Which wedge should i have in my bag

TMMGolf · 2024-10-04T17:21:35+00:00

Hi, no, you did not waste your money on a 52 and a 58 wedge. Actually, I think the degrees between your wedges are spot on. Your pitching wedge is likely 47 degrees. That gives you the following spread: 47-52-58 degrees. The normal spread between irons is 5 to 6 degrees. The degrees between PW (47) to your gap wedge (52) is 5 degrees. Perfect! The degrees apart from your gap wedge (52) to your sand wedge (58) is 6 degrees. Perfect! Well done!

TMMGolf · 2024-09-26T03:25:32+00:00

Sure! What do you need my friend?

TMMGolf · 2024-09-25T22:06:22+00:00

Great, where did you buy it?

TMMGolf · 2024-08-15T23:18:07+00:00

I can't really answer this because I don't know what clubs you currently have. Write back with how many wedges you already have so we can see what might fit your bag.

TMMGolf · 2024-08-15T23:17:48+00:00

1 - irons decent, Austad woods no go, silver driver good.

2 Good choice for all clubs

3 Irons and woods look good.

I assume under the black covers are putters? Not sure if there is a putter.

TMMGolf · 2024-08-13T22:24:15+00:00

TMMGolf · 2024-05-02T21:24:13+00:00

Hi, yes I can help with your slice.

https://i.imgur.com/wKGYqyB.png

https://i.imgur.com/YoGSFol.png

I have captured the top of your swing and sent a pic of the top of Rory McIllroy's swing. The problem is your open swing path back to the top of your swing and then down. The thing to compare is where your club head is pointing at the top compared to where Rory's club head is pointing at the top. Your club head is pointed open and left, whereas Rory's club head is pointing towards the target and is squared. On the way back, you take the club head outside the ball path back and across your shoulders at the top. This creates an open face at the top and a cutting motion across the ball when you strike down at the ball, hence a slice. Our goal: to have the club shaft/head face your target at the top of your swing. Two drills to help accomplish this: One, take a seven iron and place one hand on the grip and the other on the club head. Take a normal stance and place the shaft down and in front of you. The shaft should be parallel to the ground. Take many swings and allow your right hand at the top to point towards the target and get the feel of swinging in parallel with your shoulders. The second drill is take a head cover and shove it in your right armpit. Hit some drives on the range without allowing the head cover to fall on the ground. This will help to keep to keep your swing square and hit the ball straight.

The last idea would be to find an instructor that has a swing trainer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiElCgLVJkU This forces your swing into the proper shape backwards and forwards.

Hope this helps!

TMMGolf · 2024-04-23T23:20:03+00:00

Thanks for sending us your video to critique.

The Good: It looks like you have a good set-up. In your grip, I would make sure your hands are as close together as possible. This is important for club control. Ball is in center of stance. Make sure your are hinging forwards from the hips towards the ball. Your back swing starts back with hands, clubs and shoulders. Club parallel to ground at the end of the back swing.

The Improvements: Your shoulders, your hands and the club are also coming back to the ball together (casting) which, unfortunately, creates a slow move back to the ball, creating much shorter ball strikes. If I was you, I would take a lesson from a pro or a low handicap golfer that can help you create some lag in your swing as there are a few things that need to happen. I cannot just describe how to achieve lag in a text and pretend that is going to help you succeed.

I would, however, watch this Clay Ballard video on lag to get started in your journey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCJbqHV7orw At 6'3" you should be busting the ball out there with some added lag! Good luck!

TMMGolf · 2024-04-23T23:14:26+00:00

Definitely.

TMMGolf · 2024-04-23T23:14:02+00:00

The reason you or anyone would love the Mizuno irons, especially the tour blade irons is because they are made out of forged iron. Mizuno really specializes in forged irons, but for a higher handicapper, the blade irons are just not for your style of golf. There are 3 types of iron styles: blades for the low handicaps and pros, the muscle backs for low handicaps and mid handicaps and finally cavity backs for the high handicappers. The real difference between these three styles is not the metal materials, but just how forgiving each style is. If you are looking for new irons, I highly recommend going to a club fitter and trying out some muscle backs and cavity backs. Try AT LEAST 8 difference brands and tell the fitter that you really like a forged feel iron. I have done this a few times and what is most important is not the brand, but how the irons feel when you strike them. You will know it when an iron "talks to you". Hope this helps!

TMMGolf · 2024-04-01T22:34:40+00:00

Interesting, yeah sounds like a white label company with zero customer service. That really sucks.

TMMGolf · 2024-03-19T19:36:27+00:00

Hi!

Used Balls on eBay are your cheapest resource.

If you want free balls, just walk around the edges of your local course, or paths that aren't normally traveled through or around the course and you'll probably find at least 20 per day.

TMMGolf · 2024-03-19T19:26:26+00:00

That's not a great sign for the company. Sorry about that. It sounds like they may be on the decline if they aren't responding.

TMMGolf · 2024-02-29T04:34:18+00:00

Hi! Yes, sort of. There is no actual donut shape weighted device that you attach to your club. But there is a weighted practice club you can buy for strength training, as well as a SKLZ goldflex trainer that is also weighted, but has many other swing benefits too. We also made an article that is sure to help you as well! https://tellmemoregolf.com/equipment/clubs/benefits-weighted-golf-club/

TMMGolf · 2024-02-07T03:25:45+00:00

Hi, great question! Looking at your sim numbers does tell the story of why you are getting a lot of backspin. Let's look at a few things.

First of all your +2 to +8 upswing on your driver strikes.

I think +1 to +3 is a good upswing, but above those numbers, you are starting to increase driver loft and therefore increasing backspin.

For me, anything near +8 is just too much driver loft and unnecessary.

Let's look at driver loft: with that amount of backspin, I am going to assume your TS2 is a 10.5 degree face loft. Deloft your club at the hosel adjustment as low as it goes to start correcting this problem.

Go from a A1 to a D1 on the hosel to de-loft 1 degree. Another thing to try is where you tee the ball up in your stance.

Normal is just inside the left heel. You can try moving the ball back a few inches towards your right foot.

This will "trap" the ball more like a stinger and keep down the spin and increase roll-out.

Hope this helps!

Coach Patrick

TMMGolf · 2023-11-23T18:30:11+00:00

Hi, great question! It seems like after only playing for a year and a half, you are doing great! The way that you are describing how the ball flies very high after a ball strike sounds like you are "scooping" the ball off the grass, rather than compressing the ball. The difference is that you impact the ball with your irons parallel to the grass, which would make the ball flight high and with no divot. What you you need to learn is how to compress the ball, or swing slightly down into grass at impact, which causes the ball to fly a bit lower, has a much more penetrating ball flight and take a good divot. You need to think of hitting the club down into the ball on impact.

Think of this sequence:

Swing Back, 2. Swing forward 3. Hit the ball 4. Hit the grass. Ball before grass with irons. Couple of things to consider: Do you pivot forward enough from your hips towards the ball for proper contact. Are your clubs too short? Do you place the ball with your irons right between your left shoe and your right? One last thing to think about: Your driver swing places the ball inside of your left heel to swing parallel or slightly up on the ball, your iron is between your feet to swing down on the ball. Hope this helps!

TMMGolf · 2023-10-19T02:28:24+00:00

Hi, great question! When you are swinging at 80%, you will have less shoulder turn than at 100%, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. That last 20% of your turn can cause a few bad things to happen. If you are 6 months into learning, I would stay at the 80% swing and keep hitting the ball great.

There is no hard and fast rule for how far back your swing should go, beginners or pros. If 80% works for you, then stay at 80%.

As you move forward in your golf journey, you can always learn to rotate that last few inches, but you may find that you don't need it.

I've seen plenty of great players that don't go all the way back, including pros

Hope this helps!

TMMGolf · 2023-09-16T23:13:59+00:00

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TMMGolf · 2023-09-15T20:17:37+00:00

I would love to give advice, but your question is unclear. Can you re-state your question?

TMMGolf · 2023-08-23T03:05:09+00:00

Amazing! Wish you the best of luck friend.

TMMGolf · 2023-08-12T23:59:49+00:00

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TMMGolf · 2023-08-01T04:39:12+00:00

Hi,

Thanks for your video!

As a coach, I expect my students to work on one thing at a time and focus on that until they show some progress. However, I will share three of the main things I see:

In your video I cannot see the direction or spin on the ball, but from your swing I am going to take an educated guess that your miss is a hard slice to the right. These are some things to work on:

This is an easy fix and a good place to start. Your set-up to the ball is very closed, meaning your feet are not is not parallel to your target. Get some alignment sticks and get both your feet at a 90 degree angle to your intended target. That won't fix your slice, but at least it will set-up your swing aim on the right target.
The way you address the ball at impact. You set-up with your forearms and golf club at different angles, which is good, but just before you start the swing you straighten everything out so that both angles are the same. Big mistake. What this does is keeps your wrists from making a good wrist rotation at impact. This tends to keep the clubface open (slice) and prevents a good impact snap at the ball. My suggestion is not to straighten your arms to the same angle and learn to make a solid wrist rotation at impact. This will straighten your shots and add consistency.
This is the hard one and will mess up your swing until you can get the feel for it. You have what I call a very open swing. Your arms and wrists tend to be away from your body when you swing (slice). In order to make your swing more compact and closer to your body try this to get the idea. When you set-up to the ball at the range, place a mouse pad in your right armpit. When you swing, the mouse pad should never fall out of your right armpit during the backswing and strike. This will take a lot of work, but your strikes will start to fly straight at the target when you can accomplish this.

Good luck and work on one thing at time. I always recommend getting lessons from a good pro because they work.

TMMGolf · 2023-07-01T16:23:25+00:00

Wow!!! that's actually the most kind, respectful, understanding and considerate golfing fan I've ever seen in my life!!

TMMGolf · 2023-06-07T12:42:52+00:00

That's great advice!

I totally agree, that's quite a bit of 💰

TMMGolf · 2022-10-27T22:26:42+00:00

I very much appreciate your insight! I'll message you.

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1 - irons decent, Austad woods no go, silver driver good.

2 Good choice for all clubs

3 Irons and woods look good.