I'm a golfaholic, no question about that. Counseling wouldn't help me. They'd have to put me in prison, and then I'd talk the warden into building a hole or two and teach him how to play. ~Lee Trevino
What if it is an egg.......then dont you want to move it up front?
Eggs are not that hard. Play them in the back, and decend on them very very very hard. Do not open the face at all, in fact close it down a little. It will pop right out with no spin, so expect a lot of run, but it will get out.
On ball placement. My confidence has been my undoing. I have just changed my stance for chipping/pitching. The ball is now inside my left foot, my right foot is onlt used to keep my balance (like a stork) and all of my weight is on my left side over my left knee. My hands are never behind the ball at any time during the swing, open stance with the swing in line with my feet and the club face is square to the ball. I always use a PW, I get enough backspin to stop the ball quickly but if I need to chip and run I switch to the 9 iron.
I feel totally in control and confident when I hit the ball. I use exactly the same stance and grip for my putting and have yet to 3 put since changing.
Only if the shot is over 50 yrds will I return the ball to the center of my stance and move my weight to the back foot.
Just my way, may not be for everyone, but and it works for me.
Quote of the month:
"It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual and self-mortification." ~Bruce McCall
Eggs are not that hard. Play them in the back, and decend on them very very very hard. Do not open the face at all, in fact close it down a little. It will pop right out with no spin, so expect a lot of run, but it will get out.
Just to add to Greg's great advice, when hitting a fried egg, aim a bit left (for righties). The club face will push the sand towards teh target, but the hosel will push the sand a bit right, so the ball will come out right of where you are lined up.
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