Golf Random Irritations

At an indoor sim getting yardages - as soon as one doesn't go quite as far as you'd like, you smash the life out of the next three with every fibre of your being, rendering the whole thing useless. Why?? 😆

Also, results gave a 16 yard gap between 8 and 7 iron. What am I meant to do about that? Buy a 7.5 iron??

Third annoyance - only a 3 yard gap between hybrid and 7 wood. I guess I need to swap the 7 for a 5 wood then. Didn't really want to do that as the 7 wood is like an old friend.
 
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Orikoru said:
At an indoor sim getting yardages - as soon as one doesn't go quite as far as you'd like, you smash the life out of the next three with every fibre of you being, rendering the whole thing useless. Why?? 😆

Also, results gave a 16 yard gap between 8 and 7 iron. What am I meant to do about that? Buy a 7.5 iron??

Third annoyance - only a 3 yard gap between hybrid and 7 wood. I guess I need to swap the 7 for a 5 wood then. Didn't really want to do that as the 7 wood is like an old friend.
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TMI. (too much information). Just choose the club and hit the required shot. "Gapping" is, imo, significantly over-rated. A player should be able to hit at least three clubs proficiently to a 100 yard marker.
 
Orikoru said:
At an indoor sim getting yardages - as soon as one doesn't go quite as far as you'd like, you smash the life out of the next three with every fibre of you being, rendering the whole thing useless. Why?? 😆

Also, results gave a 16 yard gap between 8 and 7 iron. What am I meant to do about that? Buy a 7.5 iron??

Third annoyance - only a 3 yard gap between hybrid and 7 wood. I guess I need to swap the 7 for a 5 wood then. Didn't really want to do that as the 7 wood is like an old friend.
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To address them in order:

If you’re smashing it because you don’t like the number that’s more your ego than ann issue with the number that’s why! Just accept you maybe aren’t as kind as you think you are. In none of us are and that’s the common denominator throughout club golf!

To be fair 10-15 yards is the expected gapping between irons throughout the bag and there can be some variations in that range depending on swing and ball speed. So you’re actually in the right area with that number. You just need to learn how to hit your irons in different ways so you can use the 7 iron and all irons at more varied yardages rather than hitting everything as a full shot.

If you’re comfortable with the 7 wood keep it in bag and ditch the hybrid for the 5 wood, will for a decent gapping and the 7wood is better than a hybrid for forgiveness anyway.
 
Orikoru said:
At an indoor sim getting yardages - as soon as one doesn't go quite as far as you'd like, you smash the life out of the next three with every fibre of you being, rendering the whole thing useless. Why?? 😆

Also, results gave a 16 yard gap between 8 and 7 iron. What am I meant to do about that? Buy a 7.5 iron??

Third annoyance - only a 3 yard gap between hybrid and 7 wood. I guess I need to swap the 7 for a 5 wood then. Didn't really want to do that as the 7 wood is like an old friend.
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How old are the clubs? Is it worth getting the lies checked to see if they are still what they should be? Lots of smacking the club against a range mat may have tweaked the lofts a bit?
 
Neilds said:
How old are the clubs? Is it worth getting the lies checked to see if they are still what they should be? Lots of smacking the club against a range mat may have tweaked the lofts a bit?
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They're Callaway cast clubs...the hardest known substance in the Universe.....they ain't moving nowhere :ROFLMAO:
 
Lucifer MorningStar said:
To address them in order:

If you’re smashing it because you don’t like the number that’s more your ego than ann issue with the number that’s why! Just accept you maybe aren’t as kind as you think you are. In none of us are and that’s the common denominator throughout club golf!

To be fair 10-15 yards is the expected gapping between irons throughout the bag and there can be some variations in that range depending on swing and ball speed. So you’re actually in the right area with that number. You just need to learn how to hit your irons in different ways so you can use the 7 iron and all irons at more varied yardages rather than hitting everything as a full shot.

If you’re comfortable with the 7 wood keep it in bag and ditch the hybrid for the 5 wood, will for a decent gapping and the 7wood is better than a hybrid for forgiveness anyway.
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I just couldn't help it, I know what distances I expect to see from the course, so when one was a short my subconscious brain took over and started pelting it. 😆 The mat was very soft though so it probably just meant I hit one a bit fat. In the end the yardages weren't too far off it, but the 8, 9 and wedges remained a bit shorter than I expected. Again, might be due to the softness of the mat making them launch a bit higher or something.

I can't lose the hybrid, I do my chipping around the green with it, so it would have to be the 7 wood that goes. 7 wood is the oldest club in the bag anyway (in terms of when it came out). Maybe a nice high-lofted 5 wood would be a good addition. Also I do own the 5 wood head of the same club so I'll probably put that back in for a bit now. I actually did that last year for a couple of months and ended up going back to the 7 wood. Just can't make my mind up on that one. 😆

Neilds said:
How old are the clubs? Is it worth getting the lies checked to see if they are still what they should be? Lots of smacking the club against a range mat may have tweaked the lofts a bit?
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Only about 3 years old I think. Maybe I will check them if I can find someone who does that.
 
With a gapping session you need to make sure you're comparing decent strikes.
Hitting the 8 iron from the toe and the 7 from centre isn't worth looking at. You're going to get different numbers.
If the tracking equipment doesn't give you strike location, speeds, spin, launch etc then you've got your finger in the wind....
You'll end up confusing yourself.
If you're happy with what happens on the course then I wouldn't worry too much about it...until you start seeing the discrepancy on the course.
 
Imurg said:
With a gapping session you need to make sure you're comparing decent strikes.
Hitting the 8 iron from the toe and the 7 from centre isn't worth looking at. You're going to get different numbers.
If the tracking equipment doesn't give you strike location, speeds, spin, launch etc then you've got your finger in the wind....
You'll end up confusing yourself.
If you're happy with what happens on the course then I wouldn't worry too much about it...until you start seeing the discrepancy on the course.
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Yeah I deleted the ones that were particularly bad. Also went back to the 8 iron later to see if I was swinging better later on. Still had the 16 yard gap. Maybe it's just a symptom of strong game improvement irons that the longer ones are hot and go further.
 
The course to the North of me is usually really good about putting out early course status. Not today however....I drive 25 min to get there at about 8:30 and they had JUST made the decision to only play 1+11-18. I went home. What a waste of time. Took my name off on another course for Saturday since the next day or so is supposed to be crap. Starting Monday.....warmer weather.
 
rulie said:
TMI. (too much information). Just choose the club and hit the required shot. "Gapping" is, imo, significantly over-rated. A player should be able to hit at least three clubs proficiently to a 100 yard marker.
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I can hit all of my clubs 100 yards. It's the proficiently bit that I struggle with. Then again, I've never claimed to be a "player".
 
rulie said:
TMI. (too much information). Just choose the club and hit the required shot. "Gapping" is, imo, significantly over-rated. A player should be able to hit at least three clubs proficiently to a 100 yard marker.
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Why though? If one of my clubs goes 100 yard on a normal swing then I'll just hit that one every time won't I? :rolleyes:
 
rulie said:
TMI. (too much information). Just choose the club and hit the required shot. "Gapping" is, imo, significantly over-rated. A player should be able to hit at least three clubs proficiently to a 100 yard marker.
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Is your real name Butch Harmon, and did you mistakenly believe you were giving advice to a forum consisting of only PGAT professionals? :ROFLMAO:
 
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Orikoru said:
Why though? If one of my clubs goes 100 yard on a normal swing then I'll just hit that one every time won't I? :rolleyes:
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Yes. I'd rather have one swing that works and let the lofts alter the distance. If I was good, no doubt I'd be hitting high ones, low ones, mid ones, draws, fades, straight shots and runners, all to 100 yards - but it's hard enough to master one swing, let alone multiple.
 
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