10 Expert Tips for Playing Golf in the Wind, Golf Tips (part 2).
10 Expert Tips for Playing Golf in the Wind
Our 10 tips are designed to help you in windy conditions by making minor adjustments with your body, club choice, and ball location in order to counteract the impacts of wind or use them to your advantage. Wind can be troublesome in many match situations, but it can also help you to gain greater control over your golf game and even be used to improve your score.
1. Club Up or Down.
The expression to ‘club up or down’ refers to changing the club you would typically use to a stronger or less powerful one depending on the specifics of your next shot. Using a more powerful club (moving to a lower number) is typically done with greater wind when you’ll need a bit more power than you usually would allow the ball to travel the same distance.
The direction of the wind is also important. If you are hitting into the wind, you’ll want to ‘club up’ as the wind is acting against the force of the ball. When the wind is at your back, consider ‘clubbing down’ or using a less powerful club as the wind will carry your ball further than it usually does.
Golfers typically club up or down for every 10 mph change in wind strength. This video gives a good idea of how you should go about selecting clubs for windy play. We noted the indicators of different levels of wind above, so you know when you should be moving from one club to the next for your shots.
Some players may need to club up or down more than others in different wind conditions. Gaining experience playing in the wind is the best way to determine how many clubs you should go up or down. Using the 10 mph per club is a good baseline but may not be accurate enough for some players. Knowing your typical yardage for each club is key to determine shots.
2. Maintain a Normal Swing.
While it is difficult to play into the wind, you may find yourself wanting to swing harder to make up for the shorter distance the ball will travel. We recommend clubbing up instead of changing your swing. For full shots, use the same power and force as you normally would if the wind were not there. This leads to overall greater consistency in your playing.
If you hit the ball harder than normal, you will most likely be making slight adjustments to your body position and ball contact. This can result in the ball curving in ways you hadn’t planned. The power may also not be evenly distributed from backswing to follow through. Because you normally don’t swing this way, the results can be unpredictable and unfortunate.
Let the change in club power create the extra distance and flight for you. By keeping your swing consistent, you will maintain more control and be more likely to place the ball where you want it. This also applies to wind at your back when clubbing down where you don’t want to take power off the ball through your swing.
3. Use Tree Tops as a Wind Indicator.
You will see golfers looking at the pin flag in the distance and throwing a piece of grass into the wind to judge the wind’s strength and movement. While these are crucial to understanding wind conditions, they are not the only visual markers you should be looking at. Looking at the impacts of wind on treetops is necessary to gauge the level of wind where the ball travels.
The flag on the green is a great indicator of wind in the distance to where you hope to be in as few shots as possible. Gauging wind in front of you is also helpful to understand where you are now. The problem with relying on these two wind indicators is that they gauge the wind at 8 feet off the ground and less.
You can hit the ball into the air upwards of 100 feet and understanding what the wind is like while the ball is in flight is incredibly important. The ball is vulnerable to moving in the wind at greater heights than it will if the ball is kept closer to the ground. To best understand if you should be playing the ball high, you will want to base this off the movement of treetops.
Using all three indicators in conjunction with one another, will give you the best information as to how you should play and hit the ball.
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