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I'm not gonna lie, this shit happens to me. And it always seems to happen at a crucial moment in the round. and there is no bigger killer of confidence than a low, almost sideways, worm burner. it only happens with my degree wedges and once I unleash the beast I can't tame it. It becomes mental after the first one. What's happening? Once I lose confidence in that club I keep having to cut off a pitching wedge and then distance control becomes an issue.

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I used to have the same thing, which almost made me quit for the year. If you use alot of wrist in your shots, take that out for now, focus on hitting with all your shoulders and arms, keeping your eye on the ball, and finishing through.

I used to have a slow backswing, and then zip right through the forward swing and I would do this. I just cut back to the basics, and started over again.

I know what you mean, as soon as i brought a wedge out I thought "uh oh.." that didn't help either.
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Check your aligment. When this happens to me, it's because I've opened up my front side a little to much. The result is that my back side is a little too close to the ball and is preventing me from coming through, properly. The result is an outside-to-inside swingpath and making contact with the hosel, first.

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You may be standing too close to the ball at address. Thats an occasional occurrence in my swing, though for me it just results in all my shots being struck on the heel (with the odd shank... yes, I said the s word).

Try and feel a nice bit of space between the butt of the club and your thighs. If this is indeed the problem.
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You may be standing too close to the ball at address. Thats an occasional occurrence in my swing, though for me it just results in all my shots being struck on the heel (with the odd shank... yes, I said the s word).

That's what happens when I do it, also I end up coming over the top when I do get too close. I started fwd pressing more on some of my wedges and it's helped me. My wedge game is my jewel, and every once in a while (mostly early in a round) is when it happens to me. I find getting loose at the range helps me big time.. if there's no range I start chipping early by hitting balls in my yard.

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I had this only on my 60* and 64* wedge for a few weeks. The worse thing was it was either a beatuiful high trajectory spinner dead nuts at the flag, or exit stage left off the hosel. I found that addressing the ball, shuffling my feet back a few inches helped as well as choking up .5-1 full inch on the clubs.

Never hit 1 with the 56 or any other cub except the 60 and 64. Took a few weeks of hardcore practice but it is solved.

I really hope you can get rid of it as there was nothing more frustrating than hitting 1 dead nuts within a few feet and then hitting another that felt like I should have been ashamed to even think of playing golf ever again.

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This was happening to me on the range this morning, and the problem was dumb. I wasn't getting my hips through the ball. For some reason I thought I could just kind of rotate them a little bit and expect to hit a good shot. I started concentrating on fully clearing my hips and every wedge shot was a good one. Try this out and see if it was the problem.

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thanks fellas. it usually happens to me when my buddy and I are all square at about the 15th or 16th hole and I just continue to shit my pants after. Hopefully some of this will stick in my mind come Monday.

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It's all mental. When I do this I am so anxious to see where the shot goes that I come up out of my stance causing all sorts off swing problems. I wouldn't try to fix the swing problems, they are the symptoms. Fix the cause, the anxiety. Consciencously stay in the shot and keep firing down and under. And try not to grind over your setup on these clubs. Just get up and hit it rather than setting yourself up for failure. It's like pulling an old ball out on a water hole.

This was happening to me on the range this morning, and the problem was dumb. I wasn't getting my hips through the ball. For some reason I thought I could just kind of rotate them a little bit and expect to hit a good shot. I started concentrating on fully clearing my hips and every wedge shot was a good one. Try this out and see if it was the problem.

This is it, for me, right here. Not clearing hips + also bringing club back wayy under plane = disaster for me.


I'm not gonna lie, this shit happens to me. And it always seems to happen at a crucial moment in the round. and there is no bigger killer of confidence than a low, almost sideways, worm burner. it only happens with my degree wedges and once I unleash the beast I can't tame it. It becomes mental after the first one. What's happening? Once I lose confidence in that club I keep having to cut off a pitching wedge and then distance control becomes an issue.

Sometimes your setup is fine and you just don't execute the shot. IMO this is an easy thing to do with wedges. Here is a short checklist of things to do:

  • Nail down your balance. Even a slight wobble here will send your clubhead forward a half inch or so.
  • Nail down your tempo too. Same thing. If you rush the swing there's no telling where the clubhead will end up.
  • Until you get it figured out, line the ball up towards the toe of your club. Better to hit it weakly than sideways.
  • Figure out a way to be confident, even if you don't deserve it. The lack of confidence is probably the biggest contributor to the problem! Your faults are probably minor; don't fear them.

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