Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
As a golfer undoubtedly be times and places where you want to get this ball high for various reasons. It might be you want to get it high to go over a tree or a hedge it might be that you want to get high so that when it lands it stops over a bunker over water hazards something of that nature. So how do we hit this ball high the first thing is I would always establish is there a need to hit high shot generally speaking high shots can be more risky than low shots. So to think about do I need to hit this ball high after like to work on the principle that if I had it my hand how would I throw it to the green and if I were to throw it all and roll it would that work and if I can then yet play it low and roll it low but if I have to throw it up in the air to get over the tree to get over the hazard that's when I play the ball high with my club as well. So now I set up to the ball I think about having the ball more forwards in my stance I think about having the club face a little bit more open as well now when open club faces is this if this is a vertical club face here and is pointing up at twelve o'clock I would twist it this way.
So from my view that's looking at one o'clock on the clock face now it's an hour open a really high really extreme would be two hours open now as I bring that club back down to the ball the club face points to the right I compensate by pointing to the left as a right handed golfer I now have the club face open the ball is forwards in my stance I've got my most lofted club I've got my lob wedge here. So it's a very lofted club to now make my swing and then need to make a longer swinging normal the purpose of this longer swing is that most of the energy that you put into the ball is going to make the ball go high in the air so if it goes high it won't necessarily go very far. So if I was to have the ball and to not hit it very hard and then hit it high it would go up and down and probably not go go over the bunker or the tree I was trying to clear in the first place. So it's a ball it's more forwards in the stance it's a club face it's more open and it's a longer swing back three we also want to make sure that we don't quit and we don't stop on the ball so we talk about having quite a high finish. So we want to make sure that we've got good ball position good swing high finish, and as I hold my finish there you could see the ball really lofted into the third guy I hit down got the club underneath it the ball loft up and when it comes down it just want to bounces and settles nicely on the green and those techniques are I think how you can best hit your high golf shots.
2018-08-23 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
As a golfer undoubtedly be times and places where you want to get this ball high for various reasons. It might be you want to get it high to go over a tree or a hedge it might be that you want to get high so that when it lands it stops over a bunker over water hazards something of that nature. So how do we hit this ball high the first thing is I would always establish is there a need to hit high shot generally speaking high shots can be more risky than low shots. So to think about do I need to hit this ball high after like to work on the principle that if I had it my hand how would I throw it to the green and if I were to throw it all and roll it would that work and if I can then yet play it low and roll it low but if I have to throw it up in the air to get over the tree to get over the hazard that's when I play the ball high with my club as well. So now I set up to the ball I think about having the ball more forwards in my stance I think about having the club face a little bit more open as well now when open club faces is this if this is a vertical club face here and is pointing up at twelve o'clock I would twist it this way.
So from my view that's looking at one o'clock on the clock face now it's an hour open a really high really extreme would be two hours open now as I bring that club back down to the ball the club face points to the right I compensate by pointing to the left as a right handed golfer I now have the club face open the ball is forwards in my stance I've got my most lofted club I've got my lob wedge here. So it's a very lofted club to now make my swing and then need to make a longer swinging normal the purpose of this longer swing is that most of the energy that you put into the ball is going to make the ball go high in the air so if it goes high it won't necessarily go very far. So if I was to have the ball and to not hit it very hard and then hit it high it would go up and down and probably not go go over the bunker or the tree I was trying to clear in the first place. So it's a ball it's more forwards in the stance it's a club face it's more open and it's a longer swing back three we also want to make sure that we don't quit and we don't stop on the ball so we talk about having quite a high finish. So we want to make sure that we've got good ball position good swing high finish, and as I hold my finish there you could see the ball really lofted into the third guy I hit down got the club underneath it the ball loft up and when it comes down it just want to bounces and settles nicely on the green and those techniques are I think how you can best hit your high golf shots.
