When a 9-iron is too much club for an approach shot, it’s time to choose a wedge. The pitching wedge is the least-lofted of the wedge family, so you’ll hit the ball farther than with a gap, lob or sand wedge. Your exact pitching-wedge range depends on your game. Former PGA Tour standout Tom Watson reported in 2008, at age 59, that he hit his pitching wedge 125 yards, so an average male golfer might employ the club for shots of 100 to 110 yards.
You can also use it for shorter shots when you must clear an obstruction between the ball and the green, when the ball is against the collar of the green or for other approaches when a chip shot isn’t an option. You’ll generally use a pitching wedge with a good-to-fair lie. Gap wedges literally fill the gap between the pitching wedge and the sand wedge, which usually features a 56-degree loft. Gap wedges typically contain 50 to 54 degrees of loft. Gap wedges are used close to the green, allowing players to take a full swing. Before gap wedges were invented, golfers often employed the pitching wedge for very short approaches where chipping wasn’t possible. The player would take an abbreviated backswing to avoid hitting the ball too far.
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Lob wedges feature more loft than a sand wedge, generally 58 to 60 degrees, and are used for short, finesse shots in which the ball must rise immediately and land on the green softly. A few manufacturers even offer lob wedges of up to 64 degrees in loft.
Yup.At the end of the dayThose two things are true.What also seems to be true? Those who don't understand the mechanics of the golf swing often try to shy away from it. And their players will often achieve some short-term success that's better than a player working toward improvement the more traditional way, but these mental imagery types of things and the 'swing your own swing' types of things often install a lower ceiling than the golfer might otherwise be capable of playing to.
They're almost band-aid type fixes. As @HJJ003 said regarding Disney courses. It’s hard to beat the convenience in that Disney will transport your clubs for you.
You can even leave your clubs at one course and they’ll have them sent to the next course you’re playing. In regards to their four courses I actually prefer The Palms course to Lake Buena Vista. If I were to choose two I’d do The Palms and Magnolia. The Oaks is just a 9 hole family friendly walking course.If you’re willing or able to venture out, the two closest to Disney are Celebration Golf Course ( My home course) and Falcon’s Fire. Both are nice layouts but completely different types.
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They’re only about 10-15min away from Disney. @billchao was just here on a Disney trip and played Celebration with me. He’d be a good person to ask as someone who just did the whole Disney experience as a ‘tourist.’. I have a five-six years ago when I was always game for trying anything that made immediate sense.Anecdotally it is not a bad image for folks who have a tendency to scoop/flip at impact. But IMO it's hardly comes close to curing many fundamentally bad tendencies lot of us have. Come to find out it didn't cure any of my backswing bad habits like a flat swaying at take away.
I had to and am still am working to be mindful of Keys 1 and 2 independent of all other aspects.Hammering a nail is a 'mechanical image'. AOA, face direction, club direction, speed,etc are all mechanical aspects of a swing. Not knocking anything here, just that he is over the 10% pure mechanics quota right outta gates, no?Bottom line is, the image is fine, but I would caution anyone who would somehow think rest of the steps from address onwards automatically map themselves - especially the backswing pieces.
Oh how I wish though. TST Blog Entries.