DRIVER SWING VS IRON SWING - THE DIFFERENCE | ME AND MY GOLF

Should there be a

difference

between your

driver

and your

iron

swing

? We get asked this all the time and in today's video we are going to explain that yes, we do it. Hello, we are your coaches, partners and Andy on behalf of me and my

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s and make sure you hit that subscribe button and notification bell now, Andy, look, I think it's important to understand what we're trying to do with the

driver

, obviously we want to hit the

golf

ball very far, many times. speed we want to be relatively straight, but to do this to get the speed and distance that we generally want to achieve with the golf ball, right?

Obviously we're going to talk about the setup first, but it's mainly about the

swing

, but first let's get to the setup. Well, look, hopefully now that you've seen enough of our videos, you know the simple things we like to see with setup. Yes, we want the ball position to be further forward, roughly around the leader. Heel, a nice wide stance, a little bit of lean in the spine to make sure we're behind the golf ball and from here we want the weight to be about 50 50, potentially even favoring the trail side, now in terms of the swing, there are definitely some. key things we want to do with the driver and as Pierce mentioned, speed is very important in today's game.

Look, what Bryson is doing recently is incredible, so we want to get the golf ball as low as possible so we can. We're going to look at the backswing and first of all, we're going to go see a good golf ball driver and see what he does. Rory Mcilroy, probably the best golf ball driver in the game right now. but let's take a look at your backswing, we'll notice that as you swing back you have this beautiful rope, this great body rotation, but let's look at your lead shoulder travel, your lead shoulder actually moves back behind the golf ball over your trail knee, this really helps you load the weight not just on the leg and really sets you up and sets you up for a good downswing, but it gets you behind the golf ball, which we know will help you hit on the way up.

It's very difficult to actually hit from where he is, it's difficult, so if we can get a better load on the backswing and move a little better to the right leg, he will help us do this, so explain it again. I'll show you what we mean, so obviously there's a good setup here, ready to go, but this lead shoulder just pay attention to this, if I do a nice rotation here and put this lead shoulder back over the trail leg, this really Now it helps me feel. the pressure on this leg but it also puts me behind the golf ball if I swing back I can still turn but if I keep my shoulder forward on the lead leg from here I'm going to hit it down, I'm going to hit it too soon and potentially hit it to the right, so leaning on the leg with the driver is definitely a great thing to do, so here's a great exercise you can do now, if you have a support bag, you can do it in the area position practice.

Place it in front of you and place the driver or club in line with his, say, trail side. Here now I'm going to use Pierce because he's got a golf club in his hand ready to go get a bag or a Pierce, so all we're going to do here is punch to get the golf club in line with my, let's say, right knee or right leg, well, my whole focus is going to be now that I can see this, obviously, I'm going to feel like I have my left shoulder back, this is going to encourage me to turn the key, which we don't want, I don't want to swing like that, this is not good, I want to make sure I'm rotating the top. body up and back, there I can feel the pressure on this leg now and I'm ready to go, maybe it's not as good as it looks rory, yeah we're not saying you're going to swing like roy doing this but it's definitely a key component that does it well, so Pierce will stay there.

All I'm going to do is see if I can get this main shoulder back behind it. Pretty decent. Look at Rory McIlroy. Look at that thing with Miles Pierce on it. that's the backswing andy, how about the downswing? Now we have something for the downswing, definitely the downswing, so we are ready to go, we have loaded in this follow-through leg and the best players in the world we talk a lot about pressure and how we use the ground, they quickly get the pressure of the follow-through leg into this forward leg, so they go to the top, load the leg and quickly transfer from right to left, get the pressure on this leg.

Now, what happens differently with the iron is that because we have a wide stance here because we have these kind of feet extended like this as we push this leg into the downswing, this actually has a push back, the ground pushes us forward. back now and actually potentially putting your upper body behind you. the hips, this again helps create more of a lower arch that's before the golf ball, but using the ground in this way really helps us explode. Someone like Justin Thomas does this extremely well, he really uses the ground extremely well. to create some power and justin is someone who's pretty light you know he's worked hard now in the gym but he hits the ball a mile because he uses the ground so well exactly a really good exercise you can do with this and this In fact. helps the backswing also the backswing allows the front heel to lift slightly and the first movement now will be to hit that against the ground hit that against the ground here that really helps us use the ground this helps us then push forward back a very subtle movement, drill, but if you really get the feel of this, it will really wake up your legs and give you a little bit of extra power, okay, so okay, it was a little bit, it was just semi delicate, that was drilled, That was, oh, that was good.

It was a good hit, it was a good one, okay, let's get this left foot going now, I'm going to combine the two on this one, drill a little further to the left that time, but again, a really good hit, yeah, it was strong. like me. I'm really into speed on this, which is the key. Well, okay, now let's talk about the straight swing. Okay, so what are we looking for in the straight swing? Well, no? they have speed, you see more of the long drivers that do a lot of this, they get a lot of, let's say, clubface rotation now, obviously, we don't want too excessive, long drivers are an exception, but certainly in many of the best players of the world.

In the world we see more of an active shot where the club or the toe of the club actually passes the heel here because we're actually creating more speed and more energy. We just see more of this pitch now if you're a golf ball slicer, this is a fantastic drill, also because it makes the clubface work a little better. It's a great exercise you can do for this and this is where we see a lot of the best players in the world again, Tiger Rory and Jordan Spieth. everyone gets to this position as I swing past the golf ball.

Yes, we want to encourage the toe to go over the heel, but we will see that when the club is parallel to the ground we will see the end of the club facing the ground. more toward the target, so to get there we have to have this face closure, obviously they continue from there, but as the club gets parallel to the ground, the back of the club points down and you can just do a little bit . slow smooth swings where you feel like you're getting here you can even make shots doing that like you feel like you're getting there and stop sticking the butt of the club down there the slicer is perfect it's really good for a portion of this perfect And what really me What's also nice is that when you focus on something here that's at the end of your swing, it often helps you with what's happening before, so yeah, let's see how you bomb one.

I see one many times a bit. a little bit okay, I think so, I think so, especially if we're working on this kind of butt laser finish, so I'm going to put all these three together, now drill, there you go, you like it on the left side, it's a Good job, you're aiming right because that's still very good, well, it's pushing me behind the golf ball, giving me more time to square the clubface and again, like we've said, if you're a piece of the golf ball , it's actually difficult to cut it from these positions as well, so we went down to the street on the 14th, but I have a question for you and then it's for yourselves who see this.

Do you think you are better with irons or driving well? I think I would. I would say I'm better at they're better irons I would say I think so, I think so, I would say I don't know, they're not huge

difference

s, but there could be some when you look at it, so let us know what they are. You are the best with the irons or the driver, post your comments below, so let's go back to the t-shirt because we still have to decide if the iron and the driver are different. What was your intention in the tee shot?

The shirt is just to get it down here as much as I can. I'm not really thinking about hitting a certain number, I'm just trying to get it, I'm trying to get it to move as far as possible, okay and now. You are on the street, what is your intention now? I'm 161 to the flag. Now I have a specific number I need to reach it. Now my intention is totally different. I'm thinking about reaching a yard. I'm thinking about getting to a specific spot on the green, which now has a totally different intention and mindset for me.

I seek control. I'm really looking to see how I can control the distance a little more so that shapes it. what I do in my swing yeah so we can see right away now we have distance and now we have control and for control we want to hit down when we hit the iron so this is the main difference really when it comes of the iron, the driver there is definitely a more downward stroke than with the iron than with the driver, so let's start with the settings, what are we looking at in the settings and then we'll get into the change again just a couple of things in the setup we take a narrower stance because we don't hit it as hard we don't need to use our legs as the ball position will be a little further back we like to see it in This leading hill on the left side of the chest is a great guide somewhere around there.

Weight-wise, maybe it even favors the lead leg a little. This will help create this low point that we need to hit the ground beyond the golf. Okay on this one, so just a couple of simple things, we really don't want to create too much lean on this and I think that's pretty good as we need to be there, okay now in terms of the backswing, think about this with the driver. We wanted to be behind and really load this leg up to hit, we don't need that with the iron, so it's actually going to be more of a centered pivot, so we have this narrower stance that we now want in a way. rotate a little more centered and not shift as much pressure back, we don't want to load the leg as much, so we might feel like we only load the leg maybe 60 percent instead of 80 percent on the t, this is really another time.

It gives us less to do to go back to this advanced stage and actually touch the ground there, so if we can create this kind of feeling that we are focusing a little bit more, it will mean that we are going to get consistent contact with the ground and the ball. of golf, so here's a great thing: you can do your feet together, this is the first step, feet together, just do some swings, you really feel like you're turning here, you can make shots doing this, but from here now Really you're not going to move too much off the golf ball if you want to challenge yourself put your right foot back for support this is really going to challenge the lead leg and now you feel like you can turn and you're going to By doing this you'll see The leg will wobble a little, but it will be easy to achieve the hitting point you need.

This is what a constant blow is about down there. I mean, see if you have any sides. movement away from the golf ball will definitely give you a great workout, great, so I'm going to hit a shot now again with the same feeling, just a more centered shot, hopefully you'll notice the difference on this shot. get the ball followed by the grass, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful noise, beautiful noise, but you can use that drill because of the way Andy was doing it with the feet together or the split stance, you can actually hit golf balls doing that Also, that's absolutely fine. four feet away, drill that one, thought I'd tell you, I just heard the noise, it was okay, okay, next thing, again, the big difference now with the driver is that we have a narrower stance and we're not hitting upwards now. from the top of the backswing now what we want is to change thepressure still towards this forward leg, we shift the weight this way the pressure goes towards this leg but because the stance is narrower we are not going to have this push back, so The impact looks quite different now, the impact on Actually as we shift the weight and the pressure goes to this leg, we actually receive all the weight now on this front leg, so we're looking to place the left shoulder over the left hip over the left knee. and the ankle all lined up because that really helps us get this ground contact here, so that's a great thing to do just to rehearse how to get your setup from here shifting the weight, rotating the body, tilting the axis forward. and feel all the weight.

As we begin this stage, this is a rehearsal of where we should pass the golf ball. We can really get into this feeling of impact and then recreate it through the shot, well let's see how you do it then, so let's see if we can get that forward shoulder up there because this is a little bit harder for you, isn't it putting that shoulder forward completely over that hip laser at the moment of impact and probably feel in that you have to move a little more with your upper body I'm still looking at these piercings yeah, oh, that one is big, it was big, it's so strong, Andy Okay, what else do we have?

Well, next one. The really important thing is just to make sure we keep a balanced ending. Now you will notice that some of the drivers, let's say, the best in the world, or maybe some of the longest, certainly look at Phil Mickelson, he takes his shots normally and often goes off and the driver loses balance all over the place. . That is not the end of the world, not with the ground but with an iron. You will see that he is more controlled, he is even a little shorter, but he has much more control than him. he keeps the shot from him because again the mentality, the intention is totally different, so with an iron you will notice it in the first two shots that I hit.

I was there watching him. I'm maintaining that balance. I'm watching what's happening because I want to. to control that movement I'm doing this in itself just hitting your putt if your game goes off if your putt goes off just tell yourself how am I hitting my putt Can I really see that golf ball hit the ground while it's still on that ending that's what you're going to do now yeah, I'm going to do that now and you know what I like about this, it takes any kind of punch. I'm thinking beyond the golf ball and through it.

I can just flow through the golf ball here, so again all I'm going to do is the same thing. Keep that ending. Hold the finish until the ball hits the ground. So again you'll see the weight on the lead leg on that very well balanced one underneath. control on the green very nice it's easy easy play easy play not always so easy okay look there are some really good interesting points that will hopefully help you understand that the driver and the iron are very different. I hope you enjoyed it if you are ready now for our premium content, head over to me and mygolf.com.

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