Post by Richie3Jack on Jun 17, 2013 10:42:10 GMT -5
Merion Golf Club’s East Course, the site of the 2013 U.S. Open, saw players use a variety of different equipment setups in order to navigate the course’s combination of very long and very short holes.
Bag setup was one of the parts of the game I was very interested when I started doing my statistical research. And from my experience, even Tour players have a variety of opinions on what type of bag setup to use come tournament time.
In my debut column for GolfWRX, I discussed that if you broke the game down into more finite detail you will see that shots from what I call “The Danger Zone” (approach shots from 175 to 225 yards) have the strongest mathematical correlation to success on Tour.
There are many ways to “skin a cat” when it comes to lowering a golfer’s score, but those who struggle from the Danger Zone are putting themselves behind the 8-ball and will require better play from the other facets of the game to make up for that deficiency.
With that said, I wanted to look at what the best Danger Zone players on Tour were carrying for a bag setup. To do this, I looked at the number of irons each player carried in 2010, 2011 and 2012
Read More: www.golfwrx.com/101090/long-iron-or-hybrid-the-importance-of-bag-setup/
3JACK