Joe Mama

When you say "It's impossible," you're no doubt referring to a claim someone else made in this forum, not my claim. I'm making no claim other than that I try to keep my club face square to the swing arc for as long as I comfortably can simplifies my swing and improves my ball striking. I included the drawing just in case anyone had any doubt about what "square to the arc" means. It means that a line perpendicular to the club face is tangent to the arc. As for what "perpendicular" and "tangent" mean, I refer forum readers to any high school geometry text. :)

The physics of it just make no sense irons the same length and weight... In a perfect world would go the same distance... If each club was swung the same... Ever do the pendulum experiment in physics? You're golf swing is just a extended pendulum (at least from the point where you unbreak you wrists on the downswing to when you break them on tje follow-through) if I wanted to play the 1 iron golf system... I'd just grab my v blade 7-iron and go play with just the one club... And all of your shots would go the same distance. The one-irons have different lofts, which provide a consistent 8-10 yards increment from one club to the next. So, if you hit your 1-Iron eight 140 yards, you would hit your 1-Iron four 172-180 yards.

http://www.golfpro-online.com/tuition/lking/six.html By "swing arc" I assume you mean the (nearly) circular arc traveled by the club head on the backswing, and later on the downswing. By "square to the arc," I assume you mean that a line drawn perpendicular to the club face is at all times tangent to the arc. It works for me. I just have to make sure that I have an extreme weak grip.

I use a neutral grip for my irons and hybrids and a strong grip for my driver and woods.

I am 67 years old. I took up the game 12 months ago and have been diligently practicing on the range and with my artificial grass surface and net in my garage every day, two or three hours per day. My problem has always been lack of consistency, even with the short irons, and I have never had any success with the along irons. I eventually gave up on the long irons and took them out of my bag and replaced them with hybrids, which were easier to hit. Half the time I hit the hybrids and mid-irons fat or thin, and about one in three of my short irons were mis-hits. I almost never hit pure shots--strikes that compressed the ball and generated that satisfying "scrunch" sound. Last week I read David Lake's website at 1IronGolf.com and found his logic compelling, so Ibought a set of used irons (3-W) from him for $399, hoping that I would have results as good as those described in blogs by others. I held back ordering the driver and the woods until I tried the irons. Our days later my irons arrived, and they looked brand new. I immediately took the eight different irons to my net and hit each iron, one after the other, one time each. Each strike was pure. I was totally convinced. Three minutes after I had made the eighth swing, I was on line spending $700 dollars for the driver and 3, 5, and 7 woods. The change in my game has been miraculous. The average distance has shot way up, in part because the clubs were fitted to my wrist-to-floor distance, which makes the lie angle optimum. Another reason for my increased distance is that any swing with one of the irons, whether as practice or while on the course, is equivalent to practicing with any one of the other irons. Previously, practicing with my eight iron, for example, was of no help with my swings with the other irons. Now, I could practice all day with just the 3-iron, and all the other clubs would benefit equally. Thus, my consistency has increased dramatically. Of immeasurable help also comes from the increased confidence that comes with consistently great ball strikes, which fosters even greater consistency, which in turn increases confidence, and so on. I've read hundreds and hundreds of blogs about golfing, subscribed to two golf magazines, and viewed hundreds of YouTube videos, and done all of the practicing I described above, but none of those things has had as much of an impact on my game as have my eight new (used) irons by 1 Iron Golf. My game experienced a quantum jump in the space of a few minutes. I will venture the uninformed guess that these clubs might not be for the Tour professional who can take advantage of the perhaps 2% gain in distance that occurs by using mid and long irons that are slightly longer than the 1 Irons, but for the average golfer with a handicap of 10 or higher.....they should stop what they're doing right now and measure their WTF and then go to 1IronGolf.com and order a used set of irons from David Lake.

The proper wrist cocks and hinges will automatically (naturally) occur if the stance and grip are correct and a low and slow wide backswing is taken. Incorrect wrist positions at the top are the effect of a poor grip, stance or takeback, i.e., are the consequences of a poor swing, not the cause. Get it right in the beginning, and the chain reaction that is then set in motion leads to good swing mechanics later on, including good wrist cocks and hinges. If your wrist cocks and hinges at the top of the swing are incorrect, change your grip, or your stance and takeback, and the proper hinges and cocks will narurally appear. In my opinion, that is.