- Hello again, Adam Bazalgette here
in beautiful Naples, Florida. Another sunny day.
I want to talk to you about an interesting subject:
How high to tee your irons on Par-3s.
Can make a quite a difference.
I'm a former David Leadbetter Golf Academy director
and founder of ScratchGolfAcademy.com,
so let's have a look at this important subject.
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Okay how high to tee your irons on Par-3s,
now a lot of people don't use long irons so much anymore,
but this principle would apply for a hybrid three or four.
I'm going to demonstrate here for you here
a 9-iron and a 4-iron. They're very similar,
but you have to get certain principles down.
And I'm gonna show you a close-up
to give you a better sense of what we're talking about.
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Let's take a close-up look then
at what is required when you tee the ball up
and what are the pitfalls.
So as we look close-up, this ball is actually on a tee.
You can see the tee there,
but it's just, just at the top level of the blades of grass.
And that's what I would recommend.
Here's the reason why: This is a 9-iron.
As we've said in other videos, if you've tuned in,
the sweet spot's about here.
The sweet spot is not down there and it is not up here.
So it's down here, and when a ball is laying on the turf,
this is a 9-iron, again,
you have to have some forward lean
for solid contact there, if you can see that.
And that means a fractionally, fractionally descending blow.
That's the habit you want to be in.
Now when you go to a Par-3, or in the middle of a round,
what you don't want to do
is tee it in such a fashion, let's say like that,
that if you then do a correct impact,
you make your normal impact,
I'm assuming your normal impact
is a good slight descending blow,
you then wind up hitting it too high on the face.
Can you see that?
What will happen, either you'll hit it
a very un-solid shot up here,
or more likely, you'll react to that
and start lifting or scooping for solid contact.
So you never want to create such a difference
in see height for a short iron
that you have to change your impact for solid contacts.
Too difficult to do and it's not necessary.
Now, let's have a look at a 4-iron.
This right now is the longest iron in my bag,
used to think I was a dynamo,
had like a 2- and a 1-iron in there,
but that was a while ago.
I would tee that just a little bit higher.
Maybe like,
maybe like that.
I can just get maybe the bottom of this tee under there.
So this is slightly,
it's almost like a fluffy lie in the rough.
Reason again, sweet spot's about the same,
we don't need as much descending hit with a 4-iron,
as the golf ball to make solid contact.
It's not leaning away from the ball like a 9-iron,
so by teeing it just a hair higher,
I can play the ball a little bit more forward.
We're talking small amounts here,
and it just allows me to sweep it a little bit more
and maybe get a little bit more height on a long iron.
So it's by nature, a slightly more sweeping hit,
we don't need the tilt for the sweet spot on the ball,
and just a little bit higher would help you with that.
So hope that makes it clear as to what you're trying to do.
You just gotta practice a little bit,
it's not that difficult.
So that you can do it pretty quickly and instinctively.
We I hope that gives you a little bit of insight there
as to how high to tee the ball with your irons on Par-3s.
And if you get in the good habits there,
and you do that consistently,
I trust it will help you.
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Best of luck with your irons.
Thanks for joining in.
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