subirnag

Thanks, folks. Will try fitting the clubs.

Hi, I am a high handicapper; play around 100, although go to low nineties some times, and break into nineties once in a blue moon. My height is 5'4" and the wrist to ground distance is 27-28 inches. The length of my driver shaft is 43 inch! (Four iron is standard 36 inch. Other irons are proportionate, I guess.) Whenever I am a bit rusty, my drive goes a bit awry. And I think that the shaft length is one of the reasons. I choke down quite a bit, but still it perhaps lingers in my mind. Have same problem with 3 wood from the fairway as well, but not with 19 degree rescue which is probably an inch shorter than 3 wood. Although I hit the 3 wood quite ok last saturday. Should I cut the driver shaft? How much? Should I change other shafts too? Opinions/ tips please. Thanks,

I have some doubts about and arising out of the phrases such as “ opening the stance ”, “ opening the clubface ” and “ back and ahead in the stance ” etc. esp. when playing the short game. Firstly, opening the stance automatically opens the clubface. So is the openness of clubface is in relation to the stance or the target? Does one open stance pointing to the left of target and further open clubface to the right of target? Or just open the stance only? And how much should one open? Opening by 45 degrees gives quite disastrous results to me. Secondly, about the ball position. Say the golfer starts with the ball in the middle of the stance. Now, on opening the stance by moving the left foot behind, if one sees at the golfer from in a line perpendicular to the line from ball to target, the ball will still look reasonably in the middle of the stance. However, at line perpendicular to the open stance line, the ball will look closer the right foot, i.e. back in the stance. So which viewing angle does golf literature mean, when it says back of the stance after opening the stance? Then, let us say one has opened the stance towards left, and the clubface is opened towards right, WHAT IS the line of the shot – parallel to the stance? From ball to target? Or the line of the clubface? Or even if the stance is open towards left and clubface is square, which is the line of the shot?