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There are a lot of misconceptions about how an iron should strike the ball, versus a wood. With today's technology – how modern driver heads are shaped and where the center of gravity is – you see golfers doing a little bit of everything.
Some tee the ball way up off the ground and others way down low, and they're all trying to do the same thing. They all want to get the maximum distance out of every club in the bag.
Fortunately, no matter what you've been doing, once you understand the fundamentals you can absolutely get more distance. Unless you've got every single factor perfectly optimized, there's always more distance to be gained, and of course most amateurs aren't even close to optimizing every single thing. Tools like an AI swing analyzer can help you identify exactly which factors are holding back your distance.
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Let's start off with the iron. The iron requires a slightly descending blow. Notice we say slightly.
A lot of golfers come down and hit the ball off their trail foot with lots of forward shaft lean and forward press. As they come down they're really just chopping down on it so they get an extremely steep divot.
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