For every inch you choke down on the club it is suppose to take 7 yards of distance off your shot.
People will choke down on the shot when they want to hit it a little lower than normal to keep it under the wind. choking down and swinging easier will keep the ball lower.
I just want to get the answer now rather than wait and ask my teacher
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cute in the innocence in which you ask your questions.
and by the way its called "choking down" on the club not "choking" the club. this should help you avoid being laughed at when you use the term around golfing plas/teacher.
A sportswriter was in town to interview Tom Kite at Austin Country Club. Sandra Palmer and I were standing around, sort of listening to the interview. The sportswriter turned to me and said, "Harvey, I understand you are practically a psychiatrist when it comes to golf."
"I don't know about that," I said. "I'm just a grown caddie still studying golf."
"You used psychology on me this morning," Tommy said.
"When was that?" I asked.
"When I asked you to help me with my putting," Tommy said. "You asked me if I had changed anything since the last time you saw me. I said, yes, I had started choking down on my putter."
"Tommy, don't use that word," I said. "You should never use the word 'choke' in connection with your golf game. Don't think of choking down on your putter - think of gripping down on it."
"That's what you told me this morning," he said. "That's psychology, isn't it?"
It always made me uncomfortable when Jimmy Demaret talked about his "choke stroke".
What Jimmy meant was he had in his repertoire a simple, reliable type of swing that he could call upon when he was under intense pressure. This swing wouldn't do anything fancy and wouldn't hit the ball as far as normal, but it was a repeating swing that would put his ball somewhere in the fairway or on the green.
He should havbe called it a "no choke stroke".
But I wouldn't have liked that either, because it still had the word "choke" in it, and also the word "no".
The golfing area of the brain is a fragile thing that is terribly susceptible to suggestion. Golfers are gullible.
So basically choking the club changes the club you are playing - I.E 3 - 4 or 7 - 8
So how will i feel when i next take my grip to 1/2 an inch off of the top of the club , after choking down on the club accidentally
Will i be able to swing as good as i have been
No , not really. Choking down just reduces the distance the ball will carry. How much it reduces it will vary from person to person and it also will depend upon how far down the club you grip it. All of this we learn through trial & error. No one will be able to tell you the exact result you'll get. Also when you grip down on your club it will reduce the effective club length so you may have to flex your knees a bit more to compensate.
I have a shelf set that i use and being 5'3 i feel like the clubs are a little to long so i choke down on the driver and low irons all the time. If i dont i feel very uncomfortable( especially with the driver) cause i feel like im 4 feet away from the ball or that im gonna break the club head right off cause the shaft is long. example my driver standing straight up comes up to about right below my chest....Is this wrong that i choke down ? I feel i have to...
i love gripping down on the club and muscling it up to the green or wherever under the wind. one of my favorite shots to hit, and one i can repeat time after time. i've been doing that a lot lately as windy as it's been here. i kind of can't wait for summer time with no wind to start hitting full shots and seeing the ball spin on the soft greens.
April 19th, 2005, 12:18 PM
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