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Thought about your prob for a while. When you say 'violently,' I imagined that you might be swinging too hard. I'm always trying to get that forward shaft lean and face turnover to go correctly in my swing, and today at the range I did it quite well by just swinging less hard. WAY less hard. If a golfer takes the club back almost parallel, and arrives at the ball with forward shaft lean, and enough lag, then it doesnt have to have any violent action to it. I mean, even it I were to swing the club wrong and make a mistake in the path, the speed would be too smooth for there to be any jerk-like motion anyways. So I say make a drill where you swing slower, like you are showing off the best form you could. Let the club do the work, dont worry about distance, feel the accuracy come, and I hope that might help.

I play the older MB-5002 blades. Love em. I always try my buddies irons, and I think any club can do the job, but I first went with Miura because of the online information I found. Being in Japan, I can get them for great deals on Yahoo Japan auctions. Solid clubheads, beautiful in their simplicity, sweetspot like butter. Getting fitted or knowing your specs will go far in dialing in the sweetness that Miura irons can offer. Also played the WMF-03 58-12 wedge. Solid with amazing feedback. Bounce contour was great for bunkers. A little too expensive for a wedge tho, IMHO.

I have the same problem. I fix it by focusing on the position at and slightly after impact. It you let the club face stay open through the ball, and not turn over the face, the right shoulder drops through as the ball hits high. If you focus on turning the club face over, like you see in the pictures of pros right after impact, the arms should not pull the right shoulder under too much. Look for Chuck Cook vids for great swing fixes on youtube too.

Hybrids! They are just too easy to hit well. The long irons are tough. After working on my swing, I know that you need a lot of headspeed to hit the long ones high and far. Specifically I mean having a good sweeping release in your long iron swing, not swinging harder. Now my 4 iron is my fav. Good luck.

I love to match my bag to my driver cover. I've got the full-on Cleveland red and white tour bag. Looks like a Ferrari. I would also match it to my irons if I could. Its a confidence boost for me, for sure. Its like a big advertisement, but thats great, cuz I believe in the product.

Hi Eddie, I think that that gap between your P and Sand wedge is too big to compensate effectively. You could do it by gripping down, etc., but a gap wedge would fix your problem perfectly. A 52 would not only make it easier to get distances between your P and SW clubs, but also fit in perfectly when you get a new iron set, since all iron sets are gonna leave you with around the same gap, unless you buy a set with an A wedge. If you wanna make it all up with the P, you could do it, yeah. In my setup I have a lot of options with my PW. I grip down to take about 10 yards off the full distance. I use a softer full swing that lands and rolls about 20 yards shorter than full too. Any shorter, and I'm right at the distance for my full SW. So it works! Shortening you backswing could also work. I recommend trying a 9 o'clock swing, where your arm would be parallel with the ground, and see it that gives you another dependable distance you can use. Seems like your clubs are fine for now as long as you keep your head down. Just remember to see the ball as it is hit, and you are good to go!

What up Wigget, I'm north of Tokyo in the country-side of Ibaraki-ken. Lots of nice courses. Yeah the women golfers out here really dress up, like as though they are sponsored. Ai's got the cute thang goin, and wow, did she just win in Thailand with a final round 63? Jeez!

Firstly, I think its great that you have golf partners that you are comfortable playing with. Its always harder for me to play with strangers because of the additional effort to be courteous, etc. But these days I like that additional pressure because I see so many fun challenges in golf. Like one time I played a really expensive course last year, and I couldnt drive to save my life. But I got a lot of practice from the rough! It was a course designed by Seve Ballesteros, and I learned later that he is really well known for getting out of trouble! His whole course could have been designed with that it mind! So I felt like I was earning my degree from Seve's School of Trouble. I would say that there are two ways to get back in play. One is to try to recover and get where you thought you should have gone. That way is hard. The other way is to look for an easy spot to lay up. Like, instead of trying to hit a shot over the trees towards the green, use a 5 iron to knock it out of the forest, into a nice area of the fairway. Then, you only sacrifice one shot, and you get to experience the rest of the hole from the fairway.

Its totally worth it to get lessons! To be able to learn more ways to fix a swing, or glean some wisdom from another fan of the game. Think of it like an oil change or something. But, even Jack Nicklaus said that he would never see his swing coach during the season, so that shows how important it is to keep to your game and your confidence. Lessons dont have to be like a complete overhaul. If you explain that most of the time the ball is doing what you like, and that you just want to learn how to improve or safeguard against those errors, I'm sure the pro could offer tons of help. And knowing why things are happening is more peace of mind.

Yep! I have started to play all my short wedge shots at an almost-half reduced speed, and the accuracy I have is so superb. This was my revelation: Slower is better for consistent wedge distances. I found info about it from the David Pelz book about the short game. He calls it the finesse swing, and its a completely different feeling swing than with your regular irons. Its amazing how well the ball pops up even at slower speeds. AND I found from another source that the more you try to hit the ball low, rather than scoop it, even at these slow speeds, the more the ball pops up in the desirable ways. The short game's where its at!

Ueda is the hottest. Sorry to say, but out here, I see at least one better than her at every course. What is this again? Par 4? Par 5? Got to..stay...focused...

I would use the 6 and hurry before my skin turns green and rips my clothes.

I saw Sepultura open up for Ministry once. Chaos ensued.

Thats exactly how I feel it these days. My drives are getting more consistently straight as a result. There is a great punch drill video by Chuck Cook on Youtube that is PERFECT for getting the right lag feel, IMO.