MiniJeffrey

You might think accuracy is the better choice, but it is not. If you tend to hit an avg of 5 yards off to the right or left, you will only improve half a yard, that still leaves you kinda off. But if you hit 220 yards with your driver, you suddenly have a second shot that is 22 yards shorter (2 clubs for most of us), giving you more options to play in regulation or play a short iron to the pin on par 4's. So I would go for distance I think.

Dont worry, practice makes perfect. Now, when you are struggling, how does it feel to you? Do you feel like you are hitting very heavy? Do you hear you club hitting the practice mat or not? If it does, is it before or after you have hit the ball? If the sounds comes way before the ball, then you are hitting it fat, if the sound comes after you have hit the ball, that's a good sound but you may be hitting too much down and with your arms in this point. From my opinion I think you are having severe issues with hitting it fat, which would explain why you are having no distance at all. With a 7 iron you should be able to get easily 120 yards as a beginner. And yes, you are not rotating in a correct way which gives you an arm-swing, instead of a body swing.

Although some think my vision is old dated I will say it anyway: DO NOT start with your driver, you should start playing golf with irons. In my club we start by learning a pitching wedge on our compact course, then we move up to 9-8-7-6-5, 5 wood, 3 wood, driver. I have been playing for two years now and haven't touched a driver yet. You say you hit balls that just runs over the ground (topping) or that flies only 40 yards with 7 iron (probably very fat). Both are due to poor contact and club position at impact. Now, what I see in your video * looking at the length of the club this seems to be a low iron (5 or something?), which is a lot more difficult to hit than an 7 or 8. Start with the easy irons (7-8-9-PW) and move up as you advance * First part of your backswing looks good, however as soon as your club gets higher than 90 degrees, you start bending your left arm. Try to keep a straight left arm in the backswing. * You seem to only turn a little more than 45 degrees with your upper body? Try to make a full 90 degree turn and keep that left arm straight. * You overswing a bit, but I do that too. It makes it harder to get back to a good impact position, some people (like me) have few problems with that, others have severe troubles doing this. * This is a major problem: During the backswing you are moving your body behind your ball, you can see this very clearly looking at your head. Your body should stay in the same position, the axis in your back does the turning, you should not strafe to the right. Because of this fault you can never bring the club back in the same position so it gets impossible to get a clean contact unless you start compensating. To prevent this, try to turn around your axis, you can feel how this works by doing this without a club in your hand. You should feel how your hips are actually turning towards the target. What you do is sliding your hips away from the target. Look at this picture (https://www.jamesparkergolf.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/20130311_083948_Struve_0138.jpg), here you can see how his hips are turned (not slided!) towards the target, this means he turned around his spine axis. From this point, he can start turning the hips again and bring the club back to a perfect impact position. * You might be a bit too upright, making it harder to get a good contact, resulting in topped or fat shots. Try to bend a little more through your knees.

Been analyzing a bit and it does seem that when distance is nog 100% but like 80-90% I do seem to hit it just a fraction fat I think. It's really millimeters but I guess with these kind of conditions even a millimeter causes distance loss. So I started looking why I'm hitting a bit fat, for me it could be a little to steep swing and the ball being a fraction foward in my stance. So will be working on that in the next couple of sessions.

Oh yes, this time of year where fairways are wet, muddy and you ball goes actually into the fairway and doesn't roll an inch anymore. Your feet are sinking away in the grass as you walk towards your ball and you can just feel the water splashing everywhere. Now, on these kind of fairways I am struggling A LOT to hit decent shots... With my irons I cant seem to have any normal distance. To me it feels like these soft fairways are absorbing all of the power and energy I try to give to the ball. I feel like there is no compression whatsoever possible. I lose 1-2 clubs in distance in these conditions (combined with little colder and windy). Is this normal? How do you play your shots under these conditions?

One day you nail it. Everything goes how you want it, you hit straight on target, further than you normally do. Every putt falls, every approach goes where you want it. And the next day you can't hit a ball anymore. Everything is fat or thin or sliced or hooked or hasn't got any distance. Yeah, welcome to golf :)

Give any object or club to someone who doesn't play golf, put them in the backswing position, now ask them to simulate how they would do the downswing to hit a golfball. 90% of those people will come (slightly) over the top, allmost no-one will have a swingplane where the club is coming behind and in->out. Now, because this over the top movement feels so naturally it is very easy to keep doing that in actual golf, and very hard to do the swing in->out. Together with the open clubface (loose grip or not closing the clubface on impact) this causes left->right slices (for right handed). The closed clubface is for many players easy to fix, a lot easier than the over the top swing.

Hi guys I have been golfing for 2 years now and something keeps bothering me. Why can't I seem to reach my distance on some days? Most days I'm comfortably reaching my distance, some days you just nail it and some days you aren't even getting close... Why is that? Why are you feeling like taking good shots and still being 10 yard short of what you normally play? It's not just wind or temperature, it's just not hitting at 100% I think, maybe a little bit tired or not focused on crushing the ball? Is it normal that some days you just don't play at 100% or is it something I should work on? I want to perform good, but I also need to accept that I'm only human. I can't play every shot 100% like I want to I guess?

Today was one of those days where I couldn't get my distance. I lost 5-10 yards with every club... strange.

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You're not the first person to think that's a weird way to play 30-50 yards, but for me it's a smart choice. My chips are pretty good and I go as low as a 7-iron if I want a huge roll. I prefer bump&run; to lob shots but that's just my feeling.

Yes, why not? :)

It very depends on the lie. Nothing in my way: a chip/pitch & roll with 9-8 iron, a bunker or water in front of the ball: sand wedge short grip and calm swing.

Hi there! The issue: pulling left with irons. The good: My ball goes dead straight. The question: as I am hitting 90% straight shots I have no issues squaring the club face. However to compensate my pull I am now lining up to the right of target. Alignment and pull neutralize eachother et voila: a good shot. Should I work on fixing the pull or is it okay to keep doing what I'm doing? Remarks: Sometimes my divot is going dead straight to where I'm aligned to and still my ball pulls. What is happening? Am I closing the club face too much or...? Also when I focus very ahrd on swinging in->out to prevent the pull, sometimes I still pull, so I'm a bit confused what may be causing my pull. How bad it is: Sometimes it's just a slight pull (110 yard shot: a few yards left), but some days/shots it does happen to be a bigger problem (10-15 yards left). Sometimes the ball draws, rarely it's a nasty hook. Sometimes I don't pull... :) Any advice is welcome.