5-Minute Punch Shot Golf Lesson

Golf Monthly

In this video, Luke Peterken offers some simple advice for playing the punch.

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00:00Hi guys, Neil Tappin here from Golf Monthly and welcome to this iron play tips video in

00:11which we're going to be taking a look at how to hit the punch shot more effectively. I'm

00:15going to be joined by Luke Peterkin from Honmar. He's Honmar's custom fitting specialist here

00:19in the UK. He's also a PGA pro and he's got some great advice on how to play this shot

00:24more effectively, more repeatably. Guys, if you're new to the Golf Monthly channel, please

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00:32the like button if you like what you're watching and comment below. We'd be interested to hear

00:36your thoughts, but let's head out now to the golf course here at North Hance and find out

00:40about Luke's punch shot tips. Okay, so fifth hole here at North Hance, we've got about

00:45160 yards and it's slightly into the wind. Probably not enough really today to force

00:51you to hit a punch, but still a good one to be able to show everyone how to do it. Luke,

00:56what's the thinking? How do you bring that trajectory down? So, again, if we use our

01:01say stock iron shot as a benchmark to work from, so 155, maybe a 7 iron, just a stock

01:09me 7 iron. So I would take then my length of swing and my swing speed of my stock shot

01:15and then dial it down a bit. So I wouldn't swing back as far and I wouldn't apply as

01:20much club head speed. Both of those already will change my trajectory quite a bit and

01:25especially with this shot where the pin is right at the back, we've got lots of green

01:29to work with. So actually this is quite a nice shot to employ because those effects

01:33that we're going to have on our trajectory will mean that the golf will roll out that

01:36little bit more. Okay. So it's a nice shot to play if there's no danger in front of the

01:40green. We've got two greenside bunkers there, but we're going to be nice in between those

01:44and try and run it up there. So usually you'd be hitting a 7 iron from here, but you're

01:47going to club up? Yeah, club up a little bit again to counter the fact that we've dialed

01:52down the swing speed and the swing length. Okay. Let me give you 6 iron then. Okay. Yeah.

01:56Perfect. So not only that, there's also a couple of address changes. Yeah. A couple

02:02of setup changes. Yeah, exactly. So I would take my ball to target line and then work

02:09a little bit left of that. So basically. Feet left of it. Feet slightly left. Why do you

02:15do that? So similar to where we said about the shorter pitch shots. So we're already

02:20kind of setting, pre-setting our hips into our kind of impact position because we're

02:24not using as much speed. So it gets us delivering the club in a consistent way. Right. Okay.

02:31In other words, I can keep my club face much more stable by keeping my hips a little bit

02:37more open with this shot that we're choosing. But crucially, shoulders are not open to target

02:44line. No, not so much at all. I'm keeping those actually fairly parallel to the target

02:48line itself. It's just the hips to give me the space to then not get into any of those

02:54type of habits where we're flipping the hands over. Okay. Good. Give us a go. Okay. So slightly

03:00left. My ball position will be slightly back of centre as well. But that's about it. Shorter

03:05swing and less speed. And then it will chase up there. Perfect. So you can see from that,

03:16have another go for us, just how easy Luke makes that seem to play that shot because

03:21you're taking speed out of it, because you're taking more club, you can make a more sort

03:25of relaxed, easygoing swing at it. Should be one that every golfer out there can really

03:29play and control. Plenty of run on it when it's hitting the ground, hasn't it? Yeah,

03:37exactly. So we're able to cover a yardage of 155 yards, but like you say, in a very

03:41controlled, repeatable way. Yeah. And we can apply that to many different scenarios as well.

03:45So there you have it. Some great advice there from Luke on how to hit the punch shot. Really

03:49simple, really easy. Something that every golfer should be able to do. Guys, thank you very much

03:54for watching. If you've liked what you've watched, please do hit the like button. Also leave comments

03:58below. Do you have any thoughts yourself about how to hit the punch shot? We'd be really interested

04:02to hear what you have to say. Also do keep your eyes peeled for the other videos in this series.

04:06As Luke mentioned, we've got some great advice on how to hit full and half pitch shots, as well

04:11as some advice on how to practice, some ball striking tips to keep your eyes peeled for those.

04:15But for now, from North Hans, it's goodbye.

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