Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best
Young Teachers in
America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Understand the Difference Between Flop and High Pitch Shots
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the ideal situations for executing a flop shot versus a high pitch shot.
- Learn how to position the ball and adjust your clubface for each shot type.
- Recognize the differences in swing speed and technique required for a flop shot compared to a high pitch.
In this video, you'll learn the key distinctions between flop shots and high pitch shots, including when to use each technique effectively. Understanding these differences can help you choose the right shot for various situations on the course.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
In this video, we're going to go over the difference between the flop and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:05.120
high
3
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:06.320
pitch shot.
4
00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.690
So in the finesse wedge section, I'm teaching you how to hit this higher or
5
00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:14.060
just standard
6
00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.760
kind of pitch shot, right?
7
00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.310
That's your furthest ball position with a club face that's open with a club
8
00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:20.720
that has
9
00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:22.520
a fair amount of loft.
10
00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:27.340
And so you're going to use the bounce on this shot and the club's just going to
11
00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:27.920
slide and
12
00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:34.420
you can hit a shot that's relatively safe but still goes more high and has very
13
00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:35.220
limited
14
00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:37.440
amount of roll.
15
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That shot looks something like this.
16
00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.760
And it's got a pretty good margin of error because you can hit a little bit
17
00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:47.320
behind it,
18
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.520
you can catch it a little thin, and you'll still get away with it.
19
00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.170
The flop shot is going to be much more of a risky shot, but there are certain
20
00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:56.000
situations
21
00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.780
where it's good to have it in your bag, like if you have to hit it over a tree
22
00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:00.340
or over
23
00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.380
a bunker to a green that's sloping away from you that's firm and you basically
24
00:01:03.380 --> 00:01:03.880
need the
25
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.760
ball to land straight down.
26
00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.480
So I'll go over some of the details.
27
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.990
But basically, we're going to try to create maximum loft with a lot of club
28
00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:13.760
head speed
29
00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.150
and get the club to hit just behind the golf ball an inch or so and then let
30
00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:18.880
the bounce
31
00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:22.200
help the club slide underneath with all that club head speed.
32
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I remember reading that Phil Mickelson when he hits his super flop shot, has
33
00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:27.080
about 90
34
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:29.000
miles an hour of club head speed.
35
00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.230
So this isn't just a, if you hit just a high pitch shot, that's nowhere near
36
00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:34.600
the same thing
37
00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:36.920
as this flop shot.
38
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For the flop shot, you're going to be more in your bunker play set up than you
39
00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:41.280
are in
40
00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.280
your finesse wedge.
41
00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.680
So finesse wedge is fairly narrow.
42
00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:50.120
Flop shot, we're going to have the ball forward, narrow stance, slightly open
43
00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:50.880
stance.
44
00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:54.800
Very turned out can help a bit so I like that just like in the bunker shot.
45
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Now you're going to have very much a steep kind of wristy backswing and then
46
00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.040
you have
47
00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.130
to allow some of this sequencing and access tilt and lag to build up in order
48
00:02:06.130 --> 00:02:06.760
to create
49
00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.640
enough club head speed to hit the ball high enough to carry it for enough.
50
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:14.800
So it is a risky shot.
51
00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.410
The release is going to be more of kind of a smack the sand just like I talked
52
00:02:20.410 --> 00:02:20.960
about
53
00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.800
in the bunker section and you're just trying to make sure that the back of the
54
00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:26.640
club enters
55
00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:28.960
the ground just behind the golf ball.
56
00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:34.800
And so in slow motion it'll hit and it'll slide underneath it kind of like so.
57
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:40.380
So we'll, the other piece is we need to have a very shallow angle of attack for
58
00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:41.640
this shot.
59
00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:45.980
So we're going to rely on both the axis tilt because my upper body is going to
60
00:02:45.980 --> 00:02:46.600
be behind
61
00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:49.720
the ball instead of on top of it like it would be in the pitch shot.
62
00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:54.490
And we're going to rely on those hands working very much left the way that we
63
00:02:54.490 --> 00:02:55.280
would do in
64
00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.440
the standard pitch shot, standard finesse shot.
65
00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:10.360
So we're going to put all this together and try to demonstrate a couple.
66
00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:11.360
So not too bad.
67
00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.200
You'll see that even with these full swings and hard cuts golf balls only going
68
00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:16.680
about
69
00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.600
10, 15 yards tops, but it's probably reaching, I don't know, 25, 30 feet in the
70
00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:24.240
air.
71
00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240
We'll demonstrate one more.
72
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.040
That was a good one.
73
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:35.350
So that only went 10 yards, but it went straight up in the air, landed straight
74
00:03:35.350 --> 00:03:36.200
down, had no
75
00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:41.950
roll, that would be the shot that would make me look like a hero, but if I mess
76
00:03:41.950 --> 00:03:42.400
it up,
77
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.800
I'm going to have to probably save double bogey.
78
00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.200
So it's definitely a risky shot.
79
00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:52.920
You want to evaluate the lie and make sure you have the ball sitting up enough.
80
00:03:52.920 --> 00:03:56.470
If you're on hard pan, really firm fairways, if you have a lot of bounce on
81
00:03:56.470 --> 00:03:57.160
your club,
82
00:03:57.160 --> 00:04:00.280
all those things are kind of recipes for trouble with this shot.
83
00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.120
But if you can slide the club underneath, this is a go to shot and can help you
84
00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:05.480
get
85
00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:15.480
[BLANK_AUDIO]
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
In this video, we're going to go over the difference between the flop and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:05.120
high
3
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:06.320
pitch shot.
4
00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.690
So in the finesse wedge section, I'm teaching you how to hit this higher or
5
00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:14.060
just standard
6
00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.760
kind of pitch shot, right?
7
00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.310
That's your furthest ball position with a club face that's open with a club
8
00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:20.720
that has
9
00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:22.520
a fair amount of loft.
10
00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:27.340
And so you're going to use the bounce on this shot and the club's just going to
11
00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:27.920
slide and
12
00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:34.420
you can hit a shot that's relatively safe but still goes more high and has very
13
00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:35.220
limited
14
00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:37.440
amount of roll.
15
00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:44.200
That shot looks something like this.
16
00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.760
And it's got a pretty good margin of error because you can hit a little bit
17
00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:47.320
behind it,
18
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.520
you can catch it a little thin, and you'll still get away with it.
19
00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.170
The flop shot is going to be much more of a risky shot, but there are certain
20
00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:56.000
situations
21
00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.780
where it's good to have it in your bag, like if you have to hit it over a tree
22
00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:00.340
or over
23
00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.380
a bunker to a green that's sloping away from you that's firm and you basically
24
00:01:03.380 --> 00:01:03.880
need the
25
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.760
ball to land straight down.
26
00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.480
So I'll go over some of the details.
27
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.990
But basically, we're going to try to create maximum loft with a lot of club
28
00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:13.760
head speed
29
00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.150
and get the club to hit just behind the golf ball an inch or so and then let
30
00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:18.880
the bounce
31
00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:22.200
help the club slide underneath with all that club head speed.
32
00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:26.340
I remember reading that Phil Mickelson when he hits his super flop shot, has
33
00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:27.080
about 90
34
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:29.000
miles an hour of club head speed.
35
00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.230
So this isn't just a, if you hit just a high pitch shot, that's nowhere near
36
00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:34.600
the same thing
37
00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:36.920
as this flop shot.
38
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.720
For the flop shot, you're going to be more in your bunker play set up than you
39
00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:41.280
are in
40
00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.280
your finesse wedge.
41
00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.680
So finesse wedge is fairly narrow.
42
00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:50.120
Flop shot, we're going to have the ball forward, narrow stance, slightly open
43
00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:50.880
stance.
44
00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:54.800
Very turned out can help a bit so I like that just like in the bunker shot.
45
00:01:54.800 --> 00:02:01.200
Now you're going to have very much a steep kind of wristy backswing and then
46
00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.040
you have
47
00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.130
to allow some of this sequencing and access tilt and lag to build up in order
48
00:02:06.130 --> 00:02:06.760
to create
49
00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.640
enough club head speed to hit the ball high enough to carry it for enough.
50
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:14.800
So it is a risky shot.
51
00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.410
The release is going to be more of kind of a smack the sand just like I talked
52
00:02:20.410 --> 00:02:20.960
about
53
00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.800
in the bunker section and you're just trying to make sure that the back of the
54
00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:26.640
club enters
55
00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:28.960
the ground just behind the golf ball.
56
00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:34.800
And so in slow motion it'll hit and it'll slide underneath it kind of like so.
57
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:40.380
So we'll, the other piece is we need to have a very shallow angle of attack for
58
00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:41.640
this shot.
59
00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:45.980
So we're going to rely on both the axis tilt because my upper body is going to
60
00:02:45.980 --> 00:02:46.600
be behind
61
00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:49.720
the ball instead of on top of it like it would be in the pitch shot.
62
00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:54.490
And we're going to rely on those hands working very much left the way that we
63
00:02:54.490 --> 00:02:55.280
would do in
64
00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.440
the standard pitch shot, standard finesse shot.
65
00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:10.360
So we're going to put all this together and try to demonstrate a couple.
66
00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:11.360
So not too bad.
67
00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.200
You'll see that even with these full swings and hard cuts golf balls only going
68
00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:16.680
about
69
00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.600
10, 15 yards tops, but it's probably reaching, I don't know, 25, 30 feet in the
70
00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:24.240
air.
71
00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240
We'll demonstrate one more.
72
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.040
That was a good one.
73
00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:35.350
So that only went 10 yards, but it went straight up in the air, landed straight
74
00:03:35.350 --> 00:03:36.200
down, had no
75
00:03:36.200 --> 00:03:41.950
roll, that would be the shot that would make me look like a hero, but if I mess
76
00:03:41.950 --> 00:03:42.400
it up,
77
00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:44.800
I'm going to have to probably save double bogey.
78
00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:48.200
So it's definitely a risky shot.
79
00:03:48.200 --> 00:03:52.920
You want to evaluate the lie and make sure you have the ball sitting up enough.
80
00:03:52.920 --> 00:03:56.470
If you're on hard pan, really firm fairways, if you have a lot of bounce on
81
00:03:56.470 --> 00:03:57.160
your club,
82
00:03:57.160 --> 00:04:00.280
all those things are kind of recipes for trouble with this shot.
83
00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:05.120
But if you can slide the club underneath, this is a go to shot and can help you
84
00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:05.480
get
85
00:04:05.480 --> 00:04:15.480
[BLANK_AUDIO]
Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of
Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.
Understand the Difference Between Flop and High Pitch Shots
After this video, you'll be able to:
- Identify the ideal situations for executing a flop shot versus a high pitch shot.
- Learn how to position the ball and adjust your clubface for each shot type.
- Recognize the differences in swing speed and technique required for a flop shot compared to a high pitch.
In this video, you'll learn the key distinctions between flop shots and high pitch shots, including when to use each technique effectively. Understanding these differences can help you choose the right shot for various situations on the course.
Video Transcript
WEBVTT
1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.560
In this video, we're going to go over the difference between the flop and the
2
00:00:04.560 --> 00:00:05.120
high
3
00:00:05.120 --> 00:00:06.320
pitch shot.
4
00:00:06.320 --> 00:00:12.690
So in the finesse wedge section, I'm teaching you how to hit this higher or
5
00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:14.060
just standard
6
00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.760
kind of pitch shot, right?
7
00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:20.310
That's your furthest ball position with a club face that's open with a club
8
00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:20.720
that has
9
00:00:20.720 --> 00:00:22.520
a fair amount of loft.
10
00:00:22.520 --> 00:00:27.340
And so you're going to use the bounce on this shot and the club's just going to
11
00:00:27.340 --> 00:00:27.920
slide and
12
00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:34.420
you can hit a shot that's relatively safe but still goes more high and has very
13
00:00:34.420 --> 00:00:35.220
limited
14
00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:37.440
amount of roll.
15
00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:44.200
That shot looks something like this.
16
00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:46.760
And it's got a pretty good margin of error because you can hit a little bit
17
00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:47.320
behind it,
18
00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:50.520
you can catch it a little thin, and you'll still get away with it.
19
00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:55.170
The flop shot is going to be much more of a risky shot, but there are certain
20
00:00:55.170 --> 00:00:56.000
situations
21
00:00:56.000 --> 00:00:59.780
where it's good to have it in your bag, like if you have to hit it over a tree
22
00:00:59.780 --> 00:01:00.340
or over
23
00:01:00.340 --> 00:01:03.380
a bunker to a green that's sloping away from you that's firm and you basically
24
00:01:03.380 --> 00:01:03.880
need the
25
00:01:03.880 --> 00:01:05.760
ball to land straight down.
26
00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:08.480
So I'll go over some of the details.
27
00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.990
But basically, we're going to try to create maximum loft with a lot of club
28
00:01:12.990 --> 00:01:13.760
head speed
29
00:01:13.760 --> 00:01:18.150
and get the club to hit just behind the golf ball an inch or so and then let
30
00:01:18.150 --> 00:01:18.880
the bounce
31
00:01:18.880 --> 00:01:22.200
help the club slide underneath with all that club head speed.
32
00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:26.340
I remember reading that Phil Mickelson when he hits his super flop shot, has
33
00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:27.080
about 90
34
00:01:27.080 --> 00:01:29.000
miles an hour of club head speed.
35
00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:33.230
So this isn't just a, if you hit just a high pitch shot, that's nowhere near
36
00:01:33.230 --> 00:01:34.600
the same thing
37
00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:36.920
as this flop shot.
38
00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.720
For the flop shot, you're going to be more in your bunker play set up than you
39
00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:41.280
are in
40
00:01:41.280 --> 00:01:42.280
your finesse wedge.
41
00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:44.680
So finesse wedge is fairly narrow.
42
00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:50.120
Flop shot, we're going to have the ball forward, narrow stance, slightly open
43
00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:50.880
stance.
44
00:01:50.880 --> 00:01:54.800
Very turned out can help a bit so I like that just like in the bunker shot.
45
00:01:54.800 --> 00:02:01.200
Now you're going to have very much a steep kind of wristy backswing and then
46
00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:02.040
you have
47
00:02:02.040 --> 00:02:06.130
to allow some of this sequencing and access tilt and lag to build up in order
48
00:02:06.130 --> 00:02:06.760
to create
49
00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:11.640
enough club head speed to hit the ball high enough to carry it for enough.
50
00:02:11.640 --> 00:02:14.800
So it is a risky shot.
51
00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:20.410
The release is going to be more of kind of a smack the sand just like I talked
52
00:02:20.410 --> 00:02:20.960
about
53
00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.800
in the bunker section and you're just trying to make sure that the back of the
54
00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:26.640
club enters
55
00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:28.960
the ground just behind the golf ball.
56
00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:34.800
And so in slow motion it'll hit and it'll slide underneath it kind of like so.
57
00:02:34.800 --> 00:02:40.380
So we'll, the other piece is we need to have a very shallow angle of attack for
58
00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:41.640
this shot.
59
00:02:41.640 --> 00:02:45.980
So we're going to rely on both the axis tilt because my upper body is going to
60
00:02:45.980 --> 00:02:46.600
be behind
61
00:02:46.600 --> 00:02:49.720
the ball instead of on top of it like it would be in the pitch shot.
62
00:02:49.720 --> 00:02:54.490
And we're going to rely on those hands working very much left the way that we
63
00:02:54.490 --> 00:02:55.280
would do in
64
00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.440
the standard pitch shot, standard finesse shot.
65
00:02:58.440 --> 00:03:10.360
So we're going to put all this together and try to demonstrate a couple.
66
00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:11.360
So not too bad.
67
00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:16.200
You'll see that even with these full swings and hard cuts golf balls only going
68
00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:16.680
about
69
00:03:16.680 --> 00:03:23.600
10, 15 yards tops, but it's probably reaching, I don't know, 25, 30 feet in the
70
00:03:23.600 --> 00:03:24.240
air.
71
00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:27.240
We'll demonstrate one more.
72
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.040
That was a good one.
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So that only went 10 yards, but it went straight up in the air, landed straight
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down, had no
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roll, that would be the shot that would make me look like a hero, but if I mess
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it up,
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I'm going to have to probably save double bogey.
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So it's definitely a risky shot.
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You want to evaluate the lie and make sure you have the ball sitting up enough.
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If you're on hard pan, really firm fairways, if you have a lot of bounce on
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your club,
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all those things are kind of recipes for trouble with this shot.
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But if you can slide the club underneath, this is a go to shot and can help you
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get
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In this video, we're going to go over the difference between the flop and the
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high
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pitch shot.
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So in the finesse wedge section, I'm teaching you how to hit this higher or
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just standard
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kind of pitch shot, right?
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That's your furthest ball position with a club face that's open with a club
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that has
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a fair amount of loft.
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And so you're going to use the bounce on this shot and the club's just going to
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slide and
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you can hit a shot that's relatively safe but still goes more high and has very
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limited
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amount of roll.
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That shot looks something like this.
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And it's got a pretty good margin of error because you can hit a little bit
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behind it,
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you can catch it a little thin, and you'll still get away with it.
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The flop shot is going to be much more of a risky shot, but there are certain
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situations
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where it's good to have it in your bag, like if you have to hit it over a tree
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or over
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a bunker to a green that's sloping away from you that's firm and you basically
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need the
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ball to land straight down.
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So I'll go over some of the details.
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But basically, we're going to try to create maximum loft with a lot of club
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head speed
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and get the club to hit just behind the golf ball an inch or so and then let
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the bounce
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help the club slide underneath with all that club head speed.
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I remember reading that Phil Mickelson when he hits his super flop shot, has
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about 90
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miles an hour of club head speed.
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So this isn't just a, if you hit just a high pitch shot, that's nowhere near
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the same thing
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as this flop shot.
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For the flop shot, you're going to be more in your bunker play set up than you
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are in
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your finesse wedge.
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So finesse wedge is fairly narrow.
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Flop shot, we're going to have the ball forward, narrow stance, slightly open
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stance.
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Very turned out can help a bit so I like that just like in the bunker shot.
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Now you're going to have very much a steep kind of wristy backswing and then
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you have
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to allow some of this sequencing and access tilt and lag to build up in order
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to create
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enough club head speed to hit the ball high enough to carry it for enough.
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So it is a risky shot.
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The release is going to be more of kind of a smack the sand just like I talked
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about
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in the bunker section and you're just trying to make sure that the back of the
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club enters
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the ground just behind the golf ball.
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And so in slow motion it'll hit and it'll slide underneath it kind of like so.
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So we'll, the other piece is we need to have a very shallow angle of attack for
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this shot.
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So we're going to rely on both the axis tilt because my upper body is going to
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be behind
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the ball instead of on top of it like it would be in the pitch shot.
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And we're going to rely on those hands working very much left the way that we
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would do in
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the standard pitch shot, standard finesse shot.
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So we're going to put all this together and try to demonstrate a couple.
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So not too bad.
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You'll see that even with these full swings and hard cuts golf balls only going
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about
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10, 15 yards tops, but it's probably reaching, I don't know, 25, 30 feet in the
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air.
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We'll demonstrate one more.
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That was a good one.
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So that only went 10 yards, but it went straight up in the air, landed straight
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down, had no
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roll, that would be the shot that would make me look like a hero, but if I mess
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it up,
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I'm going to have to probably save double bogey.
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So it's definitely a risky shot.
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You want to evaluate the lie and make sure you have the ball sitting up enough.
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If you're on hard pan, really firm fairways, if you have a lot of bounce on
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your club,
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all those things are kind of recipes for trouble with this shot.
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But if you can slide the club underneath, this is a go to shot and can help you
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get
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