You have at least 3 distance with each club by just gripping up and down the club. If you put some time on the range you could regulate your backswing and learn the clock position method. You could move ball stance and face position and control you distance by trajectory. My old favorite was to regulate the speed of my hip turn to get the distance. In reality it is nothing more than using your subconscious brain that lets you throw a baseball to different distances. Like putting you have feel or not. In the end the feel is in the hands. If you think your throwing the club you can learn to regulate it.
This is all so great. I pledge to shoot a video on Saturday (T+1) that will amplify the comments of Daryl, Jim, Cometgolfer and Davel in their posts 8-11.
It will take another week to get it up, but I will do it.