Why do i chunk my irons

As your hips move too much side to side, this can often cause the club to hit the ground before the ball if you do not recenter yourself exactly the same amount. Also, when you stance is too wide, the potential locations the club has to hit the ground increases, which results in more inconsistent strikes. When you set your golf club on the ground behind your golf ball, it is important that you set it properly.

This can often look odd to golfers when it is correct, in particular for the more lofted clubs in your golf bag. The aiming line on a golf club is the leading edge and the more lofted the club the more crooked the top line may look.

Often golfers will not set the club properly on the ground as a compensation — they hit slices , for instance, so they set the club closed at setup. Other times, it may be because their clubs are poorly fit. The reason this is important is because the more twisted the clubface is at address, the more likely one side would dig into the ground at impact.

You will often get out of your forward swing what you put into your backswing. If your backswing is a straight line back that tends to go toward the sky and is just a lifted motion, all you will have is straight down, which tends to get stuck. It reminds me of the letter V. Straight back and up equals straight down and dig. It is important to understand that your backswing is circular in nature and will help to avoid this sharp digging motion. One of the most efficient ways that I have seen to achieve this is to keep your underarms relatively close to your body as you make your backswing.

This will help your upper body to rotate as it faces away from your target, creating a more shallow swing that will make it so much easier to brush the grass.

If when you set up you have an extreme forward press or shaft lean, this can easily take the club off of its bottom and have only the sharp corner of the leading edge contacting the ground, causing it to dig and get stuck. You want your divot to start in front of the line because this means you are hitting the ball first and the ground second. A divot that starts behind the ball will be a less effective strike and is most likely a chunked shot.

You also need to keep in min d that your weight must be almost totally on your front foot during the downswing section of this drill. This is the feeling we are striving to achieve with the second step. For the second step of the drill, you will approach the ball you have placed on the line with the line near the center of your stance.

Once you have both feet nearly together and you have brought your swing all the way back, step the front foot forward again to the regular front foot position while taking your normal swing down at the ball. The purpose of this is to shift your weight and momentum forward while you swing down at the ball.

It encourages a pure ball strike and a divot that occurs after the ball. This allows the clubhead to follow a, fairly, predictable path and, therefore, curing the issue. The head moving up and down changes the spine angle that you created at setup. Think of your entire motion as a pendulum. Think back to those old drills that you would see at a driving range that help you create the perfect pendulum motion. A pendulum has a fixed point at the top, sometimes referred to as the frictionless pivot.

This is the point that stays motionless while the rest of the pendulum swings back and forth. Your head is the fixed point in the entire movement. So, to bottom out at the correct spot, and not enter the grass too early, you must keep your center your head relatively fixed like in a pendulum.

A few good examples who move their head low on the way back is Paula Creamer and Lee Westwood. Your address position should look fairly similar to your impact position.

The tendency, for many players, is to either sway the head backward in the backswing , let it drop down, lift it up, or a combination of two or three of those things. Every extra movement will make it more difficult for you to return the club to a good position at impact. The less moving parts, the better. This is why flexibility and a solid gym routine can also help improve your game. A major reason that you feel the need to move your head is because you want to have more power behind our shots.

Most of the time, when you try to hit the ball harder, it actually goes shorter because you sacrifice centeredness of contact for speed. Instead, focus first on making an impact with the center of the clubface and, second, on speed.

The simple fix is to say, keep your head still throughout your backswing and downswing. Only after impact can you let your head move. Log into your account. Forgot your password? Password recovery. Recover your password. Get help. Approach your next golf shot with better preparation.