Don't Swing Hard On Uphill Lies
Different lies present different challenges to your stock swing. When facing an uphill lie, even slight you will likely struggle to make the same swing as when on flat ground.
Common misses come from moving the low point backward and the path left. The low point backward can cause fat and thin misses and the path left usually causes pulls and pull hooks, but sometimes push fades.
To improve this, focus on swinging at less than full tempo and less than full distance. You can also preset some of your weight more on your left side, but make sure to match the slope with your pelvis.
Different lies present different challenges to your stock swing. When facing an uphill lie, even slight you will likely struggle to make the same swing as when on flat ground.
Common misses come from moving the low point backward and the path left. The low point backward can cause fat and thin misses and the path left usually causes pulls and pull hooks, but sometimes push fades.
To improve this, focus on swinging at less than full tempo and less than full distance. You can also preset some of your weight more on your left side, but make sure to match the slope with your pelvis.
Video Transcript
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This video is don't swing hard on the uphill lie so many golfers struggle with
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approach shots into the green or second shots off the fairway if there's a
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slight uphill lie. Now the hard thing here is most golfers don't know that they
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struggle with it. They just tell me you know oh I miss the screen I miss this
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green I miss this green and then I'll point out that all of them had a slight
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up slope and they weren't making any adjustments. The two adjustments that I
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want most golfers to make is to not swing hard and to not swing is full. The
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swing faults that tend to cause problems on uphill lies would be sway, loss of
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00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:45.080
posture, scoop or more of a roll or even more of a lunge. So if you have any of
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00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:49.320
those patterns you're probably going to have your timing thrown off and have
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those patterns exaggerated by a slightly uphill lie. So what I want you to do
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is
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you're going to practice hitting three quarter shots where basically you're
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taking your backswing up to about shoulder height and hitting almost more
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of a punch style release in order to help control low point. If you imagine
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that
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you were standing on a very severe uphill lie kind of like this you would
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find that jumping would be really hard and you'd kind of air towards shifting
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into that back foot. It's going to be hard for you to really get your weight
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forward. So what may help is staying a little bit more forward to begin with.
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So
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taking your normal stance and then still getting your pelvis level to the slope
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but shifting it just a bit forward. Then doing your three quarter swing even by
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being a little bit more on top of the ball because it's a slight up slope you
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'll
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still get tons of height. So you shouldn't have any issue hitting at the
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correct distance. With the longer clubs like the hybrid and the three wood you
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'll
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find that the easiest shot to hit off the slight uphill lie is a little bit
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more
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of an arm dominant kind of slap hook. So getting a little bit more kind of arm
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and hand speed as opposed to getting tons and tons of body rotation and body
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speed. Airing on being a little bit more closed or even or sorry a little more
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closed this way or maybe even having a little bit more side bend. Both of those
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00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.320
can help with getting maximum distance and eliminating the big misses off the
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uphill lie. The big misses are the chunk shot and the pull or the pull hook and
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00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:33.120
those are all easier to hit. They're all exaggerated by the fact that you're
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hitting off a slight uphill lie and it doesn't have to be a lot. Even a few
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degrees can mess up your overall contact. So I'm gonna swing a little bit
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more with my arms, less with my body and hit it nice and controlled. Didn't get
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that one to turn over but as long as I aimed that at the right side of the
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green I would have been fine.
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Ask Mulligan for helpDon't Swing Hard On Uphill Lies
Different lies present different challenges to your stock swing. When facing an uphill lie, even slight you will likely struggle to make the same swing as when on flat ground.
Common misses come from moving the low point backward and the path left. The low point backward can cause fat and thin misses and the path left usually causes pulls and pull hooks, but sometimes push fades.
To improve this, focus on swinging at less than full tempo and less than full distance. You can also preset some of your weight more on your left side, but make sure to match the slope with your pelvis.
Different lies present different challenges to your stock swing. When facing an uphill lie, even slight you will likely struggle to make the same swing as when on flat ground.
Common misses come from moving the low point backward and the path left. The low point backward can cause fat and thin misses and the path left usually causes pulls and pull hooks, but sometimes push fades.
To improve this, focus on swinging at less than full tempo and less than full distance. You can also preset some of your weight more on your left side, but make sure to match the slope with your pelvis.
Video Transcript
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.360
This video is don't swing hard on the uphill lie so many golfers struggle with
2
00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:10.000
approach shots into the green or second shots off the fairway if there's a
3
00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.120
slight uphill lie. Now the hard thing here is most golfers don't know that they
4
00:00:14.120 --> 00:00:17.860
struggle with it. They just tell me you know oh I miss the screen I miss this
5
00:00:17.860 --> 00:00:21.760
green I miss this green and then I'll point out that all of them had a slight
6
00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:26.120
up slope and they weren't making any adjustments. The two adjustments that I
7
00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:31.680
want most golfers to make is to not swing hard and to not swing is full. The
8
00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:38.600
swing faults that tend to cause problems on uphill lies would be sway, loss of
9
00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:45.080
posture, scoop or more of a roll or even more of a lunge. So if you have any of
10
00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:49.320
those patterns you're probably going to have your timing thrown off and have
11
00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.320
those patterns exaggerated by a slightly uphill lie. So what I want you to do
12
00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:55.400
is
13
00:00:55.400 --> 00:01:00.120
you're going to practice hitting three quarter shots where basically you're
14
00:01:00.120 --> 00:01:04.480
taking your backswing up to about shoulder height and hitting almost more
15
00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:11.920
of a punch style release in order to help control low point. If you imagine
16
00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:12.040
that
17
00:01:12.040 --> 00:01:15.720
you were standing on a very severe uphill lie kind of like this you would
18
00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:19.600
find that jumping would be really hard and you'd kind of air towards shifting
19
00:01:19.600 --> 00:01:23.200
into that back foot. It's going to be hard for you to really get your weight
20
00:01:23.200 --> 00:01:28.440
forward. So what may help is staying a little bit more forward to begin with.
21
00:01:28.440 --> 00:01:28.720
So
22
00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:33.240
taking your normal stance and then still getting your pelvis level to the slope
23
00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:40.200
but shifting it just a bit forward. Then doing your three quarter swing even by
24
00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:44.720
being a little bit more on top of the ball because it's a slight up slope you
25
00:01:44.720 --> 00:01:44.800
'll
26
00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:48.880
still get tons of height. So you shouldn't have any issue hitting at the
27
00:01:48.880 --> 00:01:54.620
correct distance. With the longer clubs like the hybrid and the three wood you
28
00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:55.160
'll
29
00:01:55.160 --> 00:01:59.650
find that the easiest shot to hit off the slight uphill lie is a little bit
30
00:01:59.650 --> 00:01:59.800
more
31
00:01:59.800 --> 00:02:05.960
of an arm dominant kind of slap hook. So getting a little bit more kind of arm
32
00:02:05.960 --> 00:02:10.240
and hand speed as opposed to getting tons and tons of body rotation and body
33
00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:15.120
speed. Airing on being a little bit more closed or even or sorry a little more
34
00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:18.840
closed this way or maybe even having a little bit more side bend. Both of those
35
00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:24.320
can help with getting maximum distance and eliminating the big misses off the
36
00:02:24.320 --> 00:02:28.600
uphill lie. The big misses are the chunk shot and the pull or the pull hook and
37
00:02:28.600 --> 00:02:33.120
those are all easier to hit. They're all exaggerated by the fact that you're
38
00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:37.600
hitting off a slight uphill lie and it doesn't have to be a lot. Even a few
39
00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:41.600
degrees can mess up your overall contact. So I'm gonna swing a little bit
40
00:02:41.600 --> 00:02:49.160
more with my arms, less with my body and hit it nice and controlled. Didn't get
41
00:02:49.160 --> 00:02:51.920
that one to turn over but as long as I aimed that at the right side of the
42
00:02:51.920 --> 00:02:55.120
green I would have been fine.
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