Hitting Wedges in the Wind

[@sactownjoey]

Love the 2:1 rule of thumb, I never realized that. I also loved the fact that you focused on wedges because thinking of winds as "one-club" or "two-club" etc. based on just wind speed ignores the launch and spin of the different clubs in the bag. Best 15 minutes I spent today!

[@EmanCp8r]

Doing the lords work... Been searching for this kind of analysis for the best part of a decade. Greatly appreciated

[@0xMarcJ]

Best video on wind, did not know it was 1 club down and 2 clubs into

[@chrischampion727]

Priceless!

[@davidcullen3578]

Love this series! Do more please

[@maxcaysey2844]

You guys are fast becoming my favorite KZbin golf channel! Cheers!

[@jamocleasby7780]

This is one of the best videos you’ve ever done, I’m going to go and tear up my course’s greens later this week (zip zip)

[@gerrylawrence660]

Good timing, getting a wedge fitting on Friday with TXG.

[@thomasveal3351]

Congrats! Enjoy! I would love to have a fitting session with TXG.

[@thomasveal3351]

Amazing Video!

[@frankyang7958]

Wow, didn’t realize there’s that much difference. Great video and very practical. Love the content!

[@anthonyz2989]

Matt's swing is identical speed to mine, so all of your videos are perfectly applicable for me. Love it, keep up the good work guys, so much good info. I wish I could come up and get fit by you.

[@svenhallauer3229]

Love the video!

[@jrodd0077]

Loved this video Guys!! As Ian said golf club review is great but this kind of info is so practical, I can apply it on my next round. 👍👍

[@steviehutts7159]

brilliant lads keep em coming

[@johnobrien7377]

enjoyed this video lads, keep up the good work 12mph wind is a pet calm day here in Ireland 😂😂

[@HPXMirage]

Another valuable video, thank you! This really brought home something that we might know intellectually but haven’t always implemented effectively on the course. I had a great chance to set up a birdie on a tight par four with a front pin last week with some wind behind me, but was reluctant to take less club. Tried taking something off with a shorter swing and the ball flew well past the pin and released into the fringe at the back of the green, leaving a long, downhill first putt. But I know what I’ll do the next time I have that kind of wind behind me. 😁 Thanks again, guys, really great content.

[@norwegianwarhound451]

Great content guys. I could stand to hit more greens for sure. I could see where Larry's Wedge System would come in handy here. Looking forward to your future videos on this subject matter!

[@aidangriffiths5075]

this is fantastic. thank you

[@darynhendershot9952]

Great info as always gentlemen!

[@MitchSandoval88]

You guys are awesome keep Killin it!!

[@jksaarinen]

Very nice content guys! More this stuff 👍🏻

[@callumjames3340]

Super content lads. I’m playing links course this weekend and will be using this info. Top tips

[@stlc3415]

Great info and helpful

[@jeffreygrove5057]

Again I liked the technical details you provide .Thank you .

[@mikedupree2290]

I looks it a lot more when you hit iron into a green like this instead of a line on the ground. Please do more like this.

[@Mr9miller]

mat hit a beauty and nearly ended up in the bunker! harsh green!

[@aarondiehl33722]

Been playing the wrong distance in tailwind.....the course I play most has a shit ton of back to front sloping greens. This should help me keep the ball below the hole. Thanks again

[@randymahony8157]

It was different for you guys but really informative. Maybe, when you get outside you can do some wedges out of the deeper cut. Nice job guys.

[@chrisfreitag2603]

Excellent video with very practical advice. So an extra 20 yards into the wind and ten less with the wind at your back plus condition of the greens, spin, descent angle, elevation, etc. So do we need a new TXG golf calculator app? No pressure Ian.

[@babyoilrallying]

Depends on wind speed, it's actually 2:1 ratio, so you will be hurt twice as much as you will gain, it could be 40 yards and 20 or 10 and 5.

[@bobburke5066]

Wow, what a great video. I struggle with this all the time. What Mat did to get the ball on the green is just what I should be doing, but not.

[@craigedga4r]

💪💪💪💪💪🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 as always! So looking forward tot the ball type and outside test 👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂

[@crazysocer]

Now I know why I got a 5 on a par 3 because my tee shot landed in the front bunker, should have hit way more club. Awesome video love the content and the data 👌👍

[@BillWeiss]

Well done! So not what I would have expected...

[@austinlauer1910]

Great stuff guys 👍

[@3rdgroove]

Very enlightening. Didn't know the 2:1 (or even) more ratio... Thanks! (Ian, this shirt is not camera ready. Those very fine patterns create a moiré pattern - at least on my screen.)

[@BarnDwellers]

Love this video!!! When you move outside, can you also do a video on Dirty Ball vs Clean Ball? Thanks guys...keep up the great work!!!

[@wallstreetoneil]

2:1 is such a good rule of thumb - great tidbit to log into the brain sponsored by the Titleist AVX Ball

[@jcripley5425]

The AVX ball is really excellent on windy days. It didn't score well in the MGS test overall but on a windy day it's going in my bag. I hit some shots in a gale force day that were jaw dropping with the AVX. It really cuts the wind.

[@Bigmender]

12mph haha, in the uk on the coast where i play 12mph is considered a calm still day :-)

[@zacharymilos392]

This vid is clutch! My coach told me to pick some grass and let it fall. For every yard the grass goes back into your face, add 4 yards of club. Going away from you... add 2 yards. Since you don't know the exact wind speed during a round, would you say a method like this is useful?

[@WatchMeEDC]

I hope that you both have played Pebble Beach by this time and now understand how difficult it is to get the ball close to that pin position on 18… and if you go long right on the green what a terrifying putt it is back downhill with crazy hard right break at the pin. Left of the pin, putting uphill is the place to be! Great vid as always.

[@jonasandersen2126]

If you could do this outside with GC quad and a camera on the green - testing areodynamics of golfballs in "real life conditions" you would be LEGENDS! :P But great video as always guys :D

[@clubchampionmedia]

Outdoor tests are planned for sure

[@BrianHallmanac]

My problem with wind is more specifically around side wind or wind that is oblique to the direction of the ball flight. Judging distance on those are particularly difficult for me. Any tips there would be helpful. Great content as always fellas. 👏

[@jayfangRSA]

Great question. I always play it as same yardage unless trying to hold up ball into the side wind. But would love to hear from the pros.

[@jeffmurata4287]

great stuff as usual guys. would love to see a video on crosswinds, always the toughest for me. i think i remember reading a long time ago that a perpendicular crosswind actually has a headwind component, which makes sense since you have to hit slightly into the crosswind to compensate for it. sorry, i must be channeling DeChambeau... :-)

[@johnnypenso9574]

You know you're watching a lot of golf instruction on YT when you see Matt swing and recognize the waist to waist half wedge style shot ala Larry Cheung. 😃 😄 😅 😆

[@jcripley5425]

Larry's wedge system is so straight forward it really helps simply those awkward distances.

[@johnnypenso9574]

Agreed. I practiced it at the range yesterday for the first time but have no way of measuring the distances there. But I did hit if fairly consistently different distances with my 52/56/60 wedges. Looking forward to putting it into play. Got a golf weekend coming up around the Canadian Open in Hamilton so I have to practice up!! I also found some success with Larry's chipping technique. I've tried a few different things with inconsistent results. Larry's advice of not hinging, not letting the club get ahead of your hands and a simple putting-like stroke made a big difference. New fan here.

[@jcripley5425]

Give his online lessons a try. I did and can say he's excellent at communicating what you should be doing.

[@bkirkwd52]

I am a cyclist. This closely parallels with wind resistance in cycling. If you want to increase your speed by 50%, it takes 100% more power. However, when going with the wind for example, a 10MPH tail wind does not translate into 10MPH more speed for the same effort.

[@seanmeyer5553]

It would be interesting to see the effect of a crosswind and how a fade and draw play

[@jacobmccain8082]

I dont mind playing into the wind due to my low penetrating ball flight. Downwind is a crapshoot because half the time the wind knocks my ball out of the air vs helping it fly!

[@TTT-Turbo]

Ian, you will need to bring Matt over to Scotland for some golf down the coast or lanark golf club because lanark is high and windy constantly. 30 40mph winds on good days lol. Tough tough tough. Good video tho because I play with some people who have not got a clue what to hit when windy.

[@wallstreetoneil]

And given Matt's length, but more importantly his seeming ability to also feel wedge distances, he should consider joining DJ and adding a 62 / 64 wedge to the bag to give himself another important scoring club.

[@Blazen1212]

2019 golf ball test/comparisons coming? Really want to see the data. Good stuff TXG!!

[@MrR4dium]

Kompton Terry definitely would like to see such a video, but for now this is a great read: mygolfspy.com/most-wanted-golf-ball/

[@russellfothergill9082]

More of these please. Mid irons maybe and also driving in a crosswind (as affects more than most think). Be great if you could do with your average swing speed tester too

[@OpaKnows]

"...Four degrees and raining." Ha ha.

[@rinfred27]

I don't know how you'd do it, but I'd love to see if different dimple styles on golf balls have any affect on shots, wind or no wind. I believe Mizuno's RB balls claim to have an innovative dimple geometry, and I imagine Callaway's hex dimples may also behave slightly different than something like the ProV1.

[@t.j.mcnelis3999]

Would be curious whats better in a crosswind. Change aim direction and let wind take it, or air straight hit a draw\fade to hold center.

[@8snowman88]

Draw into that pin?

[@Ibizassini]

Would love to see different wind speeds and different clubs (with different trajectories and spin rates) to figure out what % of distance to add/take off each club. Also the effect on direction of cross winds and different effects when different side spins

[@beradbro]

Are you able to play a round on beth page black? You could put out a long video about the course. No one is doing that and you guys could make a major series.

[@joelane2845]

You guys did a video on wedge bounce a few months ago. Then said you would be doing another video about the affect of wedge grinds on the shots. What ever happen to that video coming out? Thanks guys!!

[@clubchampionmedia]

Once we can get outdoors we will for sure

[@MizunoIronMan]

Your content is great but I’m wondering if you’ve had any comments about the camera angle you use for presentation ? The newsreader style cut shot with the shafts background just does not work for me. Change it up a bit, looks too static.

[@briandavidson2684]

The worlds most Tanned Scotsman. :)

[@oldgold5848]

It's not tan, it's rust !

[@ianfrasergolf]

🤣🤣🤣

[@jericho1080]

Does the idea of 2 x hurt and 1 x help apply just to wedges or the entire bag? I thought that insight was super helpful. Thanks for the video.

[@clubchampionmedia]

Depends on your ball flight, but yes likely through the bag

[@TXchadTX]

My wedge and iron carry numbers are very similar to Matt's but my driver is carrying 35 yards less than his. Does that mean I need a fitting? :(

[@ianfrasergolf]

TXchadTX yessir!!

[@weakbrainthrombosis]

For me personally, I would hit a cut shot left to right around the bunker. I can take a full swing and keep a lot of spin. The power fade flight path eats up the extra yardage and negates the wind a bit.

[@Jam3s-mtg]

Haha 12mph that is a light wind in Texas :)

[@Sir_Godz]

how about a Bubba Watson test where you wet the ball ? A mud ball test would be interesting as well although the sim screen may take issue. You could do it at the range. Use sticky mud. Also a cross wind test. Shape the ball to counter or just aim off with standard shot?

[@littlesmitty]

Matt had an AoA of 4 degrees down. Is that something to aim for? That doesn't seem like a lot.

[@ianfrasergolf]

Pizza Douglas that’s pretty average.

[@littlesmitty]

Ian Fraser appreciate the reply Ian. Thanks a lot

[@Thundawich]

Why didn't you just rig the machine to calculate the ball flight 3 times on a single hit to show the difference that the wind makes? Add in cross-breezes too and you'll be able to show really easily what the club would do normally vs what the club does in wind.

[@clubchampionmedia]

the software doesn't do that

[@xRelyT1]

But did you use a soft golf ball?

[@clubchampionmedia]

TP5

[@justjoddat]

Where I live, I always play in 20km winds. In fact, when it's not windy, it screws with my game bc I'm so used to it.

[@shaggy4344]

I live in the north of England I get confused when there isn't any wind lol

[@ToddRichmond]

one person is clearly upset that you didn't change the intro music to Windy by The Association...

[@jonasandersen2126]

Just one note for people interested; in windplay the it will be close to 1:1 ratio at lower wind speeds with smaller distances. It becomes hard at higher windspeeds and/or longer distance shots. So you might have a wind that get your wedge 97 in to the wind (on a 100 shot) And 102-103 with the wind behind you :) But as a general rule it will always hurt you more than it will help you, in terms of distance.

[@Wolfpack32-]

I am very curious why you wouldn't have tried to hit a little more of a draw into that pin location? This would increase spin and stopping power! I play from the other side and all could picture in my mind was a 94 yard cut shot, with 5 yds of curve, just right of the pin. I know Matt could hit a little draw into that ridge! Jealous of what you guys are doing! Keep it up!

[@patricklee780]

On really windy days, I can choke down on a 7 iron, punch it and it will dance like crazy on the greens.

[@IMon503]

12 mph is not a wind in Scotland lol