Lee Trevino knows a thing or two about playing the game of golf and he’s given plenty of tips over the years, including one for amateurs here on how to strike the ball well.
Ball striking is one of the key elements of any good golfer and in the modern game, the likes of Scottie Scheffler very much show how it’s done.
For any amateur player, making good contact with the ball is often the first step to becoming a much better golfer.
In a nutshell, if you can’t hit the ball consistently, then you’re never going to improve to a good level.
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However, trying to help players with aspect, six-time major winner Lee Trevino has spoken of his top tip for making good contact.
And as usual, it’s not as difficult as one might imagine.
Lee Trevino’s golf tip for amateurs to hit the ball better
At 85-years-old, it’s safe to say that Lee Trevino knows a thing or two about how to hit a golf ball.
Indeed, winning six majors over three decades shows how good he was, and if he’s giving out tips, it’s worth taking note, especially when it comes to simply making good contact.
“The biggest mistake that people make when the practice is that they know exactly what they did wrong. Baloney! They do not have a clue what they hell they did wrong,” Trevino said.
“What happens is, if you look at all these players, none of them swing alike. But they have mastered their swing and they have confidence in that swing. If you try to change that player today and come back next week, he would revert back to the old way that he plays.”
“You talk a certain way, you walk a certain way and you swing a club a certain way. Now there are things you can change. You can take the club more outside, down the line, or inside. That you can change. You can change the stance and be open or closed. But these are things that you have to work on.
“The secret to hitting the ball solidly if you are not is to keep moving the ball back. Don’t aim at anything. The big thing about it is when people practice they get mesmerised with a target. Don’t do that. That is when the thing is wide open, it’s just hitting. Once you get a pattern and you can hit the ball the same way every time then we can go to aiming, but you have got to get a pattern.
“If you get the ball too far forward and the limbs come up this is what happens [you hit it thin]. Now if I move it a tiny bit back with the same swing it came up a little bit better. But you can move this ball around.”
The golf shot Lee Trevino says is the hardest in the sport
As mentioned above, Trevino knows plenty about golf and over the years, he’ll have encountered some of the toughest shots out there.
However, in Trevino’s opinion, there is one tricky shot that usurps the lot when it comes to difficulty.
“The hardest shot in golf is when you get in the trees on the right, and you can’t go down towards the flag, you’ve got to go across to the fairway to lay-up. The hardest shot in golf, used to take a wedge or whatever club you are going to get out from under the trees with to the fairway. And nobody would even think of this. And the hardest shot in golf is how hard do you hit that golf ball to clear the rough here but then stop it before it gets into that rough. That’s the hardest shot in golf, besides the 60 yard bunker shot,” he said.
“You got to get out of that trouble and you’re laying up, so you need the ball in the fairway, and people will hit it too low, never make it out of the rough. Or they hit it too hard, go in the rough on the other side. So this is something that you have to practice.”
With the tips on offer from Trevino here, amateurs can hopefully avoid any treacherous situations.
Still, when all’s said and done, golf is a hard game and ultimately, mistakes will always happen, no matter the level.
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