Category: Wedges

Duffing the Ball

The clubhead digs into the ground before contact, causing the ball to fly short. If your swing decelerates during your forward swing, it will cause your hands to fall too far behind the clubhead at impact and you will duff the ball.

Bounce Angle for Wedges

Unsure if you need a high, mid, or low bounce or how bounce affects your game.

Lip of the Bunker

The ball is sitting in the front lip of the sand trap.

Learn to Control Backspin on Approach

You need a lot of spin to help the ball land on a narrow green or a sharply inclined green. You might need just the opposite, less spin with extra roll because you are unable or it is unsafe to aim at the pin directly.

The Buried Lie

You have a buried or plugged ball in the sand trap.

Consistent Pitching

You do not have the feel for pitching or are not very consistent at it. If you square your body to the target line, you will end up flicking your hands to help attempt to make clean contact.

The Floater or Parachute Shot

You are in the rough with an obstacle blocking the green. So you need to hit the ball so that it flies high and short with a soft landing.

Nip Chip off the Sand

You are playing from wet sand, thirty to forty yards away from the hole from a sand bunker with a flat or low lip.

Line Drive Pitch or Chip

A skulled chip or pitch due to hitting the ball on the bottom of the club instead of the clubface. The clubface makes contact below the equator on the ball and causes a low line drive. Anxiety will cause you to want to look up too soon and cause poor contact with the ball.

A Downhill Trap Shot

You have a downhill lie in a sand bunker. The ball is on a slope in the sand and you stand with your leading foot down slope.