The Best Shots to Get Out of Trouble with which will Help Senior Golfers Shoot their Lowest Golf (Video) - by Dean Butler
The Best Shots to Get Out of Trouble with which will Help Senior Golfers Shoot their Lowest Golf (Video) - by Dean Butler

Right, I'm going to talk about the best shots you can play to get out off trouble. So here is two scenarios, the first one it will be most probably the one that you will encounter most of the time. You have missed the fairway; you are in the rough, the ball sat down. So we're in trouble, so what are we going to do. Yes, it maybe a 150 yards to the flag across the lake, but the number one thing is to get the ball back out to the rough, back onto the fairway. So first of all, have a look at that lie, think about what you are faced with and play the most sensible club you can think about.

If it means a pitching wedge and a sand wedge, well do that, pull that club out, get yourself set up and get it back onto the fairway, get it back there. Rather than maybe gamble with a 7-iron, overshoot and put yourself in the next trouble which is the water hazard site. So number one, if you are in the rough let's get out of the rough, take whatever club you need. Tech, technique wise what we need to do is to setup with the ball back in the stance, weight on the left hand side 60:40, hands well forward. And what we want you to do here is to take that club up with the wrist, keeping that left arm straight and then from here, I want you to execute down, to pick the club up and hit down, very, very important because otherwise it's very easy for the club to get caught up between the grass and the ball. And when that happens, it doesn't half turn the clubface over. So when you are over this ball, select a nice club and don't be greedy, always take a little bit more loft than less loft is better to get out onto the fairway. So you think, oh God I just missed out and you're still in the rough. So selecting that club a little bit more loft than what you would like to do, set yourself up, ball in the middle, weight on the left hand side, pick the club up, and hit down, and you should get back on that fairway the majority of times you should. So second scenario, you are into the lush of the rough, but this time the trouble is we are in the trees. But we are not in the thick of the trees, but we got all the canopy over us and the trouble now is we've got to try and keep this ball down. It's very, very common in golf course to try and keep that ball down. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to select that club, just select the club and that is going to get you into a safe position down that fairway. And again, don't select the club that might put you in some more trouble, look at where the trouble isn't and select the club for that shot. When we set ourselves up, it's exactly the same setup as the other one, as far as the ball is going to go back in the stance. The weight is going to go 60-40 on the left-hand side. And from here this time, the only difference being is we are not going to go back and break our wrists. We are going to go back with our arms, so from here, we are going to swing the arms back here to waist height and come through. So let me demonstrate on this one, over the ball, just arms, arms and I have got a nice, nice low shot that's going to keep me out to the canopy that's overhanging. So there you go, two troublesome shots, not anymore, you have got the knowledge. Go and put it into practice and see how you can do the shots. 2013-10-22

Right, I'm going to talk about the best shots you can play to get out off trouble. So here is two scenarios, the first one it will be most probably the one that you will encounter most of the time. You have missed the fairway; you are in the rough, the ball sat down. So we're in trouble, so what are we going to do. Yes, it maybe a 150 yards to the flag across the lake, but the number one thing is to get the ball back out to the rough, back onto the fairway. So first of all, have a look at that lie, think about what you are faced with and play the most sensible club you can think about.

If it means a pitching wedge and a sand wedge, well do that, pull that club out, get yourself set up and get it back onto the fairway, get it back there. Rather than maybe gamble with a 7-iron, overshoot and put yourself in the next trouble which is the water hazard site. So number one, if you are in the rough let's get out of the rough, take whatever club you need. Tech, technique wise what we need to do is to setup with the ball back in the stance, weight on the left hand side 60:40, hands well forward. And what we want you to do here is to take that club up with the wrist, keeping that left arm straight and then from here, I want you to execute down, to pick the club up and hit down, very, very important because otherwise it's very easy for the club to get caught up between the grass and the ball.

And when that happens, it doesn't half turn the clubface over. So when you are over this ball, select a nice club and don't be greedy, always take a little bit more loft than less loft is better to get out onto the fairway. So you think, oh God I just missed out and you're still in the rough. So selecting that club a little bit more loft than what you would like to do, set yourself up, ball in the middle, weight on the left hand side, pick the club up, and hit down, and you should get back on that fairway the majority of times you should.

So second scenario, you are into the lush of the rough, but this time the trouble is we are in the trees. But we are not in the thick of the trees, but we got all the canopy over us and the trouble now is we've got to try and keep this ball down. It's very, very common in golf course to try and keep that ball down. So the first thing we're going to do is we're going to select that club, just select the club and that is going to get you into a safe position down that fairway. And again, don't select the club that might put you in some more trouble, look at where the trouble isn't and select the club for that shot.

When we set ourselves up, it's exactly the same setup as the other one, as far as the ball is going to go back in the stance. The weight is going to go 60-40 on the left-hand side. And from here this time, the only difference being is we are not going to go back and break our wrists. We are going to go back with our arms, so from here, we are going to swing the arms back here to waist height and come through. So let me demonstrate on this one, over the ball, just arms, arms and I have got a nice, nice low shot that's going to keep me out to the canopy that's overhanging. So there you go, two troublesome shots, not anymore, you have got the knowledge. Go and put it into practice and see how you can do the shots.