Hitting Iron Shots worse off the tee box?

[MiniBlueDragon]

Originally Posted by Spyder

I'm not confused lol. I was replying to 5ironkid's post, which is why I quoted it. He was responding to this whole point of "using a tee is an advantage. If it wasn't an advantage, you would be able to use a tee everywhere". 5ironKid then responded with this:

Corrected. My bad.

[Spyder]

No problem! Just wanted to double check to make sure we're all on the same page. I almost was confused! haha

[5ironkid]

oops

[Ferg]

Quote:

Its usually a case of overswinging, not hitting the ball on the way down.

I would just focus on making a smooth swing and getting back in rhythm.

This is the issue I had. I would try and overswing instead of just taking a nice and easy normal swing. It's made a huge difference.

[RPMPIRE]

I used to have the same problem. To me, I put pressure on myself if I teed the ball up because it's a 'perfect' lie so I better not screw it up. Surely enough, I do.

The best practice, IMO, is if you have a grass driving range, try teeing the ball up there and work on building some confidence of hitting the ball both on turf and on tee.

Originally Posted by markpf189

I've been really loving my irons lately, but for whatever reason I seam to completely mishit my iron shots on par 3's. I tee the ball very low, right at ground level just to give myself a good lie, but I usually end up doing a scold shot and it goes good distance but real low and runs. It's really frustrating since I feel great hitting them off the fairway/rough, but I must do something differently when on the tee box. Anyone have any tips for this? I'm assuming I am trying to lift the ball up when on the tee box instead of hitting down on it.

[DaSportsGuy]

Try taking more club and just taking a nice, easy swing.

[Dubya D]

Funny...I was having the same problem. For some reason, I am confident hitting approach shots with my irons but, a bit rattled on the par 3 tee boxes. They way I'm getting around this is by convincing myself ,while standing on the par 3 tee box, that I'm hitting an approach shot. Since I'm hitting an approach, I do not use a tee. Just something I do and has been working..so far.