Should I Always Hit Flop Shots From Around The Golf Green? (Video) - by Pete Styles
Should I Always Hit Flop Shots From Around The Golf Green? (Video) - by Pete Styles

I always think there is a massive temptation with the flop shot, because you’ve learnt how to do it and it looks so pretty when it comes off and all you might think you’re fantastic when you play that shot. The big temptation is to play that shot all of the time to effectively over use the flop shot. So the flop shot is a shot where we play with an open face, possibly with your sand wedge or lob wedge. You take this really nice big back swinging, you slide the club under the ball and the ball shoots 30 feet in the air, lands 10 feet in front of you and stops on a six pence, and that shot looks great. But you should really not be using that more than two or three times in a round the golf. Even when you watch the world’s best player outplaying that shot Phil Mickelson he doesn’t over use that shot. He only uses it when he absolutely requires it. And he’s much more comfortable hitting lower little bump and run pit shots rather than the big high flop shot. So yes you can play the flop shot, and when you play it nicely it looks great. You know that ball nearly hit the roof of the bay that I’m in. It’s gone straight to, but straight down was not gone more than 20 yards.

But if I fin that same swing, I meant the same swing catch at mid ball, that’s now gone 50, 60, 65 yards and it’s probably killed my playing partners, you watch around the other side of the green and shot out a bounds over a hedge. So the good flop shots look fantastic and we might as well give you a round of applause but the bad flop shots are about the worse shots you’ll hit on the golf course. So just because you can play a flop shot really does not mean you should be over using it. Three or four times around a golf that’s okay, any more than that constantly, you’re overusing your lob wedge, you’re over using your flop shot. The safest play is to keep it down and roll it. Imagine you have the ball in your hand, throwing it onto the green, if it’s a low throw, you really shouldn’t be using your lob wedge only when it’s a high throw do you play your flop shots. Reduce the flop shots to reduce your scores. 2014-08-13

I always think there is a massive temptation with the flop shot, because you’ve learnt how to do it and it looks so pretty when it comes off and all you might think you’re fantastic when you play that shot. The big temptation is to play that shot all of the time to effectively over use the flop shot. So the flop shot is a shot where we play with an open face, possibly with your sand wedge or lob wedge. You take this really nice big back swinging, you slide the club under the ball and the ball shoots 30 feet in the air, lands 10 feet in front of you and stops on a six pence, and that shot looks great. But you should really not be using that more than two or three times in a round the golf. Even when you watch the world’s best player outplaying that shot Phil Mickelson he doesn’t over use that shot. He only uses it when he absolutely requires it. And he’s much more comfortable hitting lower little bump and run pit shots rather than the big high flop shot. So yes you can play the flop shot, and when you play it nicely it looks great. You know that ball nearly hit the roof of the bay that I’m in. It’s gone straight to, but straight down was not gone more than 20 yards.

But if I fin that same swing, I meant the same swing catch at mid ball, that’s now gone 50, 60, 65 yards and it’s probably killed my playing partners, you watch around the other side of the green and shot out a bounds over a hedge. So the good flop shots look fantastic and we might as well give you a round of applause but the bad flop shots are about the worse shots you’ll hit on the golf course. So just because you can play a flop shot really does not mean you should be over using it. Three or four times around a golf that’s okay, any more than that constantly, you’re overusing your lob wedge, you’re over using your flop shot. The safest play is to keep it down and roll it. Imagine you have the ball in your hand, throwing it onto the green, if it’s a low throw, you really shouldn’t be using your lob wedge only when it’s a high throw do you play your flop shots. Reduce the flop shots to reduce your scores.