Jose Maria Olazabal is a true legend of European golf winning two major championships playing in countless Ryder Cups forming a fantastic partnership with Seve Ballesteros but also captaining the side to win at the Miracle of Medinah. But if you’re all looking to pick a tip from the technical aspects of his game you need to look at his iron play because he’s regarded by many to be the one of the best ball strikers with a iron of any golfer to have pick up a club.

And the way he actually does that is to create fantastic impact positions and fantastic compression down onto the golf ball. Now to do this he manages to get into impact with his irons his left arm ahead of the ball, left hand ahead of the ball with his shaft leaning ahead.

The right hand to be pressing forwards and then to hit the ball faster than the turf whilst maintaining those angles. And because he does that the actual compression and the sound he makes when he hits it is unlike something that many people would have heard before. So to practice this you can just get into that drill position, of getting the hands ahead the left arm straight with the shaft, the right arm pressing ahead almost forming the K shape, reversed K with the shaft and the right arm. Focusing on that position and then trying to repeat it through impact and if you can get there the strike will be a lot purer. So give that a go have a look at Jose swing when hitting the irons and try take them into your next game.