Iron vs. Driver Swing
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Just how different should your iron swing be vs. your driver swing? The answer will surprise you!
one of the questions that we get asked all the time is what's the difference what do I need to do differently with my driver versus my irons and I'm glad you asked because it's super common and the reality is nothing you don't do anything different whatsoever now of course with the driver I've talked about in the Baltimore driver series that it is a specialty club because of the way the heads designed you do need to hit the ball higher on the face which of course requires a tee we can't do that with an iron you hit an iron high on the face it's not going to go anywhere there's no mass back here high on the face so obviously that's an obvious difference but it doesn't change the way you swing the club it changes the way you set up to the ball which of course involves a tee now the other thing that you'll only other change that you'll ever make with make a driver swing is moving the ball up in your stance and as I've talked about in the bomber driver series slightly inside the target line and changing your alignment slightly I've talked about that in this video so if you take a look at those you'll understand exactly what I'm talking about there but outside of that what do you need to do different nothing the whole key of learning how to swing this club in this club is learning how to swing them at what feels like to you the exact same speed one of the things that people don't realize is the advantage that just having a longer shaft provides for you how much it's about two miles an hour of club head speed that you're going to pick up for every half inch of shaft length that's why all of your clubs typically are a half inch longer than the other one and that's why using a single length iron which I've experimented a lot with is very difficult to make work correctly because as you get it to the longer clubs you start losing so much club head speed that you can't make up for it by increasing the loft or decreasing the loft as it were so because of that it's very hard to get your three four five irons up in the air high enough to get any proper trajectory proper spin etc so that's why I you know I've settled in on just you know standard half inch separations that's been like this for forever and that's the reason for it is because you pick up so much speed by just increasing the shaft length so from an 8 iron that I have here to a driver you can see there's a huge difference of almost a foot in my shaft length between the two clubs let's just say for argument's sake it is a foot difference well that means that this club without me doing anything different just by increasing the radius of the swing arc how far the club head is away from me the rotating center this thing's gonna move 24 miles an hour faster than this now for many of you you're listening to that and say well listen I swing my 8 iron at 85 miles an hour my driver at 90 miles an hour what's the disconnect great question because that's what really matters because the math and science of this is a hundred percent legit doesn't make you can't defeat the logic there but for so many golfers in real-world practice and applique it doesn't work out like that their driver swings almost just as the same speed as their irons why is that it's because you're trying to swing this too hard from the top of your swing if you go to the top and you're all loaded up and you fire this because you know you need to swing it faster in your head but the reality is I want you to try and swing it like that try to swing it like your lob wedge I bet you don't ever blast your lob wedge off the planet because obviously the loft issue and the shaft length helps but at the same point it's because you're making a smoother swing a lot of times you find that you just try to hit one nice and smooth and easy you end up hitting it too far we've all done that a million times with irons and drivers the key is that you learn to sequence the swing correctly you let the swing unwind and unfold without you trying to force it from the top so the reality is iron swing driver swing I want you to try and feel the exact same body speed that doesn't mean with the driver you when everything's clicking you can't ramp it up and make it you know pick up another five six seven miles an hour by swinging harder of course you can but everything needs to be jamming everything needs to be synced up really well but when you're just playing a normal round of golf and maybe everything's not clicking exactly the way that you want swing your eight iron like you do your driver or swing your driver like you do your eight iron and all of a sudden you'll be shocked the club is gonna go the same speed you're gonna have more lag you're gonna have less tension you're gonna hit it more consistently because you're not out of control and that's the whole trick between understanding the driver and the irons
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