Eric Cogorno here with Performance Golf Zone.
In today's video, we're going to talk about the top three tips for hitting your irons
well.
I'm going to give you a drill for each one and make sure you guys get solid contact with
your irons.
So, let's go over what the three drills are.
Now, to me, there are specifically three things that I want everyone to do, across the board,
to hit your irons more solid.
What are those three?
Well, I'm going to go over them sort of quickly, and then we'll backtrack, and I'll give you
a drill for each one to make sure that you're doing it.
So, the first one with the irons to make sure that I hit the ball well.
Obviously, when I'm hitting my irons, I'm trying to strike the golf ball first, the
ground second.
It's important that my low point is forward enough of the golf ball for me to get some
sort of compression there.
Now, the most important part of that is my weight transfer, or where my body is in space,
meaning, the more my body is behind the ball at any point decreases the odds of me hitting
some solid shots.
The more my body's at or more forward of the golf ball increases the odds of solid shots.
The first thing I can do to control that, and the first drill here for us, and the first
tip, is weight transfer.
So, when you watch good golfers here, good ball strikers, forget about the setup and
the top of the backswing for a minute, but let's focus just on the downswing follow-through.
So, wherever you are at the top of your backswing, you want to start to get your weight pressing
into your left foot.
You want to start to get you moving forward towards the target, pushing off your right
foot, pushing into your left foot, to the point where you get to your finish position
and your right foot is just up on your toe.
There's essentially no pressure on it.
Basically, all of you is up over your left leg.
If you make swings where you hang back too far on your right foot, that increases the
odds of fat and thin shots quite dramatically.
So, that's tip number one, is let's get you from the top off your right foot and getting
onto your left.
Now, there's two key checkpoints for this.
Number one, I have a drill, for here which I'm just going to use another club.
Now, here's how we set this up here.
So, I'll take another club, and when I take my normal setup position, I go ahead and I'm
going to take this club, and from the down-the-line perspective, I'm going to just put the club
head underneath my heel, so it'll sit something like this.
So, the club is underneath my right heel here.
The club is sort of angled back.
Now, this is how you first check now to see, am I getting off my right foot, am I transferring
weight?
This is the first part.
So, I would make a swing here without a ball, and the objective is, by the time you get
to your finish position, you want this club to have fallen to the ground.
You want your right heel to come up as you get into your follow-through finish position.
So, I'm going to make a swing here and we'll see that this club will fall before I get
to my finish position.
So, now I know for sure and have feedback that I got all the way to my left, I'm off
my right foot.
That's the first part and the first that I can do for solid contact.
Now, I'm going to go ahead and do a shot with that, so I'll take a setup position here.
I'm going to put this club...
It doesn't matter what club.
Usually, a higher-lofted one works best.
And I'm going to hit a shot with the same idea here.
So, normal setup, I'm going to try and have that fall out before my finish.
And I hear that that fell out, and that would be my first feedback source, shifting my weight
to my left.
Now, the second feedback source that you guys can use is just to check your finish position.
So, there's a little timing involved here, but more or less, if you can make a swing
and get to the point where you get to here, "Hey, is 90% or more of my weight on my left
foot?
Am I up on my right toe?
Do I not have a lot of weight back?"
If you get to that spot, then I know I've shifted my weight.
So, I'm going to go ahead and hit another one, and I'm going to feel, "Hey, I'm going
to check my follow-through position and see, did I transfer my weight well?"
And here again, I can see I did that one pretty good.
All of me is up on my left.
My right foot, I can essentially just pick up off of the ground.
So, that's tip number one, is transferring weight to the left.
Right away, from the top of the backswing, you can start doing that.
The best players do it the soonest from the top.
You don't have to wait at all.
Now, tip number two is turning or rotation.
So, again, for irons, I'm talking mostly solidness of contact here.
I talked about the importance of low point, needing to hit the ball first, ground second.
Well, where my weight is in my feet is a big part of that.
The more I can get to my left side sooner helps move my low point forward, but also,
a big indicator of that is rotation.
All else equal, the more I turn my body towards the target from the top of the backswing,
the easier it is for me to have my low point forward.
I'm going to hit more solid shots.
If I come down and I don't turn at all, that increases the odds of my club hitting behind
the ball, again if we're just talking solidness of contact.
So, from a drill perspective, from this, I'm just going to go ahead and use my same club
I used before, or you can use the club that you're using here.
I'll just go ahead and do that.
And I would just take a normal setup, and instead of me having the club down by the
ball, I would take the club and put it across my hips, like so.
And what I'm trying to feel here is that I want to make sure, by the time I get finished,
that my club and my hips is parallel here to that target, so I'm turned all the way
through.
I'm not turned like this, where the club's sort of on a 45 here.
I'm turned all the way towards the target.
And again, I like to emphasize this, getting to this follow-through spot, so you don't
have to be thinking about things during the downswing, trying to perfect things at impact.
You want to just get to a spot and feel that.
So, I would rehearse this once or twice.
I want to make sure I'm turned all the way.
This would be tip number two.
And then, I'm just going to take that feel.
I'm going to do the same thing when I hit a shot here, and I feel all the way turned.
So, for me, when I do that, I feel like my right hip has to turn more than normal just
to get back to 90, and then I'm transferring that feel when I actually hit a golf ball.
That would be part number two, and tip number two.
If I can shift my weight and turn enough, the odds of me hitting solid shots goes way
up.
My speed probably goes up, I probably hit the ball farther than normal, and I also have
better club face management.
Now, the third tip, and the thing that I see come up the most often after the first two,
what's most important, is arm structure.
So, if you watch good players, again, good ball strikers, and you sort of slow them down,
specifically past impact, you'll notice that most all of them have their arms very straight,
by either, let's say, 45 degrees or a couple feet past the impact, or certainly, by the
time they get into the arms and club parallel to the ground in the follow-through, they
would have their arms very straight here.
High correlation with that and hitting the ball solid, more club head speed, better club
face control, straighter shots, I mean, you name it.
Getting your arms more straight past impact helps to do that, and that would be tip number
three.
So, a drill for that and for feedback, what we'll use here is, we just have a little ball
that we would get at a local store.
There's a bunch of different training aids you can use, where you'd put an object between
your forearms.
Now, how I usually train this in is, I put the ball about halfway between my wrist and
my elbow, so halfway up my forearm.
I put a ball in there like that, the point being, it's going to keep my elbows tight
together, which makes my arms straighter.
So, if I go into a follow-through, and I keep the ball between my arms here, you'll see
that it keeps my arms straight all the way into the follow-through.
If I come through and I were to bend a lot, then that ball rolls out.
So, when you come through, the arms being very bent into the follow-through, butt of
the club close to your body, contact's going to be harder.
You're going to hit the ball shorter.
Again, less club face control.
What we want is the arms to be straighter out.
You can use a ball like that or just check your follow-through position again.
I mean, these three tips, how easy is it for you for feedback if you make a swing and you're
just checking them off?
Number one, tip number one, am I off my right foot and on my left?
Yes, I am.
Tip number two, are my hips fully turned towards the target and my body facing the target?
Yes or no?
Tip number three, are my arms straight out with my elbows close together?
Yes or no?
And I would just practice hitting some, and I'd check those pieces.
So, I'm going to hit some and I'm going to check those three pieces.
So, I'm off my right foot, onto my left, my hips are fully turned, my arms are extended,
so I did them, all three, good.
Now, if I notice one of them is off, perhaps my weight shift, if I notice, or my hip turn,
if one of those pieces is off, then I'll go back, practice that drill specifically, use
that as my main feel into my follow-through until I get all three of those.
If you check-mark all three of those boxes, the odds of you hitting consistent shots and
more solid contact goes way up.
So, those are my top three tips for hitting your irons better.
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