The topic for our article today is golf iron shots. You have hit a good drive and now it`s time to hit a quality iron shot. There are many factors that come into play but, for today, we are going to review four (4) tips that will help us to hit quality shots and, in turn, lower our golf scores.

These golf tips will help you to go through the thought process that will produce quality golf shots. You will be amazed how quickly your golf scores will come down. Just using some common sense can dramatically effect how we play and our golf scores, plus, did I mention, your enjoyment of the game!

Four (4) Golf Iron Shot Tips

1. Stay within yourself.

Don`t try to hit your seven (7) iron one hundred and seventy (170) yards when your best seven iron shot only goes one hundred and fifty (150) yards. Hit the club that will get to the target with a comfortable swing, no overswinging! Also, when you are determining the yardage for your shot, be sure to take into account the position of the pin on the green. By this I mean, even though you are standing at the one fifty (150) marker, you might be one hundred and sixty five (165) yards to the pin if the pin is at the back of a large green, or one hundred and thirty five (135) yards if the pin is in the front. You don`t want to back off of your golf swing but you also don`t want to be grunting!

2. Know how far you hit each iron.

I know you have seen this and it really slows down play. What I am talking about is watching someone pacing of their yardage to the pin and you know, full well, that they have no clue how far they hit each iron shot. So, my point is, that we need to spend some time at the driving/practice range, to find out how far we hit each iron shot. Now, we probably are not going to know how far each iron shot goes, to the yard, like the tour pros do but we can find out within a five (5) yard range. There is nothing more frustrating than hitting a good drive and following that up with a well hit shot and the golf ball ends up ten yards short or long. If we expect to hit the correct shot, we need to know how far we hit each iron.

3. Play the shot that your lie will allow.

We need to survey our lie and determine how the lie is going to effect our shot. By this I mean, if we a playing summer rules, no preferred lies, the lie will dictate what kind of shot we have to play. If the lie is less than perfect, we need to adjust where we play the golf ball in our stance. With a poor lie, we need to move the ball back in our stance so that we will be able to make solid contact. You also need to adjust for downhill, uphill and sidehill lies.

In general, we need to adjust our stance to follow the contour of the fairway for uneven lies, keeping in mind that uphill lies will add loft to your shots (hit more club) and downhill will take loft off of our shots (hit less club).

4. Play the percentages.

Here’s a question. If the best players in the world aim away from some pins then should not we do the same? If the pin is on the side of the green near a bunker, water hazard or out of bounds, it may make sense not to try to hit directly at the pin but hit your iron shot to the safer part of the green. We have to measure, the percentages, our chances of pulling off a shot. The best in the world do it! So, next time you are getting ready to hit your iron shot, stop to think of what is your best percentage play. This alone will shave numerous strokes of your golf score.

Also, remember there is a right and wrong side of the green to miss on. You would prefer to miss the green on the side away from where the pin is placed on the green. This gives you the best chance to get up and down for your par, if you miss the green.

Those are four (4) iron shot tips. There are many more, that we will discuss in future articles. But for now, if you follow these golf tips, you will dramatically increase your pars and decrease those bogeys and dreaded others!

Driving in golf is one of the most important aspects of the game, get it right and you will be sending your ball speeding off down the green in the right direction to get close to the hole, get it wrong and you could find yourself fishing a ball out of the woods or even a lake! Many people, in order to raise their game and bring about improvements in their golfing look towards golf driving instruction to help them to iron out any problems that they find they have.

Golf driving instruction is easy and straightforward to set up, simply go to your local driving range or golf club and enquire about the availability of their instructors. This way you will get instruction from a professional and you will benefit from the one to one lessons that doing this will give you.

Obviously to get golf driving instruction you will be expected to pay a per lesson fee although you can get this cheaper if you go along to a class which has other people all getting taught at the same time.

However this method is maybe not so useful if you feel that you need more personal attention, so private golf driving instruction should be taken.

When you begin your golf driving instruction you will be asked a number of questions by the instructor so that they can assess your level of skill which will enable you to get the most out of your lesson. Once this has been done you will begin your instruction, you will be shown how to stand, how to hold your club, how to perfect your backswing and more. By taking golf driving instruction you will get better at golf and know that you are being taught by an expert in the game which will get you results.