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In this Golf University "Tip from the pro" I'm with Laurie Montague
The former Australian woman's coach and Co coach of the Indonesian golf team
We're at Joondalup Golf Resort in Perth Western Australia
And Laurie is going to teach us the five things we must add to our pre-shot routine
So we can maximize the success of every shot
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Tough shot Laurie got a flop it over a bunker to a downhill green
What would you recommend well Henry you know you want that you
don't want to rely on lucky you want to rely on a good system that you can go
through that'll help you to make a good decision and hit the shot with
confidence
yeah you're confronted with a shot here it's all downhill
and so you
we're going to go through and basically assess well what I call the five l's model
Five l's model starts with the very first thing you do is you walk up
to the ball and you assess the life three types of lies Andrew a good lie a
bad lie in an ugly lie
A good lie is one sits on top you're fortunate in this case it is sitting up on top
as you're walking up to the ball make sure you just feel
the ground under your feet and ER and just feel if there is a bit of sponginess
because that's going to help in this type of shot
because where you need to get kind of under the ball a little bit on it
So first L is lie of the ball on the ground okay so you've got you've got a pretty good lie
Second one meters is the level of the ground all right that's your second L
Have a look at it slightly uphill that's going to be helpful
here you want it to be uphill it was downhill much harder golf shot
So the level of the ground is going to help you enormously
The third L is the landing area Andrew got to now look at and go ok
Well where do I hit this golf ball to be able to stop it on the green
because actually passed the the pin Andrew is a there's a 20 foot drop
To a big bunker down there if you go in there you may not even be able to get out it
might be picked ball up go home
Beyond that is an 80 foot drop into the into this big rock quarry
So it's pretty scary right so you've got a good lie
You've got the ball sitting slightly up what we've really got to look at here is
the best option for getting up all to stay on the green
So the so we've got landing area and landing area for me here Andrew I wouldn't be trying to land
it short I'd be trying to hit the highest shot I could possibly hit
and land it more in the flat of the green because if you look there it's quite
flat with a pin is obviously you don't think landed in the fringe and roll it
down I think that's a big mistake a lot of people make they try to get too cute
then leading into the bunker yeah and then they've got another hard shot so
we're gonna try and hit a shot here nice and high in the air and
so the next L is the loft of the club now I've bought a couple of clubs over
for you I bought over the 50 degree wedge and I brought over the 56-degree wedge
And I think you'd agree we'll go maximum loft here right so I'm gonna give you the
fifty-six degree so your job is going to be to hit a high shot landed in the
middle of that green so the higher you can get that ball to fly the better now
look I know it's a little scary but it's got to be played right so the the fifth
L is the length of the swing you're going to use so I would be inclined for
you to just have a little practice swing now Andrew and thinking about the height
of the shot you want to hit alright because that's the key here and I want
you to land it from a really high high place down onto the green onto that flat
part of the green you want to ever go out that absolutely so Lawrie just on just
to recap you've given me the five L's yes and then I'm going to commit to the
process right absolutely the key is you're going through a
process of you've got a good lie in this case great the level of the ground
slightly up fantastic
you could land it you know on the side of the hill with
your landing area I don't think you should go for that Andrew
I'll back you on that one yeah I think we will play much higher shot land it more in the green
You've got maximum loft here in your back
and you're gonna just make a good long smooth swing all right you've gone
through the process let's see the shot mate
Well that's fantastic Andrew that's
that's a that's well that's what we want to do in this situation you're now going
to be able to putt from there and get away with a better score than you would
if you're trying to hit something very fancy without a lot of thought
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