Der einfache Flop-Shot mit diesem Trick gelingt er auch dir

Today we are going to talk about the simple

flop

shot

, that is, how to get the ball to rest immediately on the green. You'll find out why everything is so easy in the next video if you keep doing it until the end. I like the video, please give me a thumbs up. Subscribe to my channel above and feel free to leave a comment because my name is Carl Philberg, I am a golf instructor at Hamburg Holm Golf Club and I hope you enjoy the next video. What is a

flop

shot

and where it is placed, so a flop shot is generally used as a very, very high approach shot where the ball should no longer roll after landing.

All of this doesn't happen through ball spin, ie. not because of the backspin, but because of a very, very high flight curve. In this position I am lying behind the bunker, I have a very fast green, sometimes the green even tilts a little and the flag becomes short, yes, and in order to master this rather difficult shot, a few things are needed and I would like to tell you about them today. Explain things and at the end I will show you a simple technique of how everything works much more often than if you were To play a classic flopshot, but first of all, what do we need?

We need a racket with a lot of inclination. Here I have my 56 degree sandwich. The use of this racket is especially suitable because its tilt will produce a. throwing the ball very high. Point number two is that we need a ball position left of center. That's the second thing we need and the third thing we need is a release, which I mean from open to open, what does it all mean? Take a closer look at what open-to-open all means. By that I mean the clubface and we want the club to have a more open face in the upswing so that the tip of the clubface here points further back and this.

The tip of the clubface should also point to the right again in the front position, you could say that if I make the release, so to speak, that is, I release the clubhead with my hands and stop here in this position , then I could put a glass. of water, yes, it is important when throwing the flop shot that the head of the racket reaches the hands relatively soon, so at the moment of impact the head of the racket has already passed my hands, while with a chip shot, For example, we tend to put our hands forward we would want to have the ball, that means that if we want to play this shot now, then we have to be confident that the club head accelerates relatively early with the wrists and the club head reaches the hands so that we can continue to make good contact with the ball is still our Weight more on the left side, yes, I will try to demonstrate everything briefly and then I will show you how we can make everything easier, especially how this release from open to Open can be done easier.

First we will test if the shot works in a more left position. I want the face of the club to go over my hands and you can see if I do it correctly and then the sole of the club slides very well on the ground. , which means that the club should not get stuck on the ground and that is what this open-to-open throw takes care of, which I tell you I will explain in more detail in a moment, but to give you an idea, I'm going to hit a ball here with the weight to the left and I have the feeling that the club face must quickly go past my hands.

Now it was a little short. My ball went over the bunker, but my ball came back extremely quickly. This happens very often on a flop shot because the face is very open, we have to speed up the shot a little more, but you will see everything when you try it yourself, but what is the secret to making it easy? ? flopshots and how we make it happen in an almost natural way so that the clubface goes from opening to opening and now we will take a closer look at the grip, if we normally look at the grip, then we can see that between them. the back of my left hand and there is a large curvature in my forearm.

That's especially important in the long game so the ball doesn't fall towards you, but we definitely don't want to do everything like that because if I do. If I have the grip like that, then my club face here is going to be square or even slightly closed and we just learned that because we definitely avoid that, I mean, we grip our bat, we put the bat face very slightly open, it doesn't have to be very open and then we grip the handle of the bat more like a father would, that means from the side now we grip the club and now you see that there is a straight line between my left hand and my forearm, yeah, that. means it has a pad grip feel that we want to use when we do that, the right hand now grips completely normally, so it will be.

At first it feels quite strange when I swing around and do everything as usual, then you can see that. The clubface is clearly open here. Yeah, that means that now we can try to do some loose test floats like this and see that the sole of the stick is now always very loose and slides on the ground and we just make sure that the stick. The face is open here in front in this position, which means we can always have this feeling here. From this perspective, imagine that we can put our glass of water here in the front, so let's try it once now. swing out, that means I grip my club like my dad did between the back of my left hand and my forearm.

There is no longer curvature. The clubface is slightly open and now we see that the surface of the club exceeds my. hands again. Let's try everything here. Once we leave the position of the ball, now I dare to swing a little bit more because now I expect my ball to fly very, very high and as we can see, my ball starts relatively high and it doesn't. It doesn't deploy very far. Yes, that's it. It's really particularly important on this very, very hard and fast green. Let's summarize everything briefly. Yes, we said where the ball can no longer roll after landing, so it must stay still.

Immediately and everything related to the height of the flight, we need a racket with a lot of air, a sandwich that I have here, for example, a 56 degrees, all we want is the ball position to be a little left of center . and the most important thing is actually this release from open to open, which means the tip of the clubface is behind my body shows that this position and here in the front of the backswing the tip of the clubface should still point forward in this direction, yeah, from the open club behind me to the face of the open club in front of me, we said, "I can put a glass of water on everything here." It's much easier for us if we adjust the grip a little. i.e. gripping the left hand more weakly like our dad's grip and then it feels like we can just do a normal throwing stroke, that means my weight is on the left, my body rotates with it and I try to let the club face glides over the ground so that the ball flies in a nice high arc and then stops relatively quickly after landing - test everything, especially with the handle and see if the sole of the club glides very well over the ground because then the ball will be lifted off the ground very, very gently and the ball will stop very, very quickly.

As always, I wish you lots of fun practicing and see you soon.