Shanking on short par 3

[Orikoru]

When people think they shank, is it a REALLY PROPER shank out the hosel. Or is it more that the face is open whilst coming too far from the inside.
I ask this as I’ve experienced a lot of players who say they’ve hit a shank, when in fact it’s really because the face is wide open???

I think it looks a lot different and makes a totally different sound as well. Some of the shanks I have hit in the past, the club face would have had to open about 60 degrees.

 

[Golfnut1957]

When people think they shank, is it a REALLY PROPER shank out the hosel. Or is it more that the face is open whilst coming too far from the inside.
I ask this as I’ve experienced a lot of players who say they’ve hit a shank, when in fact it’s really because the face is wide open???

There may be some people who have never hit a shank who only think they have, but there is nobody who has actually hit a shank that is in any doubt as to what they just did. Once done, never forgotten.