If you’re struggling with the tips, try focusing on this tip from GOLF Top 100 teacher Jonathan Yarwood.
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Everyone hits bad shots – that’s a guarantee in this game – but there are many different ways it can happen. there are slices and hooks, short and long, tips and bits … you get the picture.
Unless you’re a club tester bot, you’ll always have your fair share of mistakes. The key to improvement is understanding why these errors occur and how you can fix them.
Today we will talk about fine strokes. For more, we turn to him GOLF Top 100 Teachers Jonathan Yarwood.
Why did you hit him thin?
Hitting it thin it basically means that you are not making any contact with the ground as you hit the ball. As we all know, the key to hitting the iron hard is making contact with the ball and then the ground. But when you hit it thin, contact with the ground is absent.
Why does this happen? It’s all about where the low point of your swing is.
“Your low point is behind the ball,” Yarwood says. “The club and the angle of attack are rising as you hit it. What we see from elite players is that the angle of attack is going down.”
How to fix thin strokes
As Yarwood points out, the key to hitting hard irons is to decrease the angle of attack as you make impact with the ball. To do this properly, you must focus on the correct displacement of mass and pressure.
From the top of the swing, you want your mass and pressure to shift to your side of the lead. Focus on feeling as if your lead side is moving two to three inches closer to the target as your swing goes up into the arms parallel to the downstroke.
“It’s how you get your hands forward and how you get that slack in the handle and the angle of attack down,” he says.
Try this workout
If you want to instill this feeling in the range, try this simple exercise. Take your normal setup and drive, but then when you start the turn, take a small step with your lead foot.
“You do this, the angle of attack is going down, the path is going to the left, the mass is shifting as it should,” says Yarwood. “You will crush it.”
