Several Golf Options You Can Take to the Bank (Video) - by Pete Styles
Several Golf Options You Can Take to the Bank (Video) - by Pete Styles

Quite often on your golf course you might find yourself sitting at the bottom of a sloppy bank and trying to hit the ball back up the bank just to get it to crest onto the top of the green. Now that shot doesn’t necessarily appear that difficult, but how about if that bank is now shaved and down towards where the golf ball is, there's no real grass underneath the golf ball. It’s almost like you are on the green and you got to chip it back up the bank. Now if it was smooth you might be able to putt that ball but if there is a little bit of rough stuff just to chip the ball up and over you are going to use a little bit of a bump and run technique to get it up that bank.

And there is two real options for you here, the first one will just be a standard bump and run technique using a seven iron. We are going to keep the feet quite close together, we are going to keep the hands down the bottom of the grip and we are going to move quite near to the golf ball. We are not going to stand a long way from this and play it like this we are almost going to stand like we have got a putter in our hands. Putting the club a little bit on the tip toe, and then a rocking action backwards and forwards, using the shoulders like a putting motion. So there's no handsy, flicky, lifty or anything like that, its hands nice and high, feet nice and close together and bump it forwards and if you practice that on the putting green, you’ll get a real nice feeling for how you can nudge it forwards just at the right speed and run it up the bank. Now another option for that type of shot again maybe if the lie isn’t quite so nice is actually playing the same sort of shot but with a hybrid golf club. Hybrid clubs are really nicely designed with a rounded sole at the back that stops the club digging in. Its got enough loft on the club just to get the ball airborne but nothing that’s going to hit the ball particularly high. So we’ll just bump it forwards and then run it up the bank towards the top of the hill and the green. So again play it in a similar fashion, gripping down on the club, narrowing the stance, getting quite close. Be prepared for the fact that there will be a lot of the golf club here that you are not holding, so you want to make the club feel quite short in our hands there's a lot you are not holding, leaning on the left side a little bit and then emulate the putting stroke and just nudge it forwards. It might come out a little bit lower than the seven iron, but it will come out with a nice running profile, run up the bank on to the green. So don’t be afraid of using the hybrid club to chip and run from the green side particularly when there is a bank in the way. 2015-03-26

Quite often on your golf course you might find yourself sitting at the bottom of a sloppy bank and trying to hit the ball back up the bank just to get it to crest onto the top of the green. Now that shot doesn’t necessarily appear that difficult, but how about if that bank is now shaved and down towards where the golf ball is, there's no real grass underneath the golf ball. It’s almost like you are on the green and you got to chip it back up the bank. Now if it was smooth you might be able to putt that ball but if there is a little bit of rough stuff just to chip the ball up and over you are going to use a little bit of a bump and run technique to get it up that bank.

And there is two real options for you here, the first one will just be a standard bump and run technique using a seven iron. We are going to keep the feet quite close together, we are going to keep the hands down the bottom of the grip and we are going to move quite near to the golf ball. We are not going to stand a long way from this and play it like this we are almost going to stand like we have got a putter in our hands.

Putting the club a little bit on the tip toe, and then a rocking action backwards and forwards, using the shoulders like a putting motion. So there's no handsy, flicky, lifty or anything like that, its hands nice and high, feet nice and close together and bump it forwards and if you practice that on the putting green, you’ll get a real nice feeling for how you can nudge it forwards just at the right speed and run it up the bank.

Now another option for that type of shot again maybe if the lie isn’t quite so nice is actually playing the same sort of shot but with a hybrid golf club. Hybrid clubs are really nicely designed with a rounded sole at the back that stops the club digging in. Its got enough loft on the club just to get the ball airborne but nothing that’s going to hit the ball particularly high. So we’ll just bump it forwards and then run it up the bank towards the top of the hill and the green.

So again play it in a similar fashion, gripping down on the club, narrowing the stance, getting quite close. Be prepared for the fact that there will be a lot of the golf club here that you are not holding, so you want to make the club feel quite short in our hands there's a lot you are not holding, leaning on the left side a little bit and then emulate the putting stroke and just nudge it forwards. It might come out a little bit lower than the seven iron, but it will come out with a nice running profile, run up the bank on to the green. So don’t be afraid of using the hybrid club to chip and run from the green side particularly when there is a bank in the way.