Martin Hall on Hitting Your Irons Higher (Video)

This could be a useful video for many of you. This is Martin's Extra Credit video from last week on how to hit your irons higher. It focuses, of course, on mid-irons because short irons usually have enough loft for anybody to get height on those shots.

Note that Martin says the first factor you ought to do is consider a hybrid. While Martin mentions this in reference to mid-irons like your four- and 5-irons, it's miles viable to get hybrids for a number of your shorter irons as well. But if you're having problems getting height along with your short irons, it's likely because of your approach.

Note additionally that Martin is absolutely talking approximately photographs off the turf. If the ball is on a tee, it's pretty easy to hit up on it and get as a lot height as you want, so endure in thoughts that these tips are to help you hit the ball off the turf.

And Martin has guidelines to help enhance your method.

• Make certain you are looking behind the ball. Martin indicates setting the ball so the clubface will contact the emblem.

Don't underestimate the power of this tip alone. Just as you tend to steer your car in the direction you're looking -- which is why you don't want to rubberneck at accidents -- you'll tend to hit the ball on the spot where you're focused. If you're looking at the back of the ball, you'll tend to stay more behind the ball, which means the face of the club should contact the back of the ball, and that should help you get the full loft of the club into play.

• Practice swinging your trailing shoulder under your chin with the intention to touch the ball in addition forward to your swing. That have to additionally assist you get more of the entire loft of the club into play.

Martin's "swing under your lead arm" drill is intended to help you get the feel of this move. If you don't have someone to help you with this -- as Martin does with Blair in the video -- you may be able to use your driver or a chair as a hand rest for your lead hand.

An thrilling aspect of this drill is that -- as many useful drills do -- it enables your footwork so that you shift your weight in your lead foot, and that facilitates you get a fuller finish together with your shoulders.

Hitting the ball better increases the threat that you may hit behind the ball, so you'll want to practice this shot. But this isn't a shot wherein you attempt to swing from your footwear. As long as you try to stay relaxed whilst you swing, you ought to be capable of get excellent contact -- and some quite suitable peak -- together with your mid-irons.

And if you make a decision to apply hybrids, it must assist you hit them more crisply as properly.