The Situation: Your ball is in the sand 40 yards from the green.
Why It’s Difficult: you’re used to blasting the ball short distances.
The Solution: The secret is to keep your sand wedge in your bag and use a stronger iron, then treat the shot like you would any other bunker escape. For a 40-yard blast, use your 9-iron. Drop to an 8-iron for a 50-yard-er and use your pitching wedge from 30 yards.
Top 100 Teacher DR. Gary Wiren
Being born with the left hand as my favored hand can be both an asset and a liability. I can get around with most things, such as using a left handed desk and writing with my left hand, but when it comes to looking for left handed golf club sets, it is a big disadvantage being a lefty.
It’s a good thing to find these golf club sets that are ideal for left handed players like me, and the best thing about it is that they almost cost the same as the normal set, so it was really a great deal for me.
The customized iron golf club left handed series from this web store provides the precise specification that I look for; it also gives the ability for left-handed players like me to enhance the flexibility I need for my preferred drive and swing.
Modified golf clubs such as these have improved my game dramatically. These days, I feel that I play more like a pro!
The Situation: Your ball has come to rest in a divot.
Why It’s difficult: The ball sits below the bottom of your natural swing arc, inviting a hand-numbing skull.
The Solution: The following adjustments allow you to make a steep angle of attack and get the club-face fully on the ball.
Play the ball off your right heel and set your hands even with your zipper. Notice how this angles the shaft toward the target.
Hinge your wrists quickly on your back-swing to set the club-head higher than your hands (keep your weight on your left leg)
Pull your arms down and let the club-head lag behind your hands (like i did in address). Your goal is to collide with the ball rather than pick it clean.
Top 100 Teacher Brady Riggs
The Situation: you’re on the tee of a short par 4, and a controlled long-iron puts you in position A.
Why It’s Difficult: The longer shaft invites you to over-swing.
The Solution: Set up For control, not power. You,ll get plenty of distance if you:
Choke down two inches on your grip. This makes the club easier to control and stiffens the shaft to produce a penetrating shot.
Open your stance two inches by flaring out your left foot. This shortens your back-swing and keeps your weight left.
Move the ball two inches back in your stance so you eliminate fat contact.
Top 100 Teacher Mike Adams
The Situation: Your tee shot went wild and landed on an upslope in the rough.
Why It’s Difficult: There’s a high risk of jamming your club-head into the slope before impact.
The Solution: Play the ball off your right foot so you can catch it first and limit the amount of contact between the club and grass. The slope will force the ball higher,so hit at least one extra club. The typical mistake is hanging back on your right side on your downswing and letting the club pass your hands. Set your shoulders parallel with the slope at address, but feel like you’re “on top” of the ball through impact, not leaning down the hill . Best way to do this; Feel your hands ahead of the club-head at impact.
PGA Tour Player Zach Johnson
The Situation: Your ball is hanging on an up-slope just under the lip of a bunker.
Why It’s Difficult: Since the sand in front of the ball is higher than the sand behind it, It’s easy for the club to dig into the sand after impact.
The Solution: Play the ball in the center and dig your right foot in deep to anchor your swing. Address the ball with the face square (the slope will give the ball ample lift) and tilt your body so that your shoulders are angled the same as the slope you’re standing on. Next, pick a spot two inches behind the ball and try to hit the sand at that exact spot, swinging your arms and club up the slope and on the same angle of your shoulders. It’s easy to do if you keep your weight back-you should feel most of your weight on the ball of your right foot as you blast through the sand.
Top 100 Teacher Brian Mogg
The Situation: You’re within 20 yards of the pin, but there’s an obstacle you have to play over and then make the ball bite.
Why It’s Difficult: You have to open the face of your most-lofted wedge. For most golfers, this brings the prospect of catching the ball thin very much into play.
The Solution: here’s one situation where club selection is easy -go with your most -lofted wedge. But how you actually hit this shot depends on your lie.
If the ball is down deep in the rough, then open the face of your wedge-about 10 degrees to make-sure you get all of the club’s loft, even after the grass wraps around the hosel and closes the club-face. Aim left of your target so that the club-face points at your landing area and swing along toe line. It’s basically a cut swing-like you’re trying to hit a slice on purpose. Play this shot with the ball back in your stance to promote a steeper path.
If the ball is sitting up nicely on a nice patch of fairway, don’t open the club-face as much and set up more square to your target. A square setup allows you to use more of the club-face to contact the ball, which makes for an easier shot. For this shot, position the ball forward in your stance so you can make a sweeping swing.
Golf Magazine
The Situation: When you take your address in the fairway the ball is well bellow your feet.
Why It,s difficult: Your club can’t reach the ball from your normal address position.
The Solution: All you really need to do is stand closer to the ball. This makes your club a little longer so you don’t hit the shot thin. The only other change is to aim a little bit left because this lie almost always produces a left-to-right ball flight. The farther you are from the target, the more the ball will fade. Once you’ve made these adjustments, the most important thing is to make your normal swing -the more you try to manipulate the club, the more likely you’ll hit a bad shot.
PGA Tour Player Heath Slocum
The situation: Your read tells you the putt is going to bend in one direction and then in the opposite-direction as it gets closer to the hole.
Why It’s Difficult You don’t know which break is bigger. Plus it’s hard to determine the correct starting point on a putt that breaks twice.
The Solution: After a first read, walk to where you think the ball will change direction. Make a practice stroke like you’re trying to make a putt from there, and sense how the slope will affect the ball as it nears the hole. Return to the ball and focus on getting it to the turning point at the right speed. Pick out a mark three feet in front of you to make aim easier. Get the ball rolling to the turning point and let gravity do the rest.
Top 100 Teacher Peter Kostis