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Your Strikes: Picker or Divot Taker?

Your Strikes: Picker or Divot Taker?

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Thinking about this today, so, poll time.

Are you a picker, or a divot taker with your iron/wedge strikes?
 
When I'm striking the ball well, divots. But my miss is thin.

Never pelts unless it's rained for 5 days straight.
 
I am a divot taker, but tend to pick my long irons, causing a poor strike
 
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I'm a divot taker, I remember being a picker when I started playing though, took a full year to break that habit.
 
Somewhere in between divots and pelts just depends on the day.
 
I take a decent divot on a good wedge, but anything beyond like a 9-iron and I'm a bit more of a picker.
 
I've been known to take some hearty chunks of the earth with a swing, especially if there is any moisture in the ground. PELTS for DAYSSSSSSSSSSS.
 
Right now a mix - mostly clean strikes but starting to work on the divot thing with moderate successs
 
Picker all day unless I have that #gotime wedge in my hands.
 
Oh divot for sure. I tend to think i am digging for oil some days!
 
Divots for me, but generally on the smaller side.
 
I take very small divots with my irons. Wedges I take bigger divots, no pelts though.
 
wadesworld said:
I take a decent divot on a good wedge, but anything beyond like a 9-iron and I'm a bit more of a picker.
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This is me. Long and mid-iron strikes just brush the grass down forward of impact or take a very small divot. Short irons and wedges take a decent divot. My miss with both is usually thin.
 
I can be both a divot taker and clean striker, depending on the shot I'm trying to make. However, I never take pelts.
 
tpluff said:
I've been known to take some hearty chunks of the earth with a swing, especially if there is any moisture in the ground. PELTS for DAYSSSSSSSSSSS.
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Proper.
 
Picker all day. I find the more beaver pelts I take, the more steep my swing becomes & everything ends up short of my target. So I try & keep a more "U" swing vs "V"
 
Between picker to small divots. I tend to mist thin far more than heavy.
 
I'm very much a picker and have been for a few years but wish I could get back to taking divots.
 
More picker.


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With irons I take small divots with wedges I take part of the course.
 
Divot, my miss is Pelt :laugh:
 
I am a picker for the most part. I do take a divot the shorter the clubs get, but unless it is chunked there is never really a big divot.
 
Picker. My winter training program (established last week) includes a heavy dose of drills to help me stay down on the ball. Ball compression requires a divot.
 
Picker unfortunately, and it can get me a case of the "thins" periodically thoughout the year!
 
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