Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Talk to you about hitting it in the hay well I don't know about you but I tend it offline every now and again and it usually happens when there's a bunch of junk over here on the right or left of the fairway. So now as you can see I'm in a lot of talk grass I've got a lot of dirt and rocks and grub and grime over here so what I'm going to do? Well the 1st thing we want to do is we want to make sure that we're to protect ourselves we want just I know it's not really the right thing to do is to test the surface but I'm not going to tell you not to test the surface because let's face it breaking a wrist is not worth playing golf. So the 1st thing we're going to do is look around and see if there's anything why has the little rock right here make sure you can move the rocks obviously loose impediments there's no roots or whatever.
So that's the 1st thing I'm going to do we're playing pleasure golf so we're going to test the surface a little bit in a tournament you might not want to do that but here again we're just having some fun. The only other change we're going to do is we're going to place the ball back in our stance a little bit we want to make sure that we have the ball just on the right side of our sternum this helps us to chop down on the golf ball it takes all this junk and it gets the least amount of junk between the ball in the clubface the ball has a tendency to get out of the rough. So here we go ball back in the stance hands and weight forward and all I'm going to do is chop down through it and I'm going to make an abbreviated follow through and it's going to be kind of a little low driving shot so here we go ball back in the stance hands and weight forward and chop down. When I do that the ball's going to come out low it's going to get out of his junk and I have a chance to try to get up and down for par so remember back hands weight forwardr chop down it just a little bit get yourself back in the fairway.