(07-26-2023, 07:38 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: Two reasons: The first is psychological. You know at the range that if you hit a bad ball, you can just reach over and pull in another ball and try again. There is no pressure to get it right the first time.

The second is physical. How often do you change clubs between shots? Like most of us, probably not until you’ve grooved in the club you’re practicing with after 10-15 swings. Play the range like you would play the course: driver, mid-iron, then wedge. Play three or four holes in succession from memory of a course you know.

This in turn leads to another reason range sessions rob from course play. How often do you practice your short game? We can spend hours with the long clubs and little time with the short ones.

While we’re on the subject of golf, I want to talk about the my new irons that I played for the first time yesterday. Oh.My. Gawd. I’ve gained up to two club lengths from my old clubs (which I never liked but were free). 162 to a center pin. The 7 iron sailed the green. The 8 iron rolled to the back of the green. I’ll need to recalibrate my distances now. I told my son these clubs can’t be legal.

Wilson D-9s, 4-GW, with graphite shafts.Fantastic clubs. Long and forgiving.

So yesterday I tried your suggestion of switching clubs between shots.  And guess what?  I had a lot of bad shots!  More than normal. 

But I think I learned something.  Other than the fact that I suck at golf.  Most of my bad shots were caused by one common swing fault that I managed to fix.  

Hope springs eternal.  But I'll probably wind up on my deathbed in my old age thinking "how can I get more lag?"  

That's the thing about me and golf.  I'm always thinking some major breakthrough is just around the corner.  It's like good golf is right in front of me and I can almost grab it but not quite.

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