If we just spend some time now striping down the concept of club selection it’s really sort of raw basic components. What we might look at initially is what the basic options are, we could probably go high, medium and low in terms of ball flights. So lob wedges might be high, putters might be medium and a seven-iron might be low. So generally speaking a higher launching shot flies higher in the air when it lands on the green it’s going to roll less, because the trajectory means it’s coming down a little bit steeper, land on the green it won’t roll so far. And conversely if we lower the trajectory down to the seven-iron when that lands on the green, that’s going to roll out an awful lot farther. So as long as we understand that the seven-iron is low on rolling, the lob wedge is high in stopping, we can choose between those two clubs to work out which is the right one for the intended shot.

Another consideration might be that we want the ball to land in quite a consistent and relatively flat area of the green, and if I'm playing a ball onto the green and I’ve got humps and hollows and slopes and bunkers, and am trying to pick an area to land that ball in, there is no saying that I’ll get that right; the ball might bounce of the wrong slope and go the wrong direction. So I would always try and pick an area on the green that’s nice and flat and quite predictable and then try and pitch my ball on there. Now if the flattest area is nearest to the flag, am going to have to fly the ball high in the air land is and stop it fairly quickly.

That would point my lob wedge or my lofted clubs. If the flattest area is quite a long way short of the flag, maybe I could hit my seven, eight, nine iron, something like that, land it on that flatter area and then get it to roll out to the flag. So we're understanding how the loft of the clubs can change the roll but also where that flat spot is on the green or the flattest area on the green is an area that I would want to try and pick.

We could also consider how the ball spins. When we hit the ball generally quite high in the air, particularly when we are hitting it quite hard we are generating an amount of back spin on the ball; the ball spinning backwards as it flies. When that ball lands on the green, it won’t roll out as far. But generally spinning the ball back is — can be quite unpredictable because a lot of it depends on the surface of the green; whether it’s hard or wet or hard or dump should I say. If it’s landing on the green and leaving an imprint; a pitch mark, when it lands on the green, you’ve got to come to, that ball is probably going to react better to spin. If it’s very hard, the green, the ball lands and bounces of, it’s not going to spin very well. If it’s a hard green and it’s just got a very thin layer of moister or maybe the sprinkles have been on or it’s early in the morning and the green’s wet, that’s not going to spin very well as well.

So unpredictability with spin can course you a few problems and all these things need to be considered when we are looking at this cheap shots and this pitch when we are playing onto the green. Club selection, flat spots how predictable is the spin; all those things should go through your mind before you chose the right shaft for the right shot.