Short-Game Update
I’m still working hard on Dave Pelz’s approach to mastering the short game.
I was out a few weeks ago with a friend. I was on the 4th fairway– dead-center, 90 yards from the pin– and I started to explain Dave’s clock-face visualization: essentially, if you imagine the face of an alarm clock, the position of your hands in your backswing can be anywhere from 7:30 (for very short) to 9:00, to 10:30, to high noon (or midnight, depending on your optimism/pessimism quotient).
Anyway, after explaining to my friend that a 90-yard shot should probably be a 10:30 backswing with a gap wedge, I proceeded to airmail the green by a good 20 yards.
My friend, barely suppressing outright guffaws, suggested that maybe I should’ve set my alarm a little earlier.
Anyway, as the accompanying photo portrays, my progress is often slow going.
And uphill.
I’m lucky I enjoy this game so much.
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Aspen, CO