Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
We have a little uphill lie the green kind of runs away from us the pin is cut very very close so obviously we need some sort of high soft flop shot in order to get close this pin. Now the one thing you'll see short of the spin is this upslope so if I hit this flop shot I don't quite catch it correctly it's short and it comes all the way back down to my feet it can go in this rough it could maybe go in the bunker but we want to play a shot that I call the safety flop. The safety flop is nothing more than a high soft shot where we take the trouble out of play. So what we want to make sure we do is with the safety flop we're going to look at the easiest place for us to hit it we want to make sure that if we hit it pin high that's the flattest part of the green ok we have a little bit of a backstop behind that and we're all going to do is going to say hey we've hit it in a bad position.
So what we're going to isn't a flop up there safe we're going to take our 2 putt bogey and get out hey if we happen to make a long putt for par great but the last thing we want to do is dump it up here short and then have to get up and down and we're going to double or triple net going to aggravate us because all we had to do is hit the green. So to hit that safety flop shot all we're going to do put the ball towards our forward foot open the blade just a little bit and all I want to do is keep my right shoulder moving I want to make sure I finish high so I can carry it far enough. So here we go ball forward open the blade the blade keep our right shoulder moving and there we go and what we've seen now is that we've hit it about 10 feet away and that's called a safety flop yes we've had a high soft shot up on the green but we're going to take our 2 putt bogey maybe one putt par and get out we're not going to make a 6 we could've made a 4 or 5 think about it.