Improving your ball striking directly correlates to shooting lower scores, so getting the right tips and advice is crucial to ensuring you can increase your consistency in this key area.
Rasmus Hojgaard is one of the best ball strikers in the game, helping him to secure 5 DP World Tour titles including a famous Irish Open victory to deny home-favourite Rory McIlroy.
In the interest of helping amateurs to play their best golf, we asked Rasmus Hojgaard to share his top ball striking tips – and he did not disappoint with these six expert insights…
1. Set-up To Compress The Golf Ball
You want to have a very natural set-up where you feel like you can move and stay balanced and controlled. The ball position should be pretty central for mid-irons, because you want the low point of the swing just after the ball in order to compress it at impact.
You can move the ball a little further back for wedges to create a steeper attack angle, and a little further forward with long-irons and hybrids to create a slightly shallower attack angle. Setting your hands slightly ahead of the ball so there’s a little forward shaft lean will also help you compress the ball.
2. Swing With A Smooth Tempo
The best ball-strikers have a very nice tempo. They’re not trying to hit it too hard and they keep it very simple. It’s hard to say what the right tempo is because it can be different for different people.
I have to feel like I’m finishing the backswing and giving myself time for the club to naturally fall down. Then, I turn on the ball. A nice way to find good tempo is to hit three-quarter shots focusing on staying connected and engaging your core. Let the body control the shot. You’ll be a much better iron player in the long run if you focus on that.
Rasmus Højgaard has accumulated five DP World Tour wins and has climbed to 63rd in the OWGR
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3. Keep Your Arms And Body Connected
It’s important to stay connected so your arms and body move and work as one. As soon as it separates, that’s when the bad timing comes. I like to put a glove or a headcover under my left armpit and make sure it stays there as I swing, so I feel like I’m connected.
That will also make the backswing shorter and help engage your core, which will make you a lot more consistent. You should…
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