Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
In this week's tip I want to talk to you about being short sighted. You know as you can see right here I've missed the green to the right the pin is a very close cut, and I don't have a lot of green to work with, and that's called being short sighted. So any time you miss the green the 1st lesson here is to always miss the green where you have the most pin, and the most green to work with. You never want to miss the green on the side with the pins cut. Always on the opposite side that gives you more green and more pin to work with. Now since we are short sighted what are we going to do.
All we're going to do right here is focus in on making sure that we get the ball up in the air and have it land as softly as possible, and to do that all I'm going to do is open the blade and make my normal motion. This is just your normal block shot motion and when we make this motion we're trying to make the ball come down a soft as possible because we don't have a lot of room to work with. So we're going to open the blade up to it just like we did normally hit our block shot, and you can see that's about as soft as I can hit the golf ball. When you're short sighted yourself you have to take your licks and when you take your licks sometimes you make par sometimes you make bogies.
2019-01-09 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
In this week's tip I want to talk to you about being short sighted. You know as you can see right here I've missed the green to the right the pin is a very close cut, and I don't have a lot of green to work with, and that's called being short sighted. So any time you miss the green the 1st lesson here is to always miss the green where you have the most pin, and the most green to work with. You never want to miss the green on the side with the pins cut. Always on the opposite side that gives you more green and more pin to work with. Now since we are short sighted what are we going to do.
All we're going to do right here is focus in on making sure that we get the ball up in the air and have it land as softly as possible, and to do that all I'm going to do is open the blade and make my normal motion. This is just your normal block shot motion and when we make this motion we're trying to make the ball come down a soft as possible because we don't have a lot of room to work with. So we're going to open the blade up to it just like we did normally hit our block shot, and you can see that's about as soft as I can hit the golf ball. When you're short sighted yourself you have to take your licks and when you take your licks sometimes you make par sometimes you make bogies.
