Tips To Turn Your Lob Wedge Into A Weapon On The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles
Tips To Turn Your Lob Wedge Into A Weapon On The Golf Course (Video) - by Pete Styles

Often I‘ll sit down with a golfer at the start of a series of lessons with him. I will go through the bag and explain or ask them you know clubs that they like, clubs they don’t like, favorite club; least favorite club? And quite often in that conversation the lob wedge will come up in equal measures. Some people think that lob wedge is their favorite clubs some people think it’s their least favorite club. And quite often the lob wedge isn’t in the bag of tools, and I say to golfers, “have you got a lob wedge?” “Ah yeah it’s in the garage Garrett, gathering dusk because I can’t use it.” So it’s so bad that they are actually taking it off their backs because they weren’t using it at all.

So we want to make sure that the lob wedge is your favorite club or one of your favorite clubs. We certainly want you to feel like it’s a real weapon in your armory. So when you play on the golf course, the lob wedge is a positive influence in your bag and that’s because golf course is particularly the modern design of golf courses with big, deep bonkers and super fast sloppy greens. The modern design of golf course is calls for a lob wedge to be a weapon in your bag and to be used fairly regulate. Now most people when they think about the lob wedge they think about that kind of single-use, shoot it up in the air, land it on the green and get it to stop Phil Mickelson kind of a flop shot and it is very useful for that shot and it’s probably the only club in the bag that can really execute that shot, yes! But there’s lots of other different shots and different ways you can play your lob wedge to add a bit of versatility into your game. So in this next little series of videos, we want to turn your lob wedge from your least favorite club into one of your most favorite clubs using some good techniques and good practice drills that I’ll cover in the next little series of videos.
2016-10-03

Often I‘ll sit down with a golfer at the start of a series of lessons with him. I will go through the bag and explain or ask them you know clubs that they like, clubs they don’t like, favorite club; least favorite club? And quite often in that conversation the lob wedge will come up in equal measures. Some people think that lob wedge is their favorite clubs some people think it’s their least favorite club. And quite often the lob wedge isn’t in the bag of tools, and I say to golfers, “have you got a lob wedge?” “Ah yeah it’s in the garage Garrett, gathering dusk because I can’t use it.” So it’s so bad that they are actually taking it off their backs because they weren’t using it at all.

So we want to make sure that the lob wedge is your favorite club or one of your favorite clubs. We certainly want you to feel like it’s a real weapon in your armory. So when you play on the golf course, the lob wedge is a positive influence in your bag and that’s because golf course is particularly the modern design of golf courses with big, deep bonkers and super fast sloppy greens.

The modern design of golf course is calls for a lob wedge to be a weapon in your bag and to be used fairly regulate. Now most people when they think about the lob wedge they think about that kind of single-use, shoot it up in the air, land it on the green and get it to stop Phil Mickelson kind of a flop shot and it is very useful for that shot and it’s probably the only club in the bag that can really execute that shot, yes! But there’s lots of other different shots and different ways you can play your lob wedge to add a bit of versatility into your game. So in this next little series of videos, we want to turn your lob wedge from your least favorite club into one of your most favorite clubs using some good techniques and good practice drills that I’ll cover in the next little series of videos.