It is useful when you can change the flight and still know where the ball is going to land.
That is the whole session today.
I have seen seasoned players build a perfectly good stock wedge shot, decide they need more “trajectory control,” and then spend the next hour taking that shot apart. Ball position changes, hands move, and the finish position changes. I have been there, a little more of this, a little less of that.
By the end, we have three different wedge swings and do not trust any of them.
We are not doing that.
You already have a stock shot. We are going to protect it. Then we are going to add one alternate ball flight—lower or higher—while asking it to carry the same number.
If I were standing behind you, the first thing I would say is this:
Give me three stock balls and one alternate ball flight. Then show me the carry numbers before you tell me how pretty the flight was.
Because if the alternate flight changes the carry by 10 yards, we do not have an alternate version of the same shot yet. We have a different shot and that may become useful later.
But that is not today’s job.
