I need to improve my shorter stuff with my irons, from 100 to 175 yards. If I can hit a few more greens with those clubs and tighten up the proximity to the hole, that would help a lot.
When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.
Wind, weather, everything comes into play when you're in the kicking game - how far the ball is going to traveling in the air, where it's going to travel with the wind.
I think of all my iron shots as punches - not punch shots, but how much pressure I'm applying to the hit.
Spin is a tricky thing. When you're trying to avoid it - say, on a tee shot, where sidespin puts you in the trees - it's easy to make it happen.
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
For the most part, when you play a full shot from the primary rough at your course, you're gauging how close to a standard shot you can hit based on your lie in the grass.
Swinging harder with a longer club almost always leads to bad shots.
I'm not someone who looks to swing the ball away majorly.
The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.
My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
The ultimate judge of your swing is the flight of the ball.
The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.
I'm going to have wedge when guys are going have a 6-iron, plain and simple.
I almost never hit a shot all out, and I make a conscious effort to swing my long clubs just as I do my wedges. Keep this in mind when hitting your fairway woods.
When you're having trouble and topping the ball, it means the ground is moving on you.
Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.
I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.
You know when you've hit a good shot. I use a bat that weighs two pounds and nine ounces, and it makes a reassuringly solid sound when I connect properly. The ball pings off the middle.
The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.
The beauty is, while you're working on chipping, you're also working on driving. This is because the bottoms of both swings - the area around impact - are identical.
I have one idiosyncrasy that helps my driving accuracy. I grip down on the club. This makes it easier to control the clubface.
My driving and irons are the best part of my game. Growing to be 5-foot-11 has certainly helped.
To me, hitting the ball in the air means hitting a line drive, and I hit far more balls in the air.
My driver is my strongest club - it's what my game kind of revolves around.
