Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about what I call piddling around the greens. You can see I have a pretty straightforward shot like this middle pin or what have you I get 2 different clubs I have my 60 degree sand wedge and I have a 9 iron. The reason why I want to do this is I want to experiment with what types of shots can I hit to get this 60 degree wedge close do I have put it up in my stance and fly it can I put it back in my stance and run it. What can I do with my 9 can I bump and run it can open it up cut across it.

You know what all these different shots do and the reason why I want you to piddle around the greens is because there are more to the shot that you can hit here you can see we've got a mowed down area close there's a little valley the greens right here. So I could just as easily bump it down into that slope and run it up that slope is I could take my 60 degree wedge and fly it the whole way there and you have to figure out what works best for you. There are times when you want to put it on the ground there are times when you want to hit up in air but unless you come over here and piddle it's going to be really hard to understand how a 9 iron is going to react versus a 60 degree sand wedge. So take your time take you cocktail put your ear phones on and walk around the green in just experiment with all different clubs and you're going to find that the more you experiment the better you're going to be around the green.