I needed this reminder. I used to compress the ball but was getting low/unplayable ball flights with my longer clubs. Tried to get closer to true loft at strike and have been struggling ever since. Handicap from 5 back up to 9 and clubs can go any distance. Gonna try and get back to this and get speed, thus spin,thus height in the gym. Now wondering your opinion on how the driver feel contrasts with this feel for irons.
No, this is for every speed golfer. No golfer should try to scoop under the back of the ball to artificially create loft with irons. That is going to create issues. Height should be created via the clubs loft and always having a negative angle of attack with irons. Slower golfers may struggle with this once they reach 5 and 4 irons which is why it is recommended that they use hybrids instead. Those punch shots were also 150+ feet in the air which is super high still.
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I needed this reminder. I used to compress the ball but was getting low/unplayable ball flights with my longer clubs. Tried to get closer to true loft at strike and have been struggling ever since. Handicap from 5 back up to 9 and clubs can go any distance. Gonna try and get back to this and get speed, thus spin,thus height in the gym.
Now wondering your opinion on how the driver feel contrasts with this feel for irons.
Driver and iron swings are very different in many ways but can also be similar in certain aspects of muscles firing and where speed is applied.
Isn't this for higher clubhead players Sam? Because those punch shots were more like us normal players and they were launching too low?
No, this is for every speed golfer. No golfer should try to scoop under the back of the ball to artificially create loft with irons. That is going to create issues. Height should be created via the clubs loft and always having a negative angle of attack with irons. Slower golfers may struggle with this once they reach 5 and 4 irons which is why it is recommended that they use hybrids instead. Those punch shots were also 150+ feet in the air which is super high still.
150ft punch shots 😮 you're an animal! Thanks for your answer