Golf Clubs: Nine Irons

Video Transcript

"O.k. so we're still on the short irons. Now with the sand-wedge; pitching wedge and the nine iron because they have a lot of loft on them, they don't as much side spin on the ball as the mid or long irons. So they're very controllable for that very reason. So once again if you normally hit your nine iron anywhere to 100 to 140 when you fade it you're going to take some distance off of it. So you have to compensate for that. So if you hit your, if you hit your nine iron 140 yards when you fade it you're probably only going to hit it 125; 130, 120. So you got to practice it so you get the distance down; so when you're under pressure in a match you hit the right shot. So what you do is you use this club; that would be how I would hit the ball straight, I'd line up parallel to the club but because I'm going to fade it which means I'm going to hit from left to right; I open my stance to the left of the target and then I open up the club face a little bit to compensate for that. And then I take a nice normal swing. And that way I can track it right in at the target. So if the targets on the right; I'm coming from the left into it vs. sometimes when you go straight at it especially if there's water or other obstructions; if you go straight at it and you loft to the left or the right you could be in a lot of trouble. So this is a way of avoiding trouble in controlling the ball."