Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover, "One Move to Start Compressing Your Irons Like a Tour Pro"

Have you ever wondered if you could get more out of your irons?

I’ve got this great drill that can help you get those wrists in front of the ball at impact…

… and it’ll also help get the club face squared up to help you hit your irons straight and farther than ever!

In today’s video, you’ll discover what this drill is…

… and how you can work on this at home while watching TV at night!

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Quentin Patterson    

Video Duration: 7:48

Video Transcription:

Quentin Patterson: We all want that compression like the Tour players, but in order to get it, we have to get the hands in front of the golf ball at impact.

Those of you who really struggle with that scoopy impact, you’re coming in with wrist angles that are like this. The lead wrist is kind of cupping, and that trail wrist has that flat position.

Well, you’re doing that as a means to square up the face. If I took those same wrist angles and I got my hands forward, well, my club face would be wide open, which is why we have to change our wrist angles in order to make that happen.

We have to turn this wrist. We have to kind of bow this wrist, twist this wrist down. The trail wrist needs to be more in a back position at impact.

I have one drill for you that’s going to have one move that’s going to incorporate getting those hands forward, and also getting those proper wrist angles, so that way we’re squaring up the face, too.

We’re not hitting it a mile to the right. You’re not going to do that for very long.

You hit a couple balls straight to the right, you’re going to go right back to scooping the ball like you were before, just hit it straight. Which would be much better, but we want to have the best of both worlds.

We want to get that forward shaft lean compression, we also want to be striping it right down the middle as well.

So what we want to do, is we want to have the sensation, you probably notice I’ve got this noodle sitting here.

To set up this noodle, you can use a wall or a noodle, but if you’re using a noodle, just set it up to where it’s kind of right down your toe line here, and then right outside your lead foot.

What we want to do is we want to have the sensation here that if I’m addressing this golf ball right here, that I’m coming in and I’m getting basically my watch face here to be on this noodle before the club gets to the golf ball.

What that does, is that one, gets my hands in front of the golf ball, and also the feeling of this part of my wrist getting to the noodle helps me have those wrist angles, because if I had those same kind of scoopy wrist angles, well my knuckles would be getting on the noodle first.

What’s really cool about this, is this feeling of getting to that position right there, getting my watch face on there before it gets to the golf ball, naturally makes me do a lot of things.

One, it naturally makes me shift my weight to my lead side. If I hang back on my trail side, I can’t get to that noodle. I can’t get to it at all. So I’ve got to make sure I get my weight shifting to my lead side.

It also makes me open up my body. If I keep my body kind of closed off, my hips closed off, it’s very difficult for me to get the wrist to the noodle without getting the club to the golf ball. I’m going to naturally want to open up my body and get to that.

The other thing that it does is it makes me bow that lead wrist. It makes me get that wrist bowing because if I don’t, I’m going to hit my knuckles on there which is really important, and it also makes me get my hands low.

If I don’t get my hand slow, imagine I was doing all those things but my hands were really high. I shifted my weight, I opened my body, but my hands were very high, well I’m not going to get to the golf ball, I’m swinging above the golf ball.

I’ve got to get low to the ground in order to make that happen, in order to get that part of my wrist on that noodle. I’ve got to get my hands really, really low and make that happen.

Now this is an exaggeration. Unless like you’re trying to hit a punch out, really, really low, you wouldn’t actually want to swing this way.

But when you’re someone who goes like this, you need to feel these exaggerations to get even close to what the Tour players are looking like.

If you’ve got that low, early release, scoopy release, I recommend exaggerating this feeling as much as you can.

So like I said, you can use a noodle, you can use a wall, and what I want you do is I just want you to do some reps where you’re coming in and get that feeling of getting to the ground, getting those hands in front, getting that face squared up, and getting that part of your hand on there as well.

Now I’m a big advocate of working on things at home as well. That’s why I have this remote here so I can demonstrate how you could work on this at home.

You don’t have to have a club or anything like that, just pretend like this is a wall. You’re watching the news or your favorite TV program, and you can practice this same thing.

I just want to grab that remote, and I want to get that same feeling that I’m coming, I’m getting really low, I’m shifting my weight, I’m getting that same feeling.

So get in lots of reps at home. The more the better, it’s going to help you to translate it out to the range. You’re going to get that work done at home, so that way you’re not spending that time at the range doing that.

You can get right into hitting some really low stinger-type shots. All right, so now that we have this feeling, we’ll go ahead and move these out of the way.

So now that we have our things out of the way, now you don’t actually want to hit balls with the wall or noodle there, but once you get that sensation, that feeling there, you want to have, you basically want to pretend like that wall is there.

What a good feeling to have, is to imagine like that club head really never gets to that wall. This is another crazy exaggerated feeling.

Not actually what would happen in the swing, but you want to feel like your wrist is coming in like this, it’s touching the ball and the club head never, ever gets to the wall.

Basically, your wrist kind of runs up the wall, and the club head never, ever gets up to the wall. It looks something like this, like you’re coming in and you’ve got the hands forward.

I’m crazy exaggerating here, but you’re feeling like that’s basically happened. The club never passes the hands.

This isn’t actually what’s going to happen, but that’s the feeling that you want to have to get that release like we see with all the Tour players here.

So I’ve got a 7 iron here, and I’m going to try and get that same feeling, try to hit like a really low piercing shot here, getting that same feeling.

I’ve done my drills, I’ve done the hundreds of reps at home watching the news. I’m getting that feeling, getting that wrist, getting that feeling out in front.

That’s going to help me, like I said, to open up my body, to get everything working in the right way. I’m going to feel like in the swing, when I’m coming through contact, that I’m like that.

That’s what I’m going to feel like. That’s not what it’s going to look like, but that what it’s going to feel like to me in my mind.

Hopefully I can get a nice, piercing, low, wind-penetrating ball flight, and we’ll see how that looks.

All right, so I don’t think I’ve ever really hit a 7 iron quite that long, 190, that’s a really long 7 iron for me.

Launched at 15 or so degrees which is a couple degrees lower than what you’re going to see the Tour players. So I’m really happy with that.

All right, for any of this to work, we have to get the club shallowing out in the start of the downswing. If we get that club coming down steep, right? We’re going to end up standing up to get in on plane.

So if you watch there, if I come down steep like this, I have the shaft vertical. In order to get that club to come down on plane and to hit a functional golf shot, I’m going to have to stand up.

When I stand up, my hands are going to get high, I’m going to have to flip the club to get to the golf ball. I’m not going to be able to get my hand into that position.

Also, let’s say I do rotate my body. I come down steep, I rotate my body, I get my hand in that position, but look where that club is going, it’s coming way over the top.

If I make good contact at all, it’s going to be a big pull or a slice and we don’t want that either. We want a good, functional golf shot.

In order for this one move to work, we’ve got to be doing The Move, which is one of the courses in the Top Speed Golf System where we are getting this club to shallow out earlier in the start of the downswing, which is going to promote more rotation into impact.

We’re also getting those wrist angles that we talked about in that one move to help you get that good compression. So this program, or this series of drills is included with your membership to Top Speed Golf.

All you have to do to find it is click the Instruction tab at the top of the screen. Then click the Top Speed Golf System, and then click The Move.

Work through those drills. Make sure you’re getting that club shallowed out, because if you’re having trouble getting into this position right here, that’s most likely the biggest reason why.

So play well, and I’ll talk to you soon.