Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about how to hit that high soft iron shot. You know a lot of times with these pins being tough and these greens being a bit tougher with a slope or forward touch you are going to find these iron shots are going to be a bit tougher and are going to go higher than normal sometimes. Let me show you how to do that very simply assume your normal set up and if I have a 6 iron here, and I'm going to assume my normal set up position and you see my spine is leaning just a touch of the right center.

Now watch what happens about add a little bit right side spine when I do that it tends to lay me back here it's going to help me to kind of catch the ball on the upswing launching the ball up in the air. So what we want to do is a higher than normal play your ball it's a little bit more forward leaning just back just a touch and make your normal golf swing and what you're going to find is that ball going to the launch up higher in the air it'll probably move a little left or right but you want to make sure that you play for that. So put the ball up in your stance just a little bit lean your spine back to the right just a little bit and I'll guarantee you to it the ball higher than normal.