How to Handle Elevated Shots Into a Green By Tom Stickney
How to Handle Elevated Shots Into a Green By Tom Stickney Tom Stickney - A Top 100 Golf Teacher Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

We are elevated the green sitting down below us now a lot of times people have to kind of guess at what the yardage is and we know from the yardage that shot I have 177 into this particular pin. Now for every 10 feet of drop you know it's 5 to 7 yards of carry that you're going to take off of the golf ball. So you know I'm going to pretty much guess it out 20 or 30 feet a drop so much trying to play this maybe 145 to 150 and I know it's tough to grasp the fact that you're going to hit this ball only 150 yards but because of the elevation and because of the drop you're going to have find that if you hit too much club you're going to tend to carry it way too far and everybody knows that we play this particular hole it's very easy to 3 putt when you get back behind this hole.

So if we are going to miss this would rather miss it short because it could cascade down the front part of the green even if we don't have the correct yardage. So what we're going to do we are going to take our 150 yard club we're going to set up just like we do normally we've got a little bit of downhill lie that will go make it just a touch further a little bit lower so here we go we're going to set up make our normal golf swing. All right we can see that golf ball carried and just landed on the front of the green a little short and it's running up on the front part of the green. So now what we did is effectively by guessing with the downhill drop we took the back of the green out of play remember it's always better to figure out on these really tough down slopes where you want to miss the golf ball and here far better to miss it short on the green that hit too much club and hit it way on the back of the green 3 putt have some fun with it.

2019-06-28

Tom Stickney - A Top 100 Golf Teacher Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

We are elevated the green sitting down below us now a lot of times people have to kind of guess at what the yardage is and we know from the yardage that shot I have 177 into this particular pin. Now for every 10 feet of drop you know it's 5 to 7 yards of carry that you're going to take off of the golf ball. So you know I'm going to pretty much guess it out 20 or 30 feet a drop so much trying to play this maybe 145 to 150 and I know it's tough to grasp the fact that you're going to hit this ball only 150 yards but because of the elevation and because of the drop you're going to have find that if you hit too much club you're going to tend to carry it way too far and everybody knows that we play this particular hole it's very easy to 3 putt when you get back behind this hole.

So if we are going to miss this would rather miss it short because it could cascade down the front part of the green even if we don't have the correct yardage. So what we're going to do we are going to take our 150 yard club we're going to set up just like we do normally we've got a little bit of downhill lie that will go make it just a touch further a little bit lower so here we go we're going to set up make our normal golf swing. All right we can see that golf ball carried and just landed on the front of the green a little short and it's running up on the front part of the green. So now what we did is effectively by guessing with the downhill drop we took the back of the green out of play remember it's always better to figure out on these really tough down slopes where you want to miss the golf ball and here far better to miss it short on the green that hit too much club and hit it way on the back of the green 3 putt have some fun with it.