Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "How to STOP Hitting Bad Iron Shots | 3 Really Simple Tips"

In today's lesson...

Go from struggling from round to round to playing the best golf of your life...

...as you'll get 3 unbelievably simple tips to start hitting your irons fantastic (including how your nose plays a key role in solid contact)!

Once you start striking your irons consistently solid, the game gets a LOT easier!

 

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 5:49

Video Transcription:

I've got three unbelievably simple tips that are going to help you to hit your irons. Fantastic. All right. So the first one is we don't want to lose our posture. We all know that. We don't want to stand up out of our posture, have our back kind of come out of the shot like this in the downswing. I want to make sure that I'm staying down in my posture all the way through contact.

I've actually found that a lot of players have their stance way too narrow to feel like it's easy to stay in your posture. And here's what I mean. If my stance is fairly narrow like this, let's say it's inside the width of my shoulders, just barely. Or there's maybe about ten inches, 11 inches between my feet. It makes it really difficult to feel I can get some flex in my hips, some flex in my knees.

I just don't feel very powerful. Or maybe your legs just aren't super strong. It's tough to feel like you can stay down there and still make a good swing. What I find is most players do a lot better when their stance gets much water. So if we're thinking about shoulder width apart, test out to where the middle of your shoulder would come down and hit inside of your entire foot.

And that's for both sides. I like to see, you know, it's getting close to daggone near two feet in between my ankles here now. Every player is going to be a little bit different. Test out going a little wider than this until you feel like you get too wide and it gets difficult to rotate. Test out a little bit narrower until it feels like you get less powerful.

I like to be about right here and I feel like once I do that, it's much easier to get some been in my knees and flex on my knees and feel like my chest comes down and stays in my posture as I'm making the swing. This feels very difficult to stay in posture. It is still weak. This feels really easy to stay in posture through contact.

It feels pretty daggone strong. Now, the second key is once we get into our posture and we are down there through contact. The advantage of that is if I stay in my posture, I can get my body rotating open and I can get a lot of shaft laying. I can get my hands in front of the golf ball.

And if you want to hit it good, you've got to get your hands in front of the golf ball. It makes it way, way easier. But what we don't want to do is slide in front to get our hands in front of the golf ball. Last thing I want to do is give them this great position, good posture, nice, wide, powerful stance.

And then I slide up here in front of this golf ball and I just kind of chop down into it and hit a big chunk or, you know, a top or something like that is very aggravating. What I want to do is actually stay behind the golf ball and this is what every single good pro player does the same one of the things that they do all the same.

If you looked at my nose, even as I stay in my posture and I get my weight shift in my hands or in front, my nose doesn't slide in front of this golf ball. It's going to stay behind the golf ball. And I want you to do a little drill here where you stay in your posture. If you were to hang this club from your nose, it would be behind the golf ball.

And I want you to get your right arm to extend as far down the fairway as you can without letting your nose get in front of that golf ball. Now, eventually, you're going to be pulled up out of your posture as you get to the end of your range of motion. But you'll notice if I keep my feet square, it's almost impossible to do that.

I have to let this right. He'll come up off the ground and rotate. And then I can keep my hand going forward and forward and forward because my hips rotate forward. So nose behind the golf ball, give this hand rotating down the target line. And what that the feeling that that's going to have for you is like the ball is smooshing against the face and it's just sticking to the face and staying on it.

Well, past impact. Not only are you going to hit it more solid, you're going to be surprise just how much more powerful it is, too. Now, finally, there's still one piece that we haven't gone over here, and this is making sure that you square the club face up the right way. You see, if you're in your posture, you're going to get your hands in front like we talked about.

You're going to rotate through the shot better, like I talked about. But a lot of times in players get their hands in front, they've never been shown the right way to square up the face. You see, most people, when they get their hands in front, the wrist is flat and the club faces open. I actually have to bow this wrist to get that face square.

Now, my all time favorite drill for this is what's called the tennis racket drill. If you go over the instruction tab to remember the website, go instruction tab, top speed golf system and then go to the move section. Video 1.3 In the move, I go over the tennis racket drill, this drill helped tons of players get into great impact position in there.

I'm going to walk through exactly what to do with your hands, arms and wrist so that you're in a perfect spot to square of the face like the pros. And that puts the whole thing together. So piece number one, drill number one, we get a wider stance to stay down and cover the golf ball. Piece number two, we hit through the golf ball nice and solid and really extend through there to keep the ball on the face for what feels like an eternity to hit it really solid.

And then piece number three, we learned how to square the face up. So it's going to be dead straight or a nice tight little draw. And we don't have the face open, which is what most people do when they get the first two pieces down. So let's go and put this all together. Nice, wide stance. I want to feel like I stay down in my posture, extend through it, and I guarantee you this is going to be a great little draw.

There we go. I don't know if I can get one much better than that. Killed a six iron there. 197 carry 210 total. Not going to do a whole heck of a lot better than that. I can't wait to see you over in the MOVE section and specifically video 1.3 where I teach you the tennis racket drill.