How To Strike Your Irons Pure Like A Tour Pro (Use These 3 Drills)
Do you want to pure your irons like a tourpro? Are you tired of hitting it fat, thin, toed, heeled, maybe even a shank? I'm here to help you today.
We're going to find the best way to pure thoseirons, get some distance back in there, and hit them straight, high, and knock down someflagsticks.
My name's Matt Walter, PGA Teaching Professionalat Vanderbilt Legends Club.
So, today, we're going to get you under theway of hitting your irons the best you ever have.
I have three drills that we're going to dotoday, all of which are going to help you find the center of the club face with yourirons the best way possible.
So, let's talk about what happens when youhit a good iron shot.
What are we looking for, dynamically, at impact? So, when we hit a good iron shot, it shouldbe ball-first contact, and the club head should be travelling down, still, as it contactsthe golf ball.
So, our divots are actually taking place afterthe ball, three to four inches after the ball, and not before the ball or at the golf ball.
So, if you want to hit your irons pure, wehave to be able to ensure that we're hitting the golf ball first, the club head's stillgoing down, and catches the golf ball with the divot just past the ball, and going throughthe shot.
Now, just because I said the club head's goingdown doesn't mean your arms are going down, but the club head's still travelling down.
Also, at impact, we want some shaft lean, right? We want to have our hands in front of thegolf ball, and that's the Holy Grail of golf shots everybody talks about, is, “I've gotto have more shaft lean, more and more shaft lean.
” Well, today's drills are going to help youachieve that, and it's not going to be in the ways you might think, where you're actuallygoing to focus on shaft lean.
We're going to do it by focusing on some otherdrills that are going to bring it in because you have to have shaft lean to hit the shotsthe way you want.
So, the first drill here is with a towel.
So, what we'll do is, we take our towel, andwe stuff it under our left arm, under our right arm, and this gives us our connectionbetween our arms and our body.
The tour player is able to connect their armsback to their body in the downswing, and that's why they can hit such great shots, is thatthere's no loss between their arms and their body.
I put the ball on a tee to help make thisdrill a little easier.
And all we're trying to do is make littlehalf-swings to feel out how our body turns and twists.
So, when we do this, it's not a full swing.
You can make fuller swings as you get better, but I would only recommend a half.
The ball's on a tee to keep it simple, andwe're going to take a couple swings and hit a couple shots to see what it feels like.
Now, for some of you, this move's going tofeel horrible.
It's going to feel awkward, and it's goingto feel like you're doing it wrong and you can't make contact.
That is because we have a tendency to losethat connection.
So, what will happen for you, if this is atough drill for you, is that your arms will start to float away from your body too soon, and we've got to have our arms, our elbows back into our ribcage as we hit this strike.
And so, when we're up at the top of our backswing, this is a great drill for the players that have fast hips, arms get stuck behind, oryou have slow hips and the hands get way out in front and you flip.
This drill will help you find that connectionso you know what it should feel like on the downswing.
So, we get set up, and again, we're just makingnice little half-swings.
Basically, this is going to feel like a puntshot.
But, if we do this, it should feel like you'regoing to absolutely pure your irons, and it's going to feel really, really crisp.
Now, the next drill's a little bit more fun, in my book, because I don't feel so restricted, but it's still another great drill for thosethat have an unstable lower body.
So, this drill, I call the 'hand speed drill'.
This drill, we're taking away your lower bodyand making you use your arms and your hands more.
And the reason for that is, I'll see a lotof players lunge in the ball, or they'll twist backwards on their right leg.
And you have all the other garbage that yourlower body can do that throws you off, get on your toes, fall back on your heels.
All right.
We're going to put our feet together.
Again, ball's on the tee.
Feet together, and all we're going to tryand do here is make as big of an arm swing as we can without losing balance and qualityof contact.
So, I can make a pretty big swing becauseI've done it for so long.
You may only make a golf swing that's a half-swing.
We may only be able to take it back to hereand hit shots that are solid because we're not sure how to get the connection back andhow to use our arms correctly.
It's a great drill to develop hand-eye coordination, and this is another great drill to help speed up the hands so we can get a little more distancein our bag.
So, once you've practiced this drill, I wantto see you making full-ish golf swings as fast as you can, in balance.
The trick to this drill is that your feethave to touch and your knees have to touch.
If you're more bowlegged, your knees won'ttouch, but be aware of their movements.
Are your knees flexing and extending, or arethey staying calm and still, and letting your arms do the work? We're trying not to use our feet a whole lothere.
We're trying to use our arms and our handsto develop that consistency at impact.
So, our next drill, I call this drill the'baseball drill'.
We get set up, we put a tee in front of ourleft foot and our right foot.
The reason for the tees is because we don'twant to overstep our golf swing.
I see too many players do this drill, andthey'll step way out and get a huge, wide stance that they never have, and they can'tturn effectively, and it's not a good golf swing.
We want to make sure we rebuild our stance, so we put the tees in front of our big toes.
And so, you'll see what I mean, why I seemore players step out.
So, what we'll do is, we'll get set up, leftfoot to right foot.
Now, to start the backswing, you have to swingthe club back and step your left leg out.
The trick here is, the hands have to hit thethree-quarter mark at the same time your left foot hits the ground, so we're here.
I'll see this, and the club doesn't get upenough, foot's on the ground.
Well, now you're too early.
I'll see this.
Hands are already there before my foot getsthere.
Now you're late.
I want hands at three-quarter, left foot hitsthe ground.
And if you've just got to do this a coupletimes to get the feel, great, but you should be feeling like you're changing your pressurewith each step.
Then, let's make a real swing.
So, we set up, left foot to right foot, step, and swing through.
You should be able to feel your momentum movingto the target.
This is a great one if you find yourself stuckon your right foot too often and you never get to your left side.
And again, the key to this drill is that, while you start your step, your left foot hits the ground the same time as your handshit the top of that three-quarter position in your backswing.
So, we've gone through three drills: the toweldrill, underneath your arm, making half-swings, working on the connection; the hand speeddrill, feet together, knees together, swinging the golf club as big as you can, in balancewith good contact; and then we have the baseball drill where we're stepping it out and makinggood swings towards our target.
Do these three drills and you'll start puringthose irons.
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