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    Default How do you play the sexiest shot in golf? (aka “the stinger”)

    I’d love to be able to hit a 3w or hybrid stinger into the wind. One that almost skims the grass and stays low low low and goes goes goes. Any tips? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH-MNr-Fi8
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jono View Post
    I’d love to be able to hit a 3w or hybrid stinger into the wind. One that almost skims the grass and stays low low low and goes goes goes. Any tips? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH-MNr-Fi8
    If you watch the video closely you should be able to pick up the key set up points. For me it is shoulders dead level, no tilt at all, and weight well biased to the front foot. Ball position in the middle and then adjust body and aim for the flight shape you are after.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jono View Post
    I’d love to be able to hit a 3w or hybrid stinger into the wind. One that almost skims the grass and stays low low low and goes goes goes. Any tips? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH-MNr-Fi8
    Just get a 10deg driving iron. You're a flusher, you'll be fine.

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    I play this shot with driver, choke down the club and stand more upright.

    Works a treat

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    My natural shot with a 12* driver!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve57 View Post
    My natural shot with a 12* driver!
    That’s what the cool kids do

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jono View Post
    I’d love to be able to hit a 3w or hybrid stinger into the wind. One that almost skims the grass and stays low low low and goes goes goes. Any tips? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH-MNr-Fi8
    Play holes that slope gently upwards from tee to green.

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    i usually just top it

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    Swing like me.

    That is all I ever hit, but nobody has ever described it as sexy.

    Jono will need to take about 25mph off his swing speed, though, to achieve the apparently enviable problem of not being able to swing fast enough to get the ball into the air.
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    Take Bluu to the range and get him to stand facing you 10 metres out with his feet twice shoulder width apart. Then smack it between his legs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimandr View Post
    Swing like me.

    That is all I ever hit, but nobody has ever described it as sexy.

    Jono will need to take about 25mph off his swing speed, though, to achieve the apparently enviable problem of not being able to swing fast enough to get the ball into the air.
    I've shown Jono that shot, which he named aka "the anaemic".
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    Dome a 3w. Works for me, and whenever someone asks that was totally the shot I was trying to do.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ferrins View Post
    Take Bluu to the range and get him to stand facing you 10 metres out with his feet twice shoulder width apart. Then smack it between his legs.
    Here you are;

    https://youtu.be/DOVY70TUCeY?t=55

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    my sexiest shot is the bladed chip that somehow still ends up closer to the pin than te actual lofted chip that I intended to play.
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    Hit it on the bottom groove for the Win.
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    Don't own a 3 wood anymore. Couldn't even connect with the ball let alone control it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    my sexiest shot is the bladed chip that somehow still ends up closer to the pin than te actual lofted chip that I intended to play.
    "Thin-to-win"

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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    "Thin-to-win"
    AndyP, still remember my 200 meters par 3 NTP at Nambour?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jono View Post
    I’d love to be able to hit a 3w or hybrid stinger into the wind. One that almost skims the grass and stays low low low and goes goes goes. Any tips? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgH-MNr-Fi8
    It is all about the release Jono. The clubface is shut at impact and open past impact with the left hand staying low past impact. A slightly downward strike and a stable clubface with minimal rotation and keeping the club head low well past impact is the key to this shot. The rest of the swing is to set up this release.
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    Rotate your chest a little earlier on the down swing will take the loft of the club. Hold the angle in your right wrist a little longer... but dont get steep. Really work the club around your body and not down the line.

    You also need to do this without sliding the hips.

    Easy.

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    Actually the release for this specialty shot is very similar to how tour pros play their normal chip and pitch shots. The forearms are wound on to each other during the takeaway shutting the clubface with the left hand in control and the right relaxed. The right elbow is down and in with the upper arm rotated clockwise. The left hand and arm do all the work with the right trying to retain its address position. The left wrist remains flexed with the palm up through impact. The right wrist is extended and cupped through impact. The wrists reverse roles in he follow through. This creates a stable clubface with minimal rotation square to the swing plane.

    It is always a good idea to have a clear concept of what the club head needs to do. The normal golf swing takes about one second, the downswing 2/5 of a second, so there is not much time to be thinking golf swing.
    Consciousness and awareness - awareness is being aware of what is happening and being aware of what is happening within ourselves while we are conscious. Where did I leave my glasses?


 

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