Marc Warren ball striking lesson

Three-time European Tour winner Marc Warren shares his best tips for improving your ball striking with your irons by getting the right ball position, alignment and balance

Marc Warren ball striking lesson

Three-time European Tour winner Marc Warren shares his best tips for improving your ball striking with your irons by getting the right ball position, alignment and balance

Scotland’s Marc Warren is widely regarded as having one of the best swings on the European Tour. Perfectly on place and in balance, amateur golfers wouldn’t go too far wrong if they were to copy his silky action.

For him, the key to consistent ball striking with your irons comes from having the perfect set-up position.

“In pro-ams I see too many golfers aiming too far right with the ball position too far back in their stance, almost in line with their back foot.” Warren told GM at the recent launch of the Callaway XR driver in Dubai.

“This causes problems with balance and means they’ll come into the ball too steep and across the ball. I like to stand with my feet and shoulders parallel left to the target and with the ball just forward of the middle of my feet with a 7-iron.”

“From there, this creates room to move my weight slightly away from the target in the backswing and then make a fully, balanced follow through.”

Warren’s swing served him well in 2015, finishing 25th in the Race to Dubai with a win at the Made in Denmark event.

 

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Joel Tadman
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Joel has worked in the golf industry for over 12 years covering both instruction and more recently equipment. He now oversees all product content here at Golf Monthly, managing a team of talented and passionate writers and presenters in delivering the most thorough and accurate reviews, buying advice, comparisons and deals to help the reader find exactly what they are looking for. So whether it's the latest driver, irons, putter or laser rangefinder, Joel has his finger on the pulse keeping up to date with the latest releases in golf. He is also responsible for all content on irons and golf tech, including distance measuring devices and launch monitors.


One of his career highlights came when covering the 2012 Masters he got to play the sacred Augusta National course on the Monday after the tournament concluded, shooting a respectable 86 with just one par and four birdies. To date, his best ever round of golf is a 5-under 67 back in 2011. He currently plays his golf at Burghley Park Golf Club in Stamford, Lincs, with a handicap index of 3.2.


Joel's current What's In The Bag? 

Driver: Titleist TSR3, 9° 

Fairway wood: Titleist TSR3, 15° 

Hybrid: Titleist TSi2, 18° 

Irons: Ping i230 4-UW

Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM8, 54°. Titleist Vokey SM9 60° lob wedge, K Grind

Putter: Evnroll ER2V 

Ball: 2023 Titleist Pro V1x