If Your 7 Iron Only Carries 120 Yards, Watch This

Phoebe swings as hard as she can, but her 7-iron only carries 120 yards. Today, Coach James will show her how to compress the ball to hit it straighter and farther. Perfect. By the end of this video, you'll learn three drills to improve shaft lean, maintain the right wrist angles, and compress your 7-iron for better accuracy and carry distance, without swinging harder. First, let's see how Phoebe hits her 7-iron. Hey, so let's take a look at your video. First thing I noticed on your setup, your hands are... Too much in the center of your stance, so we're going to need a little bit more shaft lean. You know what I mean by shaft lean? Like here? Yeah, we don't want to move the hip this way, just the hands. Okay. Yeah, literally just the hands. We want to create this small Y on your setup. Okay. I see a lot of golfers when they add shaft lean, they start opening the face like this, but we don't want to open the face. Do a shaft lean more like this. This. Good, good. Good. So the reason why we want to add a shaft lean is because your dynamic loft is a little bit too high. You see the dynamic loft is 28 degree. So with your 7 iron, we want to get up to 22 to 23. What I mean by dynamic loft is when you're at the impact, maximum compression at the impact, your hands are here. Your hands are in the center of your stance. We need to get the hands more in the front so we can get the loft down so you can compress the ball better. So let me show you an So, see the dynamic loft number there? It's 21 degrees. So, you don't have to get down as low as 21, but at least we need to get it down to at least 24. That's our first goal, okay? So, let me actually show you my video here. So, on the setup, I do have a little bit more shaft lean here compared to yours. Yours? And also, at the impact position, see that your impact is somewhere up here. My impact. Position is more towards the lead side. That's what we're trying to do. That's how we can compress the ball. And de-loft the club so we can hit the ball a little bit farther. Let me show you a drill that we're going to work on. We're going to hit the ball from the tee. First, do an extra shaft lean on the setup. And we're going to go a little past takeaway. When we go slightly past the takeaway, we're going to start pulling the handle and hit the ball with your hands in the front. So more like this. Just one, two. And we're also going to stop below your belt. So pretty much what we're doing is trying to hit a low shot as possible. Like low as you can. So we want hands to be in the front. One, one, two. That's how low I hit. See how low the ball flight is? Is your hand really like relaxing? Very relaxed, yes. There's two things we have to do. One is relaxed and just pulling the handle toward the target. Another one is we see this PXG logo to get that logo facing. That's the second part. So pull down. If I don't get this PXG logo facing down, I'm going to end up with the open face like this. So while you're doing this, see the logo facing down, club face facing down. So see how low the balls are going? My impact look like this. So give it a try. Pull. This one is really easy, trust me. The hands in the front, while you're going up, start coming down, bow the wrist, and then hit the ball. And the next goal is to maintain this wrist angle, even after you hit the ball. I don't want you to release the club. So your ball went to the right side, right? That means you didn't bow the wrist. So try a few more. Two more shots. Good job Phoebe, you're doing it, you're executing it perfectly. Thank you. If you're enjoying this video so far, then join our community of passionate educators and students alike with monthly challenges, analysis, training programs, and more. Click the link down below and we'll see you there. So watch this, so a little more than a half take away, and then you see your handle starts to pull this way, and then your logo starts to face down, so you see at the impact position, It's on your... Left thigh at the impact. Used to be in the middle of your stance, right? Obviously, this is a little exaggeration. So your balls are going a little bit too low. If you look at the dynamic loft, it's 20 degree. 20 degree and 21 degree, which is exactly same as my dynamic loft when I do a full swing. I only used takeaway to hit 100, but my whole swing was like 120. I know. That's how pros hit the ball far. Because my loft is 21 degree. If you swing with your club speed of 70 mile club speed, and if you swing with 21 degree loft, your ball is going to go too low. That's why I don't want you to go de-loft the club too much when you're doing a full swing. So now we're going to go up to a half swing. So on the downswing, I want you to feel like your palm, right palm, is going to face the ground as long as you can. Try this, just here. One, and palm is facing this wall right there. And then stay down, and stay down, and then stay down. Okay. But with the half swing. One, try and hit the ball as low as you can. After you hit the ball, I want you to finish low. Finish low. Okay. Follow through has to be really low. Low. So, do a practice swing first. Yep, and then facing that way. Good. And then on the downswing, face down, face down, face down. Okay, set the ball on the tee. Okay, let's bow your wrist a little bit more. We can close the face. Your loft is 21 degrees still. Very good. That was a little more than a half. Half is somewhere there. A little more than a half. And your palm is facing this camera and then facing the ground. Oh yeah, look how much, look how much lagging you have here. So you look at your swing before. So when your hands touches your pocket, touches your pocket somewhere here. The club is facing there. This one, when it touches your pocket, which is here. You lost this much of an angle and at the impact this one is slightly more towards the lead side right there and this one impact is more on the center. Okay so yeah so you're already hitting 120 carry and 140 and you're getting your dynamic loft to 21 degree but once we start doing a full swing you're gonna start casting. That's very common for a lot of golfers. With the half swing or three-quarter backswing, it's easy to hold on to a lag. But when you do a full swing, you're going to start casting. So we're just going to do one more drill. We're going to use this impact bag. So this, we're going to do a full backswing. And then we're going to hold on to this angle. And then we're going to hit this impact bag like this. So even after you hit the ball, I want your hands to be almost touching the ball. Okay. When you're doing this drill, also I want you to exaggerate the hip rotation. I want your hips to lead the swing, not your hands. I don't want your hands to lead. I want your hips to lead the swing a little bit more. And then give it a try. So let's do it slowly first. From here, lead with your lower body. Go, lift your heel, lift your heel. Good, and turn, turn your hip. Your belt has to be facing the target. Your logo was facing the sky just now. So when you do that, yes. I want the logo of the glove also facing this. A little bit more bold. Okay, good. So at the impact, do you notice your club face was facing this way? Just now? Not this? Yeah. Okay. And then hitting this, I think I have more power. So you think you can do that with the full swing now? Yes. Yeah, I think you closed it a little too much on that one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let's try two more shots. This is the one, 22 degree. Okay, your speed has gone down to 68. So it went down slower than where you started. You started with 70, but because you got the dynamic loft lower and then you close the face by bowing the wrist, look at the result. You carry 130. So obviously this is gonna be a little bit, yeah, it's a little bit too much roll, but I think you can get up to 140 carry. With your club speed, if your dynamic loft was too low, You're gonna carry too low. I think you're de-lofting too much right now. So let's do a little bit less. This is it. Around 135 carry and around 145 total. And this is it. For your seven iron with your club speed, perfect dynamic loft is around 24. Okay. Yeah, 22 is a little too low. You're not gonna carry that far. Let's target our goal to be 140 carry. Okay. Not the total. 140 carry. So close. Oh, 137. Your dynamic loft is perfect, 24. Okay. Wow, good job, okay. But still, 3 miles. Okay, 137 again. Wow, that's a big, big jump. Yeah, it is. Carrying 123, 124, and 118. Carrying 2, now you're carrying it 135, 137, and you're hitting it all the way up to 150, pretty much. So yeah, so good job Phoebe, so 120 carry to 137 carry and you're hitting it all the way to 150. So let me do a quick recap. So first thing was the setup. So your setup was on the center. So we did add a little bit more shaft lean. So first rule was small takeaway and then pull the handle and then get the logo facing down. So just hit a low Low shot and then second drill was half swing and then getting the hand palm facing the facing this camera and facing the ground as long as you can and then just hitting a low shot like this. And then last one was the impact drill, impact back drill. So we're doing a full back swing, lead with your lower body, throw this handle towards the wall, and then get the handle facing down. Okay, so if we just combine all three together, full swing, hip turn, bow the wrist, and release the club. Can you be able to remember all the things? Yes. You learn? If I don't remember, I'll watch the video. Perfect, perfect. Thanks for watching our video. Please leave like and subscribe and support us by joining our YouTube membership. See you guys soon.