How Your Irons Should ACTUALLY Sit On The Ground! (SO MANY GO WRONG)

how should your irons sit on the ground should it be like toe up should it be solely flat should it be hands ahead slightly back on the golf ball what should it be now this might seem like a very basic lesson but it has a huge impact on where you strike the golf ball then Therefore your distance but also the direction I can't wait to show you this simple routine and there's one thing that you didn't realize with this how your Club sits on the ground will affect your grip too this is huge welcome back to a brand new video here in Alex Elliott golf my name is Alex Elliott I'm a piece of gold professional and top 50 World coach this is your home of simple golf tips so be sure to subscribe and turn the bell and at any point if you are enjoying this video please do hit the thumbs up button it helps me it helps this video grow and look forward to helping you play your best golf so this is exactly the routine that I would use and have a look at these three scenarios on player cam right you've got what we see as our good one addressing the white golf ball then you've got our handle High addressing the orange golf ball and then finally the handle really low and Tow up addressing the red golf ball so you've got those three scenarios you've got good heel off the ground and then toe off the ground but what what is actually right from that aspect so what I would really do is have this routine like this okay stand to the golf club like this lower the club so it's parallel to the ground and keep your legs nice and straight now keep the distance what we've got here so I roughly got around six inches from my belt buckle I'm not going to bend my knees I'm just going to tilt over and then slightly bend the knees now when you look down on that now I've got my toe slightly off the ground and what that is is just probably by one coin I could just be able to fit one coin slightly underneath that and you can see that from the player cam now what you're going to understand here is it's in that middle point between being two toe up and two heel up because it's very very important now there's something called face plane tilt in the golf swing so we've got to understand like we don't want it to be there we don't want it to be there but we want it just to be sort of there okay so this is our flat ground like that my whole hand you can just see how my toe is slightly off just enough for a coin now the importance of this is face plane tilt now one thing I would say is where it sits at a dress has a big impact to where you come into the gold ball and faceplain tilt has more effects at impact and it has more of an effect with the more lofted Club sometimes people think it's when you've got a lower Optical but more Loft has bigger effect so what you tend to see when your toes off the ground the ball will start quite a long way left okay when your heels off the ground the ball will tend to start a Long Way to the right it can also affect your release pattern so what we're looking for is that just that toe slightly up and just get over that golf ball thinking over toe slightly up and then in that is what we're looking for in that stance so have a look at this shot here and then we're going to talk through a few of the points of what's really important so toes slightly open just have a little check of that you can always just sort of see how it's just slightly in the air by one coin and that's just a simple little measure to not get you to here and not get you to here right here we go this is a tough shot 17 Mark trim okay now the significance of this is the start Direction like that straight down the banner and coming in now I've said this right if your hands too upright it really affects your grip so if your heel is off the ground your hands are so upright your shaft angles upright and your heels off the ground like this right it makes it really hard and you don't know this but like this could be one of the reasons why you got the Palm look where that club wants to sit now on my hand in the Palm like for me it's getting the fingers I've got to sort of Bend like this so look if I try and grip now that shaft angle look where the club wants to sit more if you come closely there it wants to sit like that for me to get that now in the thing I've got to really burn my arm and then we sort of see this chicken wing and sort of cricket style release it's really awkward right and that's just all come from how your club's sitting on the ground equally I see this pattern right when people get the toe two in the air really easy to get in the fingers and really risky shots sort of people who hook the golf ball play around there so you can sort of see why we want to find that middle ground which is there holding the club like that easy to get the fingers right here in the fingers down here in the fingers down you want to try and grip it on that angle and try and get it into the fingers it makes it really hard and this is some great logic okay also we've spoken now about toe heel how does it want to sit like this so if we go face on now and this is one of the one of the vital points I don't think golfers sometimes have enough of these hands ahead of the golf ball we're all very passive we're all very fluky I want it to look a little bit more aggressive now a marker for this is have a look at this and Play account I feel as though my Knuckles of my glove hand are just on the front edge of the ball it's as simple as that just on the front edge of the ball and look how that sort of changes my face into being a little bit more aggressive rather than on the back Edge you can see there's some player cam now I turn in my seven iron in to something like a 99 resulting in weaker shots resulting in shots that come more sort of off the bottom a bit thin but bottom groovy not that yeah vibration up the shaft I know we don't want that so if you go back to what this video was all about how does our club want to sit on the ground and this is if you've got a a pitching wedge all the way through to maybe if you carry a four iron actually what is your longest iron get down in the comments and see what one of those are I just want you to be able to slide a little coin I'll show you the coin here in my hand underneath the toe of your Club it helps you get it in the fingers and then pushing those hands just ahead have a look at this and face on the strike it really helps you get an aggressive hit into the golf ball and that's what I want you to be able to do repeat this play better golf start the gold ball straighter this is key

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Length: 7min 8sec (428 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 31 2023