Short and sweet today. Modern golf clubs let you get away with a faulty swing and still hit playable shots. Not great shots, but ones that will do. If you want to play better golf than that, learn to hit these three shots:
1. Drives with a persimmon/laminated maple-head driver. You have to hit this club dead center to get anything out of it. The secret to distance and accuracy is to hit the driver on the center of the clubface. Modern drivers do not encourage you to learn this. A wooden driver does.
2. 2-iron. If you can hit a 2-iron as well as you hit your 2-hybrid or 5-wood, you have a swing that is doing a lot of things right.
3. Chip with a sand wedge, using the right hand only. Again, you have to be doing a lot of things right to hit this shot as well as you do with two hands. If you want to go further and learn to hit a 6-iron 150 yards with only our right hand on the club, so much the better.
None of these shots are easy. It will take lots of practice for you to be able to hit them consistently. By the time you have learned all three, you will have ironed out the flaws in your swing and be an outstanding shotmaker.
Since you probably don't have a wooden driver or a 2-iron lying around, you can find one of each for not very much on eBay or at www.2ndswing.com. If you've never hit a ball with a wooden driver, you're in for a real treat. The soft strike and the gentle "click' of impact are quite something. You might want to start playing with it!
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