Adjusting for Slopes

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This video is adjusting for slopes for your finesse wedge.

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So I will go out and demonstrate a few, but I just want to go over some of the

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theory

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in here.

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When it comes to adjusting for slopes, our goal is to get the club to basically

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interact

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with the ground the same way it would with the flat lie.

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We still want the club to kind of brush along the ground for the most part and

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create a

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little flat spot.

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So we are mostly going to make adjustments with our setup for the different

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slopes.

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Now there are roughly four options, or four different slope patterns.

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You can have the ball uphill, if I turned around this way and hit towards that

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camera,

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this would be ball downhill, and then I could be standing here and have ball

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below my feet,

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where I am standing above the height of the golf ball, or I could be standing

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here and

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I could have the ball above my feet.

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Now sometimes you will have weird combinations of these.

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When you have a weird combination, always try to get the club to interact with

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the ground

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correctly, rather than trying to perfect the body position.

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One classic example, we have an area over here where I can demonstrate where

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there is

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a hill.

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The ball is on one side of the hill and my feet are on the other.

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I am not going to play this like the ball above my feet.

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I am going to try and play it like the ball below my feet because that is where

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the ball

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is sitting.

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So then in general, you kind of have to figure out, well, what do I need to do?

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Do I need to change the angle?

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Do I need to change the direction?

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Or can I just make my normal swing or my normal swing, but set up with the ball

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either a little

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bit more back or a little bit more forward.

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What you will see is if I had, let's do the one that fits the best for this

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camera demonstration.

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So here I have the uphill stroke.

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If I was to just lean backward to kind of match the slope, what you will see is

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this

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puts the bottom of the swing backward.

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So oftentimes when I have an up slope, I am going to try and lean a little bit.

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So then when I match the slope by putting the shoulders tilted.

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My upper body is still far enough forward, so the bottom of the swing is ahead

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of golf

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ball.

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The other thing that I might consider messing around with is opening up a

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little bit because

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if I tilt, if I have my normal set up like this, if I tilt, that puts the

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bottom of

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the swing backward, but if I swing slightly more outside in, then that moves

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the bottom

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of the swing back forward.

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But I am going to be experimenting with kind of the ground contact in order to

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figure that

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out.

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If I have, we will just kind of go around the clock this way.

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If I have ball below my feet, then what I am really watching out for is if I

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came from

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the inside, the ground is higher on the inside of the ball than it is on the

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outside of the

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ball.

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So if I came from the inside, I would be more likely to chunk or blade it.

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To help combat that, I am going to stand the club up a little bit taller and

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swing just

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slightly more outside in.

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Now that can allow me to actually get a little bit shallower with my body

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movement so that

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even though I am swinging it slightly outside in, I can get a little bit more

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side bend on

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the way through and that creates a nice little flat brushing location.

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So one of the easier shots to hit when the ball is below your feet is when you

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have to

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hit not a really long flop shot, but if you have to hit kind of a higher pitch

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shot, it

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sets up for open the face, swing a little bit more outside in, but a little bit

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more

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shallow body movement tends to work really well.

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Okay, so switch the camera for the, or switch the mat for the last two.

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So now if I have the downhill, this one I think is the most straightforward

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where I

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am going to lean with the slope.

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I am going to try to get my knees, my hips, my shoulders parallel to the slope.

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The only thing that I think is a little bit weird is compared to our normal

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finesse wedge

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swing, we are going to air on having our feet a little bit wider so that we can

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lean into

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this lead foot and get that upper body more forward without losing balance.

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If I had my feet close together and I lean that much, I would actually step

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down the

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slope.

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So sometimes we can choke up a little bit in order to steepen it, but the main

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thing here

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is kind of getting the shoulders, hips, and knees parallel to the slope on this

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one and

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then staying there on the way through.

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I find a lot of golfers tend to then back up and you can see the danger here is

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if I had

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a level swing, the bottom of the swing is going to contact the ground way back

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here.

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I am either going to chunk or top it.

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And the last one is ball above your feet.

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This is where I think the making contact is actually somewhat easier.

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I can kind of stand a little bit further away and swing more around me.

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The thing you have to watch out for is as the club comes up, the club face

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starts naturally

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pointing more to the left.

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So as I was saying, as the club, the more loft, the more that this phenomena

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happens,

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but as the club comes up, you can see that this points way to the left.

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So I often have to err on having the club face a little bit more open when the

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ball is above

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my feet.

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So I am going to err on maybe getting a little bit more shaft lean so that when

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I open the

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face, I don't just add a ton of loft.

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So ball may be a little bit more back if I need it to run.

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The easy shot here is if I have to hit more of a high pit shot out of the rough

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, I just

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open the face and the natural swing is going to be more around so I can bottom

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out a little

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bit flatter or a little bit behind the ball and as long as the ball has a

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little cushion,

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it's quite easy to get the ball to pop up.

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But the main thing on the ball above your feet because of the loft of the club

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is watching

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out for how much the club face closes as a result of the slope.

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So in the rest of the video, we'll go out and actually demonstrate how we'll

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adjust

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for each of these shots.

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Okay, so next we have the uphill shot.

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There's two different adjustments I like to make for the uphill shot.

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The easiest shot is if you need to go high off the uphill shot because if the

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ball is

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sitting on the ground and it's tilted this way, there's less stuff behind the

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golf ball.

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So you can come in, I'm just going to tilt a little bit with the slope and I'm

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going to

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air on being a little bit more wide, kind of Jason Day, Steve Stricher style

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and I can

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just sweep almost up into the ball, but that's going to tend to come off a

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little bit higher.

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So if I need to hit a low running shot, then I will tend to balance it by

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getting a little

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bit more level with my shoulders and aiming just a touch more left with my path

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So I've got ball back and now it's going to come out a little bit more low with

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bit of extra run.

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So I'm still kind of leaning backward, but I've balanced that by getting my

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shoulders

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a little bit more open, ball position back, kind of fighting the slope.

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So the easiest shot is going high, kind of working with the slope, but just in

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case you

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have to, that shot doesn't work, if you have to hit it low, then I recommend

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adjusting

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with a little bit more open stance ball back to balance the shoulders matching

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the slope.

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Okay, so first shot we're going to demonstrate is the downhill shot.

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So again, this is the one where widening the stance helps shift so that I can

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get my shoulders,

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my hips and my knees parallel to the slope and then I'm pretty much going to

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stay in

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that tilt.

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So it's going to feel like I'm very much over that front foot, hands can be a

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little bit

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ahead depending on the trajectory that I'm trying to hit.

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And it's going to tend to come out lower like you saw that shot, but oftentimes

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you

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can get even a little bit of spin.

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So oftentimes what we'll do is we'll exaggerate getting that club face nice and

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open to get

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a little bit more spin since we're not going to be able to stop it with height

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typically,

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so we're going to stay with that slope.

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Now if we do have to go high, then we can go even a little bit wider, a little

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bit further

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away, play the ball position more forward, it's tiny bit more risky, but we're

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to still stay in that forward position.

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But unless you really have to hit more of a flop shot, that's usually going to

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be high

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enough.

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You're going to get some spin and you're going to get the ball to stop.

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Oftentimes this happens when you've short-sided yourself.

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So if I come, oftentimes you face this scenario on the backside of a green

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where you've just

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hit it a little bit too long.

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So this is some pretty fluffy lie right now.

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So I've leaned into it, I've got the club face nice and open, and then I'm just

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to stay with the slope and you'll be able to, like I said, hopefully it's going

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to launch

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low, but if you're making pretty clean contact, you'll still get a fair amount

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of spin and

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get it to stop.

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So that's, I think, one of the harder ones, but it's also one of the more

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important ones

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for you to practice.

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That's the downhill slope.

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Okay, so now we have ball below our feet.

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This one, I think, is one of the easier shots if you have a lot of space and

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you can kind

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of run it because we're going to try to get steeper again.

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The ball, if I were to come from the inside, the ground is in the way from the

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inside.

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So coming a little bit more high to low or steep is going to work out.

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So I'm going to stand the club up, play the ball a little bit more back, and

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now I'm going

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to swing just a touch more vertical.

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And I'm not aimed at the hole, I'm going left of it just to match the slope

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better.

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So it's pure side hill.

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So this is the easiest stand a little bit closer and then swing a little bit

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more kind of up

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and down and it'll launch low, but it's one of the easier shots in order to get

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clean

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contact as long as you keep your hands ahead and keep it moving.

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The other alternative is if you have to hit high, this is where the path works

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in your

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favor.

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So you can hit a little bit more of kind of a cut lob where you have, you're

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going to

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have to lower the handle just a touch, but maybe not quite as low as you would

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get on

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a flat lie.

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And now what I'm going to feel is I'm going to feel like I swing a little bit

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more outside

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in, but because I'm going more outside in, I can err on getting a little bit

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shallower

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and be a little bit more aggressive with the side bend and kind of the ground

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contact.

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So kind of slid up the face on that one.

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I don't really have a distance target, but the club is a little bit more

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outside.

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That was pretty good there.

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So a lot of spin.

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This cut lob is one of the highest spin producing shots.

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So a little bit outside, a little bit more side bend caught that fat, but still

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worked

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out pretty nice.

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Again, the easiest shot for this one is the one that works with the slope is

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just ball

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back, stand a little bit closer to it, and you can get it, you can hit kind of

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more of

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your standard chip shot, hit a low running shot very easily when the ball's

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below your

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feet like this.

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Okay, last shot here, we have the ball above your feet.

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So if I was to, here's the slope.

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If I have the ball sitting on the slope, you'll see I have more space coming

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from the inside.

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And if I come from the outside, I'd contact the ground.

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So I'm going to tend to err on being a little bit shallower.

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So typically the way you're going to do that is just by standing a little bit

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taller and

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swinging maybe just the touch more around.

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Now what you have to watch out for here is the club face.

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So the easiest shot when you're swinging more around, standing a little bit

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taller, is to

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go for more of just a standard or high shot.

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The low shot is where we'll typically get into a little bit of trouble,

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especially when

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if you start playing with the club face two square, with the club face square,

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the ball

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is going to tend to shoot off a little bit left.

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If I get this low, sometimes this messes up, but you'll see just by kind of

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turning through

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with the club face low how much the ball kicked off there to the left.

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So oftentimes what you'll have to do, we're standing a little bit taller, you

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're going

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to err on having the club face just slightly more open.

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And that slightly open club face, which will point things more in the general

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direction

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of the target, is going to tend to fit well with a little bit higher shot.

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Now the other thing that you can do to combat that is play the ball just a

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touch more backward.

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By playing it on the back foot, as long as you still sweep around, you'll

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probably get

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good ground contact.

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So a little bit more kind of sweeping Steve Stryker style, kind of like that.

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That would be your standard shot hitting with the ball above your feet.

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Now if you do have to do the low one, standing the club up can help, gets a

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little bit risky,

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but swinging outside and getting a little steeper, that's not my favorite.

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So what I like to do is set up with a little bit more closed if I need to go

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low and then

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play more of kind of a low running, almost like a hook shot, similar like that.

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But the default, the easiest shot would be going a little bit higher because

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then the

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club face, the path, and everything matches the slope a little bit better.

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So it doesn't have to be kind of crazy high, but the higher shot gives you a

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pretty good

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margin of error here when the ball's above your feet.

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So when you're practicing your finesse wedge, be sure to, once you've dialed in

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kind of

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your basic shot, be sure to do some random practice where you're working on

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different

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slopes and different lies to become a real master of your finesse wedge around

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the green.