Irons
For Better Players Only
It might look a bit scary to the mid-high handicapper, but the pros are raving about the new Ping Blueprint.
2019 Digital Gear Guide
By Ted Johnson
YOU DON’T HAVE TO CELEBRATE Chinese New Year to know this is the Year of the Big Dog. Never have so many manufacturers simultaneously come out with as many high-end, high-performance drivers. Titleist, Mizuno, Srixon, PXG, PING and standard bearers Callaway and TaylorMade all have products that require a long look. So do Wilson and Tour Edge.
2019 Gear Guide: Irons
Looking for a new set of irons? Look no further. We’ve got a list of the hottest sets on the market to help make your decision easier.
Cobra’s New Irons are Fire
Cobra Golf’s recently-announced sets of irons – the F9 Speedback and King Forged CB/MB bolster the company’s always impressive iron line-up.
By Tony Dear
2018 Srixon Z Series – no sleeper pick
Yes, more Srixon products – woods and irons adding to the Z Series’s renown, and definitely worth your attention.
By Tony Dear
NEW GEAR: TaylorMade P760 Irons
NEW GEAR: TaylorMade P760 Irons
By Tony Dear
So, here we are again. TaylorMade has launched another iron. Sounds familiar, right? In the last 18 months, we count seven iron launches – P730, P750, P770, P790, M3 and M4, and GAPR. And PSi wasn’t much further back. So why another iron, and what will this one do the others can’t?
GOLFTEC: Improve Your Follow Through to Stop Chunking Irons
As seen on Golf Channel: Stop taking huge divots and start hitting clean shots with the help of this drill
[easyazon_infoblock align=”right” identifier=”B07BJ2456W” locale=”US” tag=”coloradoavidg-20″]You know those shots when it feels like the earth grabs your club before impact and then sends a large patch of turf down the fairway nearly as far as your ball?
Of course you do. We’ve all been there at some point, and it’s NOT a good feeling.
While chunking irons inevitably happens to all golfers, if you’re scraping large chunks of dirt off of your clubs more often than not, look no further because we’re here to help.
Improving contact with backward bend
What we see with many golfers that chunk their irons is the upper body bends too far forward in the downswing and then stays there during the follow-through. This results in a bending of the arms and steep angle of attack of that often bottoms the club’s arc out before impact – the perfect recipe for a chunk. Chunked or fat shots are often the result of having a “low point,” the vertically lowest point of the swing’s arc, too far behind the ball.
The best ball strikers instead tend to start bending the upper body slightly back (away from the target) in the downswing and follow-through, which helps to straighten the arms into impact and shallow the club’s angle of attack.
These ideal elements conversely encourage a low point in front of the ball, which leads to the ball-first contact we all strive for.
How to add backward bend in the downswing and follow-through
The first step to improving your contact is moving the low point of your swing arc more toward the target, which as aforementioned can be encouraged with straighter arms through impact and more backward bend of the upper body in the downswing and follow-through.
Patrick Nuber shares a simple drill in the video below to help you accomplish this, and it requires nothing more than a tee, a ball, and a little practice to get used to the new feeling of bending more backward as you hit the ball.
Take a look, give it a try, and you’ll soon start seeing pure golf shots fly down the fairway rather than those frustrating chunks of Earth!
VIDEO: A Follow-Through Drill to Stop Chunking Irons
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