Downhill – Golf Lessons & Tips (Video) by Pete Styles
Downhill – Golf Lessons & Tips (Video) by Pete Styles

If we consider downhill shots we've got to consider how that can affect what the ball will do but also what the hill will do to me as a golfer. If we imagine a scenario where we've got to a raise tee and a lower green here we're playing the ball from here down this way if the tee is flat and the green it's flat the tee won't necessarily make a difference to what I'm doing in the green what make a difference what the ball is doing when it lands. Apart from the fact the ball will fly further so if I've got a 7 iron goes 150 but the green is 20 yards below one teeing off.

I've got to allow for that in the way I play the shots that possibly hit my 7 softer or taken an 8 iron and allow for the drop in height. Likewise if it was uphill I'd take a bigger club probably more importantly more difficult for a lot of golfers to get to grips with is if the ball is on a downhill slope as in I'm standing here playing this direction and the ball it's like this. So that would be one downhill option the other option is if I was playing that way down the fairway and the ball is down there below me there's 2 different ways of sort of considering downhill shots.

2019-10-31

If we consider downhill shots we've got to consider how that can affect what the ball will do but also what the hill will do to me as a golfer. If we imagine a scenario where we've got to a raise tee and a lower green here we're playing the ball from here down this way if the tee is flat and the green it's flat the tee won't necessarily make a difference to what I'm doing in the green what make a difference what the ball is doing when it lands. Apart from the fact the ball will fly further so if I've got a 7 iron goes 150 but the green is 20 yards below one teeing off.

I've got to allow for that in the way I play the shots that possibly hit my 7 softer or taken an 8 iron and allow for the drop in height. Likewise if it was uphill I'd take a bigger club probably more importantly more difficult for a lot of golfers to get to grips with is if the ball is on a downhill slope as in I'm standing here playing this direction and the ball it's like this. So that would be one downhill option the other option is if I was playing that way down the fairway and the ball is down there below me there's 2 different ways of sort of considering downhill shots.