I've been playing golf for more than 50 years, and have taken numerous lessons from professional instructors, and I have never been taught the basic principles you have covered in this and other videos of yours. I go over this with friends and they say the same. It's maddening. Thanks for being a great explainer of the game, Chris. What a help it is to follow you. All the best!!

What a great teacher. I love how this has been explained. Thank you so much

Thank you for this great tip. This is easy to do and practice in the house all winter. I am one of those golfers who cup their wrist at the top and keep it that way through impact hitting the ball off the toe and shots right and short. I will work on this to get my swing better.

As good an explanation of de-lofting irons as I've ever encountered. This will transform any beginner or seasoned amateurs game to the next level.

Great tip, as a life long chunker of the ball who usually hits it high and short, this is what I need to ingrain into my swing for better contact and longer strikes! Nice work Chris….there can’t be many more important lessons you could possibly deliver!

Thanks Chris. Watched you video last night and tried to flatten my left hand on my round this morning. Amazingly I hit my 6 iron lower straight and the furthest I ever have! Going to work on this technique on the range right away.

watched for the first time last night, the video on hitting the driver with an ascending ball strike, went to the range this morning and i can honestly say i have never hit the ball so far or with so much carry and accuracy, wish i had found you sooner Chris, you have a very easy to understand manner in the way you teach many thanks mike, southend on sea

cheers Chris - great explanations and teaching instructions that help understand. I was really struggling with this exact issue but I couldn't figure out why even knowing to reduce loft was key, I couldn't understand how to do it - solved a lot of frustrations for me and others too I'm sure. thanks and keep up the great stuff.

Great drill and explanation. I can’t wait to practice this drill and learn how to properly hit an iron, which I have never done. Thanks Chris keep those great tips coming. Rich from Myrtle Beach South Carolina USA…..

I don’t know how I came across your videos but your speaking a different language brother love it! Thanks 🙏

I think Chris Ryan’s videos are the best, and there are some good ones out there. I like the drills he gives to help you feel what you aren’t doing right in your swing.

Chris, thanks for sharing information that we can understand the meaning and the application. I’ll be trying this soon and I’ll give you some feedback as soon as I can. Thanks

Love this Chris! Thank you. Definitely going to practice those drills

Cheers Chris, fantastic drill and thanks for sharing your knowledge!

This has come at a good time. I was a 2/3 handicap golfer when I completely QUIT aged 22 in 1998!! Only played about 15 rounds since then. Only yesterday after 8 months from last touch of a club I hit some of the best, most consistent drives ever. Have no idea how, but has given me hope I can play single figures again.

Chris' tips are the best, most understandable, and most actionable on KZfaq.

Thx for a simple but great video. The ball in hand drill is an amazing visual cue that will give me a “feel” key. Bonus points for being able to practice indoors without a club.

I wish KZfaq was around 30 years ago. Knowledge like this explained so articulacy is just invaluable. Many thanks.

Thank you. A great drill I’ll be working on this week.

Just what I'm working on Chris great tips.

Good morning Chris, Once again your articulated oratory with visual movement invites a visual to your instruction that allows for understandable application swiftly to allow for meaningful practice. Excellent tutorial. Have a blessed and productive day. Neville

Excellent tip, thanks for sharing.

Absolutely loved the video, have never heard this before. Thank you

Great, can't wait to practice this

Dragging that club behind you while square through impact is beautiful. Look at Adam Scott’s wedge play. Absolutely amazing.

Great video, Chris…I’m taking this straight to the range

Love this! Can't wait to try it!👍

Excellent Chris. Biggest difference is control of club face/low point through impact. The golf bug bit me in my mid 30s. Some pros had been playing 25 years before i picked up a club. Very difficult to make positive changes to my golf swing. Old dog new tricks scenario. But i will try as i wasn to improve. Cheers.

Love this vid. Really helps to get the feeling of better hand/wrist position at top of swing.

This was tremendously valuable and educational.

Thanks Chris. Have never seen this drill explained this way. Rainy in South Carolina today, practicing drill in garage. I can feel the difference in the contact on my mat and see the strike ahead of my mark on the mat. Bob Moore Myrtle Beach, SC. Great Drill.

Thanks for the great information.

This has been a massive help in not topping my iron strikes. More compression, lower ballflight, more distance.

Wonderful, simple explanation Chris. Brilliant!

Great video, this explains it very well. Brilliant 🤙🏿

Another helpful drill. At times I’ll hit a slice and knew it was due to an open club face. Now I understand the mechanism. Thanks again.

Great video Chris, thank you! I'll give it a try on my next visit to the range.

Love the ball in hand drill to feel and understand wrist position in the swing. It took me so long to figure this out and wish I had seen this drill a ling time ago. Any newcomers to the game will certainly find this drill extremely helpful! I found focusing on the feeling my left wrist has at the top of the backswing in this position allows me to pull the club back through on my downswing at full force knowing I’m going to smash the clubface square into the back of the ball.

Chris, I have struggled to get compression on the ball. To much flipping the wrist. I will practice your drill until it works. Very clear instructions on video. Thanks for your kindness and generosity to help. Robert PS, I will report back on results.

Thanks Chris, it's crucially important

great advise! I didnt realize how bad I was at my lead hand position until now THANKS!!

Great tip Chris been trying all year to compress the ball, as I usually hit behind the ball

That golfball drill is something else. New sub. My game is on the uptrend, trying to shave off 10 strokes, get into high 70's again. Lately been BLOWING it on little miss hits. Bomb one off the tee, duff the next shot. Driver is wofking, putting less than 36 a round, short game is saving srrokes... oh well. Thanks for the vid, new sub!

Great video as always.

Some great drills Chris

Great video Chris. Wish I could visit for a lesson

40 years of playing I wish I was taught this way back when balata balls were cool It’s difficult to get my brain 🧠 into the lead position but working on it Great video…again!

Wow!!! I just stumbled on this video and it couldn't have been explained more clearly why the skinnier guys are blasting it past me. Good drill to try in the house. Great video!!

thank you! Strangely I cured my own lifetime slice with a driver by watching left wrist position of pros in their backswing and started straightening and even slightly reverse cupping the wrist and started hitting laser straight or with a slight draw. Helped my overall ball contact with irons but not distance....my hand wrist position was not continuing that hand wrist position through impact. Cant wait to practice This with my irons !!

Great tip…. Thanks

Hey Chris that was a great lesson but what I got out of the video something I needed that I didn't even think it was in the video I was going back cocking my wrist straight up and I noticed from what you talking about in the video if you your left wrist the Palm it's just face down that is the correct position to have it on the back swing so that helped me a lot just knowing that keep that left wrist or Palm face down and not cocked straight up so that's what I got out of that whole thing even more than just the forward press on your irons to hit them farther so great video man thanks 👍

Excellent video! I would like to see you do a video just on the wrist movement. I have been doing it wrong for a long time. Thank you.

The way I think about this, and the way I was taught to swing, is that every swing has a chip in it (except a flop shot) and that happens at impact, then carries through impact, and releases in the follow through. I’m going to be interested to see you video on the difference between chipping and pitching because I see most being taught to pitch instead of actually chipping, because “it’s easier”…

This is a great lesson ❤🏌‍♂️

You're teaching technique is second to none. Another excellent explanation of a fundamental aspect of the golf swing !

Excellent tutorial

VEry good lesson.

A fantastic tip Chris. Thank you, just subscribed to your channel. 👍😎🇦🇺

As a new golfer is was great to have this explained

Great explanation and demonstration. thx

Most important lesson one can teach, the flat left wrist controls so many variables. Trajectory, distance, direction, etc etc thanks mate.

Great tips

Relaxed technique

GOOD INFO !

Had success at the range today with these thoughts/drills. A lot more work to do but it felt really good today. Cheers.

Very intelligent presentation

Great drill thanks. Totally makes sense. I don't think that pro's do just one thing right for distance. It seems to me pro's have more speed, hit the ball more consistently in the center of the club face, have a good club/swing path and de-loft the club. All those things put together gives them their mind numbing distance. :-)

Great lesson👍

I watched this video 11 months ago, and not unitil i figured this out for myself did i understand what he is saying by watching the video now again. The biggest problem with being a learner is there is so much information, and you have no relationship to the information, and you don't really understand the things that are being said, even tho he is saying it very clearly. There is simply too many things going through your mind watching these videos, and when on the field, therr are so many other things to think about aswell that you can't remember if you are doing it right😭 only by going to the range for about a year, suddenly you can rewatch the same videos and suddenly "understand" what is being said. I have played for 2 years now and i am rewatching all the videoes i have watched because i finally can actually gain the information, rather than just watch it.

Great drill

For myself; this bowing off the left wrist only worked with a swing change from rolling hands to closing the club face with the body/pocket- by firing left hip back. It was a complete swing change and I had to battle through some awful SHANKS- until I got the swing change worked out. It was a months long process, resulted in about 10 yards of additional distance with the 7 iron and I dropped from 14 handicap to 11. Process took 6 months, lesson every two weeks, practice range 2-3x/week.

Excellent video!

Another epic vid 🙌🏼🙌🏼

The putting excercise is gold!

You sir have the best teaching methods on youtube.

Chris...you need to make a video called..."swing like me". All I want is a swing like yours. I think it's absolutely magic

nice idea

Quality drills Chris 👍👍👍👍

Great explanation! The problem I have is timing the release of the club while at the same time contacting the ball the the hands leaned forward to deloft the club. Do have any drills to work on that release timing?

Great tip!

Good stuff Chris.

Great video. Thank you! As a cricket player, the cupping of the wrist is my main downfall in the swing.

such a great drill! I've been working on my impact position of my hands, and I'm adding this one to the bag :D

So amazing teacher

All the above!

Simple drill, minimal requirements and can be done any where 👍🏻

Launch angle or dynamic loft I was a golf pro many years ago and used a 11.5 driver to get the right launch angle and with the right shaft torque and tip stiffness as well as weight is key

Great video, Chris . I will try this drill with my seven iron and driver. Let you know how it went.

Creating lag is tuff to master and is different with swing types! Shaft lean at compression is more about what I consider the topic at hand or “trapping “ the ball!

Personally, I think consistency of strike is the biggest difference between myself and the pros. My misses are such a wide range of distances for a 7 iron, it generally goes 150 yards but can go anywhere from 125 - 180 yards any given swing.

Good point that de-lofting an iron can hit the ball further. Appreciate if you can also explain why we want to do that. It's not helpful to de-loft just for the sake of hitting the ball further for your ego. It's simple physics that the smaller the loft the longer the ball will fly. But the ball will roll more too. I can just grab a 5 iron to do the same job. To be fair, this de-lofting posture allows a longer path for a swing. Thus achieving higher club head speed. So I don't think the goal is to de-loft, the actual goal is to maximize your club head speed. De-lofting is just a by-product.

Great take away from this. Been struggling with irons recently and realise I need to strip it back and start from the beginning. This is exactly what I was after!

I hit my 7iron 170yards at sea level. At address it's about 1 ball behind centre line. I generally control the distance by either having the ball exactly at center stance (165 yards) or 2 balls behind center (175 yards) if there is a slight breeze. I don't have a handicap because I play 1 or 2 rounds a year max but when I play I shoot between 80-85. I don't practise at all but if I do go to a range with a friend I'll spend all afternoon chipping and hitting lob wedge from 80 yards. Work on your short game and become a short game beast and then the rest of your game falls into place. That is my experience.

Hi Chris, great video as usual, keep it up. I have a question about this very topic that I cannot seem to get my head around. I have seen this "bowing of the wrist" idea several times before, mainly after Dustin Johnson came into the publics notice. I have tried it and tried it over quite a period, but in doing so it ruins my swing. I cannot seem to maintain clubhead speed at the same level as my usual swing. Obviously I am doing something wrong, but I cannot fathom what that is..? Any suggestions..?? Please..???

Chris, what is the app you’re using to monitor the swing? I’d like to get this for my iPhone to gauge my progress.

Chris great video as always. I have been working on wrist conditions for a while...... the issue I have is to perform this movement I feel like my wrists and arms are more rigid stiff and doesn't feel like swing. When I see your slow mo swings, it looks fluid, amazing swing by the way. How can I apply this and still feel freedom to release etc... I have asked this of a few channels talking about similar concepts with no answers. Thanks.

Chris, how much does properly fitted clubs/shafts and swing tempo/consistency contribute to greater distances? I’ve tried delofting my irons before and have experienced the face opening on impact? Is that common at first?

I have to try this drill!! is it possible that moving the ball a bit more forward in the stance could help achieve some sort of "same" longer distance result ? ( i mean even if it's maybe wrong haha) I recently (2 days ago) unconsciously moved the ball forward in my stance with my 5 iron and gained 50 meters easily in my shots without any more effort, contact feels really more solid too and works very often i mean waayyy better than my previous shots. But when i think about it, the ball is maybe just flying higher (and longer) because i am hitting it in an upward motion,even tho it is not really de-lofted..?..? this drill will take place tomorrow in my practice and i'll make sure to focus on it! Thanks for the advice.

The delofting angle and Shaft forward press are two variables. How much of each is determined by the "putter style " hit. If the ball straight and low you've got the two variables right!

Chris. New subscriber Great videos high handicap but your videos really helpful and clearly explained setup and tips etc Can you cover shots with ball off slopes ,both feet well below ball and above ball maybe scenarios close to green pitch/chip or fairway shot with hybrid or irons. Be great help as don’t know how to compensate to achieve stable predictable direction towards target. Always goes off in wrong direction 🥴🏌️‍♂️ cheers