Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about the downhill lie. When you have a downhill lie the ball is going to tend to go to the left because a lot of times are going to come over the top of the ball in the score to the left. So what we're going to do is we're trying to play the ball as normal as we can we want to lean our shoulders with the slope lean our spine down the slope just a little bit that's going to make the ball come out a little lower but it can help us to even stay with this shot a little bit longer so the ball doesn't have a tendency to be hit thin.

So we're going to set up normally we're going to line up just a little bit to the right to counteract that chance pulling the golf ball and on the do set my shoulders with the slope and I'm going to take a little punch shot type of feeling. This will punch shot type of feeling help us to stay down and guide the golf ball where we want to remember you don't want to take a pay cut at it lose your balance because you're going to tend it all over. A lot of time with this like I said you're going to tend to come over to you fall down the slope and that's going to tend to make it go to the left. So check your shoulders with a slope ball pretty much normal and a punch shot if you'll stay with that a little bit longer post-impact you're going to find that golf ball closer to the green more often than not.