Trouble with Longer irons/woods

So I am a 4th year golfer. I'm realistically a 20 handicap or so (average low 90s). Over years of tips, and moves to focus on, I've started focusing mainly on 2 aspects of my swing that I found if I do properly I will always have a solid shot. These 2 things are hinging my right wrist as much as possible once the club gets to about waist high in my back swing, and keeping my head behind the ball at impact. I'm pretty certain that keeping my head behind the ball is the correct thing to do, and I know that hinging the wrist is important. However, I'm sure that I hinge it too much. Regardless, when I do these 2 things I always have a great shot. With that being said, I consistently am able to do this for my wedges, and my short and even mid irons. My biggest problem are my hybrids, and driver/woods. I can't hit them to very well at all, and it is much harder for me to hinge my right wrist and keep my head behind the ball at impact for these longer clubs. I don't know why it is. It's probably in my head, and I just can't get it down. I'm incredibly uncomfortable when I'm at address about to hit these longer clubs. I'm assuming it has to do with these clubs weighing more, making it harder to hinge,  and being longer, making it harder to stay on plain and keeping my head behind the ball. I've found that slowing down my swing even on my shorter clubs that I hit well, allows me to make that right wrist hinge, which enables a solid shot for me.

Any tips or advise would be greatly appreciated. Also, it may be a problem staying connected on my downswing. I find that when I shorten the swing 50 % or so, and keep my right elbow (I'm a right handed player) close to the body, the solid impact is always there. I've tried exaggerating the downswing connection with my longer irons just to see if it helps, and I find that the contact is more solid, but I pull the ball like crazy, which may be causes from not keeping my head behind the ball. I don't know. At that point I just have so many things in my head, and I'm just all over the place, making the shots worse because I'm trying to do 10 different things at once.

Long post I know and I'm sorry. I'm just very adamant about improving my game!

Thanks!

You've accomplished a 20 handicap after 4 years? Good for you. Congratulations. It sounds like you probably have a fast tempo and may be getting too fast on the downswing with your longer irons/ woods. Try to slow it down and see if you're hitting it better. Think wider arc rather than get choppy. You can have a fast tempo with the shorter irons and you'll be fine but if you're too fast with the longer irons, you'll lose distance.

You seem to have picked up a few internet favourites in terms of swing flaws you've diagnosed for yourself.

No one is going to be able to offer you proper help based on your description, you need to either find a good instructor who can help you, or video your swing so that we can see what is really going on, rather than what you feel is going on with your swing.

If you're going to video your swing, have a read of this first: http://thesandtrap.com/b/playing_tips/filming_your_swing

Forepoints,

thanks for the tip. I just got back from the range and definitely felt more comfortable and hit more solid shots with my longer clubs by slowing everything down. Something else that seemed to work out for me at the range was staying connected on my down swing. I tried making sure that my right elbow and bicep was touching my right rib cage throughout the entire down swing, Does that sound right? I definitely saw more consistency from that.

Thanks again

That's great to hear that you're hitting your longer irons better. Keeping your right elbow close to your rib cage won't hurt your swing but make sure you keep your body turning. It is better for you to do that than to have your right elbow flying out.