European Tour pro Connor Syme gives us his top tips for sweeter iron strikes
7 Tour Pro Iron Play Tips
My dad, Stuart, is also my coach, and something we’ve always worked on together is ‘strength from the ground up’ and creating a great, stable base from which to start the swing.
I think set-up is potentially overlooked quite a bit, but to strike your irons well you need to be able to set up in the right position to create the swing you want.
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Over the following pages, I’ll highlight some of the things I focus on and look at in my set-up and swing to keep my ball-striking sweet…
7 Tour Pro Iron Play Tips – 1) Set-up
Getting set up properly is definitely the key.
I always try to set up with a good, wide stance and keep myself engaged a little from the start.
From here I’ll be able to swing freely without any restrictions.
Ball just forward of centre
With a 7-iron, your feet should be a fraction over shoulder-width apart and the ball perhaps a third of the way between the middle of your stance and your left foot.
This puts you in the perfect position to get the ideal strike on the back of the ball.
Next – How to engage the legs…
7 Tour Pro Iron Play Tips – 2) Engage the legs
When I say “keep myself engaged”, I’m talking about the legs.
If you can engage your legs a little bit more and just get yourself set, you should see an improvement in your strike.
I would tend to just bounce my knees a little bit to get myself set up properly and feel a little tension in the thighs.
It’s almost impossible to sway if you get your legs in a good, stable place to start with as the sway starts with the hips.
So I would get myself in a position where the legs are nicely flexed.
My turn comes from my upper body, and it’s almost impossible to then sway and get my weight on to the outside of my heels, where problems arise.
If you start turning with the lower half, that’s when the sway comes into it and that’s when striking becomes an issue, because you’re changing your centre of gravity.
You’ll have to compensate somehow…
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