Hitting the Ball Low – How to Hit Low Penetrating Golf Shots

I can rarely think of a time where I have played a perfectly windless day of golf. I treasure those days because they don’t come around too often.

But more often than not, I find myself needing to hit the ball low to keep it under the wind. But it’s not just when it’s windy that I pull out this shot. The lower you hit the ball, the easier it is to control in general, so when I need to be very accurate and don’t have any trouble in front of the green that I must clear, I will hit this boring, penetrating ball flight.

It will release a bit when it hits the green, but not a ton because it will have a fair amount of spin control because I still hit the shot at full speed with my body — it’s just my arm swing that becomes restricted. If you need the ball to release more, you will want to hit it a bit easier with more club to take some of the spin off.

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Take a look at the two pictures below. The one on the left is a screen shot from the “Hitting the Ball High” video and the one on the right is from the “Hitting the Ball Low” video.

There are two important observations to be made here. First, is the launch angle. While I hit both these 6 irons the same distance, there is a significant difference in launch angles, with the one on the right coming out much lower.

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