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This video is discussing the general punch shot versus the recovery shot, so I

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've

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got a couple different videos on lower-flighted shots and we had a question

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from one of the members about the difference between say the standard

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punch shot and then more of the recovery trap hook or what do you need to do if

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you need to hit more of a recovery fade. So I've got my seven iron. I would

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recommend when you're playing around with these punch shots you start with

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like a six iron, seven iron as low as maybe a five iron. I wouldn't go to a

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really low club. I wouldn't use a hybrid at least while you're first learning

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it

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and it will be harder to recognize the difference with say an eight iron. So

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somewhere in that middle iron zone. The general recipe for just your standard

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punch shot is it's going to have a little bit more of an upper body sequence to

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it

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with the upper body more level. That's gonna help increase the angle of attack

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and now to bring the spins slightly down I'm going to have a little less of the

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bracing and full supination release and I'm gonna have a little bit more of

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that

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hold off move with the arms which is why it kind of feels even more so like a

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punch movement as opposed to like a swinging movement. I'm only gonna put the

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ball position maybe slightly backward compared to my normal shot. So executing

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your basic punch shot we've got a little bit narrower stance a little bit left

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towards swing pretty close to a normal or let's say slightly over three quarter

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backswing and more of that hold off style. Now you'll see that I still got a

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good amount of height on that. I still had a pretty regular divot fairly

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regular

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looking swing. It was just a little bit more flighted a little bit more

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controlled.

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This is a great go-to shot because under pressure your your arm timing and

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having like the perfect timing of your release can be a little bit challenging.

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So by doing this punch shot it's a little bit more of a feeling of a body

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release. All I have to do is let my arms extend through the shot. I don't have

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to

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time quite as much of the unhinged and supination feeling. Now what if we

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wanted

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to do more of a recovery shot? So now with a recovery shot I'm imagining that

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there's some trees at about eye level and I need to keep this thing underneath

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the trees for a longer period of time. So now I'm going to play the ball

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significantly more back in my stance. I'm going to close the club face a little

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bit more to start. So if there's my normal grip I'm gonna close it maybe an

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extra 8, 10 degrees something like that. Now I'm going to still try and get my

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shoulders more level but in order to get this to draw I'm going to make sure

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that

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I still have a good amount of arm shallowing during that early part of the

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downswing so that I get my my path to be significantly into out. Moving it back

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helps a little bit but I also don't want to get too steep with my angle of

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attack or else I can create too much spin. So I'm still going to get shallow on

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this even though I moved the ball backward and I'm going to start with the

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club face a little bit more closed.

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This will also have a much lower flight usually a deeper divot. This is you're

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hitting this out of rough frequently so the main reason you're not going to see

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quite as much of a big divot is because the ball is typically sitting in the

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rough it's not quite as down or you can always work on making sure that the

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body

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or the the arms finish a little bit more around the left to minimize how steep

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that bottom of the swing is going to be. Now if you have to play more of the

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low

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cut shot then it is a little bit trickier. I would recommend going to even less

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loft so if you're doing this normally with your seven iron now we're going to

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move down to save my five iron but I'm going to use this club for demonstration

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purposes. The big thing here is I'm going to set up with my hips a little bit

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more

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back or even my spine leaning a little bit more to the left like so and then I

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have to make sure that I'm going to get a little more arm height and I'm going

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to

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hold the club face from rotating. You'll tend to see this is where one of those

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feelings of like the grip coming in towards my thigh while the club face

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gets held open is a kind of a more of a feeling of like a hold-off cut. The

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only

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way that you could have a full release and still hit a cut is if you got the

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club face open at the point of impact so we're open to the path when it's

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making contact. To do that you'd have to start with the club face really wide

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open and that tends to feel less comfortable for more golfers than having

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more of this hold-off style. So I'm going to play the ball back but I'm going

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to

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get my hips behind my upper body so my upper body is steep and on top of the

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ball. Now from here I'm going to hit more of that hold-off cut. The lower body

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being back and tilted like this is going to get me a really low launch angle.

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The

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arm swing going left will get my path to the left and the hold-off feeling will

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tend to keep the club face open to the path and make it curve back to the right

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So it's gonna swing a little bit more to the left. So you'll see that started

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really low and had a fair amount of curve to it. You can see how much I

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swung outside and I did so by kind of keeping my upper body in front. That is

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the more challenging shot and it's definitely harder if you swing harder if

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you really try to get a lot of arm action or hand speed. This is much more

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of a body shot and if you do it even slower and more controlled you can get

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it to start with a much lower launch. That's why you tend to see a lot of these

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goofy arm finishes when you're seeing pros execute this shot out of the trees.

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I recommend working more on the first two just the slightly ball back slightly

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more level punch style like 3/4 style swing as a standard shot that you'll hit

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a lot even out of the fairway and then working on more of the trap draw with

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the ball back and full release. Those two tend to be the most viable shots and

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then when you have to hit the cut shot now you'll have a few ways to adjust

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your

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pattern to get the right path face angle of attack in order to get the ball to

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start low as well as curve off to the right.