Vacation in Florida

Question is, where were you losing strokes? If you are shooting 50’s…you absolutely have to start with chipping, pitching, putting. You need to be able to pitch a ball to a specific target.

Meaning, you are going to pick a spot to land the ball and then know hat far it will roll out.

For chipping, I pretty much always use my 58 degree wedge. However, I would advise someone else to do things a little different (to make it easier).

For me, I start from behind the ball and I look at the way I need to get the ball to the hole. I pick, High, médium, low flight.

1. Low flight will carry 1/3 distance to hole and roll 2/3.

2. Medium - 1/2 carry, 1/2 roll

3. High - 2/3 carry, 1/3 roll.

That’s my basic rule of thumb. From there, I figure out how terrain will change that and pick shot I want to hit.

I change my swing pattern to hit high/med/low with the 58. But I would advise someone struggling to simply use LW, SW, PW. Same motion with each club will give same results (high, medium, low).

So, take your sw and pick a spot that’s 2/3 carry. That’s where you need to land it. SW, carry half, roll half. pW, carry 1/3, roll 2/3.

This is going to be super simple now. You can literally go through every iron in your bag with the same setup. Chip with it and see what carry vs rollout is.

Choose the club that gets ball on green rolling as soon as possible. That will give you the shortest, easiest shot to hit. You can pretty much just use a putting stroke with the less lofted club and always get it on the green with a reasonable chance to make the putt.

Best part is, once you get good st doing this, it takes pressure off everything else because even if you miss the green, chipping is so easy.

How many 3-putts did you have in league?