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This content video is hitting out of the rough, so hitting out of the rough can

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require some adaptation. It really depends on reading the lie and the length of

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the rough and the shot you're trying to hit, but I too commonly see students

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trying to do the exact same swing they would make out of the fairway out of the

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rough. When the ball is especially sitting down, right, when the lie dictates

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that we need a steeper angle of attack in order to make clean contact, you're

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gonna have to make some adaptations. Almost similar to the fairway bunker shot,

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some of the simple things to ensure that we're going to have a steeper angle of

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attack include choking down on the club, which simply narrows the circle, which

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gives it a steeper angle of attack. I could lean a little bit more left or

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swing-wise. I could swing a little bit more outside in. Again, it really

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depends

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on how thick the rough is, how long the rough is, how much it's going to affect

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my ball. So I always advocate trying to find a place near your ball where you

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can

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take some practice wings and kind of feel how the club is going to brush

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through the ground. In this particular grass, I'm not going to have a whole lot

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of restrictions, but you may feel some grass where it really grabs. The more

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it grabs, the more you're going to have to steepen the angle of attack to try

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to

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minimize the amount of grass between the club and the ball. So if the ball's

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sitting down, your simple setup changes, you can just lean a little bit more

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forward, try to get your shoulders a little bit more level, and maybe even

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narrow your stance. That alone will help steepen the angle of attack and may

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give

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you good enough results. Kind of like that. But if it's thicker rough, you may

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have

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to make some swing adaptations, or if you already have certain swing faults,

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you

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may not try to solve them the way you would say off your tee. The one swing

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fault that is extremely helpful for this when you're hitting out of the rough

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is

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the forward lunge. So it's hard to replicate if that's not part of your

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normal pattern, but golfers who tend to kind of lunge forward to start their

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downswing tend to be really good precise crisp iron players, especially even

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out

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of thick rough. If you're more of kind of a hangback side bend and you're

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trying

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to hit draws, you're going to tend to be too shallow and get a lot of grass

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between the ball, especially with the longer irons or maybe even the hybrids.

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So the longer the club, the more you're going to have to steepen the path

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somewhere. One of the easy ways that you can steepen it is to try to swing a

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little bit more outside in and hit more of kind of a hold off cut shot as

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opposed

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to having a really full supination and full kind of normal release. So that

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hold

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off cut shot will get it kind of sitting down a bit. So that hold off cut shot,

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you're going to swing a little bit more arms down and a little bit more kind of

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lunge forward and then hold those arms a bit on the way through. Still narrow

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stance, a little bit more forward, hold off cut.

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So that style there, it's not going to go quite as far as maybe making your

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normal kind of covering style release, but it's just going to, you're going to

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err on the side of making more solid contact so it tends to be more repeatable.

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As long as you have enough club at speed that you can take an extra club, it

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can

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be pretty helpful. So if you struggle out of the rough, make some of these

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simple

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adaptations in order to steepen the angle of attack, that'll help give you

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solid contact and more repeatability for these rough shots.