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Really like the concept that Eric discusses in here and I'm going to give it a go next time on the range.

Thigh-to-thigh
Hip-to-hip
Chest-to-Chest
Shoulder-to-Shoulder
...when needed, all out/full swing

- I also like the fact that he would rather switch clubs than trying to go all out.

 

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Just now, Shankster said:

*not watching the video but I’ll echo a few things*

Yes. Switch clubs instead of going 110%, your result will be far superior.

Keep ball position the same, shaft neutral.

Great points !

Tempo was the same as well...

about the only thing he adjusted was stance width and how far down the club he gripped.

 

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This is pretty much what I do. I just call each swing 1/4 1/2 3/4 full. But it's the same concept of thigh, hip, shoulder, full. It really gives you a starting point, and then I can say to myself, "okay, add a little bit to a 1/2", or whatever I need to do. 

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Just now, GB13 said:

This is pretty much what I do. I just call each swing 1/4 1/2 3/4 full. But it's the same concept of thigh, hip, shoulder, full. It really gives you a starting point, and then I can say to myself, "okay, add a little bit to a 1/2", or whatever I need to do. 

Awesome!  And I like the idea of using parts of your body as checkpoints. 
I have a hard time sometimes "feeling" what a half is, but from a proprioception point of view I can tell where my hips are.  🙂

 

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I don't have a "system" to vary my shot distance; it's all feel.  I know that I could probably gain better control of shot distance if I did, but I have other issues that I'm working on at the moment.  I can get the ball on the green, and I can usually get it to the middle which is OK for me to front, middle and back pins.  I rely on my putting.

The main reason I don't have a "system" is the shortness of my swing.  Jon Rahm has a long swing compared to mine.  lol   If I could take what I would consider a standard "full swing" with a wedge, my handicap would be somewhere around 24.

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This is something I have struggled with my whole golf career. Like @Kenny B I don't have a system, and generally it is by feel. What happens is when it's good it's good, but when it's bad its disgusting. I have tried just about every "system" out there and have never been able to perfect it. It really is what stops me from reaching my goal of scratch. So this year it is my sole focus. 

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I do a lot of 9:00 and 10:30 shots with AW, SW, LW .... much more control and consistency for me doing this.   

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1 hour ago, THEZIPR23 said:

This is something I have struggled with my whole golf career. Like @Kenny B I don't have a system, and generally it is by feel. What happens is when it's good it's good, but when it's bad its disgusting. I have tried just about every "system" out there and have never been able to perfect it. It really is what stops me from reaching my goal of scratch. So this year it is my sole focus. 

Keep me posted on what you find out.

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https://www.secretgolf.com/videos/profiles/jason-dufner/wedge-game/jason-dufner-power-for-wedges

 

This is what I am currently working on. Along with trying not to hit 100% wedges. 

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8 minutes ago, THEZIPR23 said:

https://www.secretgolf.com/videos/profiles/jason-dufner/wedge-game/jason-dufner-power-for-wedges

 

This is what I am currently working on. Along with trying not to hit 100% wedges. 

The Steve Stricker approach.

I was doing that up until a few months ago.  Results were not too bad; had some good rounds, but also had days when I think the flat swing wasn't working for me.  I have a flat swing normally with all clubs.  I have been experimenting with more wrist hinge to get steeper... the jury is still out.

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This is great information especially if you are not a feel player.  My biggest problem is decelerating on the down swing and chunking wedge shots.  I always joke with my friends that I'm the best at bogey holes from 100 yds and in.  I will definitely be testing this out the next time I'm out at the range.  I prefer to not hit full length wedge shots.  My body gets all out of tempo when I do resulting in inconsistent ball strikes. 

 

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10 minutes ago, alfriday101 said:

I don't think that being a feel player and having a system are mutually exclusive.   

They aren't. Very rarely do you get a number that is EXACTLY one of your numbers with a "stock swing". You'll say something like, I need a little more than a hip to hip. 3 yards more or whatever. So even with a system, you still have use feel to hit exact numbers. 

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Distance control is probably the worst part of my game. I've been trying to incorporate a clock into my system and determine the distance at 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... similar to Eric explains. 

Side note, for some reason I've never come across his videos before and they've been popping up more and more recently. Eric has some quality content. 

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33 minutes ago, TSauer said:

Distance control is probably the worst part of my game. I've been trying to incorporate a clock into my system and determine the distance at 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... similar to Eric explains. 

Side note, for some reason I've never come across his videos before and they've been popping up more and more recently. Eric has some quality content. 

I've watched a lot of Eric's videos .... I like the way he teaches.

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Kept a lot of these pointers in mind tonight for a quick round after work... holy cow. My chipping/pitching stance is something I’ve always tinkered with. After watching this I tried keeping the feet a lot closer together and stood more square with the target instead of opening up like I usually do. I have never chipped better than I did tonight.

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23 hours ago, GB13 said:

This is pretty much what I do. I just call each swing 1/4 1/2 3/4 full. But it's the same concept of thigh, hip, shoulder, full. It really gives you a starting point, and then I can say to myself, "okay, add a little bit to a 1/2", or whatever I need to do. 

That's what I'm working on and trying to do, also .. 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, Full .. but "Full" is still not 100% effort (have a tendency to pull it left with a wedge if I swing too hard). I try to calibrate position using my left (lead) arm position.

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Just now, cksurfdude said:

That's what I'm working on and trying to do, also .. 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, Full .. but "Full" is still not 100% effort (have a tendency to pull it left with a wedge if I swing too hard). I try to calibrate position using my left (lead) arm position.

Yeah, I'd say for me full (on all my clubs really) is about 90%. If I swing too hard, the excrement hits the spinning turbine. 

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Ive tried the clock method and its just too much thought.  I carry what I consider 4 wedges and they are dialed in decent.  I go by feel and do decent with it. If I could only putt. 

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8 hours ago, pulledabill said:

Ive tried the clock method and its just too much thought.  I carry what I consider 4 wedges and they are dialed in decent.  I go by feel and do decent with it. If I could only putt. 

I personally lean more toward the mechanical side and do the clock/body location approach.  My thought is I want to go 8:00 and then it becomes feel to taking the club to 8:00.  I always hear people say they go by feel,  what does that really mean?  Do you have a thought for feel?  Not knocking your approach,  just trying to understand what feel means to you. 

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19 minutes ago, cnosil said:

I personally lean more toward the mechanical side and do the clock/body location approach.  My thought is I want to go 8:00 and then it becomes feel to taking the club to 8:00.  I always hear people say they go by feel,  what does that really mean?  Do you have a thought for feel?  Not knocking your approach,  just trying to understand what feel means to you. 

Hmm..I guess I've played long enough and hit enough balls that you develop some "feel" for what you need to do with each club in my bag.  I take in to account the lie, how much green do I have to work with, is there carry, what trajectory,  and do I want it to stop or roll out. Then still screw it up. I understand what my "full" shot is with my wedges and what a (my) half shot does as well.  I don't have the mechanical "feel" to go to a specific known clock # in general and that is why I carry 4 wedges.  I'm sure I could figure it out but no need to really.  

I suppose by feel/touch  you could compare it to a chip shot in some ways.  I would guess most of us go by feel on chips so I really see no difference.  

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5 hours ago, cnosil said:

I personally lean more toward the mechanical side and do the clock/body location approach.  My thought is I want to go 8:00 and then it becomes feel to taking the club to 8:00.  I always hear people say they go by feel,  what does that really mean?  Do you have a thought for feel?  Not knocking your approach,  just trying to understand what feel means to you. 

 

... Some people are accountants or IT specialists and some people are actors or musicians. I certainly understand the mechanical approach if it works for you and the way your brain processes things. But imo good feel always trumps good mechanical technique and here is why. We don't have many 40 yd pitches on level lies with no wind. We don't always play on the same kind of grass. We don't play in the same temperatures. A 40 yd pitch landing short of the green can bounce and run on a hard dry fairway or stop dead on a lush watered fairway. 

... A 40 yd pitch into a 10 mph wind off bermuda grass and a tight downhill lie is a radically different shot than a 40 yd pitch with a 10 mph wind at your back off a fluffy bent grass uphill lie. Pocket to pocket is useless in those situations and we play those varied conditions more than we play a level lie with no wind. Feel is essential to playing those shots well. Granted if you are not a creative personality and mechanical technique works best for you, obviously you can calculate some kind of formula to account for the differences like "I am gonna fly this pitch 50 or 60 yds for this 40 yd pitch" to account for the wind and lie. I see people walk off their putts to get an idea of how hard to hit it but again down/side/uphill makes that approach difficult. I had someone ask me last round how I can be so accurate with my putting after playing a 6 foot break on a downhill putt that looked like it broke 3 feet or less. He wanted to make the same putt and wanted to know the spot I picked out to roll my putt over. I told him I have no idea where I am gonna roll my putt. I check the line from both sides and take the surroundings into account (we were playing a mountain course) then stand over my putt after a practice stroke and let me feet and eyes "feel" where to stroke the putt and then just use feel to hit my putt. 

... Like all things with this crazy game there are many ways to accomplish the same goal. But I would always suggest mechanical players try to incorporate at least some feel into their routine if possible. And feel players can always use a little technical mechanics to improve their play. 

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I stated earlier that feel and a system are not mutually exclusive.  I stand by that statement.  

 

I know how far I hit each of my wedges (and 9, 8 and 7 irons) on 1/4, half, 3/4 and full swings.  Now, my 1/4 swing may not be 1/4, but it is what I feel is a 1/4 swing and, most importantly, it is reasonably repeatable swing after swing, hole after hole.  The distances I hit my shots is based on a flat, good lie.  Basically, these are distances I found and practiced on the range.  Since I know these distances, I don't have to think about  technique or mechanics when playing.  I have the information--which is simply a starting point for play on the course.  (As an aside, practicing all four shots with each club is a great skill building exercise and an excellent way to improve ball striking).

 

Here is how it works on the course.  Suppose the pin is toward the back of slightly elevated green, which slopes back to front.  The front of the green is 40 yards away, the pin is 55 yards away.  (I do tend to measure the distances as I've found that architects are very good at fooling the eye of the golfer, at least this golfer.)  

 

When I approach the ball, I"ll survey the green, my lie, the slope, the wind, etc.  Information gathering.  I'll usually laser the pin and possibly the front of the green.  I'll then decide on the shot I want to hit--high, low, or medium, little run out, a lot of run out, etc.  Most of the time, it will be a straight forward pitch--carry the ball half way between the front of the green and pin and let the ball roll to the pin.  The shot I want to hit determines which club I will use.  I pick the spot where I want to land the ball.  So, in our example, I want to hit the ball 45 to 50 yards in the air and let it roll out.  For my 55 degree wedge, that is a bit more than a half swing. I have my starting point. 

 

The thinking, or mechanical side now shuts down. Feel takes over.  I will stand behind the ball and envision the shot, looking at the target. When envisioning the shot, I will swing the club a bit back and forth in my right hand.  I will feel the way the club moves through the grass, the wind, all the factors that go into actually hitting the shots.  I'm not analyzing, just feeling and anticipating.  I call this priming the pump.  When my feel matches my intent, I'll step in and hit the shot.  By this point, there is no thought of "half swing" or anything mechanical.

 

(That took a lot longer to explain than it takes to actually do on the course.)             

 

 

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2 hours ago, chisag said:

 

.... Like all things with this crazy game there are many ways to accomplish the same goal. But I would always suggest mechanical players try to incorporate at least some feel into their routine if possible. And feel players can always use a little technical mechanics to improve their play. 

This^^^^^^^   I believe that it is a combination of both feel and mechanics that each of us put into a swing.  We need the mechanics and technical aspects as a base value and we need the feel to know to add or take off a bit as needed for the conditions.  We know that a ball below our feet will often move off away from us so we instinctively through experience and feel adjust to compensate.  Knowing that a 9:00 position (or arm parallel to the ground) swing gives us xxx yards, we can adjust the speed of our turn to give it another 5.  How often do we find ourselves between clubs?  We don't accept that it will be long or short of the pin.  We do "something" to adjust our "normal" swing to compensate....call it feel, call it experience, call it whatever.  We all do it and our knowledge of our baseline mechanics is at the core of our decision on how to complete the task at hand.  

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Thanks for the thoughts. Seems like everyone is a combination of feel and mechanics. I don’t believe anyone falls exclusively at one end or the other; we are all somewhere in between.

Based on the descriptions I am feel based. I take the conditions into account and based on my need I decide how far to swing the club and the tempo to accomplish the shot. My mechanics are part of training and practice; whether it is half, 9:00, hip, parallel arm, etc. on the course I adapt based on the conditions and feel like I need a little more or less than what I have practiced.

Ultimately it is what works for everyone and I enjoy hearing other players approach.

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Putter:   :taylormade-small:TM-180

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I use 'Goldilocks' for my distance control (and I still suck!) but there is no substitute for practice playing in lots of different conditions and then gaining some intuitive feel for how the ball is going to react to your intent. 

You can learn mechanically by practicing where your hands are until its ingrained in your subconscious but there is danger you might use 'internal focus' if you think about body parts during your round (ie. thinking about where your hands need to be). Internal focus 'short circuits'  your kinetic chain.

Check this out by Shawn Clement .

 

 

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