Position Club Shaft To Lean In The Target Direction For Solid Iron Shots - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler
Position Club Shaft To Lean In The Target Direction For Solid Iron Shots - Senior Golf Tip (Video) - by Dean Butler

We’ll talk about Shaft Lean and what exactly Shaft Lean is. I’m sure a lot of senior golfers it’s most pretty well down their list of thinking about what to do to improve their golf, but Shaft Lean is very important. So let’s get some nitty-gritty about what is it. The Shaft Lean is when the clip comes back into the ball and it’s ahead, so the hands are ahead and we’ve got this sort of a lean with a shaft, you can see the shaft bending slightly forward. So if you come in to the impact area and you come in and the club is like this, so your hands are well forward, then there’s a lot of Shaft Lean there, then what would tend to happen that would tend to say two things. The first thing is that your swing is tending to be slightly on the steep plane, so your hands are well forward. And that would tend to drive the ball much lower, because you’re actually delofting the club impact, because your hands are well forward, you’ve got the shaft bending in this sort of position. If you’re coming to the ball and you find out that you’re like this where the Shaft Lean is coming back, but the tendency will be of course to do the opposite is to actually hit up, so Shaft Lean is very, very important. How we get into the correct Shaft Lean position is all again very, very important and the keyword is set up.

So, if I set myself up here with a five-iron ball position slightly inside from the left heel, put the club behind the ball and hands on – you can see my hands are slightly forward of the club face and then from this position here, we’ve got to try and put that club back and return it in the same position. So that shaft is nicely positioned pointing down to the ground there where I started and that’s the position you want to be. If you get yourself into this position here it’s because you come in too steep where the weight is normally moving ahead and that would close the club face and punch the ball very, very low. And then the opposite would be said for hitting the ball off the back foot that way the shaft would be now leaning the opposite way backwards, the curve coming this way and that will loft. So Shaft Lean is very, very important. It’s more put enough to the top of my list to teaching seniors, but at least you know what is the correct Shaft Lean and what isn’t. 2013-12-11

We’ll talk about Shaft Lean and what exactly Shaft Lean is. I’m sure a lot of senior golfers it’s most pretty well down their list of thinking about what to do to improve their golf, but Shaft Lean is very important. So let’s get some nitty-gritty about what is it. The Shaft Lean is when the clip comes back into the ball and it’s ahead, so the hands are ahead and we’ve got this sort of a lean with a shaft, you can see the shaft bending slightly forward. So if you come in to the impact area and you come in and the club is like this, so your hands are well forward, then there’s a lot of Shaft Lean there, then what would tend to happen that would tend to say two things. The first thing is that your swing is tending to be slightly on the steep plane, so your hands are well forward. And that would tend to drive the ball much lower, because you’re actually delofting the club impact, because your hands are well forward, you’ve got the shaft bending in this sort of position. If you’re coming to the ball and you find out that you’re like this where the Shaft Lean is coming back, but the tendency will be of course to do the opposite is to actually hit up, so Shaft Lean is very, very important. How we get into the correct Shaft Lean position is all again very, very important and the keyword is set up.

So, if I set myself up here with a five-iron ball position slightly inside from the left heel, put the club behind the ball and hands on – you can see my hands are slightly forward of the club face and then from this position here, we’ve got to try and put that club back and return it in the same position. So that shaft is nicely positioned pointing down to the ground there where I started and that’s the position you want to be. If you get yourself into this position here it’s because you come in too steep where the weight is normally moving ahead and that would close the club face and punch the ball very, very low. And then the opposite would be said for hitting the ball off the back foot that way the shaft would be now leaning the opposite way backwards, the curve coming this way and that will loft. So Shaft Lean is very, very important. It’s more put enough to the top of my list to teaching seniors, but at least you know what is the correct Shaft Lean and what isn’t.