Iron Precision

[Iowa Hawkeye]

Who on here is able to hit their irons within a 4-5 yard range? i.e. hitting your 160 club 153-156 to a pin or layup. How do you develop that control?

[iacas]

Who on here is able to hit their irons within a 4-5 yard range? i.e. hitting your 160 club 153-156 to a pin or layup. How do you develop that control?

Short answer, but perhaps the only answer you need:

By hitting the ball on the same spot on the clubface.

[billm408]

Distance control (vs. precision or accuracy), is learned and practiced. I'll typically control some component of my backswing so that I can maintain an agressive impact and follow through (avoiding the dreaded decel!).

There are three primary hinges in your golf swing; hips, shoulders & wrists. Restricting any, all or a combination in your backswing will alter your distance. The trick is to learn how each effects your distance, practice it and be able to recall it out on the course.

[anthonykim3]

by talking your 150 club play a draw so it rolls out 3 yards to the pin
to get a little more elaborate it is just playing a lot you develop the fell of yardage's and just take a little of or hit it a little lower so it won't go so far or maybe a little fade just feel for playing is all its all practice

[whip_it_out]

I can't do it for my life.
I'm more of the kind of player who gets a general yardage, then choose the club I want to hit.
Say if it's a 7 iron distance but the 6 just looks right, I hit the 6. Works pretty well.

[goblue107501]

Short answer, but perhaps the only answer you need:

That, and I will add, lots of practice.

I have been working on distance control for the last 4-5 years and am starting to get really accurate inside of 150 yards. I used to be a grip-it-and-rip-it type guy. Just pulling a club and hitting it hard. I started playing with a friend who can hit a ball to just about any distance and he showed me a lot. Mostly it is being able to adjust your grip (choking down), and adjusting your backswing. The big thing is knowing how far you hit a club normally, then you can figure out how to adjust each club to different yardages.

[ks8829]

a repeatable swing is what the pros spend so much time practicing at the range so that they are always pin high on every approach shot.

Tempo, length of your backswing are some keys. I would start by taking a wedge and try to hit the same distance on every shot and then work your way up your irons.

[deronsizemore]

Who on here is able to hit their irons within a 4-5 yard range? i.e. hitting your 160 club 153-156 to a pin or layup. How do you develop that control?

If my distance is 153 and I hit my 160 club, I simply choke down about an inch or inch and a half and swing normal.

[Williamevanl]

If you were about to shoot a basketball from 15 feet you would probably have some idea how hard to throw it at the hoop. If you wanted to hit the backboard you could probably do that too. And I'm sure you could attempt to hit the front of the rim or air ball it altogether.

Conscious effort goes a pretty long way, that is as long as you can hit near the center of your clubs as Iacus said.

[Iowa Hawkeye]

I get the basketball thing, thats one of the things I thought of, but with this it is asking something 30 times the distance to stop in an area only 3 times as big.

So what I get is that the big key is just learning the feel and repetition. I've always played a full club from my 8 up and I take some off of my 9-60* for shots but don't have it to where I could conistantly hit a small area.


William I see your from DSM. Where do you play?

[Williamevanl]

Waveland, grandview, Jester here and there, woodland is close...