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so tour wedge distances (averages) to pin from 100/120yards in - the top twenty range from around 15' & change to around 18' & change so distances from 80 - 60 etc improve a tad on that as the distance diminishes so yep there's some room there for improvement of the wedge game - back to check...

know it ain't easy due to the layout of majority of driving ranges - but if you could shoot your swing from face-on (lens opposite center & at hands high height - then watch it back on youtube goin into settings changing speed to 0.25 - likely then be able to see what the hands & clubhead are...

one 'study' findings here http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/GOLF/Putting.pdf

"The Stimpmeter, invented in the 1930s but not made standard practice by the USGA until the 1970s, is a yardstick-like trough that releases a ball on a green through gravity to measure greenspeed in feet of roll. When it was initially devised by noted Massachusetts amateur Edward V. Stimpson...

https://www.golfdigest.com/story/in-the-race-to-faster-greens-caution-signs-abound-us-open

there is no standard to flex through all the shaft manufacturers more important is the weight of shaft along with the bend profile along the shaft - plus also the right length & lie angle swing speed just gives a very general ball park of where a fitter might start weight of shaft can help...

speaking from the point of view from the other side of scratch the difference between a scratch index & a 10 is exponentially greater than the difference between a 10 & a 20 index even the difference between say a 6 or 5 to scratch is massively more than the distance between 20 to 10 index...

get that many folks have trouble controlling strike location most often anyone that has real bad issues with heel strikes will have a swing path that's out to in & an AOA that's down - again usually that's down to issues with swing sequence & often times also weight pressure transfer issues -...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvZM_fHp5s&frags=pl%2Cwn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRE5l1r6EDk

thing is unfortunately there's a bunch of ways that can lead to a socket - know it's the old obvious answer but a pga pro would spot your particular issues in a matter of moments so without seeing exactly what the swing is like can only suggest a couple of things to consider generally most...

would not advise buying new or used set of clubs without taking lessons & getting a pga pro's advice first

as been spoken to already 'practice' only really beneficial if the practice is on the correct lines - need to know exactly what the practice should entail to improve - practice makes permanent & that can be a huge obstacle to any kind of improvement if the feeling is that the 'swing has been...

as has been spoken to on the thread already very easily possibly to play to an index of say 12 even 10 with that swing speed folks who can hit the ball a fair ways longer do so using more efficient swing motion technique that give the optimum launch conditions - only real ways to improve that...

so an alternative way of looking at this (though any extra 'efficient' ss given good/optimum launch conditions so that extra ss is also transferred into bs would always be useful) would be - a certain david toms with a driver swing speed for the majority of his career of around 100 - 103 mph)...