Golf practice swing not on perfect grass?

Question

In the fairway,clipping the grass on your practice swing tells you it is correct.

I find it hard to get the feel when there is hardground fairway,hardpan chip or a soft,muddy lie.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

For me, all I want out of a practice swing is a feel for tempo and swing speed, it's just a rehersal. I try to save any intense concentration for the swing that counts.

I'd recommend you go ahead and clip the ground on those tight lies also, to get a little preview of what your in for on those shots and get more comfortable with those lies also. As far as wet lies, just have your towel ready for the aftermath :O .

I have a hard time with hardpan chip sometimes. If I can, I'll use the widest soled club I can, or the high bounce sand wedge. It does help, for me at least.

Answer 2

I agree with the last guy.  Your practice swing should be more for feel and to gauge what type of setup you are going to need.  This becomes really important when you aren't on level ground in the fairway (ball above or below your feet).

As for hardpan...I usually try and use  a lower trajectory club and run it more.  More preference and what you are comfortable with  on that I think.

Answer 3

Can't do it you see.

Answer 4

Part of becoming proficient at this game is practicing all kinds of shots, from hardpan, soft lies, shallow rough, deep rough, green collars, rough just outside the collar calling for a finesse shot to a short pin, hard bunker sand, soft bunker sand etc. the trick is to find the time to do all this while carrying a full time job.Hard pan fairway and hard pan chip both require the same stroke as the perfect iron shot, that being ball, turf in that order.

Answer 5

uh.. well im sorry to say i really have no idea. I do enjoy golf and i have decent clubs and i understand what your talking about but yea no i have no idea.