Iron Golf Swing Tips | 2 Keys to Penetrating Iron Shots
Transcript Summary:
The Real Way To Hit A Tiger Stinger – As you know, successful golfers like tiger woods achieve that low flat stinger ball flight by coming into impact with the club face much more delofted than at set up. You want to lean the clubface ever so slightly forward, which plays a role in taking some loft off without making it obvious you are attempting to force something.
Contact Point on Clubface: Contacting the ball below the sweet spot is as important — if not more crucial. This point of contact is great for keeping loft off the face throughout the swing. This results in a flatter trajectory that works well on windy days.
Golf Swing Body and Mass Movement – An effective golf swing also requires a deliberate m o v e to the body’s center of mass forward. This helps increase your power output while simultaneously providing you with more control over your shots. This movement forward is accompanied by an arched back which activates the leverage on to the shaft. This keeps it in a, relatively speaking, horizontal plane that would be very hard for you if not impossible to generate.
How Your Ball Will Fly – A properly struck ball just below the center of gravity effectively manages body dynamics, which determines ball flight. Using these techniques, golfers can confidently expect to play in every possible condition and hit very powerful controlled shots anytime.
Iron Swing Golf Tips – Two Keys To Penetrating Iron Shots Video Transcription
Full Transcript – Have you ever wondered how most good ball strikers are able to hit the ball really flat with a really penetrating ball flight? Well, take a look at the impact positions here of myself on the left and Tiger on the right. And notice how delofted the clubface looks in both cases. Now, what is causing this? What does this do in your golf swing and how, more importantly, how do you do it? There’s only two simple keys. That’s what I’m going to show and share with you in this video.
So, as you can see, the club face angle of Tiger’s club here looks like it’s there. Mine looks like it’s almost leaning forward. So they’re heavily de lofted. But what do they look like at address? If you take a look, Tiger is actually hitting a wedge here. Oh, there we go. Tiger’s hitting a wedge like a sand wedge. You can see he’s got a lot of loft on the club face. And in my case, I am hitting, I believe, an eight iron here. So a lot of loft on both club faces. When you look at them both at impact, you can see that we have taken a significant amount of loft off. At least after the strike.
But what is it that allowed us to do this, and why do you want this? Well, the first key is why do you want this? You want to be able to maintain stress on the shaft through the strike. And the reason for that is it’s delofting the clubface. Now, there’s a couple things that go into this, but at the end of the day, what you’re really looking for is how do you get that ball to fly hard and flat through the wind? Because at the end of the day, unless you live in La La land in some magic utopia, you’re going to have to play and win. And if you hit the ball really high, that’s great when there’s no wind, but you need to be able to flatten out that ball flight.
What we, Tiger and I are both doing here is we’ve both hit the ball in a certain part of the face that helps create this. And we’ve also both moved centers of mass. And that’s what we’re going to talk about. So the first thing is we’re going to talk about the strike on the club face. Cause this is the number one thing that’s going to change how your ball flies through the air is where you hit it on that club face. And what I mean by that is, as you can see, my club working through the grass here. Of course, we don’t have the exact frame at impact, but you can see the club is still hovering just above the ground, just maybe four inches before the strike.
And then after the strike, you can see it looks considerably delofted. Now, obviously, I’ve struck the ground too at this point, so that’s helping maintain stress on the shaft, which we’re going to talk about how to do that with the body in a sec. But you can see even through this frame, the club face still very, very delofted. That’s going to keep a lot of loft off the face to get a really solid strike on the ball and also to keep the club face from adding loft and to keep the ball to fly really flat.
Now, the trick to this is hitting the ball below the center of gravity on the clubface. Now, a lot of times in most amateur golfers, I see the club face strike is always high on the clubface. If I was to back the club up and we were just to look at the, I’ll zoom in here real quick so we can zoom in on this face to get a good idea of what I’m talking about here.
The ideal place to strike an iron on the club face is about right there, give or take a little bit. Most amateurs hit it about there. When you do that, you’re hitting the ball above the cg, above the center of gravity. That’s great if you’re hitting a driver, but with an iron, you want to actually hit it a little bit below. This is where you’ll see really, really good ball strikers. Like the best of the best.
They’ll have a wear spot right there. It’ll be really low on the face. In fact, for most golfers, it’ll probably seem like it’s a groove low, maybe even two grooves low. But that’s actually where the ideal spot is, because what’s going to happen is that as that club face, advance it a little bit here so we can draw on it a little as the clubface strikes the ball below the center of gravity or very close to the center, definitely not above it with an iron, the club face.
And you can see it actually happening here. You can see that the moment I strike the ball, this is, I’ve not hit the ground hard enough to de loft the club face like this. It’s really actually the strike on the ball that’s causing this club face to de loft. So if we look at it again, you can see from eight iron loft to, you know, one iron loft is happening during that strike. That’s because as I strike it below the center of gravity, the club face rolls this way. It has to. Just like if you see somebody hit a driver off the toe, the club face opens wide open.
If they hit off the heel, the club face closes. That’s what’s happening in the strike. So if you hit it right in the center, the club face isn’t going to twist at all. Theoretically, it’s going to stay really flat. But for iron play to really flatten out the ball flight and see those kind of penetrating missiles that you see so many great ball strikers have, you want to hit the ball below the CG.
So now the other key to this is getting your center of mass forward. And this is the money maker. If you don’t do this, you’re going to really struggle to play really good golf. What I mean by that is I’m going to take a, I’m going to go back to address, I’m going to put a line on my hip here, roughly on the outside of my left leg. Then we’re going to take Tigers and we’re going to do the same thing roughly on the outside of his leg. Now we’re going to advance us both to impact. And you’re going to see that we have moved our bodies forward.
Tiger, even more so than me, and he’s hitting a wedge here, moved our, where our left leg was at address is now well outside that line. This is key to getting your center of mass forward so that you can maintain leverage on that golf club. And what I mean by leverage, there’s so much leverage in the golf stream. There’s so many different ways to create leverage. One way that I’ve created leverage by shifting my hips forward is my spine is tilted back. This is giving my, my spine and my body more leverage against my arms, which gives me more leverage against the shaft.
So that’s one simple way to understand that if you just move your center of mass forward while your upper body tilts back, you can see the exact same thing. Tiger, obviously, he’s tilted back even more because he’s moved laterally more so than I have. As you tilt back, this gives you leverage against your arms with your body to be able to control that shaft and keep driving the hands forward. And that’s the key.
That’s where, you know, most every amateur on the planet struggles, is that they flip the club and they don’t get that forward shaft lane that you need at address to be able to deal off the face and then keep that drive sustained as the club is moving through the strike to keep that loft off the club for the longest time possible without trying to do something funky with your hands. You can see my hands aren’t really doing anything here. They’re just kind of being driven through. Obviously, I’m posting up, I’m rotating a little bit more, but my hands aren’t doing anything to try and de loft that face.
This is all done by just shifting my pressure forward and hitting the ball below the center of gravity with a shallow angle of attack. Now, part of the key to this is just understanding how to shift your pressure. So I have a video called the four predator pressure shifts of the modern play layer that will help you understand how to shift your weight, how to get that center of mass moving forward dynamically and quickly, the way that it happens in the golf swing. And there’s actually four pressure shifts that allow this to happen. So if you want to start getting flat penetrating iron shots, watch this video. I’ll put the link down in the description, and it’ll help you understand how to hit those missiles that rip through the wind.
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