Top Golf Tips (2)

Golf Tip 2: How to make solid contact using your irons.

Your Drive is killer, you swing to die for, but you can’t seem to make solid contact with your irons? If this sounds like you, then this tip can help. The problem you are facing is that your swing is to ‘up-and-down’ which causes you to deliver either a fat shot or a wide slice. This is how to solve this problem.

A too-steep backswing creates two problems: 1) The resulting steep downswing will force you to stick the club in the ground before impact (fat), and 2) When you take the club back too high, your forearms tend to rotate down, cupping your left wrist and opening the clubface (slice). To swing the club properly around your body, think about keeping your elbows level at the top.

A good way to practise this is to take the club and find your position at the top of the swing. Then have a friend or a caddie grab another club from your bag and try and balance it between your arms. The club should rest across the insides of your elbows; if the club isn’t flat then you elbows aren’t straight. Use this technique to practise until you have the correct position at all time.
Tip 3 will be on How to Stop Slices & Hooks