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Florida carry yardages, most of the bermuda grassed courses i play dont give any roll so its pretty easy to get yardages dialed in... D 45.25" 260 3w 43.00" 240 2h 41.50" 222 22*h 40.50" 205 5i 24* 38.00"187 6i 28* 172 7i 32* 157 8i 37* 145 9i 42* 133 47 35.50" 120 52 35.25" 104 57 35.00" 88 62 34.75" 72 *my 5i is juiced +2*, my 6i is +1*, and my 9i is -1* weaker than they came std. This makes my iron gaps a lil bigger, but allows me to carry a 62* instead of a 4i

so u answered your own question. get on the putting green. you didnt really have a plan when you starting going to the range did you? get out there! you nailed it. thats a huge part of it. def groove the stroke at home whenever u can , but when youre on the green, id try long putts and really short putts. im guessing here, but youre probably not 3 putting too many mid range jumpers....and its gonna take ions of practice to get to these guys' level for making it form 15'-20' in 2013. plus they still didnt cash in 20%:0. so its not going to affect your score as much as avoiding 3 putts by knocking them in or close.....and cleaning up most of the shorties. 90th Jim Furyk 80 rounds 17.83% 129# attempted 23# made 91th Zach Johnso n 84 17.79 163 29 to A) learn today's greenspeed and B) find your personal pace/tempo .......take 3 balls (preferably the same type for consistent feel) and stagger the distances from a fringe like 25', 30' and 35' away. 3 balls. 3 distances. 1 target. attempt to putt them from the middle of the green or so to the edge of the green so they just kiss the fringe. i say 3 distances so that we dont get complacent and "just rake and hit balls" like the robots on the range. Shock the system a lil bit by changing it up. I say putt to the fringe becuz we dont need a hole to get job A and B done. Plus ima huge bitch. I dont want my bitchy mind to see myself missing any more putts than it does already. i want to focus on greenspeed and personal tempo. if the ball finishes even a couple of feet right or left, its ok. if i practice at a hole its harder to think of the distance as most important. its "line line line". im tired of hearing people roll bombs up to pin high and a foot left and then complain about a misread. also if a practice green is busy i can still warm up or practice this way. Distance matters most in longer (longer, not lag, lag implies im not trying to make them. i wanna make em all) putts. be sure to hold your finish and posture and watch the ball run out completely while u feel the stroke that did the job... good or bad. if i leave a 30'er 4' short and am moving up to a 25'er next.... if i can repeat the stroke and tempo i just made im going to b really close on this next 25'er. hold your finish! i usually do this easily for my good ones and want to rush to the next ball if i dont like a result. try like 25' 30' 35' uphill and 46' 38' 32' downhill (i separate downhill putts a lil more becuz it takes a lil more dist difference between the balls for me to feel much of a difference between the strokes. and i want to feel that difference). rotate up and downhill, left and right breaking, starting with the front ball and go to the back ball, and vice verse. keep changing it up. trick your brain a lil and i think youll stay engaged and learn a lil faster. keep the putts between like 18' and 50". theres PROBABLY no need to use up practice time shooting from half court unless u play in scotland. to A) create a disciplined routine and B) build confidence practice short putts. ok, B is part of A. but i like to have 2 bullet points:). take 4 or 5 balls (whatever doesnt quite fill up the cup at your course) and surround the cup. set up 5 different 18" putts from each side. come up with a routine for u. then do it each time. i go behind the ball, read the putt, pick a tiny target in the back of the cup (piece of grass, discolored paint chip in the cup, something small) walk up while looking at my target and align my putter at the target, align my body to my putter, look back at the target once again, then back to the ball and putt, holding my finish and posture for a extra second before i move to get my ball out of the cup. your routine is up to u. maybe copy someone on tour u like or do the opposite of whatever u do now:0. sorry. its too soon. thats a low blow. practice swing or no practice swing? that kinda stuff is up to u. just b sure to pick a tiny target, and do the same routine every time. Ray Allen shoots for a rivet in the back of the rim, and has the same tempo and dribble routine for each free throw he shoots. we dont have to invent the wheel. just copy the best. it takes a lot of discipline to do your routine on the practice green. but if you dont, and go to the course, then its not a routine, its not what u practiced, its different. putt a few sets each of 18", 24", 30" and 36"ers. besides maybe a few interesting "breakers", i dont go any further than that before i play. i want to c em all go in. build confidence. after you get good at it, and if its just a practice day, you can add putts up to 5'. Spend like 60% of your warm up or practice putting time on short 18", 24", 30", and 36"ers with 5 balls to a tiny target in the cup for routine and confidence , and the rest with 3 balls to the fringe from staggered distances to learn todays greenspeed and your personal tempo .

move up 1 or 2 tees so you dont have torture your 25 handicap self with a 210y par 3. but i doubt you'll do that so i think u answered your own question. you hit the 3w the same as the 5w. i highly doubt if you hit 43' 15* club and a 42.5" 18*ish degree club the same that getting a 13* MAYBE 43.5" MAYBE still 43" club will be any different. GET THE 60* ATV PS sell the 4i, at least, and probably the 5i. hybrids! check out Kuchar, Na, Furyk and a host of other pro "whats in the bags" and you'll c they mostly start their iron sets with 3 and 4i's....but a lot start with a 5i now. YE Yang starts with a 6i! THEY R REALLY GOOD. IF THEY START WITH A 3-4i....im probably not going to do it the same.

its not that big of a deal, at all. welcome back to the game. thats the important part. but if i had to make a decision.... id say 5 wood. its easier to hit than both a 4 wood or a 3 wood. you have 10 clubs. i agree with the others saying "get wedges", but im just trying to answer your question first.....so id get a 5w.... my order of "14 club set completing advice" is: the SW is huge and as u are just getting back into the game you might want another wood to tee off with more safely than a driver...plus use off the ground. then add 58* or 60* LW and a 3 wood whenever you feel like/can afford it/improve and know youre sticking with the game etc etc

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first off try not to get too down on yourself. golf is tough. long shots are a tougher part of golf. long shots from the rough are some of the tougheresnessest! 1)PLAY THEM MORE LIKE THEY ARE IRONS all things being equal the longer the club... the more forward we play it in our stance. obv a normal driver shot is the furthest forward (and furthest away from us) and the stock LW short is basically in the center and closest to us. 3w's seem to b like 43.5" or 43" and 5i's like 38" nowadays. depending on year and model and # hybrid.... im guessing yours r closer to iron length. maybe hold whatever hybrids u use next to whatever woods and irons u use and c which it is closer too and play it more like that club? but...i FEEL (i have no fake stats or used car salesman tricks to use here, so my opinion is all i have..) most plyrs that think hybrids are their weak spot play them too far forward. if everything is your weak spot, then ??$%^^$%. OR are "sweeper golfers" instead of "digger golfers". if you dont take iron divots, youre probable a "sweeper"... so id sell my hybrids and buy some combo of 5w, 7w and 9w to replace my long irons. rough? hybrids? another toughie. but hey tha'ts a big part of why we bought em right? 2)BE REALISTIC "Golf is a compromise between what your ego wants you to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. " - Bruce Crampton "Every golfer scores better when he learns his capabilities." - Tommy Armour pga tour pros hit it ABOUT the same dist from the jar when they r 200-225y in the fairway as they do from 150-175y in the rough:0 (their rough is usually more serious then ours but still, its a good lesson. avoid the rough, and if im already in the rough, respect it). PLUS if you think u cant get near the hole or greenside in this shot, why bother risking it?I dont know your game, tees, or course.... but hitting 10 hybrids a round seems like a lot. In my game, im not forcing a hybrid outa any real hay, and im not hitting one just to get to 2/3rds SW at 70y out (i dont think im any better with a partial wedge than i am with a normal PW) If i cant cant get AT LEAST to pitching range, like