Missing short
Tips and drills to improve your ball-striking and help you achieve full distance with your irons
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Aside from frequent underclubbing, one of the main reasons club golfers come up short is poor contact. This simple drill can help you work on achieving the ‘ball first’ contact needed for solid striking and full distances. Place an alignment stick just inside the right heel as in the photos here. Focus on staying nice and still over the ball all the way to the top (below). Then, when you swing down and through, the divot will be well after the stick.
...you’re more likely to catch the ground early ...you must focus on shifting weight towards the target
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A lot of players move their heads away from the This drill helps you to shift your weight towards target too much as they take the club back. This the target through impact. Set up as usual but shifts their weight a long way to the right, and if with the ball two inches beyond the clubhead. they don’t then move back across, they’re going Stay nice and stable as you swing back. With to either hit the ground early or possibly thin it, neither of the ball further forward, you must now focus on moving which gives you the full yardage. Far better not to move your weight towards the target to make good contact. It your head and weight across in the first place, as in the highlights the stability needed on the way back and photos on the previous page. how much you need to shift weight on the way through.