Ball Striking

[Hoselrockets]

Well, I've been a sweeper for my entire golf life with tremedous height with my shots. Well I've started to read the "impact zone" and am now working on better ball striking. It's going to be a long road but I think I can become better at this.

Has anyone out here worked on the same issue? If so any kind of direction or playing tips would be appreciated.

Thanks!!

[opie]

I was in the same position for the longest time. What got me over the hump was clubs. At the time I was playing Ping ISI's and could hit it a mile sweeping them. Dad went to a club building class and made a forged blade Golfsmith 6 iron and we took it out to hit it. After about a 1/2 a bucket of balls of sweeping it and hitting it awful I got mad and swung as hard as I could and jammed the club into the ground. As luck would have it I hit it flush and it flew. That was my aha moment. I finally understood strike down. took a while afterwards to get the hang of it but you'll get to where if you sweep one it's just awful feeling..

Ok.. semi-pointless story over. 1/2 swings are the way I work on ball striking. PW or 9-iron and just concentrate on striking down and divot in front of the ball. Makes the transition to a full swing easier

[JaY_B]

Try hitting low punch shots, getting your weight ahead of the ball at impact, it might feel like your chest is slightly infront of the ball at impact.