https://pinhighpress.com/tags/half-set/ Recent content in Half Set on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/the-quiet-case-for-the-half-set/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/the-quiet-case-for-the-half-set/ <p>There is a small experiment that almost every amateur should perform, in the off-season or on a slow evening at the home course, and that almost no amateur ever does. The experiment is to play a round, in the late light of a weekday evening with no card being kept and no group behind, with seven clubs in the bag and a putter. The seven clubs are the player&rsquo;s own choice, chosen on the kitchen table before the round, on the basis of which clubs the player believes they hit the best. The seventh clubs are not the seven clubs the player would have predicted, on a Tuesday morning at the office, that they would have chosen. The seven clubs almost never include the three iron. The seven clubs almost always include a wedge the player has been pretending was a chipping wedge and has, in the carrying of it to the course, not used for a chip in three years. The score the player produces, on the same course they have been playing all summer with a full bag, is, in nearly every case anybody who has run the experiment will tell you, within a shot or two of the score they would have produced with all fourteen clubs in the bag. The experiment is the case for the half set.</p>