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In this Golf University "Tip from the Pro"
I'm with David Milne the two-time PGA teacher of the year and co coach of the
Indonesian team at the Joondalup Golf Resort in Perth, Western, Australia
Where he's going to teach us a great iron solution that's going to help us get more contact
Direction and distance so that we feel more confident consistent
and in control of our irons
and ultimately have less shots per round
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The big problem with most golfers is their setup fundamentals are inconsistent
So what I'm going to show you right now is how you can develop a really good
Fundamental setup positions that are going to help you become more consistent
number one
and the key factor here is how wide should your stance be?
Now for most golfers, they know it should be shoulder width
but they really are inconsistent with regards to how they place their feet
So get yourself where you think your feet are under your shoulders
get a golf club hold it between your thumb and index finger
and just place it to the ends of your
Left shoulder. First of all the shaft should point pretty much over your shoe lace if you're too narrow stance
The club will point outside your feet if you've got to wider stance
It'll be inside and you can do the same on the other side
Now what I want to show you here right now is once you've got your right stance is the correct
Posture that you need to be able to hit that ball consistently and confidently
So what I'm going to show you here is you take a club place the toe of the club
at the back of your head
The shaft between your shoulder blades and the grip touching your tailbone now keep those three points
assuming your stance that you had
With your setup, which is shoulder-width apart. You've checked that and from an upright position
What we're going to do here is tip forward from your hips
And as you do that hold those three points of the club to the three points of your body and let your trail arm
Dangle forward now what you'll find is that if you're in the right position tip forward your arms
Here right now is going to point just in front of your you're tall line
If you've got too much knee bend and not enough tilt forward from the hips
your hands going to point back in your heels
So a good thing is to check also that you haven't
if I use the term
bend from the waist now most people do this they bend from the waist
and what happens is the head comes off that and you
See how the arms really hang back and it's also inside here
So keep the three points not as easy as you think but with a bit of practice
This will really help your consistency with you setup tip forward
Let your arm hang down and that really is where you want to be bring the club out in front of you
and
Another double check to make sure that you haven't overreached is when you address the ball
Just drop your trail arm and if you're too far away you have to actually reach out if you're too close
It's going to be over here
So from that position if you're in the right position drop your trail arm
And it should just want to go straight back into this. So, you know that the distance from that good posture
it just complements that there so that really is the two things a stance and
Really the be able to get the the posture in the right position
so from there, what we want to do is to make sure that the ball position here in relation to that stance is
Absolutely, perfect for icons. This is critical too far back and you're going to find it hard to flake your wines
They're gonna be really low
They're not going to hold the greens
And if they're too far forward your swings going to bottom out way too early
And guess what? You know, you're gonna make bad contact so ball position
My suggestion here is for the short irons pretty much Center
medium and long irons just left of center
so you can check that by having your feet together
and from there if you want it to be more positioned to be in the middle open up
Equally moving your left foot first and your right foot back
So that's equal amount of spread on either side
If you want the ball a little bit further left a smaller step with the left foot bigger step with the right foot
Now this might seem sort of
really to to regiment like but really it's important that ball position from that good stance and good posture is
Exactly where you need to be to be able to strike that ball solidly with the irons
now the last one that you really want to work on would be
Making sure your hands are on the club in a really really good position to deliver that clubface nice and square
We always recommend that you can see at least two knuckles in your left hand. Not more than three
Anywhere between two knuckles showing our three knuckles is where you really want to be working towards
The grip on the right hand
you really want to place it so that the palm
Is always facing the target
if it's facing the ground it's going to return the clubface generally open if it's facing the sky
It's going to have a tendency to close the club face. So if you can set up with your right palm
Facing the target place it pretty much at the base of your fingers so that the thumbs and index finger
make a V which then that line doesn't point below
the right shoulder and definitely not to the chin and left
so those
those two things the knuckles on the back of the left hand
and the way you position your right palm in relation to where you
want to hit the ball it really is going to help you deliver that club with those fundamentals of being able to have
Stance your setup and ball position coupled all together is going to give you a good shot. So again,
Get set up. I'm gonna hit a shot here, and I'm going to focus on stance
the correct posture
Check that my ball position is pretty good. Have a look down the fairway
and from there make a confident swing
So, please go and check your fundamentals
until you can really make sure that they are in the absolute position
That's going to allow you to deliver that club
Consistently and therefore you're going to be a lot more confident with your irons from here on well
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