Swing the club, see where you 'skim' the ground, then place the ball here. There is no perfect ball position, just where each person needs it.

for swinging, think of a pendelum(sp?) back , forth, back forth. Take the thinking out of it and just do the pendelum and you ll prolly start hitting the ball better.

After practicing that, you can add power and see how it goes

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Shanks can be caused by a number of things. Check your grip, alignment, posture. With proper fundamentals you can cure your shanks.
I have had experience of shanks on partial wedge shots. What happened was I swung mostly with my arms, out of sync with my lower body and torso. Because I didn’t require much power my hips didn’t clear, and my arms were forced ever so slightly to an outside path on the way down. For partial shots my main swing thought is to rotate my torso around my spine, with passive arms and hands. I try to maintain my spine angle, and get my hands ahead of the clubhead at impact.

Don't try to correct your problem with a quick-fix compensation. Get back to basics and work on fundamentals.

Answer 10

Try lining up to a target with a 2x4 in front of you also lined up.It only needs to be about 2 feet long.Place a ball between you and the 2x4,having the ball only 2 inches away from it and make sure it`s center of the 2x4.This should keep you from coming from over the top or from an outside swing path which is the cause of most shanks.Try hitting balls with this theory,short swings first.