Symptom:  Poor iron tee shots on par three holes.
Description:  Tee your your irons low, almost flush with the ground.
Why it works:  You only get 18 chances per round to give yourself a perfect lie.  So you should certainly use a tee.  A golf ball sitting on a tee, nearly flush with the ground, is a better lie than you can get off the grass.  But don't tee up your irons as if you're hitting a driver.  For most iron shots you will tee the ball very low.  Wedges should be teed flush with the ground, mid-irons slightly higher (perhaps 1/4'') off the ground.  If you tee the ball up higher than this for an iron shot then only bad things can happen:

• You might hit a good shot by making an unnatural swing without a descending blow, but this will screw up your swing the next time around when the ball is on the ground.
• You hit a bad shot (probably a sky-ball) by making a normal swing with a descending blow.

You can't hit a good shot by making a good swing because the ball is in an unnatural position unless it is teed low.  So use the tee, but tee it low! And use a broken tee -- you need your unbroken tees for when you hit your driver.  And you should be frugal in these tough times...

For a demonstration of this, let's watch Zach Johnson hit a mid-iron tee shot.  Move the video ahead to 0:55 to see that the ball is teed pretty low, and also to see Zach's excellent descending blow:


But what if you can only hit a good shot when the ball is teed up high?  Then you have a swing fault that needs to change.  Try the hit the sunken tee drill to learn how to hit the ball with a descending blow.

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