{"id":6688,"date":"2023-07-28T13:55:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=6688"},"modified":"2023-08-17T07:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T14:33:21","slug":"nine-clubs-one-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nine-clubs-one-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Clubs, One Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a piece of swing advice that goes something like this: &#8220;13 clubs, one swing.&#8221; We&#8217;re excluding the putter, of course. But every other club is swung the same way.<\/p>\n<p>There is disagreement about this, but a lot of it is nit-picky. <\/p>\n<p>Of course a driver swing will be different from a 9-iron swing because you stand farther away from the ball with a driver so it is a flatter swing. And the attack angle is accordingly different. Etc.<\/p>\n<p>But what is the same is that the driver swing is just a 9-iron swing with you standing a bit more upright and you holding a different club. None of your swing principles change.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t take my word for it, though. See this video for another golfer&#8217;s opinion that you swing all the clubs the same way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WZV974MuA_k\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is one way in which I disagree with the 13 clubs part, though. You DO NOT pitch with your wedges using the same swing you do for long shots. The pitching swing is not just a shorter version of the full swing. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/how-i-stopped-shanking-pitch-shots\/\">See this post<\/a> for what I mean.<\/p>\n<p>So if you have a putter and four wedges, I would say, roughly, the saying should be &#8220;9 clubs, one swing.&#8221; You can pick around the edges but you know what I&#8217;m getting at. <\/p>\n<p>This is an effective way to go, and it makes the game so much simpler to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a piece of swing advice that goes something like this: &#8220;13 clubs, one swing.&#8221; We&#8217;re excluding the putter, of course. But every other club is swung the same way. There is disagreement about this, but a lot of it is nit-picky. Of course a driver swing will be different from a 9-iron swing because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/nine-clubs-one-swing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nine Clubs, One Swing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driver","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-1JS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6688"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6688\/revisions\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}