What Should My Golf Divots Look Like With A Short Iron? (Video) - by Peter Finch
What Should My Golf Divots Look Like With A Short Iron? (Video) - by Peter Finch

What should my Golf Divots look like with a short iron? Now if you are striking the ball consistently well and you are getting a consistent ball flight you will have a descending blow unto the ball with your short irons. Now descending blow simply means that the arc of your swing is hitting the ball and then bottoming out just afterwards. Now what this means is the club will dip below the level of the ground only by a centimeter or two but it will take a nice shallow divot. Now the way to achieve a nice shallow divot, it only needs to be about the size of a dollar bill or a 10 pound note just something quite thin and about that size, you don’t need to be heaving up mounds of earth. Now the best way to achieve that is during the down swing to ensure that the hands return to impact just ahead of the ball, pretty much opposite the left side is a very good guide with the short irons. As the irons get longer the ball moves a little bit further forward you still need to be taking a divot, but it becomes almost not less important but a little bit more difficult you can have a little bit more of a sweeping action. So with the short irons you need to ensure that the ball position is correct, so here with my seven just forward center, my hands set ahead of the ball, it’s a address and as I come into impact I want my hands just ahead of the ball again. And that should produce a nice downward strike – and a nice crisp divot.

A mistake that people often make when they are using their short irons is they tend to dig down very, very aggressively. And what happens then is you will hit the ball, but then you also take up a lot of earth. Now with a nice divot it only will be a couple of centimeters deep and like I said about a size of a dollar bill. If you hit the ground and you are curving out great chunks of earth then your angle of attack is to steep, you will have inconsistent striking and also inconsistent ball flights as well. So if you are looking to take the perfect divot after you have hit the short go collect it and if it's about two inches deep, two inches thick and about the size of a dollar bill then you’ve got to – doing actually a very good job. But when you are striking your short irons make sure hits the ball first then a little bit of the tuff and don’t go digging up half the fairway, it won't put you in good step with your local green keeper. 2014-08-18

What should my Golf Divots look like with a short iron? Now if you are striking the ball consistently well and you are getting a consistent ball flight you will have a descending blow unto the ball with your short irons. Now descending blow simply means that the arc of your swing is hitting the ball and then bottoming out just afterwards. Now what this means is the club will dip below the level of the ground only by a centimeter or two but it will take a nice shallow divot. Now the way to achieve a nice shallow divot, it only needs to be about the size of a dollar bill or a 10 pound note just something quite thin and about that size, you don’t need to be heaving up mounds of earth. Now the best way to achieve that is during the down swing to ensure that the hands return to impact just ahead of the ball, pretty much opposite the left side is a very good guide with the short irons. As the irons get longer the ball moves a little bit further forward you still need to be taking a divot, but it becomes almost not less important but a little bit more difficult you can have a little bit more of a sweeping action. So with the short irons you need to ensure that the ball position is correct, so here with my seven just forward center, my hands set ahead of the ball, it’s a address and as I come into impact I want my hands just ahead of the ball again. And that should produce a nice downward strike – and a nice crisp divot.

A mistake that people often make when they are using their short irons is they tend to dig down very, very aggressively. And what happens then is you will hit the ball, but then you also take up a lot of earth. Now with a nice divot it only will be a couple of centimeters deep and like I said about a size of a dollar bill. If you hit the ground and you are curving out great chunks of earth then your angle of attack is to steep, you will have inconsistent striking and also inconsistent ball flights as well. So if you are looking to take the perfect divot after you have hit the short go collect it and if it's about two inches deep, two inches thick and about the size of a dollar bill then you’ve got to – doing actually a very good job. But when you are striking your short irons make sure hits the ball first then a little bit of the tuff and don’t go digging up half the fairway, it won't put you in good step with your local green keeper.