More than likely you are TRYING to hit the ball rather than letting the club head just swing. You have to stop TRYING to manipulate everything. When you set your hands on the back swing you have already stored up enough energy to create speed simply by dropping your hands and turning toward the target. Your BODY SQUARES THE CLUB FACE, not your hands. It you are hitting it thin you are raising up too much. This is because you are TRYING to create more centripetal force. You are over-doing it in hopes of hitting 300 yards. Brute force will NOT create distance! It is NOT POSSIBLE! You can't argue with physics. You want to whip the club to FLICK the ball off the ground. You are TRYING to smash the ball to smithereens! Has that worked for you yet? Using the technique you now have with RHYTHM will produce what you are after. Sam Snead used to hum the Blue Danube Waltz when he "swang" (his term). That 3/4 time will work. Da Da Da Daaaa WHACK! Dot Dot Dot Dot, Da Da Da Daaaa WHACK! Dot Dot Dot Dot. Get that rhythm going to get to consistent results. If you flex a muscle you make it slower because it has to resist motion to stay flexed! If you flex a muscle you make it slower because it has to resist motion to stay flexed! If you flex a muscle you make it slower because it has to resist motion to stay flexed!
Once you can hit the ball a consistent distance and straight you can than mark off the average distance you hit each club using that techique. THAT then becomes your distance for each club. Forget about what pros' distances. They are the best at what they do, have custom lofts and lies and you couldn't do what they do as they are 25 years younger anyway. For a 130 yard shot my smooth average straight shot is with a 7 iron. If it is windy into me or across it is a 6 or even a 5 iron. That doesn't make me a wimp. It makes me get the ball to the target so I can score well. If my putt is 10 feet or farther away from the cup, my target is a 5 foot circle (kiddie pool). That will leave me a 2.5 foot tap-in so I 2-putt. You have to THINK your way around the course. Long hitters are in the trees and are always having to scramble to save par. I have no problem being 100 yards or more behind anyone I play against because I know I can get to the hole in par or better. If the hole is just too long for me I accept bogey as my par for that hole and know I can get a birdie somewhere else to make up for it. PATIENCE is what is required and learning to accept who you are as you are. The sooner you can just fall in love with yourself as you are no matter what, the better.
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