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In this concept video, we're going to talk about chop versus lift and how it

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applies

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to driver versus iron.

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In the wedge section, I have a video on chop versus lift.

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I want to do one for the iron section because I think that it can have a big

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impact on your

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driver versus your iron ability just as it does with the wedges.

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In simple terms, the chop versus lift is going to look at this angle between

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the lead arm

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and my body.

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If I was to lift, it's going to go more up, if I was to chop, it's going to go

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more

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down and behind me.

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One of the things you'll see with good wedge players is it's very much a chop

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movement

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where in that finish position that trail elbow will almost be behind their body

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where with

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good drivers of the golf ball, you will tend to see that elbow more in front of

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the body

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and almost working up like so.

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This would be more of that lift movement which helps produce a more in-out path

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.

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This would be more of the chop movement which helps produce an out-to-in path.

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Iron play can kind of be either, but I want you to know how to identify what

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you're doing

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as well as what the tendencies are going to be.

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One of the easiest places to look for if you were chopping or lifting is past

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the follow

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through position.

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What is a concept that we call the exit plane?

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If you were to go from impact into that follow through, you can look at the

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angle that the

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club is on somewhere out in there.

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The more that the club is erring towards vertical, you will have a tendency for

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that arm when

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I go into that finish position to finish very high compared to my body.

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This would be a lifting motion of that trail arm.

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The more that it is horizontal, you will tend to see that elbow work a little

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bit more

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down and so now compared to the shoulder height, that elbow will be much closer

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or more of

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a chop pattern down around the side like so.

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You can get away with doing either as your main power source from the shoulder,

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but it's

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important to be able to vary it if you want to be really elite and really good

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at golf.

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A lot of people, a lot of tour golfers kind of do it naturally without really

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thinking

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about it, but sometimes it's helpful especially for adults to pay attention to

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these things

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while you're trying to make these changes.

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If you're trying to work on more of your driver swing and that lifting motion,

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you will tend

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to feel a little bit more of the club swinging out towards the right and a

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little bit more

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up trying to finish vertical.

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If you're trying to get that elbow to work more behind your body and get more

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of that

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chopping motion, the club will work more around your body and a little bit more

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horizontal.

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These will have big impacts as far as where the bottom of your swing is going

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to be and

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what your miss is going to be.

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Pay attention to your exit plane because it may give you an idea as to if you

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need to

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put more attention into your driver or more attention into your iron and while

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this axis

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tilt and what the body is doing is one of the big differences between the ideal

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driver

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and the ideal iron swing.

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What this shoulder is doing in the overall kind of path of the hands is also

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going to

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be an important factor because they're going to adjust differently depending on

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where the

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upper body is.