Using Different Lofts For Different Golf Trajectories (Video) - by Peter Finch
Using Different Lofts For Different Golf Trajectories (Video) - by Peter Finch

Now, I’ve already spoken about how you can alter trajectories using different clubs. Loft is the big key factor here in successfully using a putting stroke with a chipping technique. Now, there is one big club that you can use, which you can transfer your putting stroke on to almost identically, almost identically, and I’m talking about the hybrid. You can also do this with a fairway wood as well, but hybrids tend to be that little bit more successful.

So, go back to where you would class as your normal putting setup. So, your normal putting setup with a ball position just forward of center, tilt to your ball of eyes a little bit closer with the high, because it’s long, you are not going to get your eyes all the way over, but your eyes still go over, hands generally just slightly ahead, and then we want to be moving those shoulders back and through as normal. Now, the advantage that the hybrid has, it has a lower amount of loft. So, when you strike it, it’s going to pop up a little bit and it’s going to run quite quickly. So, obviously, if you are trying to use this to get over a bunker, it’s probably not going to be the wisest play. But the bottom of a hybrid has a very wide, very smooth shaft. Now, what this will do is if it comes into contact with the ground, generally it will glide much easier across the surface, therefore using a shallow angle of attack with a hybrid is much safer to do than it is with a wedge. If you are using a wedge with a shallow angle of attack, it’s very difficult to strike the ball consistently. If you are using it with a hybrid, the hybrid can just slide along and you can make much more of a consistent contact. Like I said, the issue with this is how low the ball is going to come off. So, getting in a setup position with the putting stroke just moving those shoulders back and through, the ball is going to come off very, very low, because of the difference within the club, because of the difference within that smooth shaft, you are going to be able to hit the ball more consistently with that technique than you would with the wedge. But give the techniques all that go. Try them out individually and see which one is going to work for you. 2016-10-31

Now, I’ve already spoken about how you can alter trajectories using different clubs. Loft is the big key factor here in successfully using a putting stroke with a chipping technique. Now, there is one big club that you can use, which you can transfer your putting stroke on to almost identically, almost identically, and I’m talking about the hybrid. You can also do this with a fairway wood as well, but hybrids tend to be that little bit more successful.

So, go back to where you would class as your normal putting setup. So, your normal putting setup with a ball position just forward of center, tilt to your ball of eyes a little bit closer with the high, because it’s long, you are not going to get your eyes all the way over, but your eyes still go over, hands generally just slightly ahead, and then we want to be moving those shoulders back and through as normal.

Now, the advantage that the hybrid has, it has a lower amount of loft. So, when you strike it, it’s going to pop up a little bit and it’s going to run quite quickly. So, obviously, if you are trying to use this to get over a bunker, it’s probably not going to be the wisest play. But the bottom of a hybrid has a very wide, very smooth shaft. Now, what this will do is if it comes into contact with the ground, generally it will glide much easier across the surface, therefore using a shallow angle of attack with a hybrid is much safer to do than it is with a wedge.

If you are using a wedge with a shallow angle of attack, it’s very difficult to strike the ball consistently. If you are using it with a hybrid, the hybrid can just slide along and you can make much more of a consistent contact. Like I said, the issue with this is how low the ball is going to come off. So, getting in a setup position with the putting stroke just moving those shoulders back and through, the ball is going to come off very, very low, because of the difference within the club, because of the difference within that smooth shaft, you are going to be able to hit the ball more consistently with that technique than you would with the wedge. But give the techniques all that go. Try them out individually and see which one is going to work for you.