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which I can't shoot if I play that way and if I play that way then I just forget about those holes. I'll go ahead and try to make par and move on, I won't try to be the bold one. player, play the shot I can't play, play the shot I haven't practiced, put the ball in the middle, get my par, move forward when the pins are on the right and I can be aggressive, go after it, so here it is first. to the left pin location, okay, I hit the ball towards the hole, the ball was pretty straight but my air was to the right, the ball should end up just to the right of the hole now, if I was going to do it, if I was really playing well and I really felt confident about a right to left shot, then I would aim the ball to the center of the green, which is really the safest shot if you play well, close the club face slightly at address, aim towards the center of the green. and play a bit of a draw and get back to the hole, now to the correct pin location.

I'm those pins on the back of the green. I need one more club, so I would take a seven iron set. I'll take a six iron aim it at the center of the green and slice the ball back to that pin using the wind and shot shape to get the ball closer but always plan slightly to the left of the hole to play on the safe side playing percentages play the Correct shot, choosing the correct shot for you and for pin placement on the green, is very important here. I think I should be observant. I've overtaken my plane companion by two or three yards, so we're both about the same distance away. the same distance from the green and he's going to play first now I can learn from him I just want to calmly look inside his bag here which is perfectly legal find out which club he played well he pulled out a 5 iron now let's see how he hits it, quite a shot attractive, didn't hit it very hard, had an easy five, hit it solid, I was the right club, he's close to the hole, what did I learn here?

Well, I learned that first of all, my opponent. I know how he hits the ball compared to me he's played a five iron he knows I know he's hit it solid I know he's played the right club now I can make that judgment about my shot now I can do this anytime anywhere on the course

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you can't touch your opponent's bag you can't ask him what club you played but you can certainly watch and watch and you can do this on par threes you can do it anywhere on the

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course so learn from your opponent learn from your playing partner I think which will help you choose the right club.

We've talked a lot about all the obstacles around the green, where the bunkers are, where the fat on the green is, where the front of the green is. green the back of the green, you know where the water might be or out of bounds or what all our problems might be and play it safe and move toward the hole, but we haven't really said what we're actually shooting at. This is the hole and never lose sight of it because once you've figured out all the other things about where the fat of the green is and the safe side, the goal is to get the ball as close to that hole as possible.

So what I try to do is once I have all those things in my mind, I decide what kind of shot I'm going to take and then I focus on where I really want that ball to go, not on what all the problems are and what are. The important thing about the green is that I'm going to sit here and focus on that. Yeah, I'm going to hit it six feet to the left of that hole, let the wind blow it a little to the right, and focus on that green. Up here I know the shot I'm going to play, but I decide what I'm going to do.

I'm going to say it's okay. I'm going to hit this ball with a swing that I know is correct before I can change it. my mind before I put a negative thought in it once I prepare to hit it then I hit it and if I play that way I find that my results will be closer to the hole most of the time so as a top pro, We generally hit between There are 12 and 15 greens in regulation, but that won't stop you from going over par most of the time. Here's why we're on the 13th hole at the Loxahatchee Club.

It's a par five and I have a shot of about 40 yards left. Before the green I have maybe 20 yards of green and 20 yards of fairway in front of me and the shot has a small bank in front of the hole maybe 18 20 feet so what we're going to talk about today is the pitch wedge shot. sand, throw the ball in the air and also take the ball, hit it on the bench and make it bounce. The two shots that you would play around the green with a sand wedge, first of all, you play the first shot with the bounce of the club, in other words, the back of the club, if you look at this, is sticking up in the air and if If you saw if it was on a rack or on the ground, you would see that leading edge is about a quarter of an inch in the air, that's the way I want to play the shot.

I want to make sure that when I hit the golf ball, it's this butt of the club that hits the ground, not the leading edge, and by doing that, I'm making sure that the shaft of the club doesn't pass the middle of my body until make contact with the golf ball, the only thing that hits the ground is the bounce of the club and the ball jumps exactly into the air. the same way you would play a sand shot, that's shot number one and I'll show you what I mean, it doesn't really make much difference if you play it in stance, I played most of my shots somewhere on the left . heel for all clubs, so it doesn't really make much difference, you play it if you want to hit it a little higher, you move it up in the stance, you lower it a little, you move it back, but it's not really that important. where you feel comfortable but your hands are about the same level as the golf ball club face slightly open a club slightly open a stance slightly open now break the club off the ball break my wrists break the club in the air and release the club from here so that my hands remain in this position here and the club is released up and down so here we are lifting it and below once again your hands even the head remains in position contact the ball with my hands here the ball is thrown ball in the air and I fell very softly now the second shot I could play from this position I take the rebound out of the game and put the leading edge into play by doing that I move my hands forward because here I am going to play a lower shot with a sand wedge I want to spin the ball and the ball is going to hit the bench, give it a good bounce and check it out, don't necessarily move the ball too far back in my stance, just move my hands a little forward and my weight a little Going forward, I lift the ball club quite abruptly, hold it very firmly in my left hand and pull it down and through the ball, which takes the ball a little further down and towards the bench.

I'll show you one. longer I just move my hands a little forward and my weight a little forward. I lift the club quite abruptly and I swing it down and through the ball the ball appears and then the checks come into the bank. The checks realize that I took a divot. with the second, that's because the leading edge reaches the ground. The stick went there and picked up that indentation right above. In the first shot there is no indentation because the leading edge does not reach the ground. Both shots are effective shots. the shots are good shots half of the guys play soft shots the other half of the guys on the tour could play a spin shot I think you choose whichever you prefer they are both very effective the second club or the pitching wedge and the third technique I want What we're talking about is small shots, here we are maybe 10 yards from the green and maybe 20 yards from the green and I really don't want to hit the ball all the way to the hole.

I want to run a little further, but it's too far to play a full toss and run into this area, so with a pitching wedge I could hit a couple different types of shots, but basically I'm going to play a normal golf swing that uses a little bit of wrist and letting the ball run, there are times when I'm going to play very firm and take very few risks and I think it's really a preference for you which way you feel comfortable. I see a lot of guys go out to the circuit. and they just sit there and pick up the club, never move their hands, leave them right there, make the shot that way, other guys never ever break their wrist, they just come back, I don't think I do.

I don't think it makes much difference how you play it, it's whatever you feel comfortable with, whatever works for you. The pitching wedge is kind of a compromise between throwing the ball in the air with a sand wedge and running it all the way with a six, seven or eight iron, the next shot I want to discuss is a small pitch and run that can be played with a six iron, seven iron, eight iron, anything you're comfortable playing off the green can be played with a four or five iron. or even nine iron pitching wedge, but I play this shot a little differently than pitching shots.

I change my grip here. I use a putting grip and what I use is a reverse overlay grip, the same one I use with my putter. There are two ways to play some putt and run and I think one shot would be to play it exactly how you do it, putt with an up and down club and just use a putting stroke once again, that's a good method for many boys. I used it and it works very, very well, but the method that I use and I think suits me best under pressure is that I take the ball and I play it with my right foot, maybe about six inches from my right foot, I move my hands a lot towards forward. have the club on the toe of the ground, the toe of the club on the ground, heel up and my weight on my left foot and try to hit the ball halfway up the top of the ball, not under the ball but at the top. of the ball and hit it low and take it to the ground and make it run.

The reason I use this shot is that you can play that shot with any lie. You don't need a decent lie to play the other shot you have. Sometimes I have a tendency to want to catch a little hard and the consistency isn't that good, so I play the ball here, pick up the club, hit it down and run it like a putter one more time. Both shots are good. Both shots are effective. choose the one you like best for your game the next shot I want to discuss is putting the ball outside the green you can put the ball from two feet from the green six feet from the green 20 feet from the green here I am seven or eight feet from the green, I have 50 feet of green to roll the ball and it could be a chip shot and a run shot it could be a pitch shot it could be a variety of shots that could be played from here but I think pick the one that feels most comfortable for you and I used to chipping the ball all the time around the green and my first year on the tour I will never forget I was playing with Arnold Palmer and he says to me why are you chipping that? ball and I said well I feel like it's uh you know what the right shot is to play and I mean the right shot means that's what the book says is the right thing to play and Arnold said well you know I've always bitched . the ball off the green because I never worried about what the right shot was.

I always felt like my worst putt would be as good as my best chip and if you start to think about it, if you kick a ball and hit it four feet away. On the hole you feel like you've made a pretty bad putt if you hit the ball four to four feet or inside you feel like you've made a pretty good putt, so from a mental standpoint, you know, it's a lot easier to feel. It's like you're going to get the ball closer to the hole with the putter than with a pitching wedge or a chip and run or whatever club you choose to play, so I play every shot I have the opportunity to play. with a putter, of course, that means I can't play in the rough, obviously, but if I have some kind of smooth surface, if I have somewhere where the ball runs evenly, I'll use an off-grain putter. and I do it exactly the same way I would putt any other putt on the green, I just hit it a little bit harder towards the edge and then I let the ball run, I hit one more here and I remember that all I'm trying to do is get the ball somewhere around the hole where I can make the next putt.

I'm not trying to sustain this, although I find that I will last many more putts off the grain than I can make from the green now that we have talked about how to play all the shots around the grain, whether we play a pitch, whether we play a pitch and we run or if we play a chip and we run or if we play a putt from outside the green or a texas wedge, eh, do we have when do you use them? How do you choose which suit to play well? I guess you can ask a hundred people and get a hundred different answers about what their favorite shot is and that's really the crux of the matter: what's their favorite? shot What is your favorite shot?

Which shot do you think you can play best? I think of one of these shots that you should try to master because when you really need a shot, obviously you should be able to play it now. It won't work in every situation, but it will work in most situations and I think probably the most reliable of all is a Sand Wedge. Ninety percent of professionals play ninety percent of the shotsaround the green with a Sand Wedge. because they can get the ball through most problems, they can get the ball to the hole and put spin on it, they can hit it all the way, they can hit a variety of shots, some of the guys play with pitching wedges and so general, pitching wedges. you're getting the ball to the green but you're running a little bit more you're letting the ball run some guys will play the little pitch and run where they take a little six or seven iron, run it and land close to the green and run it to the hole or from the outside from the greenEven as far away, which is 20 yards, they can take a putter and hit it up.

I don't care what shot you choose to use, choose the one that is best for you and that you are comfortable with, and when you find yourself in a difficult situation. Do you think you are going to get a good result? I said before that if you can put the ball off the green it is the best way to get the ball closer to the hole. Well, here are two little shots just off the edge where you can really not hit a putter, but there are other clubs that make the ball react very similar to a putter.

First of all, I hit a shot here on a lie that's maybe six and eight inches from the green and I try to take a sand wedge and make it react like a putter, how do I do it right? I take a putting stance, grab the grip, take the sand wedge and make sure you use the leading edge and I hit it right in the middle of the ball, use this leading edge, why do you say? Why wouldn't I use a putter? Well the putter has a big flat surface and the leading edge has a sharp penetrating surface and anything we have in the way will penetrate so we use a sand wedge right next to the green and we make it play like a putter once further.

Now the second shot he learned from Tom Watson. He calls it his hit to the skull. What that means. I have no idea, but what is it? You just kind of make an ugly swing, the ball just runs out like a putter, it just comes out of the high ground and runs like a putter and the way he plays, he plays most of the time with a pitching wedge or a nine iron. , play the ball up. your left foot your hands even with a square ball club face make a very low swing rather than a sharp swing and make sure your hands and the club continue through the ball you are not heading down but never turn the club unless you want to run the ball but most of the time you want to run or run a long distance you make the ball run very smoothly coming out with a very square face and it plays more or less like this those are two very useful shots around of the green that try to make the ball react like a little chip shot or a putt and I think they will be a big help in helping you get a lower score.

Here we are to the right of the 13th green at Loxahatchee, in a grassy hole, having to play. a pitch shot over a bunker to a pin that is placed on the downslope on the other side the shot is a relatively difficult shot but can be made with good technique the shot technique is the same as what I use when playing a sand shot or any other field shot around the green, I want to make sure I'm using the sole of the club on the ground and not the leading edge and as you can see the leading edge is about a quarter inch off the ground. it means that the club while sitting on the rack was like this and to play I want to make sure I repeat the way the club was sitting on the rack without letting the handle of the club go past the middle of my body. until it makes impact with the ball, okay, here's a good lie and a bad lie it really doesn't matter what kind of lie you have because the soul of the club whether it hits the ball one inch behind the ball, three or four inches behind the ball, the club will slide right under the entire grass area and you're actually going to hit a pretty good shot.

The only thing that makes a difference is the amount of grass you have behind the ball, it is no different than when you play. a sand shot, how much sand you have behind the ball, that determines how hard you hit the golf ball, okay, let's play the first shot here with a good break, I play the ball basically somewhere on the left foot which can be close to toe to instep keep my hands level or behind the ball club face slightly open break my wrists off the golf ball lift the club head in the air release the club so the club handle doesn't go over half of my body, then I open the clubfaces that I pass by opening my body, I let my body rotate to open with a shot as if I were taking the club throwing it with a softball or throwing a softball or taking and serving a plate to someone. just very gently under the ball, hit it like this one more time, keep my hands level or behind the ball, release the club so the handle of the club doesn't go past the middle of my body, then open the club faces.

I step by opening my body or if I have a bad lie, I swing a little longer because I have a little more grass, but I play essentially the same shot, get the ball up in the air, hit it and it rolls pretty smooth over and over again. I take a slightly longer swing, I release the club so that the handle of the club doesn't go past the middle of my body, it's very soft under the ball, it's just one shot, one technique for all situations, there will be some situations for sure . It doesn't work and you have to improvise a little, but basically this will work for about 95 percent of the shots you have.

I think we've explained how to play a bunker shot pretty well in golf my way, but let me go over a little bit, obviously we're using the soul of the golf club, just with the club face slightly open so the shaft of the club doesn't pass the middle of the body until it makes contact with the sand and swing the stick up quite a bit. abruptly we make sure we go ahead and release the club very simple very here we are boom up here and under the golf ball okay, but the one thing we haven't discussed is bunker game strategy when do we spin the ball when don't we spin the ball?

When do we want to make the ball run? What do we want when we want to do other things well? The shot we have here. I have a pretty steep bunker. I'm a little bit downhill, the pin is relatively close, it's not a particularly easy bunker shot, so I might want to put a little more spin on this shot than one where the pin would be maybe 30 or 40 feet out. green, well, how do we do it? Well, to give the ball a little more spin, I'm going to hit it a little closer to the ball, have the clubface a little more open, and lift the ball a little more abruptly so it doesn't get as much sand on it. between the club and the ball, I'm going to come forward at a little bit more of a downward angle which will give you a little bit more spin and give you a chance to better stop something like this once again.

I'm going to hit a little. closer to it, have the clubface a little more open, lift the club with the ball a little more abruptly, that won't put as much sand between the club and the ball. They come at a slightly more downward angle, which gives it a little more spin and gives it a chance to stop better. Now the next shot I might want to play is if I have a lot of green and I'm going to go ahead and use it here in this situation, the ball might run. through the hole, but if I'm going to make the ball run a little bit where I have more green, then I'm not going to open the clubface as much, I'm not going to lift the club as much and I'm going to hit a little more behind the ball and you use it when you want the ball releases and runs a long distance, a little square through the ball, the ball comes out, releases and runs and again I won't open the clubface as much, I won't choose to lift the club as much and hit it a little further back, the ball comes out, lets go and runs now we might as well have a buried lie.

The ball could be a fried egg or a bad lie or anything. Now I play that shot a little differently. I learned a little bit from Greg Norman from time to time and Greg uses the heel of the club to get into the sand, which part of the club will penetrate the sand the most and probably this little spot right here on the heel, so instead of playing. up I move down where I penetrate the sand with the heel of the club I open the face of the club instead of closing the face of the club I lean further I move a little further away from it I pick up the club and drive the heel into the sand with one foot open clubface, the ball comes out quite smoothly and again opens the clubface instead of closing it, lean further, get a little further away from it, pick up the club and dig your heel into the sand, make sure you follow through and release the stick.

Run through the hole. It's a very useful shot. I think about the shot you have. What do you have? How much green do you have? How much bank do you have? How do you want to have to hit the ball in the air? In other words, on a bench like this, you may have to get the ball up in the air, so I don't want to take the shot and hit a low bunker shot. I have to lift her up, so to lift her up. I could put it a little bit more into my stance, if I want to hit it lower I could move it back into my stance to make it work.

All of these things are part of the bunker strategy and the only way you will find out. The way to play bunker is to go out and play with it. Get into the bunker. Try different situations. Try to run the ball. Try to spin the ball. Play some buried lies. Find out what works for you. Try all these different techniques, but remember. The bottom line is trying to find the best technique that gets the ball closer to the hole after all, that's what we're trying to do. Putting isn't fifty percent of golf, but it's almost getting things out before the shot is worth it. both on the green and getting there, most people think that putting starts when you get here on the green, not like that, putting really starts when you're right behind the t, find out where the pin is, find out where I want hit. my tee shot, figuring out where I want my second shot to go, figuring out how I can hit my second under the hole to stay in the easiest place possible to get into, you know, we play practice rounds during golf tournaments and you playing in your local course all the time look around, observe, see where the green drainage goes, see where you have your uphill slopes, see where your difficult pin locations are, see where your easy pin locations are, see if It makes a difference if you are close to the hole or close to the hole or to the right of the hole or to the left of the hole.

You know, evaluate every situation, put that in your mind when you're back on the tee and if you have the ability. to be disqualified stand on the tee and see where the pin is then you will have an idea of ​​where you might want to play your t shot to get the best advantage to get to the best spot on the green for your second shot to be able to make a putt from the area Correct, this is all part of the strategy of playing a golf hole, leave your ball in the place where you can best make a putt, I mean, it is very important, I think I look around me and I see the grain.

On the green I see that you can see by the color which direction the grass goes. I find that you know which side of the green I don't want to lose the ball to the right, I have no chance of recovering, that's that part. of the green may be fine on another day with another pin placement, but you really have to evaluate all the situations, put them all together and when you're done, you'll be able to play a smarter, more strategic and more successful round of golf when I get to the green I look at the putt I look at the grain I look at the slope from behind the ball and then I walk around the side of the putt I check the slope on the side here I look at the cup I see what kind of angle it's sitting at I walk behind the ball sometimes I find a little different break here that the one I found from the other side I look at it on the way back this way now check the cup check the slope can I do this while my other plane buddy is putting while lining up his putt I mean the thing is you don't want to lose too much While doing this, you don't want to stop everyone by examining the entire situation, but you want to make sure you know what to do. what to do with a putt, when you get to it, you want to develop that routine so that when you stand back here and you see the putt for the last time and you approach it, you know what you want to do, you know where you want to hit it. you know what your chances are of making it if you feel comfortable you want to have a good positive thought in your mind you want to be told okay I'm 5 10 13 14 feet from the hole this is what I look like I have here I have maybe four or five inches of space to the right of the hole.

It's a bit uphill. I can be firm with him. I can give it a good run because the ball isn't going to run very far overall. My chances of three. the putts are very small, I certainly don't want to leave it short because I have a putt that is very easy to make, you have all those things in your mind, you understand them, you have them firmly in your mind and when you get close to the ball, take a couple of putting practice strokes with a 13 or 14 foot drive, you have it in your mind, you have it in your hands, you get that feeling there, so when I walk towards that ball, I know what I want to do.

I want to know. I want to be positive,I want to get all the other things out of my mind and my only goal is to make this putt, so as I stand here over the putt to keep in mind that I'm going to hit it, I know where. I want to hit it then I hit the grain it influences all putts it doesn't matter where you are even if you can't see it it's there and it's different in the northern part of the US versus the southern part of the US if you're putting bent grass in the northern part of the United States or even if you have folded grass in the south, the grass always grows toward the drain.

Figure out the general drainage of your property and that will be your dominant grain. Then look at the green and see where the drainage goes on that green and that combination will probably be where most of your putts will break. Go to the southern part of the United States and have Bermuda grass greens. Look for the sunset. and the setting sun is generally in the southwest, so if you're going to spend the summer with Bermuda grass, Verde grass, you're going to break to the southwest, you can count on that, so remember the drainage in the northern part of the United States, the southwest for Bermuda grass greens, the long putt, what are you really trying to do on a long putt?

Realistically, are you thinking about holding on? a putt from this distance or you're really trying to two-putt well, I think realistically any time you have a putt it's going to go up a hill, break to the right, go down a little hill, go up an elevation, go down a hill and break left, you're not really thinking about holding it, what am I thinking? I'm thinking about trying to get the ball closer to the hole, shoot your lowest score on this hole and get down with the fewest strokes, obviously. Two putt is my thought, the distance is what is important and if we want to leave the bowl before the hole or beyond, what is the next best putt to leave us?

I mean, are we on this particular putt here? It really makes a difference if we're a little short a little further out, but we try to work on leaving it somewhere in the area of ​​four feet before the hole or four feet beyond it. I have eight feet to hit it here, so I have to order. like a big old bucket up there to hit the ball and I think about it and I'm a little bit uphill, I'm probably a little bit into the grain, the draw comes off the green, so I'm going to have to hit it pretty hard actually, the Wind coming is definitely a factor in the putt, the wind is coming a little bit from right to left, so it's not a big factor in this particular putt, but sometimes it is, so we want to think about all those things. but when we get to the ball, I want to decide what I want to do.

Deciding that I'm going to hit the ball just to the left of the hole because it has a break to the left, then a backhand to the right, and then. Back to the left, I'll look at it and say, "Okay, I've got 10 feet," 20 feet, 30 feet, 40 feet, 50 feet, that's a 60-foot putt. I'm thinking 60 feet, I want to have that feeling on my putt. putt right here I have 60 feet what I'm thinking about once I have it in my mind once I know what I want to do I want to get up and make a positive putt and try to make sure I hit that correct distance well that's a putt Pretty good, little three foot putt, probably one of the hardest shots in golf, but it really should be one of the easiest, why is it one of the hardest?

Because it's embarrassing to fail it, if you stand on it. you know you have to make it your partners know you have to make it everyone knows you have to make it and then you stand there and say if I miss this I'm going to be embarrassed, well what you do is you stop thinking about what you're doing think about doing this putt once you miss it there is no way to recover from this shot because you know how you are going to recover by hitting a six inch putt on the hole you have to make this putt and you have to make sure that you are going to miss one from time to time, but for the most part let's be positive and what I try to do is have four different putts here, I have an uphill one and a downhill one.

A break from right to left and left to right. What I do is I pick a spot on that hole where I'm going to try to hit the ball and I try to drive it to that spot when I'm making that uphill putt. I pick the back of the hole in the center if it's a straight putt, that's where I want to hit it. If I'm putting from right to left, I pick a spot, let's say it's the top of the cup, that's where I want to hit. ball, if I have this downhill putt, I choose the front edge of the hole because the ball is going to continue and I choose that spot on the front edge and I try to hit it at that point on the front edge and the putt from left to right I try. take that if I don't pick the spot at the top of the hole here that's the spot I hit I want to aim and hit it in that spot obviously up the hill I pick the back of the hole because I want to make I made sure to take it up there and into the hole it costs below.

I chose the front of the hole because I want to take it just over the edge and hit it medium firm on both side putts of the hill, that's how I puttted short, stop here. I decided what I want to do, aim for that spot at the back of the hole and hit it there. I chose the spot on the right edge of the hole, aim it and hit it there. I've got the putt coming down the hill, I'm going to try to hit it on the front edge of the hole, aim it there and hit it there now, the putt from left to right, I'm going to aim it on the left edge of the hole, sit my putter there, do it.

Decided, I'll do it and stick it there now. If you can be positive on these little short putts, you're not going to miss many of them, but if you're worried about missing them, you're worried. If you're embarrassed, you'll miss a lot of them, so stay positive, pick a spot, and drive home to close out this putting segment. You know that it is as important to have a coup as all the strategy in the world. Now I think a hit it is. It's a very individualistic thing, I think if you have a stroke, a long, smooth stroke, inside out, outside, and I don't think that makes a big difference, it's whatever works for you and what you're comfortable with and how can you align. better and people have asked me for years Jack, why is your head behind the ball?

Why is your right arm so low? What happens is the way I line up for a putt and the way I feel comfortable. I have tried to play with my right hand being right behind the ball. I started doing that my first year on tour. A little advice from Jackie. Burke in 1962 really helped me. I was really struggling when I started and I was putting my right hand up, I moved my right hand down and immediately started putting right, I brought my right arm down over my right shoulder and that was it. Did it fit with my other part of my swing, which was my stance behind the ball and facing the target line?

I've always looked toward the target line behind the putt and my right arm and my right hand have acted like a piston back and forth right here, right on the target line, my left hand just kept everything solid, well, that It's the way I put it, it's not really important if you put it that way or put it some way. Otherwise, whatever way is comfortable for you will be best for you. Any way you can get the ball in the hole will be the best way for you. That will be the best for me and I put the ball.

The hole is better that way than any other way We complain a lot about golf's testing situations and problematic shots, but the challenges they present are really a big part of the game's appeal, let's look at the best way to deal with them by driving against the wind or to the left. For me, straight winds are the two most difficult tee shots you can hit. I think driving with the wind behind you or with the wind from the right is very easy because it's very natural to take a good full swing, take a good full back swing and hit. the ball from the inside, but the natural tendency towards the wind and with a left or right wing is to not complete the backswing, never put the left shoulder behind the ball.

I think when I'm here, I'm trying to drive myself here and I step back and I just get it halfway back and then I get open and block and hit the ball to the right, it's a familiar shot, you're absolutely right, it's a familiar shot, It's a familiar shot of mine too, so when I'm playing with the wind to my left or I'm playing with the wind in my face. I try to do one thing in particular. I want to make sure I'm right behind the ball with my left shoulder. Come back here so I can get a full release and stay behind the ball, get the ball in the air, that also does another thing for me when I come back behind the ball, I'm going to hit the ball from the inside, which means I will come. towards the ball at a low angle when I come at the ball at a low angle I am going to hit the ball with very little spin with the driver if I come with a short swing and land on the ball Then I am going to give the ball a lot of spin golf, so I'm going to hit a slice more than probably with a left or right wind, obviously, it carries and, with the wind, the ball swells in the air, so the goal is to try to hit the ball very little spin, drive it through the wind to drive it through the wind and make sure that this left shoulder makes a full backswing.

I'll show you what I mean. Here's this little tip. I think it will help you. improve your driving here we are again on the 9th hole at loxahatchee 431 yards par 4 win left to right blowing pretty hard I think sometimes it's a tough situation to keep a driver in the fairway you'll find that many Sometimes when you have a wind of Left to right, the ball wants to sneak away from you because the driver doesn't give it much spin, the ball lifts up and just slides, and I'll do that quite often. I take a three wood in those conditions because it's more important to me to hit the ball in the fairway than to worry about distance, so I sit here and think about it.

I said, "Well, can I hit a three-wood far enough? Yes, the left to the right wind helps a little bit, it will speed up the ball, the driver will hit the ground and it will move from left to right and it will move down the fairway, but if I take this 3 wood, I get a little bit higher, give the golf ball a little bit more spin. I can drive it into the wind on the left side and when it hits the fairway, it will hit a little bit softer. Maybe I'm going to lose 10 to 15 yards, but I'm going to end up in the fairway with a little easier shot toward the green, so I'm going to change my tee by moving the ball down a little bit, pulling out, my driver will point toward the green. left side of the fairway, making sure I make a good full turn.

Decide what I'm going to do and then I hit it well into the fairway in play. You know, I think the hardest thing is getting close to the tee and getting uncomfortable with the club. that you have in your hand. You are not comfortable with a driver changing to a 3-wood if you are not comfortable with a change from a 3-wood to a 4-wood or a long iron, especially in pressure situations, if you need to put the ball. in play, don't do it play with a club you don't feel comfortable with get it and play get off the tee get over the uncomfortable situation again and then you can go play golf playing against the wind is a very, very difficult situation the natural tendency is to hit the ball with more force the harder you hit it the more spin you give it the more spin you give it the more the wind will affect the ball if you hit it directly it will swell if you hit it with a small cut that will accentuate its departure to the right, yes you hit a little hook, it will accentuate it.

If you turn left, you will put yourself in a very uncomfortable position. All of these problems are caused by spin, so the harder you hit it, the more spin you will give to the golf. ball now I'm sitting here 180 yards from the hole and I've even accentuated the situation by having an elevated position to play on a lower green which even makes it more difficult because obviously anything that fades or snags is going to move further out. of line because it drops more, most people will try to take a five iron, let's say the pros from 180 yards and we'll try to hit it hard into that wind, well, that spin will move the ball all over the place if they don't. absolutely perfect, so what is natural?

Drop a club, play with a four iron, but that still means you're going to have to hit the ball hard quite often. I'll go down to a three-iron or even a two-iron. Sometimes I have a three iron here in this situation and what I try to do is take the spin off the golf ball so that the wind has no effect on the golf shot and the ball moves through the wind without much effect, so how do I do that without hitting it too good? If I make this a short golf club, maybe I choke it out and maybe make it like a seven-iron length with a three-iron loft, then I'll get about a five. iron distance that's the theory so here we are, I face the ball with my short grip, I just want to make a normal swing, a normal golf shot, but move the ball through the wind without spinning, that ball landed a little short of the green and it rolled onto the green How many times do you roll the ball onto the greenagainst the wind?

Not very often when you're worn out, but if you don't have any spin, the ball will just go through the wind, hit it with very little force, and just run. It's a very, very useful shot when playing in windy conditions. You know when you play in the wind you don't always have as much luck as we do in Florida. We have a pretty consistent win with the wind. You throw some grass. and you can tell very well which direction the winds are pointing many times you are playing in the trees and you crouch down you throw grass it goes in one direction the trees flutter in another the flag flutters in another direction and I really don't know what to do right one thing I usually look at It's the clouds, the clouds above the trees are generally going in a constant direction, so I go up, I'll throw my grass up and look at the clouds if you're in a constant direction, then I know that's what the wind is going to do.

I think it's much easier to be able to select your stick if you get a general flow, I'm sure you'll be fooled by the swirling winds at times. the trees, but that's a good general thought, the hard and horrible things that are in it, but sometimes you get into it and no matter how well you plan it, sometimes you get a lie like I have here, you know, what The first thing you do is look. Let's look at what kind of shot do you have? I have about 150 meters left until the green. I have water on the left.

I have a bunker on the left. I have a deep valley to the right of the green. I have a short fairway, maybe I have 30 yards that I need to get the ball in front of me and I have the lie that I'm not sure I can hit 20. I think I should basically turn around to play. shot to the side, take my medicine, don't mix the air. I've gotten it 35 40 yards, that's as far as I can get it now. I have 110 yards left. I still have a chance to make four and I'm probably not going to make any. worse than five when you are in the rough, there is a technique to getting the ball out, but I think first you have to understand what really happens to a golf club in the rough, what happens when you hit a shot with a normal golf swing, usually You hit the golf ball from the inside, your club comes in at a low angle, it starts to catch on the grass and the handle of the club is what's really hanging, hanging, spinning the club and generally the ball.

It will come out low to the left, so generally speaking, someone with a flat golf swing finds it very difficult to play outside the gross, so if someone with a flat swing is having trouble, obviously they should use an upright swing and an open clubface to counteract that. situation to hit a good shot, so what I try to do is try to open the clubface slightly at address, stand a little bit more upright, lift the club very abruptly and slice the ball slightly trying to minimize the amount of contact I make. the Hosel will get into the grass and slide the club across the grass and let the ball come out with a slight fade.

That's the general idea of ​​how I'm going to play a feint. Now let's try the first shot and I'll show you. In slow motion, what will happen when you take a flat golf swing from the rough terrain? Turn the clubface over the balls to the left, boom into the water. Now if I take basically the same lie, that it was a reasonable eye on the rough terrain that it does not have. to be a bad lie to get that kind of thing you can't even get a reasonable eye on this rough now I try the same basic lie open the clubface slightly play the ball up in my stance a little take a very upright swing stance, stand high and cut through it, then the ball should slide out and up in the air and fly, it should come down somewhere around the green if you apply this method to get the ball out of the rough, I think you are going to I think your recovery shots are much better.

There are two basic techniques that I use to play overhead shots and they are really dictated by the shot I have to play if I can get the ball and take it all the way. the green is my preferred method and if I want to do that I use an open club face, I play the ball up in my stance, I try to hit it as high as I can because the ball is not going to have any spin and I try to land it as much as possible. as gently as you can on the green.

I do this by having an open club with the ball facing up in my stance, aim slightly to the left of my target, lift the club out, slice the ball and gently throw it up. The second situation is that I have a lie that I can't get the ball to the green so I have to run the ball so I have to hit a shot that the ball is going to land close to the green and run well towards the green if that It's like that. If so, I still want the ball to come out with an open clubface, but I'll play the ball a little further back in my stance, lift it up, and hit it a little more.

Then sweep it up and make the ball move at a slightly faster pace so that when it hits the ground it runs.