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The Art of Simple Golf pairs an iron lesson with a quieter-wrist approach to chipping across two new uploads.
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Don't Turn Your Shoulders In The Iron Golf Swing
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- 1:07Excessive lead-shoulder movement can produce an over-the-top swing or a flat sway away from the ball.
- 3:07Fortey emphasizes controlling the swing's low point just after the ball.
- 3:40His replacement feel is a centered, ground-up wind-up rather than a forced shoulder turn.
- 6:14The arms should elevate during the wind-up instead of staying pinned against the chest.
- 7:22A headcover-under-the-trail-arm test demonstrates arm freedom.
- 8:59Fortey combines the wind-up and arm elevation in a full iron shot.
Alex Fortey wants golfers to stop chasing a bigger shoulder turn and give their arms some room instead. In "Don't Turn Your Shoulders In The Iron Golf Swing", he demonstrates how deliberately hauling either shoulder around can send the swing off course, then builds a simpler motion from the ground up.
The distinction is in the feel: stay centered, wind up through the hips, core and ribcage, and let the arms elevate rather than pinning them to the chest. A headcover-under-the-arm test makes that freedom tangible before Fortey combines the movements in a full iron shot. The lesson has reached roughly 12,000 views, making it the most-watched of the channel's two new uploads and its busiest video right now.
There is a familiar echo here. The channel's older "Don't Turn Your Shoulders for a Driver Golf Swing" has accumulated more than four million views. This time, Fortey applies the shoulder-turn question to iron contact and controlling where the club bottoms out.
The other new lesson, "Mastering Golf Chipping: Minimal Movement is Key!", keeps the week's less-is-more theme close to the green, emphasizing a body-driven motion instead of a wrist flick. Outside the new uploads, "STOP Using Your Wrists In Bunkers (Do This Instead)" carries the strongest daily momentum, extending that quiet-hands idea into the sand.
Subscribers held steady, while today's viewing pace is below the channel's usual level. Nearby golf channels offer a mixed picture: H.I.T GOLF is having a substantially busier spell, while US GOLF TV is also below its usual daily pace. For The Art of Simple Golf, the fresh interest is concentrated in Fortey's iron lesson, where the key instruction is not to force the shoulders but to let them follow.
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Great video I turn way to much
@chubbychequer1512See it on YouTubeNeed to practice this tomorrow thank you
@Luke-CruzSee it on YouTube😂excellent point on shoulder turn...its the waist
@vikramkanth8086See it on YouTube
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- 334,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 188,665
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- November 6, 2026
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Which object does Fortey use for his arm-freedom test?
Fortey places a club headcover under the trail arm to demonstrate arm freedom.