I have a good question how do you hit the ball low with long to mid irons?

Question

Ill try not to answer my own question buts really how do you hit it low? Traditional theory says play the ball back. Unfortunatly all this does is open the face of the club and make it aim way right. Bowing your hands during your normal address makes sense but this is a little unatural you dont see tiger doing it anymore. The answer is loft low loft low flight so should I just get a 1 iron blade for specialty shots?

Answer 1

There are two options:

1. play it back in your stance or

2. press your hands slightly forward before you start up the swing.  This will make the loft less, thus making the ball shoot out at more of a lower trajectory.

Hope this helps!!!

Answer 2

You always want to swing a little easier to play a low shot. Take one more club than is needed and use a shorter swing.  A shorter follow through should keep some loft off the face at impact.

Answer 3

Experiment to see which shot you can hit.  Most people will tell you to move the ball back in your stance, but that may cause you to hit down on it more, making it go higher instead of lower.  I would move it forward in the stance a little, take one more club, choke up an inch, then take it only 1/2 to 3/4 the way back and the same on the follow through.  This is how I hit a "knock-down" shot which flies lower and has plenty of spin on it.

Answer 4

practice fool. These clubs are longer and harder to hit. Don't get a 1 iron. unless you want to learn to skip golf balls over water. I would say to keep it low and hard Move it back and swing a touch slower. Try a wider swing instead of a deep swing. To close the face you will need to promote a strong hip turn to finish this swing.

Answer 5

To play a ball with a low trajectory, set up to the ball in the back of your stance (to deloft the club). However, doing  just that isn't enough. If you do just that you will see theat you keep hooking the ball left of your target. To fix that, aimn a tad right and with the ball back in your sstance it should draw back nicely with a low trajectory and a heck of a lot of spin to stop the low ball from rolling forever (even with a long iron).

Answer 6

as u said - play the ball back in your stance AND if you have to  - hood the clubhead slightly.

practice. it will work.

Answer 7

Think About It -

Your question really made me laugh. I can give you one piece of very solid advice on this question....buying a one iron is NOT the solution!!

I'm not even sure if one iron's are still manufactured?! I actually had one with my first set of 'real' golf clubs, Tommy Armour 845's....SW thru one iron.....great set, I used to use the one iron for buttering my bread at breakfast :)

Just kidding.....back to your question.....If you want to flight an iron lower than it's normal trajectroy would produce, use this technique:

Say it's a normal 5 iron shot....simply take your 4 iron and make a nice smooth 3/4 length swing, also try to feel like you're swinging slightly slower, this will produce a lower more boring ball flight, it was land and roll forward. Play the ball as you normally would, maybe slightly forward of the middle of your stance.

This is the easiest method of producing a lower ball flight, it works with all clubs in your set from lob wedge up....

Good Luck!!