Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Like the concept of getting up and down is often referred to when we're in and around the green. We want to get the ball on the green and hole the putt so up onto the green down hole in the putt. Now that process of getting up and down can often start a shot before when we're playing a shot towards the green. If we're looking at a green from let's say a hundred fifty yards away and it looks like a difficult target small green crosswind looks a bit awkward we can actually think about where we want to hit viscously up to make a next shot easier but often the concept works better if we look for the low side or the easier side to approach from often we talk about the short side in the high side and short siding itself will make your next shot more difficult. Let's imagine we've got a green and we've got a flag over to one side and then we've got a bunker over here if we put the ball here we've got to come over the bunker try and stop it next the flag but actually if you've got a big green the flags here and you hit the ball on this side you can put all the way back across the green. So sometimes the idea of hitting to the the wider side the flatter side the low side is actually a lot better than short siding yourself to the high side so getting up and down can actually be be helped if you like by having a better mental process on the shot before to make sure you don't short side yourself.
So play for the low side to make the up and down a little bit easier the next consideration would be to try and take the low risk option so when you arrive at your ball rather than thinking and I've seen the guys on the telly do this they open the face they open the stance they make these dirty great big back swings and they chop underneath the ball and it goes up it lands next the hole that looks great on T.V. looks great in the movies that on but it's not necessarily the shots that might work for you. The most often it might be a honeymoon shot once in once in every ten shots might work out but actually the lower risk option the bump and run with a seven iron a lot. It's glamorous but might actually help you get up and down a little bit more regularly. One last tip here to hit from these shots when you're around the greens to try and get up and down more would be to make sure you're nice and calm so when you're playing an approach shot if you missed the green quite often there's an element of frustration that people get disappointed that I should be on the green how I should be putting for birdie but I've left it to the side now. I've got a chip back on and they're frustrated they stopped their ball throw the bag down one quick swipe at it on the green missed the plot make a bogey and all of that could stand because they weren't calm in their approach was if you walked up to the bottom OK I've missed the green that's my bad I can now put something right here I can do the right thing so I take my seven iron I'm going to hurt little bump and run I read the green nicely and know where I want to hit I chip on close hole the push for my par walk away from the next walkway to the next feeling really confident that yes I made a mistake with my approach but I got up and down and I was calm about it and therefore my score is improving. So to get up and down more it's not all about technique quite a lot of it is in your head.
2018-08-21 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Like the concept of getting up and down is often referred to when we're in and around the green. We want to get the ball on the green and hole the putt so up onto the green down hole in the putt. Now that process of getting up and down can often start a shot before when we're playing a shot towards the green. If we're looking at a green from let's say a hundred fifty yards away and it looks like a difficult target small green crosswind looks a bit awkward we can actually think about where we want to hit viscously up to make a next shot easier but often the concept works better if we look for the low side or the easier side to approach from often we talk about the short side in the high side and short siding itself will make your next shot more difficult. Let's imagine we've got a green and we've got a flag over to one side and then we've got a bunker over here if we put the ball here we've got to come over the bunker try and stop it next the flag but actually if you've got a big green the flags here and you hit the ball on this side you can put all the way back across the green. So sometimes the idea of hitting to the the wider side the flatter side the low side is actually a lot better than short siding yourself to the high side so getting up and down can actually be be helped if you like by having a better mental process on the shot before to make sure you don't short side yourself.
So play for the low side to make the up and down a little bit easier the next consideration would be to try and take the low risk option so when you arrive at your ball rather than thinking and I've seen the guys on the telly do this they open the face they open the stance they make these dirty great big back swings and they chop underneath the ball and it goes up it lands next the hole that looks great on T.V. looks great in the movies that on but it's not necessarily the shots that might work for you. The most often it might be a honeymoon shot once in once in every ten shots might work out but actually the lower risk option the bump and run with a seven iron a lot. It's glamorous but might actually help you get up and down a little bit more regularly. One last tip here to hit from these shots when you're around the greens to try and get up and down more would be to make sure you're nice and calm so when you're playing an approach shot if you missed the green quite often there's an element of frustration that people get disappointed that I should be on the green how I should be putting for birdie but I've left it to the side now. I've got a chip back on and they're frustrated they stopped their ball throw the bag down one quick swipe at it on the green missed the plot make a bogey and all of that could stand because they weren't calm in their approach was if you walked up to the bottom OK I've missed the green that's my bad I can now put something right here I can do the right thing so I take my seven iron I'm going to hurt little bump and run I read the green nicely and know where I want to hit I chip on close hole the push for my par walk away from the next walkway to the next feeling really confident that yes I made a mistake with my approach but I got up and down and I was calm about it and therefore my score is improving. So to get up and down more it's not all about technique quite a lot of it is in your head.
