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hi it can depend on what club your using. if using say a 6 iron up to a driver then i would use a tee as it lets you sweep into the ball more. with the shorter iron it depends on the shot shape you want. if it was a 135 yd par three then i would play say a 8 iron, if the flag was at the front of the green then i would use a tee of about an inch, if the flag was in the middle of the green then...

Hi Charlie, I have been using this technique for a little while now with results I am happy with. Two things stand out in what you wrote: 1. He talks about having your weight more on you front leg with the ball in the centre of your stance. 2. I think you may be decelerating the club head before impact. Try a 1/2 backswing with a high follow thru accelerating the club thru the ...

Wet bunker shots are never easy, but mainly in the mind. You must commit just as much as a splash from dry sand. You will have to hit through the sand harder for the same results as dry sand. You may find that you can't open up the face to the max for those higher shorter flops because you won't take any sand to cushion the shot. Next shot will be with a wood! Just pray that when you're in a ...

Quote: Originally Posted by dant My chipping game has always been something I could fall back on when everything else was going a little bad. But for the last 3 rounds all I am doing is shanking it to the right. I am not hitting it on the hosel but it seems on the toe and it squirts out to the right. I don't know if it is my grip or the way I am taking the club back. ...

Many times this is from using a shoulder turn on the backswing and then using mostly arms on the foreswing and not turning back through. The more you try to reach the hands forward in the foreswing, the more you hit behind. The turn must advance the hands in front of the ball, not the arms alone. Swaying is a related fault, similar reasoning. You see this in putting sometimes too when ...

Lob wedges are generally considered to be 60 to 64 degrees

On breaking putts. Most amateurs tend to miss breaking putts on the low side of the hole. In other words they don't "borrow" or aim high enough to take full advantage of the hole. I was, still am sometimes, bad for for not aiming high enough on breaking putts. What I have to do which is one those mental aspects of golf, is once I have determined my high point spot (target) I just add an extra 2" ...