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 right 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.

Number one we're trying to set up as best we can you know with the ball position we want to lean our spine to the left so our shoulders are pointing with the slope or they are parallel to the slope the only other thing we're going to do with mechanically at address is open the blade a little bit more because we need all the hype we can get all loft we can get. So we've opened our blade a whole bunch we lean to the left now all we're going to do with a swing standpoint is set the club as much as we can so we come down vertically and we can stay with it. You need all the attack angle you can to get this ball up in the air you come into a very shallow it's going to come out too low and flat. So here we go we opened the blade a whole bunch lean our spine to the left we're going to set the club stay with it as long as possible here we go set the club stay with it and when you do that you can use your highest loft wedge obviously the ball's going to come out a little bit lower it's going to tend to come a little high you are just going to play for it.