This comes from Stan Utley's book The Art of the Swing, which was unique when it came out (in 2011) for including "scan codes" to let you access smartphone lessons. I thought this short quote from the book might give many of you a new approach to help you better understand how the short game works.
In a chapter about halfway through the book called One Club, Five Shots Utley suggests learning several short game shots with only one club -- he recommends a 58° wedge. Here's a slightly condensed quote from that chapter:
Understanding the primary mechanics that pass into the distinctive photographs you hit -- and how the concept of sequencing applies to those photographs -- is what I would name "school." You have to study the fundamentals and repeat the training, and the checks come on the quit, while it's time to go out into the actual global.
Now that we have spent some time talking approximately the form, the series and the feel of various pictures, I need to take those lessons out of the lecture room and onto the course to reveal how they healthy collectively within your whole golf game.
And I'm going to do it with one club -- my fifty eight-degree wedge.
Why one club? It's easy -- literally and figuratively. When I do a large medical institution, a number of the first questions I continually get are approximately club choice fro distinctive photographs around the inexperienced... But I consider doing it that way isn't the only way.
I believe the very best manner to hit consistently accurate pictures and increase higher touch and sense is to take one membership and make it your short-sport distinctiveness membership. Then make the effort to study the ins and outs of that one club -- what you need to do to make pictures pass high or low, lengthy or quick. By getting manner more exercise time and reps with one membership, you're going to be extra comfortable and assured with it...
Understanding how to play different shots with the same go-to club will make you a complete player. You'll have a better chance of manufacturing a specialty shot for a unique situation using a club you've hit with a million times before. I'm not saying it's wrong to use different clubs around the green... But, I believe you'll get the most consistent positive results from learning the vagaries of one wedge and building a collection of different shots with that wedge. [pp 87-88] Many of you know that I recommend a two-club approach to the short game -- typically, it'll be a lob wedge for short-sided high shots and either 8-iron, 9-iron or pitching wedge for almost everything else. (Clubs with straighter faces are easier to hit consistently.) But I'm not against Stan's approach. His logic is sound -- if you use one club a lot, you'll get really good with it and be confident when you use it. You probably already do that with other clubs in your bag. (I still remember a scramble I played in where I used a 7-wood from places where my teammates were using lob wedges... and getting my shots closer every time. Confidence matters!)
In the e book -- which, unless you could find it used, is now not to be had (and the listings I discovered had been really costly) -- Stan uses the one-membership method to teach the low chip-and-run, lofted pitch, bunker shot, problem shot and distance pitch. In the beyond I've achieved posts on pretty much all of these, I suppose, despite the fact that they are not always referred to as by way of Stan's names. And if I've missed any, there are lots of movies and articles about them on the net.
But no matter wherein you discover the guidance, gaining knowledge of the techniques for all types of brief sport photographs by the use of just one membership is a stable method to enhancing your recreation quick. It removes one of the variables within the shot -- you're continually the usage of the identical loft -- so it is simpler to study precisely what you want to do to make each shot work.
And once you research the strategies, you could always increase your repertoire to encompass or three or even greater clubs, in case you need. ;-)
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