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Does your swing change when you go from driver to irons? I understand that your feet, placement from ball etc change but does your actual swing change?

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There are some differences. Less need to keep your head centered and get your weight forward, for example. AoA should be positive for many golfers with the driver.

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There are some differences. Less need to keep your head centered and get your weight forward, for example. AoA should be positive for many golfers with the driver.

Woah. Hold the phone. @iacas , I thought it was more imperative with the driver to get the weight even farther forward...and why is the steady head less important?

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Quite an interesting question, although many aspects are the same, like iacas says, we hit down on the irons but not with the driver so really the main difference is more with the set up and address, and timing too!

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Does your swing change when you go from driver to irons? I understand that your feet, placement from ball etc change but does your actual swing change?

I don't think you should "consciously" make any changes to your swing. Most of the differences are at address to encourage a positive AoA. There may be some differences dynamically as @iacas mentioned but those are more of a result of the ball being teed up.

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I don't think you should "consciously" make any changes to your swing. Most of the differences are at address to encourage a positive AoA. There may be some differences dynamically as @iacas mentioned but those are more of a result of the ball being teed up.  [CONTENTEMBED=/t/77244/how-to-hit-a-driver-hit-it-further-and-stop-slicing layout=inline]​[/CONTENTEMBED]

What about what Erik said about not needing to get the weight as far forward?

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Woah. Hold the phone. @iacas, I thought it was more imperative with the driver to get the weight even farther forward...and why is the steady head less important?

As I understand it, because you're looking to hit the ball on the upswing with the driver, it's ok to let the head and weight hang back a bit and it can help with axis tilt.

With the irons, low point of the arc is important, so steady head and weight forward becomes more important.

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As I understand it, because you're looking to hit the ball on the upswing with the driver, it's ok to let the head and weight hang back a bit and it can help with axis tilt. With the irons, low point of the arc is important, so steady head and weight forward becomes more important.

Ok but isn't that going to encourage having the path go even further left? You'll be hitting big cuts unless you throw the arms way out off of the chest.

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Ok but isn't that going to encourage having the path go even further left? You'll be hitting big cuts unless you throw the arms way out off of the chest.


Which… tends to happen a bit more with the driver. So yeah. It's fine. The weight doesn't have to go as far forward with the driver. You can create a little secondary axis tilt with the driver by tipping your head back. Whether you do this mostly at address or dynamically, it's fine.

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Which… tends to happen a bit more with the driver. So yeah. It's fine. The weight doesn't have to go as far forward with the driver. You can create a little secondary axis tilt with the driver by tipping your head back. Whether you do this mostly at address or dynamically, it's fine.

Hmmm. This is giving me mucho to think about. Thanks as always, Broseph.

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And for those of us doing S&T;

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And for those of us doing S&T;

I wouldn't call that specific to S&T;

Whatever it is, it's certainly not what Christian looks like swinging the driver. :8)

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And for those of us doing S&T;

Grant isn't a S&T; player or instructor and he's hitting up on this ball.

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