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04-22-2007 05:08 PM #1
Hitting off the toe...
I got my set or Taylormade RAC os2 irons over the winter and have been hitting them at the range recently. It looks like I'm hitting them on the toe quite a bit. Does this mean my irons need to be adjusted in lie? Or should I be moving a touch closer to the ball.
Thanks!!
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04-22-2007 05:10 PM #2
If the impact is consistently on the toe then you need to get closer.
If the lie were off the ball would be going consistently left/right on center hits.
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04-22-2007 07:18 PM #3
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Funny you say this. I was having the same problem the last to rounds with my short irons 7-PW. But once I moved a bit away from the ball, I started hitting more in the centre. Funny how golf works, you can always have two solutions to a problem I find. Sorry Smoothie, don't mean to confuse you, but just stating my results."A life lived in fear of the new and the untried is not a life lived to its fullest." M.Pare 10/09/08
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04-22-2007 07:33 PM #4
Hey, remember me, I'm the guy who set's up 1" inside the ball for all my shots.
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04-22-2007 08:47 PM #5
Can you explain inside the ball ?
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04-22-2007 08:58 PM #6
Here's some ASCII art to explain. Any of the forum guys who've seen me set up can vouch for it's wackiness.
<------------------------------------ Direction ball with be travelling
0 Ball position
C Clubhead at setup
F F Feet.
Basically when I set up I ground the club one inch away from the ball, not directly behind it. Setting up this way I hit the ball dead center of the driver 95% of the time and my misses are what you'd expect for a 7 handicapper.
Why do I do this you ask? What I found after much range time was that when I set up behind the ball I start to think about getting back to impact position and end up steering the club.
When I set up inside the ball I just swing at the target and KNOW that my natural body motion will put the club right on the ball. Essentially I take my brain out of the equation. The key here is that I have to trust it. If I start thinking about it, it just doesn't work.
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04-22-2007 09:31 PM #7
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04-22-2007 09:38 PM #8
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04-22-2007 09:43 PM #9
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04-22-2007 09:46 PM #10
I am definitely coming from the inside but there's no feeling of reaching at all, which is key.
Just set up and swing.
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04-22-2007 09:48 PM #11
Very interesting approach......especially for guys with an outside path
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04-23-2007 01:24 AM #12
Heh, I was almost setting up like that early last year...otherwise I kept hitting it off the heel (once in a while the extreme heel!) Problem turned out I had too much weight on my toes and I was tipping forward.
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04-24-2007 08:53 AM #13
Outside path
As a member of the 90% club, I will give this a try. Picked up a "Natural Golf" book at the library and they advocate getting a little further from the ball at address. Tried it at the range and you do it it straighter and miss tend to hook rather than slice.
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