Iron tee shots

[Rdangeau]

I also have a bad habit of not looking at ball.  Which I know is so stupid I shouldn't even admit to it.  But I guess I'm looking at ball its Just on top of it instead of a spot behind it.  If nothing else positive comes from this forum......... I now know I have more than just a couple Fundamental faults with my swing

[jamo]

The typical answer is this: when the ball is teed up, you can swing up at it just a little bit. When the ball is teed up, your swing can bottom out before you get to the ball without taking a divot. When it's on the ground, that'll lead to chunks and thinned shots and all kinds of problems. So it's generally a symptom of not hitting down on the ball.

[No Mulligans]

There could be a lot of reasons why you are not consistently finding the correct bottom point of your swing (i.e. your divot is not in front of the ball).  What you described is the symptom of your problem, it is not the actual swing fault though.  The suggestions in this thread may help you or maybe not.

The suggestion that will help you is this:

On 1/18/2016 at 2:57 PM, Dave325 said:

I would suggest posting a swing of yours in the MySwing forum, as there a lot of great golfers here that can assist with your issues a lot better than I can.

That's the only way for those that give advice can actually see the problem.

[Rdangeau]

47 minutes ago, No Mulligans said:

There could be a lot of reasons why you are not consistently finding the correct bottom point of your swing (i.e. your divot is not in front of the ball).  What you described is the symptom of your problem, it is not the actual swing fault though.  The suggestions in this thread may help you or maybe not.

The suggestion that will help you is this:

That's the only way for those that give advice can actually see the problem.

But what if I have 100 different swings? I'm inconsistent 

[No Mulligans]

If you video tape your swing a bunch of times you'll find you're swing is much more consistent than you think.  For example, if you sway back towards your back foot during your swing you'll find you do that every time.

[vangator]

A tee shot with and iron is different than a tee shot with a driver.  I tee up only 1/4 " max for irons and try to make the same swing as off a good lie on the turf.  The tee is there to give you a really good lie (ie margin of error).  Practice with a very low tee.

I do tee up a little more for my long irons when I'm using an iron off the tee on a par 4.  I make a flatter swing for more distance (less backspin and more roll).

On the range, I usually hit a small bucket before the round or a medium bucket when I'm not golfing.  I think you may be over swinging to get fatigued, although 200 balls is a lot.  Don't think I've ever hit that many in my life during one session.