Shank

I have been playing golf for almost 20 months,my best scores so far is 86, I practice minimum 3 times a week for 4 to 6 hours, i engage with teaching pro's twice....but lately i got shank ball that really make my heart bleeding and it only happen to my shot iron(sw until 8 iron) ........appreciate very much any advice, drill,....

Hey viper. Try setting up so the ball is out more towards the toe of the club. It's pretty simple but it worked for me.

Not a nice problem.

Firstly look at your posture. The normal cause of a shank from painful personal experience is poor posture with too much weight on the toes. This encourages you to move into the ball on the downswing and thus hit off the heel. Your weight should be evenly balanced,

It is easy to setup with too much weight forward on the shorter clubs so get this right first - always work from the basics through to more complex solutions rather than vise vera.

Once you have this right work on hitting the inside edge of the ball rather than dead behind the ball. Setup a range ball with the painted circle aimed inside left to outside right and aim for the painted area on the inside left (obviously!). This will encourage and inside out path and help avoid coming OTT and hitting off the heel.

Good luck....

JCBDB

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