The Most SIMPLE Way To Strike Your Iron Shots

This has got to be the simplest way to strike your irons. What I'm going to give you in this video is a few quick wins, instant results that can help change your fortunes with your iron shots immediately and also the long-term solutions. When we're looking at becoming a consistent ball striker with your irons, the key is really to get this golf club to land in the correct spot every single time in the correct direction. So the low point of your golf swing ideally should be somewhere around about your armpit, so just after where the golf ball is if it's in the center of your stance. Now with a mid-iron like a 7-8-9 iron, we'd want the ball position to be in the center. So we want the golf club to be landing just after the golf ball and hitting this lower spot in the armpit type area, obviously descending as it's approaching the golf ball. That's kind of a secret. From a direction point of view, it wants to be on like a circular path, slightly in to square to in to hit a straight shot or in to out to hit that little draw shot. Either of those for me is fine or even slightly out to in for a tiny fade, but generally that goes for the more powerful golfers for me because we want to maximize our distance so hitting the draw shot will go a little further, so bear that in mind. So on the floor here I've got basically a white rod here to represent the ball position and we're going to set up the golf ball here or alongside the golf ball here and the idea is to try and to really feel like it's always going to brush that ground after the golf ball. Now in order to achieve that, we need our arms to be moving forward, our body to be moving forward laterally at impact. Now in terms of the quick wins, what I want to do is cheat a few things. So for the guys who struggle to do that, what I want you to do is when you take your set up to a golf ball, I want you to push your pelvis two or three inches towards target. So you basically belt buckle goes just forward of this white line on the ground. I want you to feel there's a bit more pressure on your knee foot about 55 to 60 percent depending on how much we need to cheat these things. I also want to feel like the shaft goes forward to about mid thigh. The last thing we can do if we need to just move that ball position back about half a ball. Now all these things are going to encourage us to hit down the golf ball more shift that low point more forward. Moving the pelvis more forward helps get that lateral move preset. Putting the pressure there helps us hit down the golf ball. Putting the handle forward gets us a little bit more shaft lean and also de-lofts that club at impact. Now when we put the handle forward, we also need to make sure we rotate the arms and club and shaft to make sure the clubface stays square, otherwise we might present an open clubface which we don't want. So bobbing would normally be center, shuffle forward half a ball, move the pelvis forward so we're ahead of this white line, pressure on this knee foot about 60 percent, handle forward to the mid thigh, head still kind of on top of the middle of the ball here. Now from there we're going to feel like we make a back swing where we try and turn but stay very centered and then feel like we move forward to the target as much as we possibly can. Okay so center turn and move forward and a real crushing low driven iron shot there, great strike. Now the only negative in this is possibly the swinging direction. When we load everything here it can restrict how much we rotate and shift our mass. Now in doing so that can make the swing path and plane a little bit more over and cutting across the golf ball. So one of the things to be wary of this when we set up this way is possibly just to feel that when we swing back keep this lead arm very connected to the body and that should compensate then for the slight opportunities of the club getting a little bit less organized in the back swing going up. We want that connection. So if we go through the same kind of setup again and then we feel the left arm stays connected and we try and make the same shot and now hopefully balance out the things we're doing to make us steeper and more forward when things we're doing make us shallower but still get that consistent contact. Again that is the quick wins to become a consistent iron player. Shifting that low point forward, getting a strike, hitting that descending angle and getting that ball to go forward with a nice interaction with the ground. Now from a long-term perspective we want to try and be able to achieve those kind of things at impact without having to cheat them at address. So from a set point of view if I go back to a center ball position here now, pressure to be fairly even and the handle to be just forward with kind of opposite main side left thigh, that's the kind of standard setup. Now again what I'm looking to achieve on the downswing is the lateral movement of the hip, the lead knee and hip moving to the outer part of my lead foot. I'm doing that ahead of my torso and then get my arms to go forward. That is what I'm looking to do. That is the kind of conceptual ideas. Now what I want to do in order to achieve that is build up. I want to build up from a nine to three swing to a full swing. This would be how I would get you to practice. So we set up in that very same way and then we're going to try and take left arm to nine o'clock and right arm to three o'clock. As we go to three o'clock we're going to try and feel that we finish with our tailbone, our backside past this white line and we try and arch our body back so we get the kind of feeling of this leading, this pelvis tuck and this body staying back in the nine to three position. We're to get that kind of clubface control and that kind of correct wrist action through the golf ball. So set up as normal nine to three and ideally we want to try and live there maybe for a little bit until we feel very comfortable with that and we get very consistent shots. Once we do that then we want to try and add a little bit more pivot and let the arms carry on a bit more and we're going three stages so we've got the nine to three then if we like let's go nine to kind of one o'clock and then nine to full finish. So let's go ahead and do a nine to one o'clock. So same setup every single time. That would be the best one I've hit so far. Absolutely felt huge control on that, great contact, beautiful shot. So in an ideal world we might live there for like 10 minutes and do like 10 shots in each of these stages and then finish with a full shot. So the full shot the focus will very much be trying to do a full backswing and then trying to feel the full finish but trying to feel we're trying to use the stuff on the ground the white stick on the ground in particular to try and feel like a shift past and that was great. Great contact, great pressure on the golf ball, really enjoyed that. So the simplest way to be a great iron player is to control where the club lands and make sure we don't disrupt the direction the club's traveling in in that journey so we can still then basically hit great shots. So I have a few cheats in there at the start for the people who can't shift correctly in the golf swing they can do that and I would recommend you do that probably with all your mid to short irons kind of let's say five iron to wedge. Longer irons I'd set up a bit more normal because we need to get a loft on the club get that elevation on drivers and woods the same. The guys who don't need the cheats look at the conceptual idea of what we've talked about try to feel like we are rotating and being centered moving laterally moving that club getting our wrist in a bit more flexion and trying to build it up through that nine to three to nine to one to nine to four finish and then full shots. That would be the sequence in which I'd go if we can just spend 10 minutes in each of the zones that will help you ball striking and a great way to start any single practice session. If you're new to the channel please give me a like and subscribe and post some comments it really helps my channel I really appreciate it and thank you for tuning in today I'll see you back here real soon.