Natalie Adams – PGA Teaching Pro

Here we're going to look at how to play and effective lob wedge shot from a very tight lie. There could be no tight to lie them playing the shot off the range mats. So we're going to take your lob wedge. We're going to open the clubface up a little bit more, so to do this we're going to rotate the handle over to the rights, look at the name on the grip or where the grip guide is, and rotate it to the right. Its going to open the clubface up, now the reason we want to do that is that [Indiscernible] [0:00:38] now going to allow the bounce of the club of this curved angle here under the club to help us play the shot.

We're looking to get the club down to the back of the ball to just hit the turf a little bit, and then the bounce is going to get us to bounce the club backup from the turf, so we don’t dig into the turf and get stuck in the turf. So open the clubface up, rotate the handle to the right. Now place your hands on the club. Again I would just say grip down slightly just to encourage it to have a little bit more control with that club head. Because the clubface is aiming to the right of how you're standing we're now going to rotate your body alignment to the left to allow the clubface to aim back at the target.

So effectively, you're going to be aiming left of the target, but this is to allow the clubface to actually realign itself back at the target. We're going to play the ball slightly to the left of center for this tight lie because we want to create a downward hit into the back of the ball, so we're going to place the ball slightly to the left. We're going to lean slightly on the left maybe 60% of the weight there, and we're going to, just going to keep the hands slightly forward. Now, this is going to allow us to pick the club head up, so if we're looking this way on, we got the setter position.

As we swing back, we're going to hinge the wrist, use the wrist. So we're going to pick the club head up which will allow us to get a really downward attack where we can now attack down looking to hit the back of the ball and then into the turf, and that's going to pop the ball up really lovely for us. As we do that work on turning your body through the shots, and so the club goes into a nice high finish position. Look again and the club head so is higher than the target.

So let's have a go and hit in that shot with those pointers. We're going to open that clubface up and then for a hands-on, we're going to turn the body alignment to the right so the club's pointing at the target. We've got the ball to the left at center. We've got the weight leaning on the left with the hand slightly forward. Okay we're going to pick that club head up and then we're going to drop the club head down, so it clips the back of the ball then into the turf, and then follow through that's going to pop the ball up really, really high for us.

See you can see that produce a really lovely high golf shots. Try that the next time you want to play a lob wedge from the tight lie, but remember it is a high risk shot. If you got an option, play a low shot end. This looks great when it comes off, but it doesn’t need a lot of practice.