Warming up

This time of year (at least for me) is Tournament time, raising money for school teams, different charities etc. Some of the courses do not have driving ranges just putting greens. And of course the different formats. I have a hard time getting into the flow of the game until really later into the round because I have not hit my bucket of balls to warm up. Is there suggest to help me get warmed up besides hitting balls. I do a fair amount of stretching but I need to get my swing in swing
Thanks
Dant

Find a short area (30 yards or so) somewhere (probably near the putting green) that you can chip and flop shots to a target. Get your towel and your bag. And walk out the distance you want to fly the ball to. Then use your SW and for the next 20 minutes, chip and flop 4-5 balls, going back and forth. Differernt lies. Different hights. Play the ball as high as you can. This will make you swing almost full with a wide open stance and open face. Then chip low runners.

All this will get you some needed ball-club connection feel that will do wonders for your whole game.

Then putt.

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The only thing I would say against this is that it can groove you into an out to in swing in an effort to flop the ball.
Other than that its great for touch and actually for full length shots aswell as you feel like you have more control over the club

There is no excessive out-to-in path on a correctly played flop shot. Your shoulders, hips and feet are on 1 line (left of the target). Your blade is at the target. You swing exactly like a normal swing down the feet line. Nothing out-to-in at all. The ball thinks it is, which is why is goes straight up. But the body thinks you are aiming way left of the target.

sure, but the problem is that its the same body that has to hit all the other shots.
your brain knows where you are aiming (well, where the clubface is aiming) but it also knows that you are swinging left of there, maybe its just me, but my brain gets used to this very quickly if I play a lot of these shots, or a lot of bunker explosion shots for example.

I can understand then. So the trick for you then would be to mix them up, 1 shot flop, then other low runner, a normal chip, back to a flop. That should keep you head, I guess "clearer"?

Greg
The problem is that some courses will not allow you to chip to the putting practice green

that is the reason for using a towel and a bag for targets

Yeah, that or a labotomy...