re: Do you work the ball both ways?

I can work it both ways off the tee, and will do so at times. However, this season I've consistently played the fade off the tee, and its made me hit a lot more fairways.

"you can talk to a fade"--i think theres some truth to that statement

Yes. Like most I have preferred ball flight which is a draw, but I can hit everything from a 6 iron up either way on command. The more lofted clubs it’s pretty hard for me to fade it.

I normally play a slight draw, unless the shot calls for a fade. Stick with your most consistent shot, unless the shot at hand heavily favors something else.

That’s pretty much what I do. I only play a fade when there are bad consequences to hitting it left. The club I just joined has out of bounds on the left on most of the holes because it routes clockwise. I think one of the nines has a dogleg or trouble that favors a fade on 5 of the 7 par 4’s and 5’s…so it’s kinda forced me to learn how to not hit it left

Why not hit 5 iron?

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Well you’re also better than all of us

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Just most ??

I’m still capable of some brutally bad rounds

Clubface where you want the ball to finish, body lines where you want it to start

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I would assume all. Would be interesting to get a handicap gauge from this site. I feel like I’m garbage compared to most on here.

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Handicap if you ask me is pretty misleading.

I’m a 1.4 right now. But the golf courses I play don’t have a lot of water that’s really in play, fairways are pretty generous and while Old Colony which where I play most of my rounds has greens with some slope it’s just not that punishing. Even if you hit it out of the fairway the trees are sparse enough to play shots. Miss greens it’s not terribly difficult to get up and down.

Put me on a course where errant shots get punished, it would probably be 6 or so. Would still have good rounds mixed in but there would be rounds in the 80’s in there also.

There likely isnt a dude on this board that should be trying to shape shots. Only a elite few are able to do so in a way that isnt worse for their golf score.

I don’t know why I thought you were like a +5

But I feel ya on the courses. I play a bunch of munis which I’m sure helps me tremendously. If I lived in South Carolina or Florida where there’s water everywhere my handicap would probably at least 5 strokes higher than it is.