Hi, this is Larry Heckner in Wilmington, North Carolina.

I play on the beautiful Pete Dye and Jack Nicholas courses alongside the Atlantic Ocean at the Country Club of Landfall.

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Golf Smarter Number 472, published on January 20, 2015.

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improvement conversations like this that are no longer available in any podcast app. I think one of the

worst clubs that might have been invented was the 60 degree wedge because everybody wants to use a 60

degree around the green because they can't stop the ball. I think there's spots for that club, but I think the first thing that you look at is what kind

of a lie do you have? How's my ball sitting? Is it in deep grass? Is it sitting up? Do I have a nice lie? You know, can I get to it? Then the second thing you look to is once my ball lands on the green, how much green do I have to roll the ball out to the hole?

So you're trying to use the terrain of the green.

So you're going to use a golf club that's going to lift the ball enough to get it over the fringe, get it on the green, and start rolling. So if you're five feet off the edge of the green and you've got a pretty decent line, you've got 30, 40 feet to the pin, and you hit a lofty club like a sand wedge, you get no chance because you have to carry the ball too far out onto the green, and then you really can't control what's going to happen when it lands. So you take a nine iron, maybe a pitching wedge, even an eight iron, and just get the ball onto the green and let it start rolling like a put. So if you approach it like that, I think you just have so much more success because you're

using the terrain and using the slope of the green and rolling it like a put.

How to minimize the damage, part two with Tom Good.

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Welcome back to the Golf Smarter podcast, Tom.

Hey, Fred, how you doing?

I'm doing fine. Thank you so much for continuing this conversation because I have a lot more to ask.

Awesome. I love it. I've got, I think, a lot more that I can contribute and try to help some people.

Oh, that would be fun. Okay. So what I really wanted to find out from you to start is tell me,

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