Over the last week my low spinner has been rolling out a little more each day, Thursday it was at its worse. Thursday afternoon I went back out and discovered why, the greens are now like concrete and I noticed they were scalped once again like they kept them most of the year.
Friday I decided I would switch to a standard pitch, so I broke out the SW, I'm not good at a standard pitch with a LW. So I played by myself, played the yellow tees, and threw in some additional practice shots. Shot 85, 3 of 8 up and downs. 2 of the 3 were long putts and 1 I actually got the ball close.
So Saturday I went to the practice green, I had to figure something out. I was trying different setups, different swings........, I setup with the ball 3-4 inches back from where I normally do the low spinner with my LW, I had a square face instead of open, I hit the ground just in front of the ball instead of a couple inches in front of the ball, and there was my low spinner with a SW, instantly I said that ball is going across the green, but it didn't, it skipped once and bit then rolled about 5 ft.
I spent another 30min trying to duplicate the shot, and finally did. I spent another hr practicing the shot.
Sunday I played with another single, the course was crowded and it was slow, we waited for the group in front to finish the hole so we could play the hole then wait again on the next tee. With the long waits I couldn't get my full swing going, but it was going good enough. Shot 75, 36-39, 8 of 10 up and downs, the control of my short game was great, better than I have had using a LW for the low spinner.
Monday I played with my regular group from the front tees using my 3h as my longest club, didn't keep score, but the short game was still on, even died one in the hole for birdie. Played again with another guy and decided to cheat a couple of times and pulled out my driver from the front tees.....so a few times I was pitching for eagle and I decided to try my new method with the LW, doesn't work.
Today the LW comes out.