PGA TIPS – HOW TO HIT YOUR IRONS PURE – STRIKE SOLID CONTACT!
(lively music) – Hi, Adam Bazalgettehere in Naples, Florida founder of Scratch Golf Academy.
Wanna talk to you today about how to hit your irons pure and hit them solidly.
Before you really talk about how to do it, you have to have a clear understanding of how to get the sweet spot on the ball, and why a slightdescending blow is needed.
Let me show you a close up.
Okay this is a seven iron ona fairly tight fairway lie.
Now I want you to notice the sweet spot is well up on the face, it's not down at the very bottom.
So if I'm gonna get thesweet spot against the ball, I have to have the shafttilted forward slightly, which is the essence of afractionally descending blow.
Any kind of backward lean and the ball's gonna hit the club facetoo low on the face.
Not a solid hit.
So it's nearly a matter of forward lean and that pushes the sweetspot against the ball.
Okay I hope that close up gave you a little clearer picture as to why we have to hit slightly down on the ball to make solid contact.
Now I'm going to give you an impact drill but before I do that, one little caution about the backswing.
And probably it's best if we look at a great player in motion just to set this up.
Okay here's Nice Price, one of the great ball strikers of the last 30 years or so.
And this is a middle to short iron.
I think it's a six iron.
Now we'll notice as he goes back, his head is slightly behind the ball.
I would say approximately in line with his left cheek or left ear.
And we'll see that his left shoulder is definitely moving behind the ball.
But nonetheless, he'sfairly evenly distributed between his ankles.
He is not loaded upagainst this position here.
He's maintained hisleft eye over the ball, or left cheek over the ball, but he hasn't movedsignificantly in that direction.
This is important for iron play because you've got to be able to move back to your left as you come down, as you see him doing.
And you have to stay relatively centered on the backswing to make this easier.
Okay, I hope seeingNick there helps you get a sense of where your body would wanna be on the backswing.
Now, let's talk about alittle drill you might do for the downswing.
Let's assume your backswing.
And again we've mentioned we're not trying to hit way down at the ball, we're just trying to get the club to release beyond the ball, so that the bottom ofthe swing is forward.
Now little word on that before we talk about the release.
You wanna release so that your left wrist is more delofted, or pointed down.
That moves the handle forward, takes loft off the club, and it's a lot easier to get the ball up on the club face.
Plus you can press the ball better.
So again, no kinda snappinginto a scoop position, snapping into a more delofted position.
My suggestion as a drill, line up some golf balls, use that as a reference point and make some little practice swings.
Maybe preset your weight forward and practice releasing the club, beyond the line over there.
Practice ticking the turfon that side of the line.
When you feel like you'vegot a little confidence, and again practice doingit so that you feel like your left wrist is down.
When you've got a little confidence, go ahead and hit a shot or two.
Just a little punt shot there, and see if again your divot is in front of the line.
Okay I hope that helps.
So hopefully we've given you a concept of how to hit down on the ball or why it's important to sense of your backswingrelationship to the ball, and at least a drill for how to use your left wrist and how to release the club on the correct side of the ball.
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Adam Bazalgette, founderof ScratchGolfAcademy.
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I hope this is helpful to you.
Best of luck with your golfing.
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