How to stop hitting your irons thin

I'll say one good thing about blading an iron shot; the ball goes pretty far. That might please a beginning golfer whose priority is to advance the ball in any way possible. For the rest of the golfing population, a thin shot is rarely satisfying—even when it works out. Catching the ball on the upswing with the leading edge of an iron is a fault that is easily curable. Follow these steps and I'll show you how. —Rushi Oza, one of Golf Digest's Best Young Teachers in America

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  • Play the ball in the middle of your stance
  • Keep your weight evenly distributed between your feet
  • Let your arms reach out to the ball
  • Feel a stretch at your elbows
  • Keep the feeling of extension in your arms as you start back
  • Let your torso rotate the club away from the target
  • Maintain the look of a triangle between your arms and club
  • Don't let your elbows bend (above, left)
  • As you swing down and through impact, keep your arms long
  • Let your body and arms turn through together
  • Still feel a stretch at your elbows
  • Extend the club toward the target
  • Place a bath towel under your armpits and pin it
  • Make backswings keeping the towel in place (above)
  • Feel like you're taking the club back on a wide arc
  • Make short through-swings feeling the connection between body, arms and club