Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Often and golf will approach a fluffy lie with a feeling of of confidence and happiness because the ball is sitting up a little bit in the air. Sometimes the club but how much a golfer would find it difficult to hit the ball from a bare lie or a deadpan lie where they can't get the club of the make the ball. So they almost like the ball to be sitting in the semi rough and they can get it up in the air more. easily when you look at the better players they're less keen on those lies and there's a reason for that and that reason might be affecting you too and it could be because the lie when it's fluffy can aid the fly out lie now a flyer is a terminology often hear the commentators talk about particularly. When the pro golfer hits a bad shot they get a flyer lie and the problem there is we get the ball and we get the club and we get some grass in between particularly that grass is moist when the club hits the ball the grass gets in between and it doesn't allow the club to grip the golf ball as normally gets the surface ski slippy contact and the ball will fly against them flying and it will generally go too far it goes further in the air because it's back spinning. So it's not climbing it shoots out and often when it lands you will have very very little spin because we didn't a we weren't able to get the proper contact.
So when it lands it can shoot off and that can cause the golfer lots and lots of problems so if you get yourself in a flyer situation. So you're looking for an area where the ball is in a good lie but the looks like there might be grass between club and ball at the point of impact you might consider how that ball will react on the green and very rarely will actually spin as much as normal. So from a bare life I had the ball in a sort of bare lie like this I'm probably going to get nothing but golf ball. When I make my strike there's going to be no grass in between but if I put the ball in a situation where there's a little bit of grass just here behind the golf ball I might look at that situation I think you know what the lie still pretty good but the grass is going to get stuck. Between the clock face. So when I make my swing from here and hit my shot. I take an idea and I hit the ball up in the air but if I look on the club face I can see some green grass squashed into the club face that green grass been squashed into the face clearly shows that there was an element of of grass between club and ball therefore when that ball lands it won't spin. So how could I react to that on the golf course what my options would be to change club my options would be to change the length of my shot my options would also be to consider how that ball's going to land and react and if it's got lights it's got a clear bunker to land on the green to not go in the lake at the back that becomes a very difficult shot because that ball is not going to stop as I would want. So I might consider aiming in a different direction or choosing a different club to make sure I don't go in that house at the back. So just consider that fluffy lies look good on paper but they might actually turn into flyers and therefore affect how far the ball lands and rolls.
2018-08-24 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
Often and golf will approach a fluffy lie with a feeling of of confidence and happiness because the ball is sitting up a little bit in the air. Sometimes the club but how much a golfer would find it difficult to hit the ball from a bare lie or a deadpan lie where they can't get the club of the make the ball. So they almost like the ball to be sitting in the semi rough and they can get it up in the air more. easily when you look at the better players they're less keen on those lies and there's a reason for that and that reason might be affecting you too and it could be because the lie when it's fluffy can aid the fly out lie now a flyer is a terminology often hear the commentators talk about particularly. When the pro golfer hits a bad shot they get a flyer lie and the problem there is we get the ball and we get the club and we get some grass in between particularly that grass is moist when the club hits the ball the grass gets in between and it doesn't allow the club to grip the golf ball as normally gets the surface ski slippy contact and the ball will fly against them flying and it will generally go too far it goes further in the air because it's back spinning. So it's not climbing it shoots out and often when it lands you will have very very little spin because we didn't a we weren't able to get the proper contact.
So when it lands it can shoot off and that can cause the golfer lots and lots of problems so if you get yourself in a flyer situation. So you're looking for an area where the ball is in a good lie but the looks like there might be grass between club and ball at the point of impact you might consider how that ball will react on the green and very rarely will actually spin as much as normal. So from a bare life I had the ball in a sort of bare lie like this I'm probably going to get nothing but golf ball. When I make my strike there's going to be no grass in between but if I put the ball in a situation where there's a little bit of grass just here behind the golf ball I might look at that situation I think you know what the lie still pretty good but the grass is going to get stuck. Between the clock face. So when I make my swing from here and hit my shot. I take an idea and I hit the ball up in the air but if I look on the club face I can see some green grass squashed into the club face that green grass been squashed into the face clearly shows that there was an element of of grass between club and ball therefore when that ball lands it won't spin. So how could I react to that on the golf course what my options would be to change club my options would be to change the length of my shot my options would also be to consider how that ball's going to land and react and if it's got lights it's got a clear bunker to land on the green to not go in the lake at the back that becomes a very difficult shot because that ball is not going to stop as I would want. So I might consider aiming in a different direction or choosing a different club to make sure I don't go in that house at the back. So just consider that fluffy lies look good on paper but they might actually turn into flyers and therefore affect how far the ball lands and rolls.
