I have been using my 8 and sometimes 7 iron for bump and run shots onto the green, when I get within 75 ish yards. I've had a lot of success with this, of course the green can't be guarded with a bunker. These shots are all feel, the back swing distance goes to maximum 9 oclock. I would say it's 7:30-8 oclock, 90% of the time. It's much more of a chip type of swing. The question is, has anyone taken the time and written down, or in phone, or whatever, of knowing the yardage with 5-8 iron on this chip shot type of swing and then apply this on the course. I'm thinking about doing this, but it will be time intensive. I really like this bump shot for really poor lies, like off dirt, let's face it, not every part of the course is nice green grass. Thanks for any responses. If I do this, I will use my range finder and on a flat fairway with golf grass, a random field is useless.
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Interesting. I think the rule of thumb is 2.5 yards for every degree of loft. Thus, some of your distances (if I'm close to correct) are likely due to swing speed for certain wedges vs the same swing speed for each wedge. Good to collect data though.