{"id":34,"date":"2004-09-10T09:21:38","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/uncategorized\/yardage_calculator\/"},"modified":"2004-09-10T09:21:38","modified_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:21:38","slug":"yardage_calculator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesandtrap.com\/b\/playing_tips\/yardage_calculator","title":{"rendered":"Yardage Calculator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just about the lamest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen: a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sportacademy\/bsp\/hi\/golf\/equipment\/calculator\/html\/default.stm\" title=\"Yardage Calculator\" class=\"external external_icon\">yardage calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s tip of the day is a simple one: take enough club. Most trouble is at the front of a great. Very rarely are there bunkers and water behind the green. 90% of the time, amateurs come up short. Often, perfect ball-club contact would result in the proper shot, but  90% of the time perfect club-ball contact is not made. Choose the club that&#8217;s most likely to get you to the hole, imperfect contact and all. If that&#8217;s a 7I from 150 instead of a 9I, hit it. The confidence you&#8217;ll have in the club will do more for you than swinging harder at a weaker club.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is an affront to our masculinity, is it not? We all want to hit 9Is from 150, right? It&#8217;s great to say to our partner &#8220;I&#8217;ll just hit an easy 9I&#8221; from 150 yards. But unless your playing partners are watching you <em>very<\/em> carefully, saying you hit an easy 9I is completely independent of the soft 7I you just hit. 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