Motion Swing and Knowing Your Clubs

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Motion Swing and Knowing Your Clubs

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If you use motion swing you can take a screen shot of the swing meter then print it out and write down distances etc. for each dot.
(This method of knowing your clubs may not be needed it you are content with all the work done by RickW viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3077 )

Anyway, after having the screenshot You would go to the range and woody's and figure out how your clubs work according to how you swing them kind of like ... what you would actually do before you go play golf somewhere. If you set the "Post Shot Screen Display" to 29 seconds this should give you time to figure out the distance you hit etc.

Below is an edited screen shot of the screen meter (which then you can place this image in for example ms word and print it out ) - you can make your own screen shot or see the links below to get one that looks like this.

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Then you could pencil in - info or really get into it and use text boxes and put down amounts as shown below - with ms word you can even hide the box around the numbers but use the text box to put the numbers exactly where you want them so that you easily know which dot refers to which number

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The point is let's say you need to do a 35 yard pitch shot - you would simply check out your Pitch calculations that you derived at by tediously hitting various shots at woody's

Assuming you are using a 64W for pitch shots and these are your calculations shown below ..
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If you hit it between the 2nd and 3rd dot its going to go 38 yards you need a 35 yard shot so you simply hit it a little below 38 consider the pic below
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If you move the motion swing mouse to the black line it is going to go 38 yards so you would stop it say on the red line a little under the black line so that it goes closer to 35 yards than 38 yards.
NOTE: *** When doing all of this you need to realize these distances were done at woody's under optimum conditions - the ground was LEVEL - and were you pitching onto a green or fairway etc. same thing when chipping.
The point is you simply take these into consideration. If you have a 35 yard pitch shot but its up hill significantly you may hit it on the 38 yard mark.

In addition to all of this info you can even get into - using the info from the Post Shot Screen Display - you can even get into Carry Distance AND Total Distance. The 38 y info is the total distance look at the amount below this 84" - 54" this means its a total distance (if you move the mouse to the 2nd dot - with the 64 Wedge set on Pitch) - its a total distance of 84 Feet and a Carry distance of 54 Feet this means depending on the shot you need to make with this info you can determine the likely hood of whether you can fly the ball over a sand trap with the ball carrying onto the green and then the ball going 84 feet total - no more simply hoping you fly the trap or not again, take into account elevation and slopes of the green etc.

Rather than making your own screenshot you can use the Swing shot screenshot and the Pitch \ Chip shot screenshot .jpg files that can be obtained from the links below


Full Swing shot .jpg file to be used with MSword or some other program to print it out >>> http://www.mediafire.com/file/hp4nw7fv8 ... l.jpg/file

Pitch \ Chip shot .jpg file to be used with MSword or some other program to print it out >>>
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ylclqksek ... l.jpg/file

If you would simply like a page you can print out having 4 blank Full Swing screenshots on one page that you can fill in then download and print this .pdf >>> http://www.mediafire.com/file/gp6jkl78z ... _.pdf/file

If you would simply like a page you can print out having 4 blank Pitch \ Chip screenshots on one page that you can fill in then download and print this >>>> http://www.mediafire.com/file/3p0nh6atq ... s.pdf/file

Consider your options: You may want to get the single .jpg file of the screenshot so that you can enlarge this on one page and put in a lot of info that you can easily see Total Distance - Carry Distance etc. or you may want two per page only of the screenshots but these above links have 4 per page.

Also, I did not do this for each club which will be a lot of work I only did it for the Driver, putter, my Pitching Club, my Chipping club and some wedges. Because I figure I use the driver a lot (The driver I only was concerned about a full power shot and the carry distance etc ) I use a putter a lot and the Pitching, Chipping and wedge shots are close to the pin so I want to be accurate with those. The 3 wood through 9 iron who cares I am so inconsistent with those in tempo etc. that I can just wing it with those the ball with those is going to go left or right of the pin by various feet etc. but when I am 64 yards away I can take out my 64 wedge that I know has a carry distance of 50 yards at that range and hit it on the 2nd to last dot and it comes up nicely near the pin if I guesstimate the height correctly of the shot.
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Re: Motion Swing and Knowing Your Clubs

Post by Greensboronclion »

Great info for all and appreciated. I built charts like that when the game first came out and when I played a lot of motion swing and still think MS is the best way to play tho I now play 3C. I play on a laptop and travel a lot as I am now retired and much easier to sit in a recliner and click than use MS but again its a great way to play. As for charts I still have my Links 2003 charts and think most who play 3C have them also and use them all the time but I must say your charts are pretty nice and well done. Thanks again and enjoy.
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Re: Motion Swing and Knowing Your Clubs

Post by J.H. Buchanan »

Thanks for feedback I was wondering if others were doing this seems its common sense cause a golfer needs to know how he hits the ball with each club or most of them he has confidence on the course.
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