Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
In this week's tip I want to show you a shot at the really really good, but you probably never thought about it. Here I have about 70 yards the pin is in the back part of the green and we're going to pretend today that the wind is blowing into our face a whole bunch. Now what people normally do is they grab their wedge or lob wedge or whatever and they take a big slash and swing and they try to carry it all the way back to the pin. While that's pretty easy to do want to on a nice calm day when we have a bunch of wind into our face we have a green that's kind of sitting like this it's very difficult to get it back to the pin. So I'm going to show you a neat little way I call it the long bump and run. So I have a 7 iron right here and all I'm going to do is set up to it like I would normally put the ball back in my stance just a touch, and all I'm going to do is just take a little abbreviated golf swing just like so and try to carry the ball about halfway there and let it roll back to the pin.
That's a lot easier way to get the ball back in the pin as opposed to trying to fly it especially when the green maybe is pitch like this or the wind's in our face. So here we go ball back in our stance just a touch and some weight forward long bump and run, and you can see that ball lands well short. It skips and now you can see it's chasing to the back of the green and see that's very very easy for me to get the ball all the way back in the pin without the danger of going over the back of the green or landing short and spinning to the front of the green. So remember any time the wind's in our face the pins in the back where the greens kind of pitched up like that draw that long bump and run and I think you'll do OK.
2019-01-09 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
In this week's tip I want to show you a shot at the really really good, but you probably never thought about it. Here I have about 70 yards the pin is in the back part of the green and we're going to pretend today that the wind is blowing into our face a whole bunch. Now what people normally do is they grab their wedge or lob wedge or whatever and they take a big slash and swing and they try to carry it all the way back to the pin. While that's pretty easy to do want to on a nice calm day when we have a bunch of wind into our face we have a green that's kind of sitting like this it's very difficult to get it back to the pin. So I'm going to show you a neat little way I call it the long bump and run. So I have a 7 iron right here and all I'm going to do is set up to it like I would normally put the ball back in my stance just a touch, and all I'm going to do is just take a little abbreviated golf swing just like so and try to carry the ball about halfway there and let it roll back to the pin.
That's a lot easier way to get the ball back in the pin as opposed to trying to fly it especially when the green maybe is pitch like this or the wind's in our face. So here we go ball back in our stance just a touch and some weight forward long bump and run, and you can see that ball lands well short. It skips and now you can see it's chasing to the back of the green and see that's very very easy for me to get the ball all the way back in the pin without the danger of going over the back of the green or landing short and spinning to the front of the green. So remember any time the wind's in our face the pins in the back where the greens kind of pitched up like that draw that long bump and run and I think you'll do OK.
