Hitting Iron Shots worse off the tee box?

[MiniBlueDragon]

  Spyder said:

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]

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  Paradox said:

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.

  markpf189 said:

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.