Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
You can see kind of an interesting scenario here I've got a green that kind of runs up has a slope in the middle and runs down. Now all too often we get stuck in on trying to be Phil Mickelson trying to be too cute as you can see this pin is tucked over the bunker there's a bunker behind the pin so if I take this shot off this kind of downhill side hill lie the ball is going to tend to come out flatter lower. You can see the ball came out a little flat and obviously I hit it short and bobbled it in the bunker now that's a great shot if you have nothing else to do you have to make par or you have to get up and down to make birdie what have you.
You have to remember that Jack gives us a lot of opportunities here on this golf course to use the slopes to our advantage. So what I'm going to do now is I have a downhill side hill slope which encourages the ball to come out a little bit flatter and move more right to left. The slope of the green is like this so I'm going to hit it right up there in the milled green and use a slope to kind of tug it to the left a little bit and hopefully will trickle down by the pin. So here we go aim a little bit to the right that are normally wedge shot a little right to left and you see the ball comes in low it goes a little bit right to left so as you can see if you use a slope your advantage it can take care of itself.