How to use your ball flight to fix your golf swing, with Michael Breed

One of the most difficult aspects of golf is that the solutions to many of our misses are counterintuitive. Once we understand what causes our worst shots and how to fix them, we realize that the key to fixing our golf swings is in our ball flight.

Take the most common problem for everyday golfers: the slice. We swing, the ball takes off to the right and keeps curving right. So, as would seem natural, we aim more left and swing more left to get the ball to go more left, only for the ball to curve even more to the right.

To learn how to properly diagnose our faults, we’re excited to announce our next Golf Digest Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 17 at 8 p.m. ET: How to use your ball flight to fix your golf swing, with Michael Breed. Breed will lead the Happy Hour live from his custom teaching studio, which is equipped with a simulator, GCQuad launch monitor, 14-camera functionality and 12 HD video monitors. With all this technology, Breed will demonstrate and explain how we can use ball flight to diagnose and fix our most common swing faults.

The one-hour live webinar will be offered exclusively for Golf Digest+ members, who will be able to join the Happy Hour by following the Zoom link that will be posted on this page.

Breed is Golf Digest’s Chief Digital Instructor and is ranked inside the top 10 on our list of the Best Teachers in America. He is the former longtime host of “The Golf Fix” on Golf Channel, the 2012 PGA National Teacher of the Year and current host of “A New Breed of Golf” on Sirius XM PGA Tour Radio.

“What causes the direction is often misunderstood,” he says. “When your ball goes left or right, you probably think you aimed there or swung in that direction, but the issue is usually the face being open or closed.”

Not a member yet? Be sure to sign up here to be able to join the Happy Hour on Wednesday, July 17 at 8 p.m. ET.