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Re: Level the playing field.

• Luckystar5 1,641 Posts

  Wed, Mar 10 2021 4:28 PM

  SimonTheBeetle:

  Greynurse0:

  And get rid of howling gales that NOBODY plays in in real life unless they're mad...

  Mmmm... People from the home of golf might have different thoughts on this.

  I remember playing with a pro from Scotland some twenty years ago and he was hitting the ball so low that it flew like some sort of cruise missile. When I asked him why, he said I should come and play in his hometown, then I would see why. And I did eventually (much later) and... yeah, I prefer playing elsewhere. LOL It was like you've got to hit punch shots one after another constantly to keep it in play!

  65%;of my approach shots, are punchs, I tell everyone in our club to learn it, can be ur best friend, in hurricane winds.

• SimonTheBeetle 3,647 Posts

  Wed, Mar 10 2021 8:05 PM

  Luckystar5:

  65%;of my approach shots, are punchs, I tell everyone in our club to learn it, can be ur best friend, in hurricane winds.

  You must score well on the old soils. :-)

  I've noticed that most pros now hit their iron shots more and less like a punch with no or little follow-through, especially since Tiger Woods' era. Well, definitely not the way I learnt.. I was told to lift it up in the air as much as you can with a slight fade so that it lands softly on the green surface. It caused my swing to be an accentuated reverse C form at the end like many learnt and played during the 70's and 80's.

• Luckystar5 1,641 Posts

  Wed, Mar 10 2021 8:46 PM

  Lol, I even learned how to hit a 1 iron,