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Sean Foley: Better Iron Shots

Make consistent impact with these crucial moves.

Released on 7/8/2015

Transcript

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For the Golf Digest readers out here,
00:08
I'm gonna give you an option to be able
00:09
to make changes to your golf swing
00:11
by changing the lie that you hit the golf ball off.
00:14
The first one I'm gonna show you
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is if you really struggle with coming over the top
00:17
and hitting big slices, a great way to practice
00:20
to change the way you feel in your swing
00:22
is to have the ball above your feet.
00:25
When the ball above your feet is gonna force
00:26
you to have a little bit more weight in your heels
00:29
and you're gonna be a little taller in the knees.
00:31
From here, it's going to start to teach you a swing
00:35
that's a little bit more on a neutral angle
00:38
and around you, rather than being that over the top swing
00:43
from here and there.
00:44
So by hitting balls off of this lie,
00:46
it's going to allow you,
00:47
one, to learn how to draw the ball,
00:49
but two from here is how to make the swing
00:52
a little bit more matching up and around you
00:54
on both sides.
00:55
And another lie that's gonna help you
00:57
to kind of get into positions that great players get into,
01:01
is one thing we know they're all doing
01:02
is they're pushing into the ground
01:04
under this left foot.
01:06
They're also leaning the shaft
01:07
with the left wrist in flexion
01:09
and they've got their center just behind the ball.
01:11
So many amateurs end up hanging back
01:13
to lift the ball up, but the key to good ball striking
01:17
and good transfer of energy is to make sure
01:19
from this slope, the pressure's in my left foot,
01:22
it keeps me in angle with the slope,
01:24
so I'm perpendicular with my spine to it
01:27
and then from there I get to swing down the slope
01:30
to make sure I hit the ball up in the air.
01:32
If you do those three things in that lie,
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you're gonna have better contact,
01:35
hit higher shots and have more distance.
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