IRON COMPRESSION Maintain the connection
between your body and the towel, you might rip the fabric as you swing. The second drill helps teach you to not just throw your hands and arms at the ball from the top of the swing, a common mistake. Grab a filled water bottle and mimic a downswing starting from the top. The goal is to get the water to spill out as late as possible, with some of it even dumping out in front of where your ball would have been (below, right). To release the water (“energy”) later in the downswing, your body and arms have to rotate together through impact. Then the energy can be released to deliver a powerful strike.
Amateurs hit the ball all over the face with their irons because they disconnect the movements of their arms and body during the swing, which causes the club to bottom out before the ball or reach it on a steep, glancing path – or both ( below, left ). The goal is to get the body and arms working together and for the low point in the swing to come after you strike the ball. I’ve got two drills that can help. The first is to wrap a towel behind your back and under your arms ( above ) and hit three-quarter iron shots. The towel prompts you to keep the connection between your arms and body as you swing back and down. It should feel like there is so much tension
78 GOLF DIGEST SOUTH AFRICA
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2025
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