Improving Iron Shots: 5 Simple Tips for Novice Golfers

Achieving consistent iron shots is crucial for beginner golfers, and the tips below from the GolfPass archive will help you overcome the frustration of poor contact. Driven by the mounting agony of whiffs, chunks, and duffs, successfully hitting solid iron shots is the key to unleashing enjoyment and retaining the interest of beginners.

While there is no secret formula or trick to hitting solid iron shots repeatedly, GolfPass contains an abundance of helpful tips that can assist you. Here are five of the best iron tips for rookies.

1. Use a Consistent Alignment Routine

For beginners trying to improve their game, it all starts with perfect alignment. Bad alignment can lead to bad swing habits, and it's an essential skill to learn. To improve in this area and strike better iron shots, start with the fundamentals. Pick out a piece of teed-up grass or a divot five yards behind the ball that lines up with where you want to aim, then align your club face with it for a perfect shot.

Once you have aimed the clubface, an appropriate setup can be constructive in helping you achieve better, solid, and consistent contact at impact. Aimee Cho explains the importance of posture and holding the club for proper address while playing with mid irons in this tip.

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3. L-3-90 Swing Building Drill

Martin Hall teaches the L-3-90 drill to both first-time and expert players. This drill shortens your swing and targets the most critical element of the golf swing. Achieving solid contact is an essential ingredient for enjoying this game, and this drill can help you master it.

In Hall's Beginner series on GolfPass, he recommends starting with smaller swings before moving on to half swings, and then to full swings. (Tip starts at 1:27 if you've already seen Full Swing on Netflix)

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4. Lead Side Weight Drill

This tip from Martin Chuck is an absolute game-changer. Even if you don't possess the balance of a tightrope walker, you can still perform this drill as a beginner. Martin's technique will assist you in making clean contact with your irons and improving your experience on the course. As a bonus, if you evaluate his swings while executing the drill, you will notice that they closely mirror those of Hall's L-3-90 tip from earlier.

5. Drill for Improving Impact to Finish

Getting into the ideal impact position is a challenge even for lifelong golfers, so beginners are bound to face difficulties. However, that shouldn't stop you from striving for the best or practicing the sensation of a correct impact position. Debbie Doniger's iron tip for beginners is sure to be useful. It's a drill that can be done correctly by players at all levels of skill.

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For additional iron tips for beginners, take a look at our page containing a wealth of videos and tips for better iron play.

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