Lefties only golf tip: Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about one of the hardest shots of golf and that's the downhill lie bunker shot to a green that is going to sit up a little bit. While I know this is a pretty pretty advanced technique it is a shot that I get asked about all the time. The 1st thing I want to understand is you've got to understand where your priorities are you know what's realistic if I want this particular lie here there is no way that I want to get that ball up air and get it skimming across the back of the green. So if you get on a super steep downhill lie take your licks hit it backward chop it up on the green you know what you just had a bad bad break but if you have a moderate downhill lie like so all you want to do is change a couple things.