Find a stroke that works for you and keep it simpe. If you learn to control how hard and how high you will be in great shape compared to most players around the greens.
No need to get fancy as long as a more lofted club + a simple stroke can get the job done.
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Please take some time and just chip for 30 minutes or so using only vertical hinging. I think if you follow D's grip instruction, think of keeping the back of your left hand, palm of right hand and club face finishing all facing the sky (if I am mistaken, D, please correct me quickly). It will pay off handsomely. Right after that stick tees in the ground at different distances and chip to them using only vertical hinging. It won't be long and you will have a GoTo shot you will use many times each round you play. To me it kind of feels like tossing bean bags with both hands up into the air so they land flat. The ball behaves nearly as well as the bean bag.
Does it need to be vertical hinging or can a cut shot also be done with angled hinging? Does it even have to be a cut shot? Maybe it is good enough to let it be a normal reguired motion pitch shot?
I find vertical hinging difficult. Maybe angled hinging gets the job done to get the ball high enough with a SW/LW, although it will roll a little more?
By the way - is it the bounce of the SW or the leading edge that hits the ground in these types of shots? Or does that depend on what kind of shot you want to do? (In what way - how does this work?)
To hit short shots higher/cutty-er . . . open the face some move the handle BACK AND DOWN . . . that's gonna make your left wrist look MAJOR BENT . . . which doesn't fit my eye . . . I like the shaft and the left arm IN LINE . . . soooooo rotate your body to an OPEN alignment until you can get your left arm and the shaft IN LINE with the shaft, handle and face conditions you've set up. Then you can angle hinge it or hit your "normal" shot with out feeling like you are manipulating it so much.
PROCEDURE:
1. establish a. amount of face open b. handle height c. amount of layback for the required shot (you may need to experiment with the variables). . . impact fix shaft/handle/face conditions
2. put your grip on with a "normal" or Square Stance
3. See if your brain/eye can handle the "freakish" wrist conditions this specialty shot fix requires . . . if not then
3. Rotate your body left/OPEN until it "flattens" out your left wrist or "lines up" the shaft and your left arm (you may also want to experiment with more knee flex to lower your "COG" that helps in hitting it cutty/high too)
Thank you for the help. In one of the free videos Yoda says this vertical hinging is something one doesn't really need to incorporate (as much as the two other hinging types). But if you first have it is a very useful motion. I understand that and if the hands are to be educated, this belongs there too. But at this stage trying to get the FLW I hope to do without it, but when "normal" chipping and pitching work, I'll get back to it....
Does it need to be vertical hinging or can a cut shot also be done with angled hinging? Does it even have to be a cut shot? Maybe it is good enough to let it be a normal reguired motion pitch shot?
I find vertical hinging difficult. Maybe angled hinging gets the job done to get the ball high enough with a SW/LW, although it will roll a little more?
By the way - is it the bounce of the SW or the leading edge that hits the ground in these types of shots? Or does that depend on what kind of shot you want to do? (In what way - how does this work?)
Are you asking for a flop shot?? If so there are many ways to do it - vertical hinge, open the face, throw the blade under the ball (severe throw away), move the handle back (opposite of forward lean into the ball). Any or any combination will work with any hinge depending on the desired shot.
I must have expressed myself very poorly. I actually wanted to avoid that kind of shot and keep it so safe as possible - with a angled hinging which I think I'm beginning to know how to do(?)
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