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Top professional we usually hit between 12 and 15 greens around in regulation
But that won't stop him from beating par a lot of the time. Here's why
Here we are at the 13th hole at Loxahatchee Club
It's a par 5 and I'm left with about
All 40 yards shot here short of the green
I've got maybe 20 yards of green and 20 yards of fairway in front of me and
The shot has a little bank in front of the hole maybe
18-20 feet so what we're going to talk about today is the
Sandwedge pitch shot
Throwing the ball up in the air and also taking the ball and hitting it into the bank and bouncing it up the two shots
That I would play around the green with a sand wedge first of all
The first shot is played
With the bounce of the club in other words the back end of the club if you look at this
It's sticking up in the air
And if you would see if it was sitting on a shelf or sitting on the ground
You'd see that that leading edge is about a quarter of an inch up in the air
Now that's the way I want to play the shot. I want to make sure that when I contact the golf ball
That this sole of the club is what hits the ground not the leading edge
And to do that I make sure that the handle of the club does not pass the middle of my body until after it makes
contact with a golf ball
The only thing that hits the ground is the bounce of the club and
The ball pops up in the air exactly the same way you would play a sand shot
That's the number one shot, and I'll show you what I mean
Doesn't really make a whole lot of difference where you play it in the stands I played most all my shots
Somewhere off the left heel for all clubs, so it really doesn't make a whole lot of difference
You play it if you want to hit a little higher you move it up in the stance you hit a little lower you move it back
But it's not really that important
It's where you're comfortable, but your hands are right about even with the golf ball clubface slightly open a slightly open club
slightly open stance
And break the club off the ball
Break my wrists break the club right up in the air
And release the club from here so that my hands remain in this position here and
The club is released up and under
So here we are picking it up
Up and under
One more time your hands even head remains in position contact the ball with my hands here
The ball is thrown up in the air and dropped very softly
Now the second shot that I might play from this position I
Take the bounce out of play and bring the leading edge into play
By doing that I move my hands forward because here I'm going to play a lower shot with a sand wedge
I want to put spin on the ball and the ball is going to hit into the bank take one good bounce and check
Do that
Don't necessarily
Move the ball much back in my stance. I just move my hands a little forward and my weight a little forward
I pick the ball club up fairly abruptly hold on very firmly with the left hand
And pull that down and across the ball
That drives the ball a little lower
And into the bank
I'll show you one more time I
Just move my hands a little forward and my weight a little forward. I pick the club up fairly abruptly
And pull that down and across the ball
Ball pops up and then checks hits into the bank checks up you notice that I took a divot with the second one
That's because the leading edge gets into the ground
Club went right down in there and pick that divot right up with the first shot. There is no divot because
The leading edge doesn't get into the ground
Both shots are effective shots both shots are good shots
half the fellas play they
Soft shot the other half the fellas on the tour might play a spin shot
I think you choose the one of your preference. They're both very effective
The second club or the pitching wedge and third technique I want to talk about
It's for little shots that here. We are maybe 10 yards short of the green and maybe 20 yards of green
And I really don't want to pitch the ball all the way to the hole. I want a little bit more run, but
It's a little too far away to be playing a total pitch and run through this area
And I'm going to show you how to do that. I'm going to show you how to do that
I'm going to show you how to do that
It's a little too far away to be playing a total pitch and run through this area so
With a pitching wedge. I might play a couple of different kinds of shots, but basically I'm going to play just a normal golf swing
That
Use a little bit of wrist and let the ball run
There are times when I'm going to play it very firm and have very little wrists
And I think it's really a preference to you which way do you feel comfortable?
I see a lot of fellows go out on the tour and they just sit there and they pick the club right up never move their hands and
Leave their hands right there
Play the shot that way
other fellas
Never never
Never never
Break their wrists at all. They're just right back right through I
Don't think I don't think it makes a lot of difference which way you play it
It's whatever you're comfortable with whatever works for you
Pitching wedge is sort of a compromise between pitching the ball clear up in the air with a sand wedge and
Running it totally with a six seven eight iron
The
Next shot I want to discuss is a little pitching run
It can be played with a six iron seven iron eight iron
Whatever you're comfortable with playing it off the green can be played with four or five iron or even up nine iron pitching wedge
But I play this shot a little differently than I do the pitch shots. I changed my grip here. I use a putting grip
And what I use is a reverse overlap grip the same as I use with my putter
Now there's two ways of playing a little pitch and run
And I think that one shot
Would be to play it exactly as you do a putt
With a club straight up and down
And just use a putting stroke
One more time
That's a good method a lot of fellas use that and it works very very well
But the method I use and I think that suits me better under pressure is
I take the ball and play it right off my right foot. Maybe about six inches off my right foot
I move my hands well ahead
Have the club on the toe of the ground or the toe of the club on the ground the heel up
And my weight on my left foot and try to hit halfway down on the ball halfway on the top of the ball not underneath the
Ball but on top of the ball and hit it low and drive it into the ground and make it run
The reason I use this shot is it you can play that shot with any lie
You don't need a decent lie to play it the other other shot
You have a tendency to want to catch it a little heavy sometimes and the consistency is not as good
So I play the ball back here
So I play the ball back here pick the club up
Hit it down and make it run like a putter one more time
Both shots are good shots. Both shots are effective
Choose the one that you like best for your game
The next shot I want to discuss is putting the ball off the green
You might put the ball from two feet off the green six feet off the green 20 feet off the green here. I'm about
Seven or eight feet off the green. I've got
All 50 feet of green to roll the ball on and it's
Could be a chip and run shot could be a pitch shot could be a variety shots could be played from here
But I think you choose the one you're comfortable with
And I used I used to chip the ball all the time from around the green
And my first year on the tour. I'll never forget. I was playing with Arnold Palmer
And he says why are you chipping that ball?
I said well, I just feel like it's a you know, the right shot to play
I mean meaning the right shot is meaning that's what
Is the right thing by this the book to play and arnold said well, you know
I've always putted the ball off the green because I never worried about what the right shot was. I always felt like
My worst putt would be as good as my best chip and if you start to think about it
If you put a ball and you hit it four feet from the hole
You felt like you hit a pretty bad putt
If you chip the ball from four to four feet or in you feel like you've hit a pretty good chip
So from a mental standpoint, um
You know, it's it's much easier
To feel like you're going to get the ball close to the hole with a putter than it is than it is with a pitching wedge
Or or or chip and run or whatever club you choose to play
so
I play
Every shot that I have the opportunity to play with a putter
Of course, that means I can't play it out of the rough
Obviously, but if I have any kind of a smooth surface if I have any place that the ball will run
Somewhere in the middle of the hole
If I have a place that the ball will run somewhat uniformly i'll use a putter from off the green
And I do it exactly the same way as I would putt any other putt on the green
I just hit it a little bit harder for the fringe and then let the ball run
So
Hit one more here
And remember all i'm trying to do is get the ball up somewhere around the hole
Where I can make the next putt i'm not trying to hold this although I find
That i'll hold far more putts from off the green than I will chips off the green
Well now that we've talked about
How to play all the shots around the green whether we play a pitch shot
Whether we play a pitch and run or whether we play a chip and run or whether we play
A putt from off the green or a texas wedge
We got to figure out when do you use them how do you choose which club to play
Well I suppose that you could ask a hundred people and you get a hundred different answers
About what their favorite shot is and that's really the whole crux of this issue
Is that what is their favorite shot what is your favorite shot
Which shot do you feel you can play the best I think of one of these shots
You've got to try and master because when you really need a shot you've got to be able to play
It now obviously it won't work for every situation but it'll work for most situations and I think
The probably the most reliable of all of them is a sand wedge 90 percent of the pros play 90
Percent of their shots around the green with a sand wedge because they can carry the ball over
Most all the trouble they can carry the ball to the hole and put spin on it they can hit it dead
They can play a variety of shots some of the fellas play with pitching wedges and usually
Pitching wedges are carrying the ball onto the green but you're getting a bit more run you're letting the ball run
Some fellows will play the little pitching run where they take a little six or seven iron they run it land it short of the green and run it on up to the hole
Or from off the green even this far which is 20 yards they might take a putter and run it on up
I don't care which shot you choose to use
Choose the one that is best for you and you're comfortable with and when you get in a tight situation
You think you're going to get a good result
I said before that if you can putt the ball off the green it's the best way to get the ball close to the hole
Well here are two little shots just off of the fringe where you can't really hit a putter
But there are other clubs to make the ball react very similar to a putter
First of all is I take a shot here on a lie that's maybe six eight inches off the green
And I try to take a sand wedge and make it react like a putter
How do I do that? Well I take a putting stance putting grip take the sand wedge and make sure that I use the leading edge and hit it right into the middle of the ball
Use this leading edge
Why wouldn't I use a putter? Well the putter's got this big flat surface and the leading edge has got a sharp penetrating surface
And anything that we have in the way it will penetrate through
So we use a sand wedge just off the green and make it play just like a putter
One more time
Now the second shot I sort of learned it from Tom Watson he calls it a scuz shot
What that means I don't have any idea but what it is you sort of just sort of make some sort of an ugly swing at it
The ball just runs out there like a putter just gets out of the high ruff and runs like a putter
The way he plays it he plays it most of the time with a pitching wedge or a nine iron
Plays the ball up off his left foot his hands even with the ball club face square
Takes a very low swing rather than an abrupt swing and makes sure that his hands and club continue through the ball
It's not hitting down on the ball but you never turn the club over unless you want to make the ball run
Most of the time you want to make or run for a long distance you make the ball run very softly by coming out with a very square face
It's played somewhat like this
Those are two very useful shots around the green that try to make the ball react like a little chip shot or a putt
And I think they'll be very helpful in helping you get a lower score
Here we are to the right of the 13th green at Loxahatchee in a grassy hollow having to play a pitch shot over a bunker
To a pin that's set on the down slope on the other side
The shots are relatively difficult shot but one that can be made with good technique
The technique of the shot is the same as I use when I play a sand shot or any other pitch shot around the green
I want to make sure that I use the sole of the club into the ground and not the leading edge
And as you can see the leading edge is about a quarter of an inch off the ground
That means that the club as it was sitting on the shelf was just like this
And to play that I want to make sure that I repeat the way the club was sitting on the shelf
By not letting the handle of the club pass the middle of my body until after I make impact with the ball
Okay, here's a good lie and a bad lie
It really doesn't make any difference what kind of lie you have
Because the sole of the club whether it hits at the ball, an inch behind the ball, three or four inches behind the ball
It's going to slip the club right under that whole ball turf area and you're really going to produce a pretty good shot
The only thing that makes a difference is how much grass you have behind the ball
No different than when you play a sand shot, how much sand you have behind the ball
That determines on how hard you hit the golf ball
So let's play the first shot here with a good lie
I play the ball basically somewhere on the left foot, maybe up near the toe to the instep
Keep my hands even behind the ball, slightly open club face
I break my wrists off the golf ball, get the club head up into the air
Release the club so that the handle of the club doesn't pass the middle of my body
And then open the club face as I go through by opening my body
I let my body rotate open with a shot just as though I'm taking the club, pitching it with a softball
Or pitching a softball or taking and serving a platter to somebody
It's just sort of very softly underneath the ball
Hit it somewhat like this
One more time, keep my hands even or behind the ball
Release the club so that the handle of the club doesn't pass the middle of my body
And then open the club face as I go through by opening my body
Or if I have a bad lie, I take a little longer swing because I have a little bit more grass
But I play essentially the same shot
Pop the ball up in the air, hit it, and it rolls fairly softly
And again, I take a little longer swing, release the club so that the handle of the club doesn't pass the middle of my body
It's just sort of very softly underneath the ball
It's just one shot, one technique for all situations
Sure, there's going to be some situations it doesn't work on, and you have to improvise a little bit
But basically, this will work for about 95% of the shots that you have
I think we've covered how to play a bunker shot pretty well in Golf My Way 1
But let me just review slightly
Obviously, we're using the sole of the golf club, a slightly open club face
So the handle of the club does not pass the middle of the body until after you make contact with the sand
And we swing the club up fairly abruptly, make sure we follow through and release the club
Very simple, pretty much, here we are, boom, right here
Up and underneath the golf ball
Okay, but the one thing we haven't discussed is the strategy of bunker play
When do we spin the ball, when don't we spin the ball, when do we want to make the ball run, when we want to do other things
Well, the shot that we have right here, I've got a fairly steep bunker, got a bit of a down slope that pins relatively close
Not a particularly easy bunker shot
So I might want to put a little bit more spin on this shot than one where the pin would be maybe a little bit more in the middle
And one where the pin would be maybe 30 or 40 feet back into the grain
Well, how do we go about doing that?
Well, to put a little bit more spin on the ball, I'm going to hit a little closer to it, have a little bit more open club face
And pick the ball, club up a little bit more abruptly
That will get, not as much sand between the club and the ball, but becoming a little bit more of a descending angle
That will put a little bit more spin and give it a chance to stop better, something like this
One more time, I'm going to hit a little closer to it, have a little bit more open club face
And pick the ball, club up a little bit more abruptly
That will get, but not as much sand between the club and the ball, but becoming a little bit more of a descending angle
That will put a little bit more spin and give it a chance to stop better
Now, the next shot I might want to play is if I've had a lot of green
And I'll go ahead and use it here on this situation, the ball might run by the hole
But if I'm going to make the ball run a little bit where I have more green, then I won't open the club face quite as much
I won't pick up the club quite as much, and I'll hit a little further behind the ball
And he used that when he wanted the ball to release and run a long distance
A little squirer through the ball, ball comes out, releases and runs
And again, I won't open the club face quite as much
And I won't pick up the club quite as much, and I'll hit a little further behind the ball
Ball comes out, releases and runs
Now, we also might have a buried lie
The ball could be fried egg or a bad lie or anything
Now, I play that shot a little differently now
And then I picked up a little bit from Greg Norman
And Greg uses the heel of the club to get into the sand
What part of the club will penetrate the sand the most?
And probably this little point right here of the heel
So instead of playing straight up, I move down where I penetrate the sand with the heel of the club
Open the club face rather than shut the club face
Bend over more, get a little further away from it
Pick the club up and drive that heel into the sand
With an open club face, the ball comes out fairly softly
And again, open the club face rather than shut the club face
Bend over more, get a little further away from it
Pick the club up and drive that heel into the sand
Make sure we follow through and release the club
Runs up the hole
It's a very useful shot
I think to think about the shot that you have, how much green you have, how much of a bank you have
If you want to have to hit the ball up in the air, in other words, on a bank like this
I might have to get the ball up in the air
I don't want to be hitting the shot and hitting a low bunker shot, I've got to get it up
So to get it up, I might put a shade more up in my stance
If I want to hit it lower, I might move it back in my stance to make it run
All these things are part of bunker strategy
And the only way that you're going to find out how you play bunkers is to get out and fiddle around with it
Get in the bunker, try different situations, try to make the ball run, try to make the ball spin
Play a few buried lies, find out what works for you
Try all these different techniques, but remember, the end result is try to find the best technique that gets the ball closest to the hole
After all, that's what we're trying to do
Putting isn't quite 50% of golf, but it almost is
Taking things out before you stroke pays off just as much on the green as it does getting there
Most people think putting starts when you arrive here on the green
Not so. Putting really starts when you're right back there on the tee
Finding out where the pin is, finding out where I want to hit my tee shot, finding out where I want my second shot to go
Finding out how can I hit my second shot underneath the hole to leave myself in the easiest possible place to put
We play practice rounds during golf tournaments, and you're playing your home course all the time
Look around you, observe, see where the drainage of the green goes, see where you've got your uphill slopes
See where your tough pin placements are, see where your easy pin placements are
See whether it makes a difference whether you're by the hole or short of the hole or to the right of the hole or to the left of the hole
Assess all the situations, put that in your mind when you're back there on the tee
And if you have the ability to be able to stand on the tee and see where the pin is
Then you sort of have some idea where you might want to play your tee shot to get the best advantage
To get in the best place on the green for your second shot to be able to putt from the right area
All this is part of strategy of playing a golf hole
Leave your ball in the place that you can best make a putt
I mean it's very important. I look around me and I see the grain on the green
I see that they can check by the color of which way the grass is going
I find out what side of the green I don't want to miss the ball on
Where I have no chance for recovery
Now that part of the green might be alright under another day with another pin placement
But you really have to assess all the situations, put it all together
And when you get done with it, you can play a more intelligent, more strategic, and more successful round of golf
When I get to the green, I look at the putt I have
Look at the grain, look at the slope from behind the ball
And then walk around the side of the putt
Check the slope on the side here, look at the cup, see what kind of an angle it's sitting
Walk around behind the ball
Sometimes I find a little different break here than I found from the other side
I look at it, walk back around this side now
Check the cup, check the slope
I can do this while my other playing partner is putting
While he is lining up his putt
The thing is you don't want to waste a lot of time doing this
You don't want to hold everybody up by surveying the whole situation
But you want to make sure that you know what to do with a putt when you get up to it
You want to develop that routine so that when you stand behind here and get that last look at the putt
And you walk up, you know what you want to do, you know where you want to hit it
You know what your chances are of making it, whether you feel comfortable
You want to get a good positive thought in your mind
You want to say, okay, I'm 5, 10, 13, 14 feet from the hole
That's what I look like I have here
I've got maybe 4 or 5 inches of break to the right of the hole
It's a little uphill, I can be firm with it
I can give it a good run because the ball is not going to run very far by the hole
My chances of three putting are very small
I certainly don't want to leave it short because I've got a putt that's very makeable
You get all those things in your mind
You get them firmly in your mind and when you walk up to the ball
You take a couple of putting practice strokes
About a 13 or 14 foot stroke
You get that in your mind, you get it in your hands, you get that feel there
So when I walk up to that ball, I know what I want to do
I know I want to be positive, I want to get all the other things out of my mind
And my whole objective is to make this putt
So as I stand over the putt here
I get in my mind that I'm going to hit it
I know where I want to hit it
Then I hit it
Grain influences all putts no matter where you are
Even if you can't see it, it's there
And it's different in the northern part of the United States versus the southern part of the United States
If you're putting on bent grass greens in the northern part of the United States
Or even if you have bent grass in the south
The grass always grows towards the drainage
Find out your general drainage of your property
And that's going to be your dominant grain
Then you look at the green and see where the drainage on that green goes
And that combination is going to be probably where most of your putts are going to break
You go to the southern part of the United States
And you have Bermuda grass greens
You look for the setting sun
And the setting sun is generally in the southwest
So if you're putting in the summertime on Bermuda grass greens
You're going to break towards the southwest
You can count on that
So remember, drainage in the northern part of the United States
Southwest for Bermuda grass greens
The long putt
What do you really try to do on a long putt?
Realistically, are you thinking of holding a putt from this distance?
Or are you really trying to two-putt it?
Well, I think realistically
Anytime you have a putt that's going to go up a hill
Break to the right
Go down a little hill
Up over a rise
Come down a hill and break left
You're not really thinking of holding it
What am I thinking of?
I'm thinking of trying to get the ball close to the hole
Shoot as low a score on this hole as I can
And get down in the least number of strokes
Obviously, two-putt is my thought
Distance is the important thing
And whether we want to leave the ball short of the hole or beyond the hole
What's the next best putt to leave ourselves?
In this particular putt here
It really doesn't make any difference whether you're short or beyond
So we try to work on either leaving it somewhere
In the area of four feet short of the hole or four feet beyond
I've got eight foot to hit it in here
So I've got sort of like a big old bucket up there to hit the ball in
And I think about it and I'm a little uphill
I'm a little bit probably into the grain
The drainage comes off the green
So I'm going to have to hit it pretty hard
Actually, the wind is definitely a factor in putting
The wind's coming a little bit right to left
It's not a big factor on this particular putt
But sometimes it is
So we want to think about all those things
But when we get up to the ball
I want to make up my mind what I want to do
Make up my mind that I'm going to hit the ball
Just left of the hole because it's got a left break
Then a right break and then back to the left
I'm going to look at it and say, okay
I've got 10 foot, 20 foot, 30 foot, 40 foot, 50 foot
It's about a 60 foot putt
I'm thinking 60 foot
I've got that feel in my putting stroke right here
I've got 60 feet I'm thinking about
Once I've got that in my mind
Once I know what I want to do
I want to get up and make a positive stroke
And try to make sure I hit it that right distance
Okay, now that's a pretty good putt
A little three foot putt
Probably one of the most difficult shots in golf
But it's a good putt
It's a good putt
It's a good putt
It's a good putt
It's a good putt
It's one of the most difficult shots in golf
But really should be one of the easiest
Why is it one of the most difficult?
Because it's embarrassing to miss it
You stand up over it
You know you should make it
Your partners know you should make it
Everybody knows you should make it
And then you stand there and say, gee, if I miss this
I'm going to be embarrassed
Well, what you do is you take your mind off of what you're doing
Put your mind on making this putt
Once you miss it, there's no way to recover from this shot
You know, how are you going to recover by hitting a six inch putt into the hole?
You've got to make this putt
And you've got to make them all
Sure, you're going to miss one every once in a while
But for the most part, let's be positive
And what I try to do is I have four different putts here
I have an uphill, a downhill, a right to left, and a left to right break
And what I do is I pick a spot on that hole
That I'm going to try to hit the ball
And I try to drive it into that spot
When I'm putting that uphill putt
I pick the back of the hole dead center
If it's a straight putt, that's where I want to hit it
If I'm putting the right to left putt
I pick a spot, let's just say it's the top of the cup
That's where I want to hit the ball
If I have this downhill putt
I pick the front edge of the hole
Because the ball is going to continue to roll
And I pick that spot at the front edge
And I try to hit it to that front edge spot
And the left to right putt
I try to take that
If I don't pick the spot at the top of the hole here
That's the spot I hit
I want to aim it and hit it at that spot
Obviously up the hill
I pick the back of the hole
Because I want to make sure that I get it up there and into the hole
Downhill I pick the front of the hole
Because I want to get it just over the edge
And I hit it medium firm on both the side hill putts
That's how I putt short putts
Stand here, make up my mind what I want to do
Aim it at that spot in the back of the hole
And hit it there
I pick the spot on the right edge of the hole
Aim it
And hit it in there
I've got the putt going down the hill
I'm going to try to hit it at the front edge of the hole
Aim it there
And hit it there
Now the putt left to right
I'm going to aim it at the left side edge of the hole
Sit my putter there
Make up my mind I'm going to do it
And hit it there
Now if you can be positive on these little short putts
You're not going to miss very many of them
But if you're worried about missing them
You're worried about being embarrassed
You're going to miss a lot of them
So be positive
Pick a spot and drive it home
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To close this putting segment
You know it's just as important to have a stroke
As all the strategy in the world
Now I think a stroke is a very individualistic thing
Whether you have a tap stroke, a long smooth stroke
Inside out, outside in
I don't think that makes a whole lot of difference
It's whatever works for you
And whatever you're comfortable with
And how you can line up best
People have asked me for years
Jack, why is your head behind the ball?
Why is your right arm so low?
Why is your right shoulder so low?
Why do you not putt with your putter
Going through the ball low rather than high?
Well, it just happens to be the way I line up to a putt
And the way it feels comfortable to me
I've tried to putt with my right hand
Being right dead behind the ball
I started doing that my first year on the tour
A little tip from Jackie Burke back in 1962
Really helped me
I was really struggling when I first started
And I was putting with my right hand up on top
I moved my right hand under
And immediately started putting well
I dropped my right arm down, my right shoulder
And what it did, it fit with my other
The other part of my stroke which was my posture
Being behind the ball and looking down the line of the target
I always looked down the line of the target
Behind the putt
And my right arm and right hand has sort of acted like a piston
Back and forth
Right here
Right down the line of the target
My left hand has just kept everything solid
Well, that happens to be the way I putt
It really isn't important whether you putt that way
Or you putt some other way
Whatever way is comfortable for you
Is going to be the best way for you
Whatever way you can get the ball in the hole
Is going to be the best way for you
That happens to be the best for me
And I get the ball in the hole better that way
Than any other way
We complain a lot about golf's testing situations and trouble shots
But the challenges they present are really a big part of the game's appeal
Let's look at the best way to meet them
Driving into the wind or the left to right wind to me
Are the two most difficult tee shots you can hit
I think driving with the wind behind you or the wind off the right is very easy
Because it's very natural to make a nice full swing
Make a nice complete backswing and hit the ball from the inside
But the natural tendency into the wind and the left to right wind
Is to not complete your backswing
Never get your left shoulder behind the ball
I think when I'm here I'm trying to drive myself here
And I only get it back about half way
And then I come open and I block and hit the ball off the right
Is that a familiar shot?
You're darn right it's a familiar shot
It's a familiar shot for me too
So when I'm playing with the wind off my left
Or I'm playing with the wind in my face
I try to do one thing in particular
I want to make sure that I get well behind the ball with my left shoulder
Get back in here so that I can get a complete release
Stay back behind the ball
Get the ball in the air
Now that does another thing for me too
When I get back behind the ball
I'm going to hit the ball from the inside
Which means I'm going to come into the ball at a low angle
When I come into the ball at a low angle
I'm going to hit the ball out with very little spin on it with the driver
If I come with a short swing and come down on top of the ball
I'm then going to put a lot of spin on the golf ball
So I'm going to hit a slice more than likely
With a left to right wind obviously that's carried off
And into the wind the ball balloons up in the air
So the object is to try to hit the ball with very little spin
Drive it through the wind
To drive it through the wind
I make sure that this left shoulder makes a complete backswing
I'll show you what I mean
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Here's a little tip
I think it will improve your driving
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Here we are again at the 9th hole at the Loxahatchee
We're in 31 yard par 4
Wind left to right
Blowing pretty hard
I kind of find that it's a difficult situation sometimes
To keep a driver in the fairway
You'll find that a lot of times when you get a left to right wind
The ball wants to slip away from you
Because the driver doesn't put a lot of spin on it
The ball gets up and just sort of slips
And I quite often take a free-wit under those conditions
Because it's more important for me to hit the ball in the fairway
Than to worry about distance
So I sit here and think about it
I say, well, can I get a free-wit out far enough?
Yes, the left to right wind is helping a little bit
It's going to hurry the ball on
The driver is going to hit the ground
And be moving left to right and move through the fairway
But if I take this free-wit I can get a little bit more loft
I can get a little bit more spin on the golf ball
I can drive it into the wind down the left side
And when it hits the fairway it will hit a little softer
Yes, maybe I'm going to lose 10, 15 yards
But I'm going to end up in the fairway
With a little bit easier shot to the green
So I'll change my tee by moving the ball down a little bit
Throw away my driver
Aim up the left side of the fairway
Making sure I get a good full turn
Make up my mind what I'm going to do
And then hit it solid
Nicely in the fairway, in play
You know, I think the hardest thing to do
Is to step up to a tee and be uncomfortable
With the club you have in your hand
If you're uncomfortable with a driver
Switch to a free-wit
If you're uncomfortable with a free-wit
Switch to a forward or to a long iron
Particularly in pressure situations
If you need to put the ball in play
Don't play a club you're uncomfortable with
Get it in play, get off the tee
Get past the awkward situation
Then you can go play golf
Playing into the wind is a very, very difficult situation
The natural tendency is to hit the ball harder
The harder you hit it, the more spin you put on it
The more spin you put on it, the more the wind's going to affect the ball
If you hit it straight, it's going to balloon it
If you hit it with a little slice, it's going to accentuate it
Going off to the right
If you hit a little hook, it's going to accentuate it
Going off to the left
Puts you in a very awkward position
All these problems are caused by one thing
Spin
So, and the harder you hit it
The more spin you put on the golf ball
Now, I'm sitting here at 180 yards from the hole
And I've even accentuated the situation
By having an elevated position to play to a lower green
That even makes it tougher
Because obviously anything that's going to be faded or hooked
Is going to move further offline because of falling further
Most people will try to take a five iron
Let's assume the pros
From 180 yards and try to hit it hard into that wind
Well, that spin is going to move the ball all over the place
If they don't do it just absolutely perfectly
So, what is the natural thing to do?
Go down one club, play a four iron
But that still means you're still going to have to hit the ball hard
Quite often I'll go down to a three iron or even a two iron sometimes
I've got a three iron here in this situation
And what I try to do is take spin off of the golf ball
So that the wind doesn't have any effect on the golf shot
And the ball moves through the wind without, with very little effect
So, what, how do I do that without hitting it too far?
Well, if I make this a short golf club
Maybe choke it down and maybe make it like a seven iron length
With a three iron loft
Then I'm going to get about a five iron distance
That is the theory
So, here we are
I stand up to the ball with my short grip
I want to just take a normal swing, normal golf shot
But move the ball through the wind without spin
That ball landed a little short of the green and rolled onto the green
How many times do you roll the ball onto the green, into the wind?
Not very often with spin
But if you don't have any spin, the ball will just go through the wind
Hit, with very little force on it, and just run
It's a very, very useful shot when you're playing in windy conditions
You know, when you're playing in the wind
You're not always as lucky as we are in Florida
Where you have a pretty consistent wind
And the wind, you throw up some grass
And you can pretty well tell which direction the wind's blowing
A lot of times you're playing in the trees
And you bend down, you throw up grass
It goes one direction, the trees are blowing another
The flag's blowing another direction
And you really don't know what to do
Well, one thing that I generally look at
Are the clouds
Clouds above the trees are going to be generally going in a consistent direction
So I come up, I'll throw my grass up
I look up at the clouds, if they're in a consistent direction
Then I know that's what the wind's going to do
I think it makes it a lot easier to be able to select your club
If you get a general overall flow
Sure, you're going to get fooled sometimes by swirling winds in the trees
But that's a good general thought
The rough, awful stuff in it, but sometimes you get in it
And no matter how well you plan
Sometimes you get a lie like I've got here
The first thing you do is you've got to look at what kind of a shot you've got
I've got about 150 yards left to the green
I've got water to the left, I've got a bunker to the left
I've got a deep valley to the right of the green
I have some fairway short
I have maybe 30 yards that I need to carry the ball in front of me
And I've got a lie that I'm not sure that I can hit 20
I think I just basically should turn around, play the shot out sideways
Take my medicine, don't compound my air
I've hit it 35, 40 yards, that's as far as I could hit it
Now I've got 110 yards left
I still have a chance for four
And probably not going to make any worse than five
When you're in the rough, there's a technique of how to get the ball out
But I think first you've got to understand what really happens to a golf club in the rough
What happens is, when you hit a shot with a normal golf swing
You're generally hitting the golf ball from the inside
Your club comes in at a low angle, starts catching on the grass
And the hosel of the club is what really hangs up
It hangs up, turns the club over, and generally speaking the ball will come out low left
So generally speaking, somebody with a flat golf swing has a very, very difficult time of playing out of the rough
So if somebody with a flat swing has trouble
Obviously you must use an upright swing and an open club face to counteract that situation and hit a good shot
So what I try to do, is I try to open my club face slightly at address
Stand a little bit more upright
Pick the club up very abruptly
And cut across the ball slightly
Trying to minimize the amount of contact that the hosel is going to get into the grass
And sort of slip the club through the grass and let the ball come out with a slight fade
That's the general idea of how I go play a fade
Now let's try the first shot and I'll show you in slow motion
What's going to happen when you make a flat golf swing out of the rough
Turn the club face over, ball is left, boom, into the water
Now, if I take basically the same lie, which was a reasonable lie in the rough
It doesn't have to be a bad lie to get that kind of a thing
You can't even get a reasonable lie in this rough
Now, I try the same basic lie, open the club face slightly
Play the ball up in my stance a little bit
Take a very upright swing, stand up tall
And cut across it, then the ball should slip out
And up in the air and fly
It should come down somewhere up around the green
If you apply this method to getting the ball out of the rough
I think you're going to find your recovery shots to be a lot better
There are two basic techniques that I use for playing shots out of the rough
And they're really dictated by what shot I have to play
If I can take the ball and carry it all the way in the green, that is my preferred method
And to do that, I use an open club face, play the ball up in my stance
Try to hit it as high as I can, because the ball's not going to have any spin on it
And try to land it as softly as I can on the green
I do that by having an open club face, ball up in my stance, aim slightly to the left of my target
Pick the club up to the outside and cut across the ball and throw the ball up softly
The best situation is that I have a lie that I can't carry to the green, so I have to run the ball
So I have to play a shot that the ball's going to land short of the green and run onto the green
Well, if that's the case, then I still want the ball coming out from an open club face
But I'll play the ball a little further back in my stance
I'll pick it up and I'll hit down on it a little bit more
Rather than sort of sweeping it or up on it and make the ball move forward at a little faster pace
So that when it hits the ground, it'll run, and I can get more out of a shot that way
Hopefully, there's not going to be a bunker in the green, in front of the green, or I can't play that shot
I'm just stuck, I've got a penalty
So here's the first one
Open club face, ball up in the stance
Outside in swing
High shot
Land softly on the green
Works quite well
Second one, ball is down a little bit, not a very good lie in the rough
I still have the open club face because I want to make sure not to catch the hosel and turn the club over
Open club face, very firm with the left hand
Ball back in the stance a little bit, still pick it up, but then I hit down and drive through the ball
The ball comes out low, hits the ground, and runs up on the green
Those are the two methods that I know how to play out of the rough
They're also very similar, just a little bit different in ball position
But it doesn't change your mental approach too much
I think that really having whole different stances and grips and all different kinds of things
To keep it as simple as possible, makes it a whole lot easier
An errant tee shot into the high grass, buried under a clump of love grass
Not a very nice place to be
Well, first thing I better do is identify my golf ball and make sure it's mine
Unfortunately it is
Now what do I do?
Well, I've got about 165 yards to the hole
Obviously no chance to hit it out of here, I've got trees in front of me, mounds around me, bunkers all around me
I might take a sand wedge and let's just see where I can hit a sand wedge
I don't think I can advance it forward because of the love grass
I don't think I can hit through the love grass and hit it backwards
I can't really go sideways very far, if I do go sideways I'm going to go maybe into more mounds or into bunkers
Sometimes the best alternative is an unplayable lie
It's only a one stroke penalty
And then you're back in play
The thing that you don't want to do here is have a multiple penalty
You try to swing at it and you may not get it out
Then all of a sudden you're faced with the same shot again
Or if you do get it out, you've got to look where you're going to hit the ball
Where's it going to end up? Maybe it's going to end up in a bunker, maybe it's going to end up behind a tree, maybe it's going to end up in another clump
Well, we've wasted one shot, we've got it in trouble, let's get it out of trouble
Let's pick the ball up
Keep that spot between the hole and me
And we've got some nice short grass down here
I have other options obviously on an unplayable lie
I can go two club lanes either side where that still keeps me in the high grass
Or I can go back to the tee
My third option is to keep that point between the hole and me
And I will do that, I'm dropping about 10 feet back here, I've dropped the ball
I've dropped in a very nice lie
I'm left with about 165 or 70 yards to the hole
Looks like about a six iron shot
Now, I don't want to end up back in problems again, so I want to make sure I've got enough club to get it over the grass, over the trees, and on the green
Let's make sure I make a good solid hit
Place the ball well up my stance because of the mound in front of me
Make sure I get good solid contact on the golf ball
Make sure I know what I'm doing before I hit it, and then do it
Aha, back in play, in only a one stroke penalty, not a multiple penalty
Very seldom when you're on the golf course, you end up with the exact yardage and the club that you know that you can hit that exact distance
I think you always have to improvise
And a shot that I use quite often, or a situation that I use quite often, is if I'm halfway in between clubs
Rather than changing my swings or easing up on a shot or hitting another one hard
I take the longer club and I just choke it about one inch, and then just play a normal shot
So what I've done is, for this shot, incidentally, I've got about 146 or 7 yards to the hole
It's about halfway between an 8 and a 7 iron
So instead of trying to hit the 8 iron hard, or trying to ease up on a 7, I'll choke one inch up on the 7 iron and play a normal shot
That should end up with about that right distance
So I take the 7 iron, 1 inch, everything else normal, and hit it
Hmm, that worked out pretty well
The fairway bunker shot, middle iron, one of the most difficult shots in the game of golf
Not only because it's difficult to catch the ball squarely and hit it solidly, but because of all the problems associated with the shot
First thing, and the number one priority, is to make sure you get the ball out of the bunker
Number two is that you select the club to get out of the bunker that will not have a problem with a lip in front of you
Number three, you want to make sure, if possible, to take enough club, obviously, to reach your destination
And that club is going to be determined by whether you can get it over that lip or not with it
So, here we are, we're on the 11th hole at Loxahatchee, we're on a bunker on the inside of the dogleg
It is a penal bunker, which means it's a fairly deep bunker, so we always have to watch the lip
But we're back far enough in the bunker here where the lip is not a great problem
I'm about 160 yards from the hole, I've got a 6 iron in my hand
I'm going to try to hit the ball cleanly, I don't want to take any sand at all
I want to make sure I hit the ball first, I don't want any sand, I don't want to obviously hit the ball fat
I'm going to choke the club slightly to allow for my setting of my feet down into the sand
I'm going to make sure that my head stays up so that I don't have any chance to drop into the sand
I'm not going to use much weight shift, because as I use weight shift, my feet are going to sink in the sand, which will also take me down
So my process that I go through in playing this shot is, I want to choke the club slightly
Set my feet, make sure my feet are firmly planted on this shot
Make sure my head remains high, and I'm going to play it fairly stiff legged with very little weight shift and very little movement of my feet
Let's take a look at that one more time
I want to choke the club slightly
Set my feet, make sure my feet are firmly planted on this shot
Make sure my head remains high, and I'm going to play it fairly stiff legged with very little weight shift and very little movement of my feet
Try to pick the ball
Not a bad shot
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Can you imagine that? Two perfect drives, look at them, side by side, both in a divot
If I ever get my hands on those two guys, are they in trouble?
But seriously, every once in a while you may hit a ball, and it does end up in a divot in a fair way
Somebody might not have replaced it, which he should have replaced, but sometimes he might not have, and there you are
You're sitting there, you're mad at him, you say, I wish I'd find that guy, but you still got to play the golf shot
Well, I'm about 135 yards into the hole from here
As you can see, down the line I've got a little opening in the front of the green, I can bounce the ball in
Now, there are two shots I can play, that's why I've got two balls here
One is a little punch shot
That little punch shot is one that I would take an 8 iron from about 135 yards, choke the club slightly
Square the club face, maybe even toe it in slightly, play the ball back in my stance
I'm not going to have much of a follow through because of the divot, I certainly don't want to hurt myself on this shot
And then I pick the club up, go straight back, and then sort of pop the ball at the hole
The ball should hit short of the green and run on in
Now the second shot that you might have to play, you might have a bunker in front of the green
We don't here in this case, but we'll play the shot anyway
And for that I would change clubs, I'd probably take a 7 iron
Because I'm going to put the loft of an 8 iron on it
By opening up the blade, I put extra loft on the club, I'm going to pick the club up very abruptly and cut across the ball
Trying to slice the ball to get as much spin on the ball as I possibly can so I can stop it on the green
Aim a little bit to the left of the target, open the club face, pick the club up very abruptly, cut across it, throw the ball up in the air, and hopefully stop it on the green
Now here's a trouble shot, a real trouble shot
Balls line up close to the tree, sitting on pine needles, close to a pine cone
I'm about 140 yards from the hole, I've got to play it over a bunker
Hmm, what do I do? I try to walk around and try to play it right handed
I'm going to hit into the pine cone of the tree, I really can't get to the ball
I hit it over to the left, I hit it up into the mounds
Walk in front of the tree, I really can't get a backswing
Well, sometimes the alternative is a left handed shot
Now to play a left handed shot, I generally take a 6, 7, 8 iron, something like that
I've got a fairly broad blade, take it and turn it upside down, so that I'm playing it really with the toe of the club
I just take a left handed grip, make up my mind that I'm going to hit it, try to keep my head still
I mean, it's not any different than when I'm playing a right hand shot, the most important thing for me is to keep my head still, so why wouldn't it be on a left hand shot?
I want to make sure I make contact with the ball, and I should be able to get a little bit of loft on it, carry it 50, 60 yards, get it out of trouble
Get it down somewhere around the green, I might gain something, I might even knock it on the green if I hit it real well
As a matter of fact, 1989 Masters, a second hole, I had to play my second shot left handed with a situation almost identical to this
I got it out, I ended up making 6 on the hole, but I didn't have to take an unplayable and take a chance of making 7
So, here we go, I take a left handed grip, just like I would take a right handed grip, instead of being this way, I just take it this way
Put the club back behind the ball with the toe of the club down, I adjust the loft however I want to turn the club
Get up behind the ball, try to keep my head still, make up my mind what I'm going to do, and then just do it
Out in the fairway, short of the green, certainly a lot better than chopping it around here 6 or 7 feet around the tree, a little short pitch for a par
A ball and a bad lie, or an awkward situation, a lot of loose impediments around the ball, this ball here is on pine needles
I think, well let's see, if I went down here and tried to move this, uh oh, see the ball move, I moved something 6 or 8 inches away from the ball, that cost me a stroke
The same thing could happen with leaves, grass, an old divot, twigs, anything could happen, you must be very careful
And I think that when you're playing on pine needles, they're probably the most dangerous because they all seem to connect with each other, and you can move one over here and the ball will move over here
So I try to be very very careful when I'm around situations where I can have an opportunity for the ball to move, I obviously don't want it to, so I approach the shot very carefully
I look and see what my situation is, I look to see what's around it, I don't touch anything within a club length of the ball, anything within a club length of the ball, if I move it now and the ball moves later, it still cost me a stroke
I will be deemed to have moved the ball, or caused the ball to move, so I will take a very careful stance, I will keep my club above the pine needles, there's no special way to play the shot
I'm going to play a little bit like I do a sand shot because I don't want to be moving my feet all over the place, slipping, I want to try to keep my feet fairly firm, my club above the pine needles, and I'll pretty much pick the ball out of here, sort of like this
And I can now move on and play my next shot, but be careful, loose impediments are a dangerous thing to have on the golf course, I mean you obviously are entitled to move them, but if you're trying to move them around the ball, you're always risking the danger of costing yourself a penalty shot
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Every good golfer in history has practiced at least as much as he's played, but it's gone a lot further than just beating balls, let's look at how I work at the game
Practice, what really is practice? Does that mean coming out on the practice tee and hitting all these golf balls in 10 minutes, or does that mean coming out to the practice tee, find out what you want to accomplish and being able to take it to the golf course?
That's what I think practice is, not seeing how many golf balls I can hit in an afternoon, that to me is boring, non-productive, and doesn't do anything
So what I try to do is I come to the practice tee, I try to get quality practice, not quantity practice in, I come out and if I want to work on something, I want to work on that specifically, once I get it, I move on to the next thing
I don't want to sit here and get it and then hit another 10 shots and get bored hitting that golf shot, it's not important to hit more of them after you have it, if you've got it firmly in your mind, keep it in your mind, take it to the golf course and use it
When you're going to the practice tee, remember we want quality practice at the practice tee
So go find yourself a level spot, if you want to practice level shots, go find yourself an uphill lie if you want to practice uphill lies
But go find yourself good turf, the lies that you want to practice, and find yourself a win condition that will best help you make good golf swings
I think the best win condition to practice in is a win coming from right to left, because it helps you in the proper sequence of motion
Once you get the top of your backswing, you have to use your legs first, otherwise you're going to hit the ball left
The second best win is wind into your face, because it still promotes the same type of thing, you have to use your legs first
If you have a slight following wind, it's not the greatest, but a strong following wind is terrible
Slight following wind you can get away with, but it has a tendency to nose the ball over and you lose the true flight of the golf ball
The one wind I try to avoid practicing in totally is a left to right wind, because a left to right wind promotes wanting to keep the ball from going right
And you swing over the top of the ball and you go out of your sequence of motion, and really you don't accomplish anything
So when we go to a golf tournament and I have a left to right wind, what do I do? I don't practice in it, I might warm up in it, hit a few shots, and go right to the golf course
If I have a right to left wind, I might stay a little longer and work on my golf game
To get quality practice, you must have the right conditions, the right turf, and practice what you're trying to take to the golf course
When I practice, I come out and I work on fundamentals. I don't work on little band-aids, gimmicks, little tiny things
I might try specific shots and play shots, that's fine
But when I come to the practice tee, and particularly early in the year after I haven't had a lot of golf, and coming out of the winter, and I'm really starting to work on a game
I work on basic fundamentals, I work on grip, I work on stance, I work on balance, body position, I work on head position
I work on all of these things when I'm practicing. Those are the things that I'm out here to practice
I'm not out here to practice, well, if I happen to maybe slide my right finger down the grip or something, or if I happen to have a long thumb or a short thumb
You know, I want to make sure that I have good sound fundamentals, and that's what I want to practice
Because those are the things that are going to carry me through a round of golf. Fundamentals
When I'm coming out to prepare for a round of golf, I want to prepare for that round of golf
I don't want to build a new golf swing
So I come out and I sort of take a sampling of my golf clubs to warm up
I start out with a pitching wedge, I then go to an 8-iron to represent a short iron, a 5-iron to represent a middle iron, a 2-iron to represent a long iron
A 3-wood sometimes, depending on the golf course that I'm going to play, and then a driver, and then I sort of cool down with a few sand wedge shots for pitching
Now, that gives me a little representative flavor of what I'm going to use on the golf course that day
And I don't ever come out and try to practice for a long time
I come out maybe 45 minutes before I'm getting ready to tee off
I practice for maybe 25 minutes, go to the putting green, hit a few putts and a few chips around the green, then I'm ready to play
If I come out and I want to get in a practice session, then, you know, then maybe I might be out here for a couple hours
But generally I will not do that before I play a round of golf
If I'm going to do that, I do it after the round of golf
And after the round of golf, my cool down session, which I do every day when I finish
And I usually find out that I get much better practice after a round than I do before the round
Simply because I know all the mistakes that I made that day, and I want to correct them
So I've got something to work on, and something specific
And when I cool down, I use a nine iron, six iron, three iron, and the driver specifically
And if I'm coming out for a real long session and want to really just work on my game in general and not for a tournament
That's when I'll use the seven, the four, and the one
That way I practice with all the clubs in my bag
I'm not just wearing out just a few of them
And I really get comfortable, familiar, and friendly with every club in my bag
When I come to the practice screen before a round, it's no different than going to the practice tee and hitting a few golf balls
I'm not really too concerned about the first few putts that I hit, because I'm really not worried about making them
I want to develop a stroke, a speed, a rhythm, be relaxed
Same as I do on the practice tee
So I start out with a few six, eight, ten foot putts, and really just sort of be relaxed and roll them down
Just try to find out the speed of the green, try to find out what the green's like
Don't really worry about it too much
And after I've hit those, well maybe a few short putts, eight or nine long putts
I'm not going to hit another few middle length putts
Then I'll finish up with putts that I should make from three, four, five feet
And really concentrate on making these putts, because those are my bread and butter putts for the round
And I always finish up putting before the round by putting the last three balls into the hole
I always want to walk away from the putting green with a good, positive feeling that when I get a putt, I know I can make it
You know, if you can make everything from four or five feet in, generally speaking, the longer putts are going to get inside that distance
So you're going to probably two putt at the worst
And if you get somewhere around that distance on your second shot, then you're going to make a lot of birdies
So these are the putts that are important, right here
Making sure that these get in the hole
Now, putting is no different than playing a golf shot
It's a routine, it's a preparation
And I work on that when I'm doing my practicing, just like the same preparation that I would use on the golf course
So I walk up, I want to line up the putt, make sure that I know where I want to hit it
I want to pick the spot on the hole, let's just say this putt right here, I'm going to aim it, let's say just inside the right center of the hole
I want to make sure that I get up over that ball with a positive attitude
I want to make sure that that's the spot I'm focusing on, that's the spot I'm looking at
And before I can change my mind, boom, I hit it right in that spot
Now, if I hadn't made that third one, I'd putt three more, or maybe six more, until I was sure that when I walked to that first tee
I was confident I could make my putt if I had to on that first green
The game of golf is a difficult game, it's a difficult game to learn
I think it's very important for anybody starting the game to find a teacher
Go to your local PGA professional, have him get you started, have him give you the basic fundamentals
And more importantly, find somebody who will take an interest in you, somebody who wants to help you
I've been a very, very fortunate guy all my life
When I was 10 years old, I ran into a fellow named Jack Grout at the Seattle Country Club
Jack Grout started me out with the basic fundamentals of the game, he had me in his Friday morning classes with 50 other kids
And we all started learning the game at the same time
By the third or fourth Friday, Jack had me out showing the other kids, he says, Jackie boy, come out here and show these guys how to hit it
And I go out there and I got all excited and I really had fun showing the other kids how to hit the golf ball
Well, through the years, there are times when I come out and practice and I come out and work on my game
That I just cannot see everything about my own golf swing, so I need that watchful eye
And whether he actually tells me something or not, because he has taken an interest in me
He has given me confidence and makes me believe in what I can do to hit a golf ball
And that probably is the most important thing that you can learn from a teacher
Is to have confidence and believe in yourself and believe that you can learn how to play the game of golf
Well, there it is, the other half of golf, the middle side
From a guy who always felt it was his strongest competitive suit
We all need to work hard on our swing technique and ball striking
But never forget that no matter how well you swing and hit the ball
It won't be reflected in your score until you've learned to play with your head just as well
Once again, I'd like to thank the membership and staff of the Loxahatchee Club here in Jupiter, Florida
For permitting us to use their golf course
And for all the help and support they've kindly provided
I hope you enjoyed the show and good luck with the greatest game of them all
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for decades
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