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My instructor before I found TheSandTrap talked about he felt his left side more in the golf swing. I am nearly all right side dominant. I am also almost 100% right eye dominant, to the point I have low stereoscopic eyesight because of that dominance. With one of my pieces, a bit of left wrist flexion. That is much easier to feel if I focus on my left hand. For me, taking my right hand dominance out of it helps a bit. -
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Jayson's question towards the end....this is the first time I've really heard anyone bring up the topic of being "lead-hand dominant." I swing left-handed, but I'm right-hand dominant. It's hard to describe, but while watching online videos/instruction/drills or during lessons, I've always felt a little disconnected from what they're telling me I'm suppose to be feeling. For example, I would think at times it's going to be easier to overdo certain movements with your dominant side and harder to exaggerate them with your weak side. Or easier to feel or control moments with your dominant side. Maybe it's not as drastic as I think, but I would imagine so many things feel completely different when you're dominant hand is under/behind the club as opposed to over/ahead. In a sport with so much discussion around "feels," I guess I'm just surprised this isn't talked about more. -
I listened to it. I still think it depends on what your margins are. If it's 1-2 degrees of face variation vs an inch of clubhead height at impact I think it's entirely opposite if it's +/- 4 degrees of face vs a groove of clubhead height. One thought I had to carry on the devil's advocate side, I think PGA Tour players struggle more with face angle than they do with low point control. That either means low point control is just easier than face control (I suspect this is the case), but it could also mean that if your low point control is not good then you're never getting on the PGA Tour in the first place. The former would suggest clubface control is more important because low point control is easy. The latter would suggest that low point control is more important. Speaking from personal experience, I can generally keep the ball on the golf course side to side, but, in particular on less than full shots, I have trouble with my low point. I have stood on a 350 yard par 4 before in a tournament, hit a 280 yard drive down the middle, hit a 10 yard 54 (from 70 yards) and then hit a 90 yard 54 that didn't get more than a yard off the ground. Chip on and two putts and double. So low point control can definitely cause scoring difficulties. Face control obviously can, as can be witnessed by anyone who has hit it over a fence anywhere. -
Shot an 87 yesterday, despite hitting only two GIR. 😕 I also had four very wasted shots in there: hole 2, I hit my approach into what I can best describe as soft turf? I don't know how to describe it. My first two chips were, I thought, good attempts but both resulted in moving the ball maybe a foot or two. I don't even know how to detect that condition in the future but now it scares me and I have to figure out what's going on. Clearly I can't pitch from that kind of lie, but I have to have encountered it before, right? On sticky grass (I don't know how to better describe) on hole 14, I thought I hit another good chip and the grass grabbed it and the ball went maybe a yard, not even to the green. I walked right up and chipped to 6' or so. And on hole 9, I hit my drive not only shorter than usual, but right, and I was behind a tree and had to play out sideways. Once I did that, I still had a 5-iron into the green (I normally hit 9-iron or so into this one). On the bright side, I parred every par-5 (there are three). First two, GIR and a putt to a foot or two. Third one, two good shots to have a pitch into the elevated green, had my perfect "half UI" shot to the pin with nothing but grass between me and it, didn't account for elevation (note to self: stop forgetting that on pitch shots) and came up just short of the green. I still was able to putt from there to 2' and make my par. Okay, so I had some good to go with some bad. -
I haven't listened yet, but saw the title and was thinking about it, curious which way round they came out. My thought would be it really depends on how much we're talking. If your club is half an inch low at impact on a wedge, the ball is not going very far. If you're 2 degrees open, you're basically fine. If you're a groove low with an 8 iron you won't notice much if anything. If your face is 4 degrees open with a driver, you're on the next hole over (if you're lucky). Interested to listen (will be doing so at lunchtime while I walk the doggo).
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