Why You Need This: How would you like to be able to "Hit Your Irons Longer?"

Are your irons always coming up short and weaker than you would like?

How would you like to be the guy that is always hitting one club less than your playing partners.

In this video, I give you one of the best drills to hit your irons longer.

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Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 7:22

Video Transcription:

How is it possible that you swing so hard, the ball just floats up in the air, doesn’t get very much distance with your irons, and then you see somebody else, it looks like they’re not swinging at all.

The ball makes this totally different sound when it hits the club face, it explodes off there. It sounds deeper, like almost like a cannon shot went off, and the ball goes 20 or 30 yards farther with the exact same iron.

How is that possible? It doesn’t seem right. This person isn’t any more athletic than you are, they’re not more gifted or talented than you are, it really just comes down to the hard science of this.

If we can learn the proper way that the pros are compressing their irons, we could do the same thing in our own game.

So let me cut to the chase here, and talk about the really key points with this. The main thing that the pros are doing when they’re hitting this iron shot, is instead of adding loft to the club, and what happens when you add loft?

Let’s imagine this club straight up and down. If I have this club leaning back, I’m adding loft to the face. Now the face is pointing more up in the air. No matter how hard I swing, when I hit this ball, it’s gliding up the face and kind of floating in.

What we need to feel like we’re doing, is taking all the loft off this club face, so the face is covering over top of the golf ball. Now that’s not really happening, that’s the feeling that you’re going to want to have happening, though.

You’re also going to want to feel like the toe rolls around the outside of the golf ball. If this is the club face, it rolls on top of the face, top of the ball, and comes around to the outside to hit this low, penetrating draw shot.

That’s exactly what I’m going to walk over in this video. So we really want to feel like covering the golf ball, people call it that. Some people call it a trap, some people call it different things, but the result is the same; really penetrating, hard-hit golf shots.

Let’s start out with a great drill to do this. Number one, if we’re flipping at the golf ball and adding loft to this, so now my loft is opening up instead of taking that down, one of the most important drills you can do is a little half backswing, full follow through shot.

So what I’m doing here, I’m making little half backswing, I’m really feeling like my legs get loaded up into the ground, and then I’m going to accelerate coming all the way on through as hard as I can through that golf ball.

Again, what that’s going to do is as I’m accelerating through, that’s going to make it easier for me to get forward shaft lean on this club.

If I do one of these shots here, I’m going to hit toward that target in the distance. There we go, nice low shot. Again, I really felt I accelerated through that. Even though it’s a little half swing, that’s going a long way for a 7 iron.

Now the second piece of that, sometimes when players do that shot what they’ll find themselves doing is they’ll lean the shaft forward, but the face will be open. I want you to feel like you take those hands and arms and close that club face down.

Look how my left wrist is bowing, look how my right hand is coming on top, that’s what people call covering the golf ball.

I want you to feel like again, if you’re hitting this golf ball instead of your face being square, feels like it wraps around the outside of the golf ball. So I’m coming around covering over top of the outside.

As I swing out to the right when I’m doing that, that’s going to result in that low draw type shot. There we go, you could really hear that one. Just really compress on the club face.

So again, I’m making a little half backswing, really accelerating through, and if I do that correctly, then I’m hitting kind of a low draw shot.

So really be active with your lower body. Really try to get that ball to super, super draw. There we go, you hear that one. I couldn’t hit one much better than that.

Again, that’s a 7 iron with a little half backswing, I’m actually pretty far away. I’m almost 200 yards away, but I’m barely short of the green because I’m really accelerating through and compressing this golf shot.

Now one of the other pieces we want to feel like with this, to really compress this golf ball, is we want to make sure that the logo of our left glove kind of stays toward the ground.

So if I have my logo of my left glove here pointing forward, if I let my hands flip, now the logo’s starting to point up toward the sky.

I want to feel like from here when I turn the club down, my logo’s now facing down a little bit more, I want to roll that hand to feel like that club’s coming again to outside of the golf ball here.

My face is really turning over to the outside. Turn that logo down, and when we’re releasing this, let your hand release but feel like the logo is down toward the ground.

I’m really having a lot of forward shaft lean. If I did this in reality, it would be the lowest hardest-hit snap hook you’ve ever seen. That ball would really turn over. But I want you to exaggerate that for the short term. Go ahead and over draw that ball a little bit, we can always tone back from there.

There we go, really low shot. Those aren’t going more than 20 or 30 feet off the ground with a 7 iron, that one actually got to the green. Those are really helping me to get all the energy from the golf ball into the club.

Now the final piece with this, we talked about how to deloft the club, we talked about how to roll the face, we talked about how to release with the left hand, how to make a shorter backswing and really accelerate on through that way we’re getting the speed at the golf ball.

Now let’s just take it to a full-size swing. Exact same thing’s going to happen. I’m going to make my full backswing really getting loaded up, and then as I come closer to contact, then I feel like I’m really going to hammer on with the speed, and then a full follow through.

On this one, I’m going to go ahead and see if I can get one on the green from here, which would be a pretty dag-gone long 7 iron for myself.

All right, killed that one. Let’s see if it gets all the way there. Yep, that one landed right in the middle of the green, hit that one great.

So put those pieces together, start slow, start with smaller swings, and then build up the speed from there, you’re going to compress the heck out of the golf ball.

Now if you’re a member of the Top Speed Golf System, I don’t want us to stop here. This is a great drill working on contact, talking about how we can get some more forward shaft lean, how we can release that club face.

Those are fantastic, but this really ties in exactly what we do in the Top Speed Golf System. Think about the Straight-Line Release.

In that series we talk about how to really accelerate through, get the club to release in front of contact, so that we have forward shaft lean.

I don’t want us to stop here with this great video, we’re well on our way to getting the feeling for this. Let’s ingrain it forever.

Go to the Straight-Line Release section, work through those drills. Work through those videos. If we can commit to working through that system, we’re going to get those long-lasting results so that we don’t even have to think about it.

We just set up there, we swing, we compress the golf ball, we get it to release in front, all that just happens naturally. So start from the Straight-Line Release and work from there.

Now one thing that may be good to start before you even got to the Straight-Line Release, is go to The Move section.

From there, we talk about how to shallow out that club. A big problem I see is a lot of times players that start down kind of steep with their club shaft.

If from here I try to get a lot of forward shaft lean, and I try to really compress the golf ball, a lot of times I’ll chop down into the ground and it won’t be a very good contact.

So I’m trying to do the drill, but my club’s coming in too steep to start. If I go to The Move section, we learn how to shallow that club out, get it into the slot, then I can really accelerate on through as hard as I want, and get as much forward shaft lean as I want, and I’m not going to chop down in the golf ball.

I’m going to be compressing the golf ball. So start out with The Move section, start working through those drills. Move over to the Straight-Line Release, start working through those.

Build that long-lasting, automatic, free-flowing swing so that these things just happen without even thinking about it. I’ll see you guys in The Move.