Tips from Golf Magazine Flashcards
Greenside chips 1
Greenside chips 1
Greenside chips 2
Greenside chips 3
Greenside chips 4
Eye on ball at address
First tee Jitters
Jack Nicklaus says to hit a club you have confidence.
2 Pitches to master.
Accelerate to impact.
Blast over the bunker lip.
On Back Swing keep gloved hand flat at the top.
How to use the driver on fairway.
How to make the high and low wedge shots.
In Closed In path 1.
In Closed In path 2
Iron play 1
Keep your chin up.
This shows how much room to keep chin up. Too excessive and it hurts my neck.
Left Arm glued to your chest.
Left shoulder low maintains spine angle.
Right elbow points to my Right hip on Backswing.
Sand shot 1
Scramble like a pro.
Under the trees, back to the fairway
Keep your weight forward on short game.
Flat wrist or bowed at impact.
Hogan says bowed at impact for more distance.
Abort liftoff.
Do not lift your upper body in the downswing.
How to blast your 7 far as your 6?
Fully extend your right arm through impact.
Do not steer the ball toward the pin.
Turn your club over through impact to keep all that power!
HT get more power out of my shot?
Aggressively rotate your lower body opening it toward the target.
A better sand shot:
Imagine laying two quarters, one after the other, in front of your ball in the sand. Now make your shot scooping under the ball and the two quarters in front of the ball.
Golf Mag. July 2012. The Problem:
The key to hitting good bunker shots is to take a divot directly underneath the ball, not after it like you do with an iron in the fairway. This tip, however, tends to make amateurs enter the bunker way too early and take too much sand before the ball, an error that fails to create enough blast force to lift the ball up and out. You want to hit the sand shot fat, not taking 2 inches of sand before contact. You want it just like a fat shot in the fairway.
(Remember to aim with toe of sand wedge and hold heel up off the ground to keep from burying the edge in the sand.)
Here is the drill to fix the problem;
Plop a ball down in the practice bunker and set a quarter an inch in front of the ball on the target side. Your goal is to get the ball and quarter out of the bunker.
The only way to do this is to shift your divot forward by entering the sand as close to the ball as possible without touching it, and sliding your wedge far enough target-ward to catch the quarter. If you shift your impact focus from the ball to the quarter you’ll probably do fine, but if you struggle, try setting up with the majority of your weight on your front foot and leave it there when you swing.
Don’t hit down on the ball. This is old school. You will get better ball compression with a flatter downswing.
The key is to hit the dimple on the exact center of the ball like you do at the range. Your ground force reaction will be at maximum then and you won’t bury your wedge or iron in the dirt with a fat or thin shot.
