A Better Way to Hit More Club on Approach Shots
A shorter grip and three-quarter motion can reduce distance without making the swing tentative.
Choosing a longer club is often the sound part of this familiar advice. The trouble begins when golfers interpret an easier swing as a cautious one. They may reduce their turn, lose speed before contact or steer the clubhead. Those changes can hurt both the strike and the way the club reaches the ball.
MyGolfSpy’s suggested method is more concrete: grip farther down the handle, shorten the motion to three-quarter length and continue turning through impact. The shorter effective club and reduced swing length help limit distance. Meanwhile, the golfer can still make a decisive move through the shot instead of trying to manufacture an undefined level of effort.
Shot-tracking results support taking enough club. The review covered 668,000 par-3 attempts by more than 13,000 players. Across every handicap range, long misses stayed below 10 percent. Finishing short was much more common, ranging from roughly one in five shots among scratch players to nearly one in two for golfers with higher handicaps. The practical lesson is to trust the extra club while using repeatable physical adjustments to control how far the ball travels.
- Long misses stayed under 10 percent across all handicap groups.
- Scratch golfers finished short on roughly one in five attempts.
- Higher-handicap players missed short nearly one in two times.
- Britt Olizarowicz previously worked as a teaching professional.
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