Jimmy Walker explains how he changed his approach to the golf swing to start compressing his irons more. Walker says he went from a sliding action in the downswing to putting more pressure downwards instead, and started to bow his wrist more at impact in order to smash his irons more pure without losing accuracy.
when you talk about using the ground, put that into play. Right now, what I’m doing more now is, you know, I I was really into, you know, sliding this way and um now it’s now it’s a little more getting down here and then this way. So, I’m using a little more pop instead of and turning down and turn as opposed to, you know, sliding so much. So, I’ve also kind of always kind of cut my wrist a little bit. And when I come down, I’d have open face. Yeah. Kind of have to save it a little bit. So, just a little little different wrist angle coming down. And uh it’s been been pretty good and hit nice tight draws against the wind. Now, your ball position with that club in your hand, is it is it pretty neutral? I think it’s a little up. I’ve always been just a little up, uh, neutral grip, just a fraction up, and then as the clubs get longer, you know, it gets it scoots out there a little more and more. And like I said, just kind of depends on the shot. You know, if you want to hit a lower shot, kind of more of a, you know, a little knockdown, obviously, that ball’s more back in the stance. Same thing. Hard low draw up against the wind. So ball flight, ball position changes, should change trajectory quite a bit. When I say the word tempo, how do you associate that in your golf swing? Tempo for me is good. Good back here and then feeling the hands start to drop and everything going down towards the ball and it’s like one nice motion. Yeah. As opposed to, you know, kind of like a chop or a stop. Okay. Now, with swing 360, you mentioned about shallowing it out. What are people seeing when they’re looking at you shallow the club out on the way down? This the wrist starts to bow out just a little bit and that lets the club fall, but it keeps the it keeps the face square to the target instead of, you know, you can you can drop it out, but if you’re not if you’re not getting that wrist out this way, it’s not going to keep the club face square to the to the target, and you’re going to have to save it one way or another. Okay? down the line. You know, I would I would I would think that they could see this this leg move more out this way, this left leg. So, you’ll see it come into frame a little bit better. Then hopefully that you’re going to see more of this you won’t see it like slide out that way. You’ll see it more down this way. The head will drop down just a little bit because I’ve I’ve always kind of at impact stood up on it like this and my head kind of rises up. So, I’m trying to get everything more back this way. Use the ground, get it going instead of coming up at it. I think there should be a little bit of squat down like that. You know, I want this leg going down cuz I want to feel like I’m stepping on something. Everything’s going to go down like that. First bunch of times I did, I was really fatting it a lot. That was anything but fat.
