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Hitting Accurate Irons - Co-tip: Waste Management Phoenix Open (2:27)
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Michael Breed, host of 'The Golf Fix', teaches a tip for hitting irons more accurately and Martin Hall, host of 'School of Golf', shows you how to handle the pressure of the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale.
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-It's always a birdie fast at the Waste Management Phoenix
Open so if you wanna win, knocking down the flagstick
is a must and I wanna give you an idea
of how to be more accurate with your irons. Make
sure that that angle of the trail wrist doesn't change
through the shot. So what I want you to do
is I want you to hit some shots with just
the right hand or the trail hand. What will happen
is you're gonna set that wrist and I want you
to maintain that wrist as you come down through that
strike just like that. Once you start to get comfortable
keeping that wrist position like that, you're gonna compress the
ball, you're gonna strike it solidly and it's gonna go
where you're looking which by the way is a really
good idea. Let's let that ball go where we're looking,
so I'm gonna focus on keeping that wrist position the
exact same, strike it just like that. Alright, Martin. I
got my irons going where they're needed to go. What
have you got? -Thanks, Michael. Sometimes when the pressure is
at its greatest just finding the green can be tough,
let alone knocking down the flag. Nowhere is that pressure
greater than the 16th hole at TPC Scottsdale. We know
it. We've seen it. They go berserk out there. This
would be my suggestion to you. You cannot be over
the ball thinking about what you're doing under high pressure.
Have a sort of a good pre-shot routine. My pre-shot
routine, I have a commitment lying there. If I am
this side of the line I can be switched on
mentally. I can be thinking about what I'm doing. I'll
take my practice swings. I'll get my swing thoughts back
here. Deep breath, one side go across that line. It's
time to go. No conscious thinking so this is my
sort of think box. Over here is my play-my-go box,
so here we go. I've got this target set at
165 so it's pretty similar to the 16th hole there
in Phoenix. Here we go. I've got my thought, I've
taken my swing, I've got my feel. Okay. In I
go. I'm now in the play box. So not too
much thought. Yes, the crowd is going wild. I haven't
even pulled the trigger yet, but here we go. Can
I do it? Come on. You little beauty. I'm gonna
have to go back to playing for a living. Anyway
that's how you deal with pressure. So thanks for joining
us on GolfChannel.com for the best in golf instruction. With
Michael's tip for sticking it close and my drill for
playing under pressure, you're sure to become better with the
irons. I'm maybe the first to discuss if I could
learn a thing or two as well.
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