LET"S MAKE THINGS EASIER, shall we? In today's age of golf instruction, there's more information than ever. Seems there are countless right ways, and countless wrong ways, to swing the golf club. In this case, I want to reduce the iron game to its simplest, most easy-to-understand level with your PING G20 Irons. The goal here is to get you making smooth, controlled swings that enhance your natural abilities. With these tips, you'll be on your way to making better swings and shooting lower scores, all without having to dig too much into the mechanical side of things.
First, setup and impact positions are very different. Often, I see some of the higher-handicap students make half-practice swings, where they start at the setup, make a backswing, and slowly bring the club back down to the setup again. What a mistake!
Think of the setup as a starting point. The body should be flexed, the arms relaxed, the ball positioned just before the lowest point on your swing arc. Once you master a solid setup, here's what you need to know about both:
At impact, there are three parts of the body that look much as they did at setup—your head, your shoulders and your left arm. Everything else changes due to the rotational movement through the swing. If you try to hit from a setup position, the hands will collapse through the shot because you stop rotating. Instead, if your body keeps rotating, you can better mimic a good impact position where the hips are open, the shoulders are square, the shaft is leaning toward the target and the hands are over your left leg. Remember, whatever you do, don't try to hit from a setup position. That never works!
If there's one problem that plagues better players more than higher-handicappers, it's swinging too much from inside to outside the target line. To make things easier, consider this: It's okay to make a downswing from inside the target line, but if you exaggerate it too much, you run the risk of getting the club ——PING G20 Irons stuck too far behind you. This can lead to not only some big pushes to the right, but also a few dreaded shanked shots. You can see that if I swing too much to the inside, my shaft is off-plane at the top of my swing and too far across the line. I might hit the occasional decent shot from here, but only if I manipulate my hands through the swing and flip them over in time to square up the clubhead. That's really difficult to do repeatedly.
To fix the problem of swinging too far to the inside, you don't necessarily have to take the PING G20 Irons straight back. The key is to take the PING G20 Irons back in a way that you get to the top of your swing on the right plane.
If you look at the lower set of photos, you can see that the butt of the grip is pointing in front of me at the top, as opposed to behind me, as seen in the upper photos. This position is a better on-plane position, making it easier to swing through on the proper plane. So experiment with a backswing that allows you to get into a good position at the top of your swing. And by the way, through the shot, there's no need to force the body to swing "to the outside" of the target line. The right path for every PING G20 Irons is to swing from slightly inside the target line, to on the target line at impact, then back inside the target line.
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