Viking Golf - Will Preece

What feels am I working on here?

Really enjoying practice at the moment. Still a long ways off where I need to be but building in some much more repeatable patterns 🏌️‍♂️

Block by block, I might have a golf game again by the end of the year 😂

Do you want a stable clubface? Then you must understand what helps control it… Your elbows.

If your trail elbow flies, your clubface gets unpredictable.If your lead elbow collapses, you lose structure—and control.

Elite ball strikers don’t “manipulate” the face…They build a motion where the elbows work together to stabilize it.

✔️ Trail elbow: stays connected, works under
✔️ Lead elbow: maintains structure through impact

Get this right, and suddenly the clubface isn’t something you fix… it’s something you own.

Control the elbows → control the face → control the ball.

Next time you’re on the range, don’t think hands… think elbows.

Not long until evening golf is here 🏌️‍♂️ who else is looking forward to the after work 9 holes?

🚨 Struggling with fat or thin shots? This is why.

It’s not your hands.
It’s not your tempo.

It’s your LOW POINT DEPTH. 🎯

Here had a significant gain of height during back swing and loss of height during impact leading to inconsistent strikes 🏌️‍♂️ This drill allowed us to reduce vertical emotion and gain more control of low point depth.

Here’s what most golfers miss 👇

⬆️ Gain too much height in the downswing?
→ Low point shifts up
→ Thin strikes

⬇️ Drop too much height?
→ Low point bottoms out early
→ Fat strikes

The best players maintain their posture and control their vertical movement so the club strikes ball first, turf second. That’s compression. That’s consistency.

For consistency in your game be sure to claim your FREE swing analysis on my profile

The shank isn’t random… and it’s NOT bad luck. 😳

If you’ve ever hit that dreaded hosel rocket, you know the feeling. But according to leading coaches like Butch Harmon, Hank Haney, and Sean Foley, a shank is almost always a face-to-path and strike location problem — not a mystery.

Here’s what’s really happening:

👉 You’re delivering the hosel to the ball.
That usually means that the club head moves closer to the ball in transition often caused by instability in posture or your arms throw out toward it in the downswing.

👉 Your weight shift is off balance.
Depending where your pressure moves during the weight shift there will be various compensations or a reach of your arms so the club moves outward — hello, hosel.

👉 Your handle stalls.
When the body gets stuck and arms take over the hands flip, the clubhead passes too far away from you.

How to never hit another one:

✔️ Feel pressure in the balls of your feet, not your heel or toes.
✔️ Maintain posture — keep your chest down through impact.
✔️ Engage against the ground don’t throw your hands at the ball.

The drill shown in this video is a great way to train your awareness. If you’re hitting shanks often, we all know the headspace you are in, it’s not fun. Training awareness/skill is a great way to turn off those technical thoughts, hitting the ball on the inside of the ball you’ve addressed is an easier instruction for your body to compute.

The shank isn’t a curse. It’s feedback. And once you understand the pattern, you can eliminate it for good.

If you want personalized feedback on your swing so you NEVER see that shot again, claim your free swing analysis on Skillest — let’s fix it properly. ⛳