Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "The Best Iron Tip of All-Time | Compress It Like a Tour Pro"

Hey, it's Clay,

And if you've ever wondered how to make that crisp, clean sound of contact with your irons...

...it comes from compressing the heck out of the ball at impact.

Today, you'll get the ultimate drill for compressing the ball just like you see on Sunday's on your TV...

...so you can start impressing your buddies with that "thud" of solid contact!

The feeling of pure contact is EVERYTHING in golf!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 8:55

Video Transcription:

I got the ultimate drill to help you. Absolutely compress the heck out of those irons. Hit the ground consistently, just like the tour pros with lots of shackling and releasing out in front really long. Let's get right into it. Now, what does a good iron shot look like? I'm gonna move this impact back for just 1/2. We'll get back to that.

But a good iron shot. I have lag in the downswing, so my hands are over top of the golf ball and the club is way back here. That way when I get to the golf ball, I have Shaft Lean. Now, what that means is if you're normal off on your pitching wedge, if the shaft is straight up and down, this is somewhere in the mid forties loft.

Most clubs have something like that. What the pros do is they take about 30% of that loft off. I mean, the shaft is leaning forward almost 15 degrees when they contact this golf ball. With virtually all your tour players, that allows you to compress the ball more. That allows you to be more consistent because now your hands are leading the way.

And then from there, they really stay square and release a long way in front. So most recreational players, what they'll do is a flip or cast. They have the club shaft straight up and down and then right after impact, that club shoots up into the air as I start to flip up and my arms fold up like the chicken wing.

So imagine the club not having very much shaft lean or even negative shaft lean. And then the club shoots up as we chicken wing. I'm exaggerating there, but imagine it's coming here. And then straight up. Now the pros or die lofting it and it continues down the target line much longer. So we get the shaft lean and then the club stays low to the ground, long into the fall through and doesn't pass the hands.

That's how they're doing it. Now I've got a four step drill that's going to help you to do exactly that. So I'm going to put this impact bag where the inside of the bag and you can use any kind of impact bag you want. This is one that I got from eyeline golf that I like because of one of the angles it has.

But I'll put about a grip width behind the golf ball and I want the middle of the golf ball in line with the inside of the impact bag. Now, from there, what that's going to teach me to do is to get from the inside side the shell of this club out to come from the inside. That way I can miss this bag and then come in and hit this ball squarely.

So you're going to train yourself to miss the bag, have shaft lean and still hit this golf ball. There you go. Dead solid there. Really nice. And we can see the launch angle. Where is the launch angle on here? 21 degrees of launch, meaning it's coming out like this. That's pretty low for a pitching wedge that has 46 degrees of loft or so on it.

So I really had that shaft leaning forward. Now, what you've done there, you do a few. Those come from the inside. Now we're going to take the same bag. We're going to put it behind us to where if I kept my arm straight and that is rotated, how it hit most of the way up the bag and scoot it back just a little bit more.

So I know if my arms are straight, I'm going to hit this bag. Meaning that my left arm, right arm or both locked elbows or straight, I would hit it. Now, if my club has lag like I would in the downswing and shuffling, I would miss this bag because it's not as long when I have lag pulls it away from that golf bag.

So I'm going to set up this impact bag where I would hit it with straight arms. That way I have to have lag in the downswing. Now from there, what I'm going to do is I'm going to keep my nose behind the golf ball, in my weight in front of the golf ball, some shifting to my left, but still keeping my nose behind it.

That's getting me in a position that I can miss this bag and still hit a really good, clean golf shot. There you go. Another one, really nice and straight. It's like that every time. Launch angle 20.6. So again, I'm getting shuffling there only shots. All right. So if you want to buy this exact bag, you want this exact one we're talking about with the angled side on it, the really durable material where you can hit the heck out of it is not going to mess it up with the golf club and it's the same height.

So you can do the drill that we just talked about. This bag is from Island Golf. I'll put a link down below in the description or somewhere on this page you'll see a link. If you purchase from that link, we get a few bucks back for my line. Golf helps me to make some more great videos for you and I'm going to be using this in future videos.

Now, if not, don't worry about it. Get a rolled up blanket, get a pillow, something like that. It won't be quite as good as this, but anything will work. Just make sure you do the drill with whatever you have. Now, if you find yourself casting, you get immediate feedback because now I'm going to be hitting this golf bag.

I'll go ahead and cast this one and I'm going to smack that bag. These are really heavy duty. So it's not going to hurt anything if you hit this bag. It's sort of a designed for the third step to this drill. So now I got the club shallow. I got some shuffling. We're going to really kick up that shuffling.

We're now we're going to use the slanted side of this bag. This bag is made designed with an angle, just like we were talking about what the pros are doing. So this is straight up and down. Here's that shuffling. So this side of the bag is angled and I want to feel like my entire shift hits the bag at the same time.

So if I flip it, I'm like this. So start out slow and work on this again, a little weight shift and then your downswing shift my weight. Then I swing down, hitting the golf bag again. I'm going to swing back, shift my weight left. Then I come down and hit the golf bag. I'm gonna do that five or ten times to really get the feel for this ride.

I'm letting the lag happen in my wrist. My hands are going backward and I'm getting that wrist angle bang. I'm hitting it there. Once you get comfortable with that, then you go ahead and go faster and faster until eventually you're making full swing and you're really pop in the bag, put some energy into that thing. You'll know you're doing this right when you can pop the bag like that and your club is going all the way to here, right?

If I pop this bag again, you're going to see I really hit it. But look at my hands are here. I didn't try to flip through it and muscle through the shot. That's when you know, you're getting really efficient and getting the energy through the golf bag. Now, finally, I'm going to go ahead and hit this where I put the bag in front quite a bit.

Now I ball my head into this. So if you have stuff around, you may not want to use the golf ball. I'm not going to use it here because we got some lights up above afraid of may break one. Let's be more of an outdoor type drill, but what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit that golf ball again and then I'm going to extend through the shot.

Now, in order to do that, it keeps me down in my posture. That makes me have a lot of lag and it makes me release through the golf shot here. So again, you'll see I'm going to brush the ground here and I'm going to hit this bag way out in front. So weight shift left to stay. My posture and I really extend through the shot.

Right. I had to reach to hit that golf bag. The players that I see that struggle, chicken wing fold it up. We would completely miss that golf bag. So let me show you with the the wrong way of doing it would be to put this in front. I'm going to do my chicken wing flip. Right. And now I didn't get anywhere near the bag for me.

I like to keep on scooting a little farther and farther in front until I can barely reach it and then hit a shot into that. Be careful on that one because you don't want to tweak your wrist, your hands or arms. For most players, that's going to be no golf ball when you're hitting it and just kind of going half speed, you don't really want to hit the bag out in front too hard when you're doing that because it could twist your club slightly and feel a little bit weird.

Now, this is really the same things that we teach all the time, and it's archery golf system. This is the five real fundamentals. When we missed the golf bag and shout it out to the inside, that's the move. When we had Shaft Lane and released Long Through the Shot, that's a straight line release. So we want to have that club releasing 45 degrees in front.

Now, what I found is if you can work on a straight line release and you get that down, that ties a lot of these pieces in together. It's hard to, you know, mess up the rest of the swing and still end up in this great release position. So what I challenge you to do is head on over the straight line release.

Now let's go the instruction tab, top speed golf system, then straight line release there. Go to level one and just do one video. Once you start to get the hand, your hands on that release, you start to get the handle of that release. You start feeling comfortable with it, you get a few reps in with it. Then it's going to start to feel really good.

As you get through level two and level three, it becomes automatic. You step up to a golf ball, you just make a normal swing first swing of the day. And you look at that long release just like the pros are doing and starting to flush those iron shots. So watch one video today, take notes on what you need to do for that drill and just complete that this week.

You're going to be well on your way to playing your best golf. I'll see you in the straight line release.