Adjusting for Hardpan

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This video, we're going to talk through hardpan.

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So this is one of those shots that you don't face a lot or you face a lot.

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Some courses have a lot more than others.

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Some market is ground under repair, but hardpan is when it's basically clay or

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dirt and there's

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no grass.

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The two shots you really want to try to avoid are the club bouncing up off the

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ground and

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blading it, kind of like that.

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That went around the right distance, but it was not good contact.

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And then the other one you want to avoid is hitting leading edge behind and

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kind of chunking

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it, kind of like this.

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So there's a few set up changes that we're going to make and the stroke change

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that we're

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going to try to make.

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To help minimize the last shots, we can be more aggressive and air on not

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getting that

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first shot.

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So in general, the adjustments that we're going to make, we're going to open

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the club

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face just slightly, but we're going to air on raising the heel off the ground.

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So we're going to basically play this off the toe of the club.

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So when I open the club face, even if you don't have or even if you have a lot

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of bounce because

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the heel is off the ground, that'll get the toe to sit underneath the height of

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the golf

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ball.

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Secondly, to avoid kind of skimming it off the ground, I'm going to come a

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little shallow,

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but I'm going to make sure that I keep everything moving on the way through.

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I'm going to move more around as opposed to trying to swing the club straight

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at the

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target.

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So it's going to be a little bit more around sitting on the toe and we're going

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to air

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on having the ball position a little bit more back.

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You can get away with, if you keep the toe contact, that's the most important

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part of

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this shot.

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You can air on having the club face open and playing it really like a little

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cut shot with

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the ball position forward, but I think that that's a little bit more risky.

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So we'll do a little demonstration on the two main ways that you can adjust it

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so you

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can visualize how we're going to put this into play.

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So we've got the ball sitting a little bit further back off the toe just like

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this.

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And now we're going to air on skimming around, you'll see that that'll come out

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a little

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low because I had the ball position back, but because I get such clean contact,

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I'm

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going to tend to get a good amount of spin.

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So that's going to help the ball stop as long as I have enough green to work

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with.

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So ball position slightly back off the toe, swing a little bit more around to

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kind of

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skim it.

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Again, that comes out really nice.

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The risky shot here is if I have to go higher, if you have to go higher and

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there's really

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no other option, then you will want to play the ball a little bit more forward.

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But to avoid the club skimming off the ground, you're going to play more of an

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outside in

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kind of cut shot.

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So I'm going to lean a little bit more left, swing a little bit more up and

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down and kind

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of hit it almost like an explosion bunker shot.

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Now you'll typically find that this doesn't get as much spin, so you're going

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to have

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to play for a little bit of release when it lands.

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But we'll try that again.

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Ball position forward awkward when we're setting up off the toe, a little bit

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more of a cut

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shot.

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That's the risk on playing the ball position forward.

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It wasn't a terrible shot, but it went way over the green borderline bladed.

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If you do have a little bit of grass, so that was pure dirt, but if you have a

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little bit

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of grass, then it's a lot easier to get away with that shot.

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So there, ball position or ball was sitting on, you can see just some really

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kind of gnarly.

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It's really thin, but it's at least some grass.

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When it's sitting on the ground here, it can be in a little depression.

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You can easily get the club to bounce up off the ground.

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So let's do one more quick demo just in case.

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So we've got ballback off the toe, a little bit more of a flat or a round shot.

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That's going to come out low, but have a bunch of check and a bunch of spin.

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That was nice, clean contact.

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If you do have to air on hitting it higher, it's risky unless you have a little

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bit of

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grass, but still trying to hit it off the toe, but a little bit more of a st

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eeper kind

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of cut outside in, kind of plays almost like a bunker shot.

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Again, that's a lot riskier than the first one.

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The first one, as long as you swing more around, you're probably going to make

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clean

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contact and get it up around, giving yourself a chance to save with a good putt

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