Playing The Golf Ball From A Tight Lie (Video) - by Pete Styles
Playing The Golf Ball From A Tight Lie (Video) - by Pete Styles

There's nothing worst as a golfer than booming a crack in tee shot straight down the middle of the fairway and expecting to walk up to it and see it pristine in the middle of the fairway ready to knock you upon to the green. And getting there and finding it on a bare lie nor there's lies but there's just no grass underneath the ball, you might get these bare lie situations in numerous different locations around the golf course. Sometimes it's just dormant grass that hasn't really started to grow.

Sometimes it's in an old divot, sometimes it's in a well-worn areas and sometimes off the fairway, you might even be on the side of a sort of a dirt track or a cart path where the carts go a lot and there's no grass. I'm playing this shutter of the hard pan on the tight lie can be quite difficult, but most golfers want to see the ball up a nice grassy line that can get the club underneath it. But if you don't have that luxury, how can we get the ball out of this tight hard pan lie and still be quite effective without shot. There's a couple of fundamentals that I could give you that would help you do this. One of the things would be to start with just nudge the ball back in your stamp, so I've got a six sign her so normally playing the ball with a six sign about here, I'm going to just drop the ball back in my stamps a little bit. That should encourage me therefore to be a little bit steeper with my swing, hitting down a little bit more steeply should encourage the club to hit the ball before it hits the turf. So I should get a better contact with the ball slightly further back, now that ball will come out a little bit lower but I should be okay with that. The other thing might be that will grip down on my golf club slightly just to give me a little bit more control, I'm going to have my ball back but my hand's quite a long way forge with a good degree of shaft lane, and again that should help me hit down on the ball. I want to swing with great rhythm, I want to swing with great balance, and I don't want to rush my transition. I want to be nicely up to the top, allow my body weight to move on to my left side and hit down on the ball with no feeling of trying to help and scoop and flick the ball up into the air, that definitely isn't going to help me. And hopefully you can apply some of those fundamental basics, so the next time you find your ball in one of those awkward hard pan situations, you can still get a good strike and get little back in play. 2016-05-11

There's nothing worst as a golfer than booming a crack in tee shot straight down the middle of the fairway and expecting to walk up to it and see it pristine in the middle of the fairway ready to knock you upon to the green. And getting there and finding it on a bare lie nor there's lies but there's just no grass underneath the ball, you might get these bare lie situations in numerous different locations around the golf course. Sometimes it's just dormant grass that hasn't really started to grow.

Sometimes it's in an old divot, sometimes it's in a well-worn areas and sometimes off the fairway, you might even be on the side of a sort of a dirt track or a cart path where the carts go a lot and there's no grass. I'm playing this shutter of the hard pan on the tight lie can be quite difficult, but most golfers want to see the ball up a nice grassy line that can get the club underneath it. But if you don't have that luxury, how can we get the ball out of this tight hard pan lie and still be quite effective without shot.

There's a couple of fundamentals that I could give you that would help you do this. One of the things would be to start with just nudge the ball back in your stamp, so I've got a six sign her so normally playing the ball with a six sign about here, I'm going to just drop the ball back in my stamps a little bit. That should encourage me therefore to be a little bit steeper with my swing, hitting down a little bit more steeply should encourage the club to hit the ball before it hits the turf. So I should get a better contact with the ball slightly further back, now that ball will come out a little bit lower but I should be okay with that.

The other thing might be that will grip down on my golf club slightly just to give me a little bit more control, I'm going to have my ball back but my hand's quite a long way forge with a good degree of shaft lane, and again that should help me hit down on the ball. I want to swing with great rhythm, I want to swing with great balance, and I don't want to rush my transition. I want to be nicely up to the top, allow my body weight to move on to my left side and hit down on the ball with no feeling of trying to help and scoop and flick the ball up into the air, that definitely isn't going to help me. And hopefully you can apply some of those fundamental basics, so the next time you find your ball in one of those awkward hard pan situations, you can still get a good strike and get little back in play.