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Drills to take a divot ?

  • 11-06-2011 4:35pm
    #1
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys,

    Played today and irons were all over the gaff.
    Played with two lads who took lovely big divots on all iron shots and I noticed I don't do the same. I am scorching the top of the grass at most and I feel I'm not making great contact

    any drills on how to take divots ?

    thanks


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  • #2
    Iceboy
    Registered Users Posts: 373 ✭✭Iceboy


    Free lesson for ya

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ir7nSa6i0


  • #3
    Killed
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭Killed


    Have you tried moving your ball position back slightly ?


  • #4
    Spudmonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 2,857 ✭✭✭Spudmonkey


    alxmorgan wrote: »
    Hey guys,

    Played today and irons were all over the gaff.
    Played with two lads who took lovely big divots on all iron shots and I noticed I don't do the same. I am scorching the top of the grass at most and I feel I'm not making great contact

    any drills on how to take divots ?

    thanks

    Taking big divots is not necessarily a good thing. You should take virtually none with the long irons and a shallow enough divots with the short irons. Taking big divots might give the impression that someone is making good contact with the ball but that may not be the case.


  • #5
    Osgoodisgood
    Registered Users Posts: 869 ✭✭✭Osgoodisgood


    Iceboy wrote: »
    Free lesson for ya

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ir7nSa6i0


    Good god. That is probably the ugliest thing I've ever seen.


  • #6
    goodgolfer64
    Registered Users Posts: 307 ✭✭goodgolfer64


    ball first then divot...a good shot doesnt have to have a divot...depends how steep your attack into the balls is really....dont wanna be thinking bout divots when your first task is striking the white ball...


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  • #7
    fullstop
    Registered Users Posts: 11,297 ✭✭✭✭fullstop


    Do the greenkeepers a favour and keep doing what you're doing.


  • #8
    stockdam
    Registered Users Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭stockdam


    goodgolfer64 wrote: »
    ball first then divot...a good shot doesnt have to have a divot...depends how steep your attack into the balls is really....dont wanna be thinking bout divots when your first task is striking the white ball...

    Taking a huge divot doesn't mean that it occurs after the ball is hit. Hit the golf ball before hitting the ground and you should be ok (as above).


  • #9
    alxmorgan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,809 ✭✭✭alxmorgan


    thanks for the replies guys

    I found this video

    http://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline#p/u/1/bw4jUAVr5eo

    which talks about straightening the right knee too much
    This is definitely something I do (was flagged to me in my only lesson so far a while back) and perhaps is more what I need to focus on than divots


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