Iron Play Tips

Improve your iron play with expert swing advice, ball-striking drills and setup tips designed to help you hit more accurate and consistent approach shots.

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8 Iron Play Tips For Difficult Situations

TIPS • 10 January 2021

8 Iron Play Tips For Difficult Situations

In this series of videos we provide a playlist from the archives of 8 tips focused on improving your iron play throughout the golf course.  Watch these simple tips when faced with the ball below your feet, uphill lie, long bunker shorts, playing long irons and playing from tight lies.

Ball Striking Series - 5 Tips For Better Iron Play

TIPS • 20 December 2020

Ball Striking Series - 5 Tips For Better Iron Play

In this series of videos focused on iron play and ball striking, Steve Astle, the head of coaching at the East Midlands Golf Academy introduces you to a video series on how to improve your ball striking on the course. Through simple set up changes, impact position analysis and overall grip of the club, Steve's insightful series will help to improve your ball striking ability.

How To Strike Your Irons Better

TIPS • 16 February 2023

How To Strike Your Irons Better

In this video PGA Pro Ryan Rastall talks through hitting your irons better.  Ryan offers some simple tips and the fundamentals to improve your set-up and basics of hitting better shots with your irons.

Control Drills Series #ConnectWithYourGame

TIPS • 30 May 2019

Control Drills Series #ConnectWithYourGame

In this series of tips PGA Professional and COBRA PUMA Ambassador Chris Cutchie provides a series of drills focused on control to help you CONNECT with your game.

Consistency Drills Series #ConnectWithYourGame

TIPS • 30 May 2019

Consistency Drills Series #ConnectWithYourGame

In this series of tips PGA Professional and COBRA PUMA Ambassador Chris Cutchie provides a series of drills focused on consistency to help you CONNECT with your game. 

Connect With Your Game - Iron Shots

TIPS • 5 April 2018

Connect With Your Game - Iron Shots

This part of Andy Carter's 'Connect With Your Game' series focuses on iron shots into greens, and how focusing on factors like club selection and landing areas can massively affect your putting statistics on the greens. 

Downswing and release drill for more consistent shots

TIPS • 19 October 2017

Downswing and release drill for more consistent shots

The downswing and release are two of the most important components of any golf swing, PGA professional Ryan Metcalfe gives you his best drill to improve your downswing and release for more consistent golf shots.

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 5: Posture & Balance

TIPS • 23 August 2017

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 5: Posture & Balance

Steve Astle rounds off his 5-part ball striking improvement series with his personal tips for great posture and balance throughout your golf swing. Combining all of the aspects previously discussed in the videos along with correct posture and balance will help successfully improve your overall ball striking abilities.

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 4: Shoulder Rotation

TIPS • 23 August 2017

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 4: Shoulder Rotation

Correct rotation is something many golf coaches speak a lot about, but many amateur golfers still fail to understand the concept properly. Steve Astle explains the correct way to rotate your shoulders and help improve your ball striking.

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 3: Right Shoulder

TIPS • 23 August 2017

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 3: Right Shoulder

Another key factor to help improve your ball striking revolves around the connection in your golf swing, focused predominantly on your right shoulder. The better this should works and more connected you stay during the swing, the more consistent and effective the strike of the ball will be.

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 1: Impact

TIPS • 23 August 2017

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Tip 1: Impact

Steve Astle, the Head of Instruction at the East Midlands Golf Academy analyses the impact position to help you improve your ball striking abilities when out on the golf course.

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Introduction

TIPS • 23 August 2017

Ball Striking Improvement Series - Introduction

The introductory video from Steve Astle's ball striking improvement series. Steve explains the tips and drills he will be referring to throughout the series to help you improve your ball striking. 

Course Strategy - Playing to a Tight Pin

TIPS • 4 August 2017

Course Strategy - Playing to a Tight Pin

The 'sucker pin' is a flag that is clearly dangerous and tight but ends up enticing you into playing a unnecessarily risky shot. James Reeson shows you his best way to approach this dangerous shot.

Course Strategy - Use the Knockdown Shot

TIPS • 4 August 2017

Course Strategy - Use the Knockdown Shot

Most amateur golfers will typically struggle to deal with the challenging shot of hitting into wind. James Reeson, a tour professional will give you his best tips of executing the 'knockdown' shot successfully.

Iron Play Tips - How to grip the club

TIPS • 16 May 2017

Iron Play Tips - How to grip the club

PGA Professional and TaylorMade Ambassador, Darren Parris explains how to correctly grip the golf club in order to hit long and straight iron shots.

Iron Play Tips - Improve your transition

TIPS • 16 May 2017

Iron Play Tips - Improve your transition

The transition from backswing to downswing is one of the important moves in golf. In this video Darren Parris, PGA Professional and TaylorMade Ambassador explains how you can improve your transition and hit longer and straighter shots as a result. 

Iron Play Tips - Swing path drill

TIPS • 16 May 2017

Iron Play Tips - Swing path drill

PGA Professional and TaylorMade ambassador, Darren Parris shares some simple drills that you can use down the range to help you hit longer and straighter irons. 

Iron Play Tips - The Set-up

TIPS • 16 May 2017

Iron Play Tips - The Set-up

PGA Professional, Darren Parris shares talks through how to correctly setup to the golf ball for iron play in order to achieve the most consistent results and hit the ball longer.

Ian Muir - How to Increase your swing speed drill

TIPS • 19 August 2016

Ian Muir - How to Increase your swing speed drill

Under Armour ambassador professional Ian Muir shares a drill  to help you improve the power in your your iron play. Try it down the range this winter and get ready for next season.

Effective Practice - Ball Striking Drill

TIPS • 16 May 2016

Effective Practice - Ball Striking Drill

Steve Astle of the East Midlands Golf Academy talks though a drill that you can use on the practice ground to help you improve your ball striking.

Effective Practice - Range Gate Drill

TIPS • 5 April 2016

Effective Practice - Range Gate Drill

Steve Astle of the East Midlands Golf Academy talks though a drill that will help improve your accuracy. The drill will give you feedback as to how you are aligning and the start line of your golf shots.

How to play long irons

TIPS • 10 January 2021

How to play long irons

Dean Halford, the Online Golf coach, talks through some simple tips when playing long iron shots.

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