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Going from regular shaft to a stiff shaft is enough to go from a draw to a fade. The influence of a golf club shaft is counter intuitive, but it can make a big difference.

An easy way to get the ball up with any club is to weaken your grip. Rotate your top hand so your knuckles are facing a little further down. This make you swing more upright, which will cause you to hit the ball higher, but you may also end up fading it. I probably wouldn't do this if you already hit a slice, you will also lose a small amount of distance.

I think the title of the thread is "what sport actions closely resemble a full golf swing." Therefore object used in the swing and placement of hands don't really matter. The precision needed is very similar. In hockey, it can be necessary to shoot from approx. 64 feet, and hit a target, yes hit not land on, that is maybe 5 in. in diameter. It takes as much touch on a shot like this as a 55 yd wedge, provided you don't hit some wedge full at that distance. You can sweep the puck, just like you can with a driver. If you bottom your swing out at the ball while using your driver, then you are swinging wrong. With both swings, you are supposed to hit up on the object. This means both swings bottom out before the ball/puck. If you bottom out too soon with either you will top them, too late you will push them. I play hockey and golf left handed. I was an allconference hockey player in high school and am a 9 handy in golf. I can shoot around 110 golfing right handed, but a 10 year old kid could out shoot me in hockey if I tried right handed. Bet ya a random guy off the street couldn't get the puck in the air but could hit a 150yd drive. Should probably be pretty good at both before you say which one takes more precision. Somebody who is athletic can be a 15 handicap in 2 years with a little work. I played hockey with people for 8 years who had a worse slapshot than my sister.

Hockey. Same backswing, transfer of weight, firing your hips, keeping your head behind the point of impact, releasing the face, toe comes through pointing up, and all weight finishes forward. To hit it high, finish high, to keep it low, finish low. A driver swing and a slapshot are nearly identical. Baseball is different because you keep your weight back for the most part.

Every tip I've read on chipping and putting is to keep your follow through the same distance as your backswing. This keeps you accelerating through the ball every time. This doesn't really help with distance, but it give you pure contact on short chips and keeps you aggressive on the green.

When you blow up a hole, what do you think about afterward. You think "Why did I do that?" At least that is what I think. Course management for me is thinking things through. "Why did I just try to spin a lw close when I had 10 yds of green to work with?" "Why did I try to hit my 8 iron 20 yds farther than I know I can?" Stupid decisions cost me more strokes than errant shots, and I see it more when playing my high handicap league opponents and patners. Think things through.

Nike One Tour, that is a good time right there. The spin on one of these is a lot of fun.

Golf pride cord bottom line best grips. I've gone through winn grips, lamkin, and most of golf pride's grips. Tour velvet/wraps are too slippery, cord isn't the most comfortable, but they get the job done.

A full pw for me is about 115, full sw is around 100. I only hit my sw inside 90 because I never swing more than 3/4 with my sw or lw. The rest of my clubs are 1 inch longer and I feel out of control swinging wedges more than that. Dunno if it will work for you but I have ditched my sw for those shots and worked on the feel of my pw.