What is Low Point in Golf?

Every golf swing draws an arc through the impact zone, and that arc has a single lowest point. With an iron, the low point should occur an inch or two in front of the ball — meaning the club is still descending when it strikes the ball, then bottoms out and takes a divot just past where the ball was sitting. With a driver off a tee, the low point should occur before the ball, so the club is ascending at impact.

Bad iron contact almost always traces back to a low point in the wrong place. Fat shots happen when the low point is behind the ball. Thin shots happen when the body never delivers the low point in front of the ball at all. The cure is rarely a hand action — it's a sequence and weight transfer issue. Players who hang back keep the low point behind the ball; players who post on the lead side move it forward where it belongs.

A simple range drill: lay a tee or a coin two inches in front of the ball and try to clip the ball first and the marker second. If the divot starts behind the ball, your low point is in the wrong place.