Why You Need This: Today, you'll discover "This is The REAL Solution to Hitting Your Irons Higher"

And if you’ve been working on getting the ball higher into the air with your irons…

…chances are, you’ve been struggling with alternating between chunked and thinned shots.

It's not about getting the ball up in the air through technique…

…in fact, it may surprise you that it has almost nothing to do with your launch angle!

Here's a little hint: it's about an early body turn and reaching the “power position.”

Once you solve this struggle, you’ll get the ball higher in the air and start hitting the ball far more consistently!

 

 

 

 

Golf Pros Featured:

Instructors Featured: Clay Ballard    

Video Duration: 10:51

Video Transcription:

All right, so if you've been trying to hit the ball higher into the air, I bet you you've had some mixed results, and I bet you've been working on maybe staying a little more behind the golf ball, feeling like you help it up in the air slightly. And what that does is it causes you to hit behind it and to chunk the golf ball.

So you do hit some higher ones. When you happen to hit it solid. Maybe you got a nice fluffy lie and you can hit up on it, but then you get a little bit of a tighter lie. You chunk it, and because the low point is behind the golf ball, you're swinging up into it and you thin it. So you alternate between.

Okay, shots, big chunks, big thins, and it's just all kinds of frustration. Well, speed in particular, A couple of techniques that I'm gonna show you in this video that lead to more clubhead speed is more important than trying to get the ball up in the air through technique. And let me show you that little demonstration of what this looks like.

So I have a six iron here. I'm gonna make a normal swing. I'm gonna swing a little bit slower here, maybe hit this 140 or 50 yards and let's go ahead and try it out. There we go, dead solid, slightly right at the target, 144 yards, six iron carry. Rolled out to 1 62, so it'd be like landing on the green and rolling out a little bit.

My launch angle there was 15.4. Now what that means is if I hit this golf ball, With my club, it's gonna take off into the air and launch vertically like this. So if this is flat with the ground, I hit the golf ball and the golf ball leaves at an angle that shoots it up in the air. So this would be a thir, or in this case, a 15.4 degree launch angle.

So if it was zero degrees launch angle, it'd just be scooting across the blades of the grass level with the ground. And as we get higher and higher launch angle, that's gonna launch the ball more vertically into the air. So there, 15.4 degrees, 144 yards carry. I swung 75 miles an hour, so kind of a a three quarter swing.

And if I come over here on the computer and I pull up the full data, I can see that the max height of that shot was 54.5 feet. Now to average is about a hundred feet for max height, but the tour average launch angle is pretty close to that 15.4 degrees. So how do tour players hit it twice as high? With the ball leaving at the same angle.

The only difference is a little bit more clubhead speed. So now lemme use a little bit better technique here. I'm gonna hit the ball with a little more speed. Hopefully I can get it to launch at roughly the same angle. And we're gonna see the height difference here. Let's go ahead and try it out. So make more of a full swing on this one.

We'll see how high it goes.

There we go. Hit that one hard. So almost the exact same launch angle, 16.1 degrees, that's roughly the same. So one minute on a clock or one little tick of a minute on a clock face is six degrees. We went from 15.4 to 16.1. That's half a degree. Uh, that's, that's one 12th of a minute on a clock face. So we're talking really fractional difference there.

My carry distance went up to 2 0 4. My swing speed was a hundred versus 75, so that's the main difference. I swung 20 miles an hour faster. My club head moved. 20 miles an hour faster, 25 miles an hour faster through contact. And even though we had virtually the same launch angle, when I come over here and I look at my maximum height, now all of a sudden the maximum height was higher than tour average, 117.9 feet.

That's cause I swung a little faster than average tour player on that particular shot. And I over doubled the maximum height. So you can even see it in the tracers here. The one tracer is half the height of the second tracer, and that's all to do with speed. The ball left at the same angle. Everything else was basically the same.

The only difference was my club head was moving faster through the ball. So if you're doing all these techniques, trying to help the ball up in the air, you really need to be working on is being able to swing faster. And there's two things that I see that anyone can do to improve their speed quite a few miles an hour fairly quickly.

Now, number one is to get what I call an early turn. So if I don't turn my shoulders again, lemme go ahead and swing one where I don't rotate my shoulders at all. This is different than a, a big or a long swing. So here I'm not gonna rotate my shoulders at all. I'm not gonna turn my shoulders. So I'm only moving to here, but I'm gonna go ahead and get my arms and club almost up to a full back swing.

So this is no shoulder turn, almost full back swing or what feels like a full back swing. So I really tried to feel like I lashed at that one. Yeah, it went a little farther cuz I can hit it fairly hard. I got a lot, a fairly good amount of strength, but my speed was only 83 miles an hour, only a few miles an hour faster.

So, Then when I made the little half swing. So yes, it went a little higher than the first one. That's mostly just cuz I muscled it through and was able to generate quite a bit of clubhead speed, even with really bad technique. So I'm losing almost even there, I'm losing almost 20 miles an hour of clubhead speed using bad technique.

Now in the second version, I'm still gonna get the club just short of parallel. But here I'm gonna go ahead and turn my shoulders early. What I mean by this is I'm gonna feel like I do very little wrist set. And I'm gonna feel like when my hands are almost just past waist high, almost like low chest high, I'm gonna feel like my shoulders have already turned 90 degrees.

And when I do that, I load up early. It allows me to take a fairly short back swing and still get a lot of speed because I've loaded my body. So if you feel tight, a lot of times that's because you get to the top of the swing. You haven't turned yet, and you feel like you can't go anymore. I wanna turn really early, get my shoulders moving here.

By the time my hands are chest high and I've made this big, huge turn with my body, I've even let my feet and my knees pivot a little bit to allow my hips and my shoulders to turn. But I have a short back swing. So if you're worried about your swing going too long, you gotta turn the body earlier to keep a short swing and still have power.

So I'm gonna fly. I get that early turn, big shoulder turn, big body turn early. Hands are only gonna go about shoulder height in the back swing and watch what my speed does. There we go. Killed that one, 2 0 6 again, 15.7 degrees launch. Look at the height on that one. 101 club head speed and probably about 114 feet total there.

So that's a big piece of it. That's drill number one. We gotta get that early body turn. I feel like when your hands are chest high, your shoulders and your hips have already rotated a ton. That allows you to rotate your body and get the power into it without having this big, long swing. So it's a short and powerful swing.

Piece number two is what I call the power position. You've probably heard me mention this before, but as my club is parallel with the ground and the downswing, I want it to be parallel with the ground. Like I said, I want it to be a little bit to the inside, so I wanna be shallowing out coming to the inside.

So if you imagine this is my target line, this would be to the inside, this would be the outside. I wanna feel like my club head is a little to the inside and I wanna feel like I'm low to the ground. Lots of lag. And then I'm releasing it at the last second. You almost feel like your hands are almost by your knee here when you're in this power position and then you let it go, that's gonna get that lag and get that club to whip on through there to get a lot of club head speed, even if you're not that big and that strong.

So big body turn power position from there with lots of lag late. Let's go ahead and give this thing a big rip. Let's see if we can get a little farther than 2 0 6 with this one.

There we go. 2 14 with that one, again, launched at 15.2. It launched the same height, the same angle as that one that only went 50 or 40 something feet in the air. Again, those are all three going 112, 114 feet in the air. Really, really good. I'm not seeing the data right now on me, but they're way up there, even though the ball left at the same angle, that's all due to speed.

So that's what you need to be working on if you're going to. Hit the ball with height and hit it solid. If you try to lift the ball in the air, it's gonna be dropkicks chunks, thin shots, all those kind of things. Now, one thing that we touched on here, but I didn't use the exact same terminology, is the power turn.

You see, the power turn is getting that body rotation early. And what I wanna do with every golf swing, whether it's wedge all the way up to driver, I want my body to turn early as my hands are very short back through here. And that allows me to get a lot of speed, a lot of power, and to be smooth at the same time.

You see, if I just take it back all hands and arms, I'm blasting at it. I'm not getting any distance, I'm not getting any height, I'm not getting any club head speed. I need to be loading my body early. And then as I come through this shot, really finishing that swing. And completing the power turn to be able to have smooth power, to be able to feel like I'm in control, to be able to feel like I have consistency and to be able to get the height like we talked about here today.

So this is just the start of completing the power turn and making it completely ingrained. Now I challenge you to go, if remember top speed off, go to the instruction tab, top speed golf system, power turn, and just finish the very first video in the power turn section that'll help you build that power turn in your game.

And the cool thing about this is, As you go back again and you watch the second video and the third video, and you work through just a handful of 'em to get through the first level, you're gonna feel like, yeah, you're thinking about it a little bit, but man, your results are a lot better. So you still have to work on it slightly, but you're starting to play a lot better.

You're starting to hit the golf ball a lot better, like I said, smoother, more power, higher shots, all that stuff. Now as you work into level two, something really cool happens. You don't have to think about it as much. You'll notice that as you start to make a little bit more of a natural swing and you just swing the club with no thought at all, you look at it on video or one of your friends say, yeah, you made a great turn there, and then by the time you finish level three, it's automatic.

So this is really the true way of developing a fantastic golf swing. As you work through those different levels, you get the reps in and you do 'em in the right way, and you learn the right techniques to make that good turn. To where you haven't hit a single ball, you walk up to the driving range before round of golf, five minutes before your tee time.

You haven't practiced in over a month, you haven't gotten a lesson, you haven't done any of these things. You're worried that you're gonna hit it terrible. And then sure enough, on this first swing of the day, without thinking at all, you automatically make this good turn, smooth power through the shot and the ball takes off like a rocket without even having to think about your technique.

Now to get there, we build that through working through the top speed golf system. And working through one of the five real fundamentals of the swing, which is the power turn. So I challenge you today, just do one step in the power turn and you'll start to get hooked. You make it through level one, you're gonna be pretty hooked.

You get to level three. It doesn't really matter if you're hooked or not, cuz it's ingrained, it's baked into your off swing whether you think about it or not. So I want you to get there. I can't wait to hear about your tremendous results. Head on over to the power, turn into the very first video now. I'll see you there.