While the power game still rules, the iron game is graining ground.
More and more weekend players are realizing the benefits of hitting crisp, accurate irons.
A well-struck iron can make a big difference on a hole: It can set you up for an easily makeable par or birdie.
Making more pars or birdies lowers and golf handicap and helps boost your game to the next level.
But you’ll never achieve that next level if you don’t master your irons.
One way to do this is to follow a proven process for creating a good iron swing used in many golf lessons. It goes like this:
* Learn the feel of the overall swing
* Develop consistency with your irons
* Learning to shape your shots.
Below we provide golf tips that will help you execute this process and learn to hit better irons.
Use the golf tips and practice the drills described below and you’ll quickly improve your iron game and chop strokes off your golf handicap.
1) Turn To The Top
When it comes to the backswing of an iron shot, many players in our golf instruction sessions just lift their arms instead of turning their body.
An arms only backswing eventually leads to a severe problem at impact.
To generate a good iron swing begin with the hands and arms swinging away from the ball, followed by the shoulders and hips.
This sequence drops the club to the inside on a powerful path to the ball.
To make a full turn, it helps follow this visual imaging exercise that teaching pros have used in golf lessons for years:
Picture your arms and shoulders forming a triangle at address.
Now turn back.
As you do keep the triangle as much intact as possible during the backswing, and through impact and the forward swing.
At some point in the swing, you’ll have to fold your elbows when swinging through.
But be careful.
Don’t let your elbows pull apart or your arms crisscross.
If you do, you’re headed for disaster. Instead, monitor the triangle to keep the face square at impact.
2) Make Consistent Contact
Another key to hitting crisp, accurate irons is to make solid contact.
That always helps when looking to chop strokes off your golf handicap.
You make solid contact with your irons by making a downward strike of the ball—just like you’re told in golf instructions sessions and videos.
A good solid descending blow compresses the ball, cutting a deep divot in front of it.
In creating this divot, your body should be shifting to your front foot and your weight should be moving forward to your front foot at impact.
That will position the bottom of your swing well forward, where it should be.
To learn to make consistent contact, try this simple exercise:
Create divots by hitting some irons off a tee.
Push the tee in very low to the ground.
Place a ball on the tee.
Then step back and assess your divots.
If your weight is forward, your body should be turning open and your arm triangle should be in tact throughout impact.
The divot will come after impact, not before.
3) Shaping Your Shot Like the Pros
A third key to hitting crisp, accurate irons is learning to shape your shots.
Players with low golf handicaps usually know how to hit both fades and draws when necessary.
To draw the ball, close your stance and push your hands ahead of the ball.
To hit a fade, open your stance and play the ball slightly forward of center.
Make sure the clubhead remains outside your hands on the takeaway and that you make a full turn.
An easy way to learn to hit a draw is to lay a club or your umbrella along your toes in a closed stance.
Make sure the umbrella or club is inside the ball.
Lay a head cover or a club just outside of the ball.
Then follow the path with your swing.
The two objects promote an inside-out swing, which generates a draw.
More and more golfers are realizing the benefits of well-struck irons.
A good iron shot can set you up for a par or birdie.
But learning to hit crisp, accurate irons pays off with lower scores.
Following the golf tips and drills provided above will help.
So will attending golf instructions sessions on hitting irons.
Mastering your irons will chop strokes off your golf handicap.
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If you’re playing golf this weekend, I have something you need to read.
It’s an article I’ve pulled together about the 5 biggest mistakes most weekend golfers make.
Most golfers don’t even recognize that they’re doing these things…
And yet they’re the issues and problems that keep most weekend golfers from breaking 80 consistently.
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