When spring arrives, it’s usually a signal for a lot of fair-weather golfers to get back out onto the course. It’s a time of the year when we can all experience a bit of rust, and despite searching for the best golf tips and practicing on the range, it can still take a few rounds to start striking the ball well.
For some club golfers, though, those bad habits never really get addressed, leading to some of the biggest swing faults. This can be frustrating for the golfer as well as the teaching pro, who’ll often tire themselves out talking about the importance of sound fundamentals!
In this article, Golf Monthly Top 50 Coach Jo Taylor shares 10 expert tips to improve your irons shots…
How Can I Improve My Irons Shots In Golf?
In order to help you compress the golf ball and flush those irons, let’s revisit these important basics and give you a couple of the best golf drills to help you improve the quality of your strike. It’s the perfect time to embed some good habits.
1. Set-Up
This checklist might sound lengthy, but it should become second nature, especially if you spend time working on it.
Firstly, you want to just tilt over from your hips. Then, feel as though your body weight is evenly distributed between each foot, and more on the balls of your feet as opposed to the heels and toes.
In terms of width of stance, I could draw a straight line from the inside of my feet to the outside of my shoulders. My spine angle is also nice and straight. An arched lower back will affect how you turn.
(Image credit: Olly Curtis)
2. Ball Position
Staying with the fundamentals, and with a mid-iron, I see the perfect ball position in the centre of my stance (as in the image above). For longer irons, I shift the ball a ball’s width further forward. Some golfers, when they hear about compressing the ball, feel like they really need to hit down on it, so they have it too far back in their stance.
This results in too much shaft lean, so, at best, the ball will come out low. Most of the time, it leads to leaning back, with golfers ‘spinning out’ to get the ball airborne, or ‘scooping’.
3. Regular Checks
Incorrect ball position is a common fault. When you’re practising, I strongly recommend you get into the habit of putting one alignment stick down just in front of your toes…
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