HOW TO COMPRESS THE GOLF BALL // Controlling Spin Loft to Add Iron Distance

Compressing the golf ball with your irons is one of the keys to making solid contact, gaining distance, and to control trajectory.

With the help of Mike and Ryan's differing ways of delivering the club into the ball, Ian breaks down the basics of how to compress the ball, offers advice on how to improve compression, and explains the principles behind angle of attack, launch angle, delivered loft, and spin loft.

Filmed at: Tour Experience Golf
Custom Golf Club Fitting Studio – Toronto, Canada

[brianrandall]

This is easily one of the best videos ever done on the channel. I love these super technical videos where Ian goes deep into the details. This is why I love TXG and this is the type of content that separates this channel from any of the others in the golf space. This is also a great example of why having multiple testers is so valuable. Seeing multiple different deliveries and explaining the why behind each one makes the content easy to understand. Well done!

[papab]

This is absolutely game changing! I've been steep for years wrongly thinking it meant more compression. Thank you!

[jhale]

Definitely the most easily understood explanation of dynamic loft and the impact it can have on your yardages. Being able to see those 3 different swings with the same club and the fact that one guy swings 2 MPH faster but it goes 18 yards shorter is very eye-opening.

[TheDreddLobster]

It's crazy how far ahead these videos are from other YouTube golf content (with regards to explanation). In terms of being able to "nerd out" on golf, there is no other place I want to go. Keep up the great work!

[Gbt]

If more Teachers were more like Ian...more people would be willing to learn. He is so good at delivering the knowledge and breaking down a person's faults in their swing without completely crippling their ego and desire to wanting to get better. I wish more Teachers used this approach.

[kirkcaraway]

Best explanation I've ever seen about dynamic loft. Finally understand how that works now. Very helpful.

[tomkalivas]

I think I speak for a strong majority when I say that we absolutely love the gear you boys at TXG review, and the Monday Q&A’s, but this video (and videos like these) are so informative and satisfying to watch because there is 3 different skill sets that reach out to a broad audience! Delivery and technique and pairing it with data, is a great tangible way to show your audience that all of us gear geeks could benefit with last years model of irons and a dozen lessons in lieu of this years model and continuing down the same path of inconsistency and frustration. Keep up the great content gentlemen!!

[UNCace]

I feel like the part where you mention making sure you turn left if you're pressing your hands forward is the most useful and forgotten piece that other videos don't provide.

[stevenrobertson]

Wow! 🤯 That just put compression and club delivery so simply but completely changed how I think about this. Absolutely loved this video and insight!

[joel]

Man Ian is fantastic at explaining things in a way that breaks it down for people who are at different levels

[markrobert]

This is great stuff. Low left exit with the hands (from your previous video with Ryan) has instantly dropped my launch 5 degrees and brought 15-20 yards of carry on my 7-iron. Thank you!! Can’t wait to try it on the course when spring actually arrives here.

[angelmaldonado]

By far, this is why you’re the best of best of the YouTube golf channels.
This video is exactly what I needed to send to my buddy.
Once I understood the dynamic loft at contact, it helped me take better control of my irons. I carry my 6iron with a DG AMT S300 shaft, 182y avg., which was cool but the dispersions were inconsistent. Then I hit my 2nd set’s 6iron (both TM B 716) with a DG AMT X100 shaft on it, it was straighter but carried 175y avg. which I can deal with by adjusting my gaps accordingly.
CONGRATS!! 🎉🎊🎈🍾
On using slow mo to show what a compressed strike looks like. Even though I had learned about shaft lean a while ago, it was exciting seeing it explained on TXG.
Ian, your channel is evolving as it should and in the right direction. Awesome 👏 video.

[laurentschmitt]

One of the best video ever seen all golf topics included!!!
Laurent from France

[NickPage]

great video here Ian, love hearing you spread knowledge from your perspective not only sharing the how.. but the WHY that only a seasoned fitter and player can share

[kevinconnolly]

did this all day today, bit of forward shaft lean and keeping hands in front of club head through entire swing.
i was firing at pins all day, 4 tap in birdies and 2 eagle putts ( missed).
great day out for my 18 hcp😃

[hughmasson]

The video you guys did on ball position in the stance has changed my game in one day. Used to have the ball way forward and didn't understand why my driver and long irons were constantly pull-slices that went nowhere and my wedges were just high pulls. Now, with the ball back in the stance, the drives are straighter and longer, the irons are compressing the ball properly adding 15-20 yards and straighter, and the wedges are much easier to hit correctly and control.

Thanks Ian and TXG.

[dougmael]

FABULOUS video, guys! You just explained why, after playing several rounds in very strong winds, I have been hitting my irons more than one club longer when the winds die down. Into those strong winds, I was playing a lot of knock-down shots, and a side benefit of doing that was that I was shallowing my swing and reducing my dynamic lofts on the irons. When I get out on the course in light wind conditions, I have kept that swing, which seems to now be ingrained in my DNA, and I am hitting my irons distances that I have not seen in about 20 years.

[brendcloete]

this was amazing. i have been practicing this for very long. i am a-lot more accurate and it feels like a slower swing. i am a +6 Handicap. i have help a few friends lately with this swing. I get the feeling of not releasing the hands at the bottom, or a more forced body swing. everyone i have shown this actually works. knowing now why it works is so amazing and feels that i am moving in a more positive direction. thanks guys

[michaelmaloney]

This is a premium video showing 2 similar Swing Speeds and a club and a half club distance diff. Such a great video.

[glchapman]

I’ve now watched this video 4 times, and have sent it to my Head Pro. This lesson is my mission for this year. Thanks guys!