Even this mentality could be changing. Crossfield has one in the bag - obviously that's partly for the clicks he gets from being a pro and using it - but partly because he obviously feels he can get closer the pin from those dodgy lies than he can with another club. I don't think his short game was particularly bad.
Even this mentality could be changing. Crossfield has one in the bag - obviously that's partly for the clicks he gets from being a pro and using it - but partly because he obviously feels he can get closer the pin from those dodgy lies than he can with another club. I don't think his short game was particularly bad.
Ironically Rick Shiels' short game is absolutely woeful and he could genuinely benefit from having a chipper but he said he's not going to put one in his bag.
I could get 5 lessons with my pro for that, i think.
Hard to argue.....
All you need to do is look at the scores in a 3 clubs and a putter comps, winning scores are often better than h/c and almost always by high handicappers, having 10 or even 16 clubs in their bag wouldn’t make much difference. However a club that prevents 7 or 8 duffs or thins a round at the cost of probably 4 or 5 shots is worth the sacrifice of a little or badly used 3 wood or 4 iron.
Agreed - the mate I mentioned earlier in the thread had a lesson for his chipping - it went exactly the way I knew it would. Very marginal improvement for a week or two before he forgot it all and went back to duffing his chips. As you say, some people aren't particularly coachable, or they don't want to spend hours working on something when they can buy a club that is much easier to use. It's no different to me having a 27° hybrid instead of a 6 iron, or a chunky SureOut wedge for bunkers. I just wanted bats that work for the task I need them for.
As a high handicapper with both a three wood and a 60 degree wedge, I do use both.
Yeah basically, although the pitching wedge isn't really a wedge it's an iron, so I think of it as 4 irons 4 wedges.So you have a driver, 2 x FWs, 2 x hybrids, 3 x irons, 5 x wedges and a putter.
Each to their own
I don't know if you're trying to make a point or something. But I just meant the PW is exactly the same as the irons it just says 'P' on it. I'm not sure what makes it a wedge other than it's name? It's 44°, if this iron set was 15 years old older it would say 6,7,8,9 instead of 7,8,9,P. ??My mistake, apologies.
So it's driver, 2 x FWs, 2 x hybrids, 3 x irons, a wedge and 4 wedges and a putter.
The ones I think of as wedges are actually wedges.
I don't know if you're trying to make a point or something. But I just meant the PW is exactly the same as the irons it just says 'P' on it. I'm not sure what makes it a wedge other than it's name? It's 44°, if this iron set was 15 years old older it would say 6,7,8,9 instead of 7,8,9,P. ??
Ahh, good, we're actually on the same page then! Indeed, silly to call a 44° club from an iron set a 'wedge' of any description really.
I remember a set having a 10 iron can’t remember the make.
