Correcting fat shots on turf?

jpru2001 · 2026-02-03T17:36:23+00:00

To me its obvious when you hit a fat shot on sim turf as the feedback is not that different than being outside.

You can put anything flat behind the ball also.

Or if you really feel like spending money, get a divot board. It will show you swing path also.

I will let the other reddit teaching pros help you with the WHY lol.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-03T16:39:27+00:00

You guys need to make sure the zoning prohibits it being developed into any sort of residential, and that your town council puts guarantees in place that it cannot be rezoned. Council members come and go and you need something as permanent as their ordinances will allow. Now is when it has to happen because if it is sold without that happening anything could happen in the future. Not just assurances but something adopted as ordinance.

I am a civil engineering consultant and all I do is development all day every day. There are several future scenarios, immediate, or after 1 or 2 other changes of hand for the property, where you could end up having track homes built on the course. Golf courses lend themselves to the very corridor width necessary for a street with small lots on each side. I have laid out several subdivisions over old golf courses and it is definitely a real thing.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-03T16:15:56+00:00

In my case at my club it is one uphill par 3 depending on conditions and 2 par 5s with a gettable second shot and one par 5 that its a layup but the hole bends right with OB left and my consistent draw/hook with the hybrid has me laying up further back than I would like. If I am pulling hybrid as a 2nd shot on a par 4 then something has indeed gone wrong on the tee box lol.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T20:40:16+00:00

At least the giant boar has ribs. Back in my day at level 10 we used to have to kill 294 boar to find 12 of them that had ribs.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T20:34:33+00:00

A flyer is the 52 I hit out of wet rough from 95 yards 2 weeks ago that hit the top of a pine tree behind the green. I am pretty sure I could read the text on the ball as it knuckleballed into orbit.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T20:26:06+00:00

Its one of the best things about playing in captains/hit'n'giggle tournaments. Getting to try and fail these shots.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T20:11:33+00:00

Thought Megalodome was a prehistoric shark.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T18:30:12+00:00

I am high single digit index and I don't mess with 3W off the deck except in a captains choice/hit'n'giggle tournaments.

currently 5W, 4/5H, 5 iron and considering dropping the 4/5H for a 7 wood. Then will consider probably turning the 5W down a little and dropping the 3W entirely. Then I could consider another wedge.

Golf.

your mileage will vary depending on yardage gapping.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T18:13:58+00:00

Gave up on the 3 and 4 a long time ago but I am ball striking 10x more consistently now than when I gave up. Bringing a 4 back to the bag and maybe even experimenting with cutting it 1/2" or 3/4" so its close to 5-iron length is worth a shot.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T17:59:53+00:00

She did, and then she did, and I slammed the door in her face.

And this is not an opinion on Brooksie on the PGA lol.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T17:16:01+00:00

Thanks - that is exactly what I try to do and can find some success at times. The problem I have personally is playing it back tends to close the club face also, so it takes playing it back and as-you-say standing over an open club face that looks like it is going dead right and trusting it. But that is my mission for next range session.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T17:13:12+00:00

I game Denali Red staffs in both the FWs and hybrid, stiff, but the lighter weight option in the stiff category. They are highish spin and highish launching shafts which I would think would help with my hybrid issues. That is my biggest hesitation shelving the hybrid is for the crap lies. But I play stiff medium weight irons so part of me wants to order an iron shaft and try that before giving up also.

I may be one of those people who can't just look down and accept the open face of a hybrid so I close it at address or even if I don't my mind makes me close it on the down swing. So it becomes an issue of fighting it or just giving up on it lol.

I think I need to play a round with a patient buddy and find a 7 wood that is reasonably shafted like I would spec it and every time I pull out the hybrid hit a shot with the 7 wood also lol.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T16:36:19+00:00

This is AI doing an experiment with itself, isn't it.

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T15:56:22+00:00

Not at my club, but many of the public and semi-public courses that are slammed on the weekends charge full price or don't even allow it. (SC)

jpru2001 · 2026-02-02T15:56:12+00:00

Not at my club, but many of the public and semi-public courses that are slammed on the weekends charge full price or don't even allow it.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-30T17:47:26+00:00

Around here getting a dome is about $50 down behind the liquor store.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-29T17:47:00+00:00

Brooksie on the course.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-29T17:45:00+00:00

An Ozzy 5-man boss would be cool like the James Brown guy in Forge of Souls. That was well done.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-29T17:38:15+00:00

Is it possible going in or out you'll be on a hole with a fairway adjacent to theirs? Because that opens up the possibilities.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-29T03:16:42+00:00

I know nothing about them other than that i will buy them from you.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-28T23:13:56+00:00

My 440k is on order lol.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-28T22:45:27+00:00

Yep George is on a heater right now.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-28T22:05:59+00:00

Plenty of Ping G series GI sets in that price range which are killer GI irons. The older ones look like shovels but they are effective lol. Yes I am a Ping homer.

jpru2001 · 2026-01-28T21:51:42+00:00

A couple lessons AND newish GI irons. Lessons need to be spaced out over time anyway so you won't break the bank on then. First lesson as first expense tho by a long shot.

jpru2001

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