{"id":44,"date":"2026-08-07T08:31:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/iron-striking-secrets-ball-compression-drills\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:31:27","slug":"iron-striking-secrets-ball-compression-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/iron-striking-secrets-ball-compression-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Striking Secrets: Why Staying Connected Through Impact is Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gc-lead\">Crisp iron shots require catching the ball first and taking a shallow divot ahead of the ball. Here is how Grace learned to compress the golf ball consistently.<\/p>\n<h2>The Towel Under Arms Drill<\/h2>\n<p>Place a small golf towel across your chest and tuck it beneath both armpits. Take half-swings with a 7-iron without letting the towel fall. This synchronizes the arms with torso rotation for pure strikes every time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improve your ball-first contact with this proven drill that Grace uses to compress her mid-irons with authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,10,9,8,11],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-swing-training","tag-community","tag-dialed-golf","tag-golf","tag-grace-charis","tag-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamgracecharis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}