Hi everyone! Really hope this video helps you with your own golf swing, to compress your irons, to improve your Stirke and have some fun when practising your golf!
You have a real genius in pin pointing a specific point and nailing it. The series you were doing with beginner golfers was great. Would love to see more of that. If the girls are too busy dancing I would be a willing guinea pig.
That looks like great fun on driving range. Especially if it makes you feel the same on the course. “Light-footed” so to speak. Great lesson Iona, thank you!
GRF Golf (Marcus Bell) uses this type of exercises quite a lot. You might enjoy having a chat with him and his philosophy. Please keep posting, it's such a joy, interesting and helpful
I cant wait to try this! I reflect upon my golf efforts when I'm not on the course and I always say I'm gonna stop trying to hit hard and just find the right rhythm and let the club do the work. I really have a hard time with the weight transfer and so often just swing with my arms. And then I just try to swing harder. And the more relaxed swing always yields a better outcome. I'm really looking forward to practicing with this drill so I can start to grasp the weight transfer! Thank you, Iona!
I tried this drill today and it's really a miracle, although I didn't have time to get it right with the driver, but after couple of missed shots I've hit several perfect ones with 7 iron, and it felt so good, I guess that's what compression feels like - almost effortless swing and pure contact :) Thanks!
This is a great drill and helps with rhythm as well as feeling you can compress the ball. I was listening to Classic FM on Saturday night and surprised and pleased to hear the lyric voice of Iona Stephens. I loved it! A renaissance woman!
Thanks for this video. I found the one on breathing very useful and it has helped me get out of a blip in my performance. So will also give this drill a go too 👍
This is freaky. I was just doing this drill this morning (waiting for my bathroom delivery) albeit in shadow format, thinking when I go down the range this evening to do just this as my strike/compression/launch has been poor. Especially yesterday when I nearly launched my clubs down the range!! Thanks Iona, keep the excellent coming!
I've had the same thought of playing like this, it's amazing how well it works - whatever it is that the drill makes you do (correct weight transfer, or is it tempo?) it's hard to replicate it completely when you go back to your normal address - I try to think of the same tempo you get with the drill but it just seems harder from a normal setup whereas it seems to happen naturally when doing the drill.
This is a great drill. The core idea is that it gets you moving into the shot, transferring the weight/pressure properly to the front leg. But I think the equally important move it helps you to feel is creating separation between the lower and upper body, as when you step forward with the lower body, the club and upper body are still turning back.
Shorter 'sharper' vid format are great - please do more. The 12mins+ vids from other golf content folks are (I assume) feeding the YT algorithm but are full of general chat and 'bloated content' you end up searching for the take-aways and they often get lost. Thanks
Great drill 👍. One thing though no one seems to discuss tee height for a driver. My friends and I use the pink or orange castle tees but we don’t really know if they offer the right height for a driver? A quick video on this would be really helpful. Keep up the brilliant videos.
Great vlog as usual !! Some info…Mike Hendry {nz} 🥝is playing this year’s Open ⛳️ on a health exemption, recovering from Leukaemia!! Would be a nice story to tell..
That's how I did it when I first started playing at around 14 years old. I couldn't hit it properly, at all, without taking a step up. I think it was because I played Shinty and that's how you hit the ball.
The timing of the step really highlighted the fault in my full swing I couldn't believe how early in your swing it should be it almost feels like the body gets in position early and you've got loads of time to swing the arms
Great explanation -- any reason why you not amongst the Skysports team this week at the PGA Championship -- you are far better than several of your colleagues -- have you left Sky??
I saw another golfer incorporate a similar technique, I believe his name is happy gilmore. Won a pretty big tournament if i remember correctly. All kidding aside, thanks for the great practice drill
Great video. I suppose the question is, "Are there any rules in golf to say you are not allowed to hit a golf ball by stepping in like that (i.e. Lucky Gilmore)?"
"Just stay out of my way, or you'll pay, listen to what I say" "Or we may eat some hay? Or make things out of clay?" My favourite Adam Chandler moment 😂
I don’t see any reason why you can’t incorporate it into to your shots I used to do this a lot but for some reason I don’t think about using it anymore. It certainly does work but like lots of things we don’t do when we should do,I’m going to have to put it back into my routine because it is so helpful
Tried this today and failed badly bar 1. I’m going to assume that is a measure of my problem shifting my weight so I’ll keep trying it. That said I hit my driver 30 yds (ave)further afterwards🎉
The best drill I ever tried for compression i.e ball then turf is to place a golf ball in a direct line behind the ball you are hitting with the correct clearance, this shows exactly how it is done ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wwm_6XkNkBU.html I think drills that physically force you to something are i.e practical drills are so much easier than listening to words then trying to do it.
