Where Should You Have The Ball With Each Iron? – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer
Where Should You Have The Ball With Each Iron? – by PGA Pros Pete Styles & Matt Fryer

In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand the correct golf ball position for iron shots. Moving through your golf bag, each club should be positioned in a slightly different ball position. This will encourage a more accurate ball strike and ultimately an improvement to the golf shots that you hit with all of your iron shots, from the longest iron to the shortest iron in your bag.

As a golfer if we could ask one part of a game to be the best ever we'd probably suggest just one come if you want consistency throughout the bag. We want the same thing to happen every single time, and if we could stand and make the same swing that would be fine, but the golf course that is different question is we have a long shot short shots high shots. We have to use different clubs to achieve all these results and the difficulties we can see by nature are not all the same a like. So therefore we can't be entirely consistent and very possibly can stand the same play and as Matt's got here he's already got golf balls lined up. Are those 4 golf balls for each 4 clubs? Yes they are almost like my caddie master here and that word you touched on them Pete consistency. So if we consistently put the ball in the same spot with each club theoretically we should start to see that given that we swing in the same manner we should start to see more of a consistent strike and better shots from the 4 different ball positions for different clubs and yes which would you have. So I've got my lob wedge in as we know lob wedge working back up to 4 and we've got here in this demonstration we're going from something with most loft to least loft so what can I do go jump over onto this next camera as you can see here 4 different ball positions are going to start here with a lob wedge. To understood to pop a yellow line down here for us now, and what we going to talk about is where this ball's going and why it's going in that direction so that we see here lob wedge I'm starting with and as a rule of thumb I like to say that that lob wedge is slap bang in the center of my stance I've got a club with 58 degrees of loft on it and I don't need to help in the it's going up we can see from it's pointing straight up in the air. So once I create a strike where it is ball and turf there's already enough loft on there to get it up in the air from there if I were to swap into the 9 thank you.

Get in body position the same here now ball goes a little bit further away from because the clubs got longer as you alluded to before and I just have it fractionally if I move this one away I just have it fractionally in front of this yellow line. Now almost just the back edge of the ball just resting on it there is we go through again little less loft on this one still quite a lot about 42 degrees on 9 iron I think it is. So I can still create a strike white ball and turf and see that it's going to get up in the air from there. So that ball just in front of center there. If we're to move that one out and bring in the 7 now thank you what we're starting to see now the pattern is the ball's moving a little bit forward. So we've got the yellow line here again and we can see the ball's actually in front there now about an inch or so in front of center I'd say and once I've made my good swing weight transfer ball than turf still going to be able to get it up in the air, but it's going down in the loft at the minute. They are minimal changes are they it's not wholesale massive changes in it. Yeah it's half a half an inch per club wouldn't you say. Yeah exactly and you know your rule of thumb the half an inch I would say per club as we get into the 4 iron now not a lot a loft on these especially with modern day clubs you know it's almost like a 2 iron now a days. Some of the 4 irons so we want something where we're actually on the edges it's a little bit more almost closest to the top part of our swing we're still going to hit down on it. Still want a little bit of a divot, but we're not at the point where it's a lob wedge with 58 degrees we've only got about 20 degrees so it's going to be a bit of a shallower part of the golf swing. I like to say getting close to the point where we're exiting and getting a little bit more into the top of the swing again. So a 4 iron in a position of a lob wedge would be to low. I would yeah struggle to get it up in the ground off the just being a very very flat flight and a lot of weight in the position of the 4 iron would be about striking in a rough.

It maybe thin or fat or something yeah very very high so there's not much change between each club, but if we put back in the 4 iron and the lob wedge. We can see that over the course of the movement the 4 iron is more to the front the lob wedge will be more to the middle. Yeah so over the course of the full set of clubs be an 8 iron and you've got 4 inches to those moves, and then going into the woods it keeps progressing. Definitely so there you can see on that spectrum that it's not quite inside my left heel yet with it as I get into my hybrids and my fairway woods and finish on my driver. Could be seeing it's right on the left heel those we get into those you sway I've remembered to put all this together for my client is long and left obviously as a right handed golfer. Good saying long clubs go left so short irons in the middle as Matt pointed out there have the pitching wedge and the lob wedge in the center of the stance. Longer clubs go left as a right handed golfer are going to finish more towards your left side. Try to set something up like Matt did there where you draw a line on the ground you can you see the shaft on the ground between your feet and practice and then move your body in accordance to that line to get your full position right. Try a little experiment move the ball back so the ball would be lower forwards to see what ball would be like to be higher, but maybe the strike won't be quite so good you can get the correct ball position with your irons and it can be consistent. Hopefully your game will improve and also it will be consistent.

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In this video tip PGA golf professionals Pete Styles and Matt Fryer will help you understand the correct golf ball position for iron shots. Moving through your golf bag, each club should be positioned in a slightly different ball position. This will encourage a more accurate ball strike and ultimately an improvement to the golf shots that you hit with all of your iron shots, from the longest iron to the shortest iron in your bag.

As a golfer if we could ask one part of a game to be the best ever we'd probably suggest just one come if you want consistency throughout the bag. We want the same thing to happen every single time, and if we could stand and make the same swing that would be fine, but the golf course that is different question is we have a long shot short shots high shots. We have to use different clubs to achieve all these results and the difficulties we can see by nature are not all the same a like. So therefore we can't be entirely consistent and very possibly can stand the same play and as Matt's got here he's already got golf balls lined up. Are those 4 golf balls for each 4 clubs? Yes they are almost like my caddie master here and that word you touched on them Pete consistency. So if we consistently put the ball in the same spot with each club theoretically we should start to see that given that we swing in the same manner we should start to see more of a consistent strike and better shots from the 4 different ball positions for different clubs and yes which would you have. So I've got my lob wedge in as we know lob wedge working back up to 4 and we've got here in this demonstration we're going from something with most loft to least loft so what can I do go jump over onto this next camera as you can see here 4 different ball positions are going to start here with a lob wedge. To understood to pop a yellow line down here for us now, and what we going to talk about is where this ball's going and why it's going in that direction so that we see here lob wedge I'm starting with and as a rule of thumb I like to say that that lob wedge is slap bang in the center of my stance I've got a club with 58 degrees of loft on it and I don't need to help in the it's going up we can see from it's pointing straight up in the air. So once I create a strike where it is ball and turf there's already enough loft on there to get it up in the air from there if I were to swap into the 9 thank you.

Get in body position the same here now ball goes a little bit further away from because the clubs got longer as you alluded to before and I just have it fractionally if I move this one away I just have it fractionally in front of this yellow line. Now almost just the back edge of the ball just resting on it there is we go through again little less loft on this one still quite a lot about 42 degrees on 9 iron I think it is. So I can still create a strike white ball and turf and see that it's going to get up in the air from there. So that ball just in front of center there. If we're to move that one out and bring in the 7 now thank you what we're starting to see now the pattern is the ball's moving a little bit forward. So we've got the yellow line here again and we can see the ball's actually in front there now about an inch or so in front of center I'd say and once I've made my good swing weight transfer ball than turf still going to be able to get it up in the air, but it's going down in the loft at the minute. They are minimal changes are they it's not wholesale massive changes in it. Yeah it's half a half an inch per club wouldn't you say. Yeah exactly and you know your rule of thumb the half an inch I would say per club as we get into the 4 iron now not a lot a loft on these especially with modern day clubs you know it's almost like a 2 iron now a days. Some of the 4 irons so we want something where we're actually on the edges it's a little bit more almost closest to the top part of our swing we're still going to hit down on it. Still want a little bit of a divot, but we're not at the point where it's a lob wedge with 58 degrees we've only got about 20 degrees so it's going to be a bit of a shallower part of the golf swing. I like to say getting close to the point where we're exiting and getting a little bit more into the top of the swing again. So a 4 iron in a position of a lob wedge would be to low. I would yeah struggle to get it up in the ground off the just being a very very flat flight and a lot of weight in the position of the 4 iron would be about striking in a rough.

It maybe thin or fat or something yeah very very high so there's not much change between each club, but if we put back in the 4 iron and the lob wedge. We can see that over the course of the movement the 4 iron is more to the front the lob wedge will be more to the middle. Yeah so over the course of the full set of clubs be an 8 iron and you've got 4 inches to those moves, and then going into the woods it keeps progressing. Definitely so there you can see on that spectrum that it's not quite inside my left heel yet with it as I get into my hybrids and my fairway woods and finish on my driver. Could be seeing it's right on the left heel those we get into those you sway I've remembered to put all this together for my client is long and left obviously as a right handed golfer. Good saying long clubs go left so short irons in the middle as Matt pointed out there have the pitching wedge and the lob wedge in the center of the stance. Longer clubs go left as a right handed golfer are going to finish more towards your left side. Try to set something up like Matt did there where you draw a line on the ground you can you see the shaft on the ground between your feet and practice and then move your body in accordance to that line to get your full position right. Try a little experiment move the ball back so the ball would be lower forwards to see what ball would be like to be higher, but maybe the strike won't be quite so good you can get the correct ball position with your irons and it can be consistent. Hopefully your game will improve and also it will be consistent.