A headwind puts no extra spin on the ball. It raises the ball's airspeed, so the same spin makes more lift, more height and a steep landing well short of the flag. The arithmetic, the club to take, and the reading error…
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Panxis Golf covers the game as it is played here: links and parkland, winter greens and summer firmness, wind that changes two clubs between the fourth and the fifth. Equipment is judged on whether it changes a score rather than on a press release, and the retailers and fitters we name are ones you can walk into. Distances are in yards, prices in pounds. Nothing is a paid placement, no product is written up as though we had tested it when we have not, and every photograph is licensed and credited.
