Hit Longer & Straighter Irons With This Simple Move

If your irons aren't going as far as they should or you're not getting that consistent strike then this move is going to completely transform your game. I'll show you what to feel so you get that perfect strike every time. It's simple but it's the difference between scooping it and hitting that perfect shot every time. So let's get straight into it. Number one. So we must think about where we strike the ball on the clubface. If you feel like you're swinging it really good but it's still just on the clubface, you feel like you're swinging it great but on the clubface it feels quite thin, quite heely, you're just not getting that maximum distance then that may and will be because of where we're striking it on the clubface. Strike location is one of the most important parts when it comes to golf and especially with our irons because the clubface is quite narrow and we've got not much forgiveness here, not like with our driver or with our fairway woods. So getting the strike right is one of the most important parts. Sometimes say it's more important than speed. Getting that correct strike is crucial to hitting the ball straight, consistent and far. If we're hitting it out the heel or out the toe then that's going to send the ball offline and really not feel as great in our hands before anything okay. So even if you feel like you're swinging it to your maximum power then if we're hitting it offline off the clubface then it's not going to feel and it's not going to turn out as great. The main part of strike is hitting it out the sweet spot which is the centre when it comes to our irons. So I'm going to show you a great drill and if you can master this then your strikes are going to feel so pure because the best golfers in the world, if you look at their irons they've almost burned the centre off, they've almost burned the sweet spot because they hit it out the centre every time. So if you're really struggling with strike then this drill is for you okay. So all you need to do is get yourself the ball that you're going to hit and we need to whether this is tees, you can use two alignment sticks, anything that's going to act as a barrier. If you're a golfer that opens the clubface or has the ball being struck not out the centre or out the toe or the heel then you're more than likely going to find yourself hitting these balls around the one that we actually want to hit which is the centre okay. This is just a great visual because over the ball you feel like you have to hit this one out the centre and the positive thing to this drill is that it's going to allow the club to be square at impact, square meaning it's pointing towards the target okay. So it's also going to fix this open or closed clubface but it's also going to feel like it's forcing you to swing it out of the centre. If we hit this way or this way then you're going to be able to almost see this when you're over the ball, it's such a good drill visually but also it's going to give you a great feel okay. So remove that middle ball first the one we want to hit, take some practice throws okay, one, two and then bring it in okay. Make sure you're getting a feel of it first because it can be difficult to. Let's give this a go, don't want to hit either of those two balls just the centre one. Oh that went really good, a really really solid strike. I hit that out the centre, I knew my clubface was square because I didn't hit either of these balls and it travelled a really nice distance. Another great way of you checking where you're hitting it off the clubface is using some athlete's spray or you can actually buy stickers that go on your clubface. When you hit the ball it's going to bring up on the clubface where about you've hit it. So ideally we want to be off the centre, these two are going to cause inconsistencies okay. So centre of the club is what's going to have you hitting the ball so much more cleaner. Again you're going getting the maximum strike and now number two is proper body rotation and this is where I see a lot of golfers losing power and losing that maximum that they could get out of their club because they're either not turning, we're either swaying, we're early extending, we're just doing different variables whereas if we can feel proper body rotation with the clubface being square and hitting the ball out the centre then that's when we're going to be hitting it like the pros. Okay so the best drill to feel this and my ultimate favourite drill for when it comes to our irons, it looks simple but it can actually be difficult especially if you're a golfer who isn't someone that rotates a lot anyway okay. All we need to do is set up over the ball, put the club on our chest like so. Now the aim is to have the club head rotate down towards the ball, you can hear that stretch okay but in doing that we also want the lead hip to rotate down towards the ball okay. If I was to sway that club's not getting anywhere near that ball, if I was to lift it's going to work in the opposite direction okay so rotate the club down and rotate the hip towards the ball okay. A great way of feeling hip rotation, body rotation, this drill just combines it all together okay because not only is your shoulder rotating, your hip you can see is working but it's actually shifting your weight in doing that okay because if you were to only do your shoulders then it's still quite weak, you're not getting that power whereas if you turn this hip too, look how much this opened up my hips, opened up my shoulders and I've got so much room and power to unleash here okay. Back swing, back towards the target, club head down towards the ball, hip down towards the ball, look how much rotation I've got here in my trail side. Then from there I want you to feel the same, however first off we let that hip go so let the hip on the trail side work towards the ball and then allow the butt of the club to go down towards the ball. You can hear that effort that in my swing, if I was just to do this then you can see the club's working in this direction, we need it to work and to do that it takes effort, it takes patience from yourself and it takes power okay, that stretch is good because that's where you're going to get the ball travelling far, straight and consistent. Back swing, down towards the ball, follow through, let the hip go towards the ball first, have the butt of the club pointing towards the ball, it's really good, you're going to feel stretches, you might be aching in the morning because if you're not someone who rotates then this is going to feel a lot but it's so good. Now take some practice swings, so maybe do five of those, then take some practice swings feeling hip, shoulder to the ball, see how my back is pointing to target and then from there hip goes first, shoulder to the ball okay, I'm allowing the club to come through, I'm letting the power rip and I'm also letting this trail foot come up so that's the one thing to add to this because I see a lot of golfers make all the effort on the back swing and then because they're keeping the trail foot down we go and lose it all, we let it drop, we just don't let that power rip through okay, so back to target, shoulder, hip to ball and then let the hip go first to the ball, shoulder follows and let that trail foot come up, you can hear the whoosh, it sounds powerful and that's when you're going to get the most speed and you're going to get that ball traveling better. Finally number three, one that doesn't require much thinking as obviously technique and it doesn't require any swing changes, it's all about the club selection, so if I stood up to the ball and I didn't know my yardage then I'm going to be at risk of hitting the ball too short or too far before we've even swung the club, so club selection is huge because it's what's going to give you that consistency and it's going to allow you to drop those shots because you're going to be getting the ball on green, you're going to be getting it to the right distance every time. I'm thinking my, the yellow flag just in front of us, all I want to think of is get my yardage so I'll use a, I use my Nikon Coolshot Pro 3 stabilized rangefinder and I'll zap the yardage okay, so if I know it's 130 yards, to me straight away I know that's my 8 iron, if the wind was blowing into my face I'm going to go up a club, so rather than using an 8 iron I'm going to use a 7 iron because there should be around about 10 yards difference in between each club and then if the wind was blowing behind me I'm going to go from an 8 iron to a 9 iron because I know the ball's going to travel as far, so wind interface, the ball's not going to travel as far because it's beating against that wind especially if you're not rotating through the ball and then if the wind's behind it's going to travel further because it's going with the wind, imagine an airplane shooting through the sky, I'm going to then choose a 9 iron rather than an 8 iron because it's going to travel too far. It doesn't require any swing change, it doesn't require any practice physically but it does require you to know your yardage, it's so important and that's where the best golfers in the world will be able to adjust their game and you can do that too, so without making any swing change, knowing your yardage and being able to adapt the wind to the rain, the heat, the cold is what's going to have you lowering those scores before you even hit the ball. So again let's go to that yellow flag, I've got my the iron I know it's going to work, I actually know this is further than 130 yards so this is about 145, I'm going to go with my 7 iron, really pure, that's going to go all the way, lovely, okay so let's run through those once more, okay so the first one being strike location, if we're hitting it out the wrong part of the club then we're going to hit it left, right, thin, fat, in the winter if you're in a cold country like me then you thin the ball and it goes up your arm and you've got this horrible pain because you've hit out the wrong part of the club, so making sure we're hitting out the centre, whether that's using our two ball drill like we've seen before, spraying some athlete's foot spray, dry shampoo or putting a sticker on the clubface to see strike location, that is crucial. Then number two is making sure we've got that proper body rotation because with that we're going to increase distance, speed, power, control and confidence, you're going to be stored over your shot knowing that you're going to hit it far, okay so that's where we spoke about the drill, where we're rotating our lead shoulder, our hip underneath towards the ball, we're really feeling our back to the target and then top of backswing, we allow the hips to go first, then shoulder, let that trail foot rip through and you're going to hear the whoosh in your swing, it's so powerful and so pure and then finally number three was club selection, so using a rangefinder, again I use my Nikon Coolshot Pro 3, stabilised, it gives me that consistency, it gives me that confidence when I'm stood over the ball, it's like having a caddy there, it's like having someone tell you what club to use. I actually see some golfers write the yardage on the clubhead, I see some golfers write them down in the golf bag and they can refer to what yardage it is per club and that's something you can do to begin with because if you forget then it's fine, just refer to your piece of paper or even look at the club if you write it on there and using those three things are gonna massively improve your iron game, it's the three biggest mistakes that I see, strike location, rotation and not knowing the yardage, okay so if you can crack those then we're going to be hitting it a lot better, again let's give this a go, so I'm really thinking centre of strike, I'm thinking I'm going to rotate and I've got the correct club, really good and again if you don't know those yardages, get yourself on the drive range, get yourself somewhere where you can just hit balls and just zap the yardage or even hit different flags, okay hit the different flags with different clubs, get creative and you're going to fill yourself with confidence because if you do something once you're going to be nervous but if you do it 100 times you're going to get better at it and it's just going to become easy for you, not easy because golf is a variable ball, it's going to help you gain that confidence, so once again if you enjoyed today's video and you took value then I would massively appreciate if you could hit that subscribe button, it takes a second to do, it means you're going to get so much better at golf in the process and you're never going to miss a video like this one, so hit that subscribe button and I'll see you in the next video!