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This concept video is the easiest recovery shot. So I frequently see golfers

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when

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we're doing playing lessons and you drive it in trouble and they are at a

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complete loss. They typically take like a three wood or hybrid, kind of take a

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really big aggressive body swing hoping that they'll keep it low because of

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that

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low loft. And you know I've got an open shot here but I want you to be able to

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see the trajectories from this down the line video so you can see why that's

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not really a good strategy. Typically when you have that really big body stroke

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you're going to tend to be more flippy and you're going to be shallow and that

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going to tend to get a lot of grass between the ball. When we're hitting out

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of rough we want to be a little steeper and typically when we're hitting

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recovery shots we want to hit it low because usually you've got you know if

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you look at these trees behind me you've got a good 10 feet of clearance and

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you're trying to stay under that until you get back out and play. So the

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easiest recovery shot is the pull draw or the pull hook. It takes very little

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effort. It's mostly an arm swing, some simple setup things but it takes very

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little effort and you get a lot of distance out of it. So it's a great

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shot for you know punching it whether it's 150, 180, etc because you're going

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to

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keep it really low and it doesn't take a whole lot of skill in order to pull it

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off. So in order to hit the low pull draw you're going to set up with your

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body well closed. Okay that's going to help ensure that the path is going to be

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in-out and you're going to tend to you're going to need to close the clubface

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pretty significantly. Now I'm closed just like so and you're you're also

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going to air on not using too little loft. So I've got a seven iron here six

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irons are great five irons probably about as low as you would want to go but

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the

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hybrids will tend to launch high and the highest priority for these shots is

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keeping it under trouble. So I've got my stance closed and then I've got club

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face closed and it's pretty much going to be an arm swing with a little body to

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support and I'm really making sure like I'm just closing this face down and

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feeling like I'm almost trapping the ball. And what you'll see is even on

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these longer kind of recovery shots shoulders pretty level ball middle to

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slightly back in my stance I'm just going to swing normal and really close it

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down there and you'll see that it's going to launch pretty low it's going to

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have some good run on with it. So it's going to be one of the easiest shots

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that

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I can hit in order to hit these recovery shots. It works well off pine needles

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it

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works well out of thicker rough. If it's really really thick you can't hit it

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with too close a club face or it'll just snap it left but it works well out of

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poor lies. So again it's really easy it's a little bit more vertical arm

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motion. I'm pulling I'm basically pulling my arms down and closing the face

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and feeling like I'm just going to smother hook this thing and I just aim

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far enough right with my body so that that pull hook starts pretty close to

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where I want it to and I can allow for a little bit of draw. And I don't have

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to

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be too precise with it it's going to run a bunch and get me down usually out of

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trouble pretty successfully. So if you're struggling or you're not quite sure

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how

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to hit recovery shots and you're driven in the trees I recommend putting in a

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little bit of practice to build the pull hook into a shot that you can use it's

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one of the easiest shots for hitting as a recovery shot. So I'll hit one more

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that

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slightly more advanced I'm going to use my full body to kind of get maximum

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speed out of it but I'm still going to give it that same cover a little bit

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steeper release by not having quite as much ulnar deviation as normal and

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rotating the forearms while keeping some of that radial deviation. So stance is

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closed I'm going to get some good body speed into it and then a steeper closing

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release. So again that'll launch fairly low and then have a good amount of hook

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to it that's one of the easier shots to hit for hitting it out of the rough out

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out of the trees, out of pine needles,

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as your recovery shot.