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    Accurate Iron Play: A RuthlessGolf.com Quick Guide
    Accurate Iron Play: A RuthlessGolf.com Quick Guide
    Accurate Iron Play: A RuthlessGolf.com Quick Guide
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    Accurate Iron Play: A RuthlessGolf.com Quick Guide

    By Mike Southern

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    Do you want to attack the pin and leave yourself shorter putts?

    Then "Accurate Iron Play" is the Quick Guide for you. It focuses on the approach shot—what makes it different from a drive for distance—and how it enables you to zero in on your target. It looks at the techniques that improve both distance control and accuracy with your irons:

    ** Understand the strategic choices involved in approach shots
    ** "Hold" your wrist cock during the downswing
    ** Avoid casting from the top
    ** Make a crisp downward strike on the ball that prevents flipping
    ** Learn to "dial in" distances with different irons
    ** Control your trajectory
    ** And more!

    "Accurate Iron Play" is noticeably longer than other Quick Guides simply because it covers so much material necessary to good iron play. However, the information is still presented in the most direct, condensed format possible so you don't waste time reading about golf when you can be playing instead. The first third of the guide focuses on the factors that affect your shot choices and the remainder of the book focuses on the techniques for actually making those shots.

    The techniques for making better approach shots aren't hard to learn, and it doesn't take endless hours on the range to gain an amazing amount of control. All you need is a clear understanding of why the ball behaves as it does and how to choose and use the best iron for the job.

    All you need is "Accurate Iron Play."

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherdefiantpub
    Release dateApr 1, 2012
    ISBN9781476285504
    Accurate Iron Play: A RuthlessGolf.com Quick Guide
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    Mike Southern

    Author of Ruthless Putting, a book on turning your existing putting stroke into a scoring machine, and editor of Classic Adventure Stories: Swashbucklers, a collection of classic sword-fighting novels. I've also done some writing for Golfsmith.com. I'm a writer, cartoonist, graphic artist & self-publisher who's played in a few local pro golf tournaments. The challenge of learning new things really appeals to me. And I don't believe age should ever keep you from chasing your dreams.

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      Accurate Iron Play - Mike Southern

      Introduction

      While everybody enjoys hitting the long ball, and while a long drive can set you up to score, it's usually the accuracy of your iron play that delivers a birdie on the hole.

      The techniques that give you distance with a driver are the same ones that give you distance with a fairway wood, a hybrid, or an iron. Of course, you don't use a tee from a lie in the fairway, so you don't catch the ball on the upswing as you do when you hit driver from the tee. But the other mechanics of your swing—the way you use your arms and legs—are the same.

      However, these mechanics are meant to give you maximum distance. The whole idea is to hit the ball as far as you can, right? You aren't trying to control the distance of a drive. You want every inch you can get!

      That all changes with your approach shot. You have a specific distance in mind as well as a specific direction. All things being equal, a 30-foot putt from past the hole is no more desirable than a 30-footer from short of the hole... or from 30 feet to the left or right of the hole.

      Needless to say, the techniques for getting distance will never give you consistently accurate approach shots to the green. We need to make a change in both our mindset and our technique—not a big change, but a change nonetheless—if we want shorter putts for birdie.

      In this Quick Guide I'm going to teach you how to make those adjustments. For our purposes I'm going to define an approach shot as any unobstructed full or partial shot made to the green, but not from a hazard. That includes both pitch shots and full shots from the fairway or reasonable lies in the rough, and tee shots on par-3s.

      Not included? Chip shots, trouble shots from rough or bunkers, and shots that involve trees or other obstructions. Those require techniques beyond the scope of this guide. And although you'll be able to use these techniques with the long hybrids, fairway woods, and even drivers hit 'off the deck,' we won't specifically cover those since we don't generally expect those shots to hit and stop quickly.

      In other words, we're going to focus on iron shots to the green, the shots over which you can expect a reasonable amount of control.

      Accurate iron play isn't that complicated. Here's the big secret:

      If you want accurate shots to the green, you need to create consistent clubhead speed and apply it to the ball solidly with a square clubface.

      That may sound a bit convoluted but trust me, you'll understand it clearly by the time you finish this booklet.

      Soon your friends will wonder what you know that they don't... and why you keep winning so many holes.

      And since I know many of you are left-handed, I'll use the terms 'lead' and 'trailing' in this discussion so everybody gets it. Remember, your lead side is closest to the target and your trailing side is not. ;-)

      Pay special attention when you get to the diagrams in the technique section. While there were a couple I thought were clear

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