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When Rotary Swing Instructor Clay Ballard first started playing golf as a teenager, his idea of short game practice was grabbing a sand wedge or lob wedge and launching every shot as high in the air as possible.
Those towering shots look impressive and they’re fun to hit. Clay and his friends would compete to see who could generate the most backspin and get the ball to check up and roll back on the green. That was always the first thing they practiced.
As you progress in your golf career, however, you eventually realize that’s not always the smartest play.
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Sure, it’s entertaining and visually impressive. But when Clay started competing in tournaments, he learned a humbling lesson.
He would hit one of those spectacular high shots, landing it perhaps 5-6 feet from the pin. Then the next player — usually someone older with more competitive experience — would step up and hit a simple little bump and run.
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