Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about how to hit the ball out of a divot. A lot of times people hit the ball into the divot they panic because they're not really sure how to play this shot. The 1st thing you have to do is look down at the divto and figure out where the ball is if the ball is situated towards the front of the divot where the grass kind of comes up you're going to find it's going to be very very difficult to get this ball to go anywhere because the ball will hit this turf and here it will tend to kill it. So the best thing you can hope for when the ball's in the front part of the divot is to just get it out somewhere kind of guide it down the fairway.
Now if the ball's in the middle to the back of the divot here's all you're going to do. You're going to put the ball back in your stance just a little bit more you can lean your weight a little bit more forward and all you're going to do is chop down on it hit kind of a low driving punch on maybe take a club or 2 extra. So put the ball back leave your weight forward take a club or 2 extra chop down and that low little punch shot will kind of have the ball chase out of that divot it will go a little bit shorter because obviously it's a punch shot to come out a little bit flatter it'll get you out of that divot and you'll have a look at more control when you get the ball more around the green.
2019-05-30 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about how to hit the ball out of a divot. A lot of times people hit the ball into the divot they panic because they're not really sure how to play this shot. The 1st thing you have to do is look down at the divto and figure out where the ball is if the ball is situated towards the front of the divot where the grass kind of comes up you're going to find it's going to be very very difficult to get this ball to go anywhere because the ball will hit this turf and here it will tend to kill it. So the best thing you can hope for when the ball's in the front part of the divot is to just get it out somewhere kind of guide it down the fairway.
Now if the ball's in the middle to the back of the divot here's all you're going to do. You're going to put the ball back in your stance just a little bit more you can lean your weight a little bit more forward and all you're going to do is chop down on it hit kind of a low driving punch on maybe take a club or 2 extra. So put the ball back leave your weight forward take a club or 2 extra chop down and that low little punch shot will kind of have the ball chase out of that divot it will go a little bit shorter because obviously it's a punch shot to come out a little bit flatter it'll get you out of that divot and you'll have a look at more control when you get the ball more around the green.
