I'm at the beautiful Bali National Golf Club on the 8th hole.
And I'm going to work with Andrew.
Andrew is one of our subscribers wrote into our Search 4 Scratch Program with a
problem that he has. He's 11 handicap wants to get down to 6.
And his problem is,
he lacks a lot of confidence with his chipping and pitching shots around the
greens. He's good with these long game,
but this area tends to affect his confidence.
And he feels like if he could get this better, if he could get on top of this,
it would make a big difference to his game. So,
I've got three balls situated just off the green in various locations.
I've got three clubs in my hand here. I have an 8 iron,
a pitching wedge and a 5 iron, and Andrew,
I'm going to show you how to use those golf clubs from different places
to set up better outcomes and get you closer to your goal. So,
firstly, I'm just off the green here. And if I take a couple of paces,
that's one, two steps to get onto the edge of the green.
So the first question I'm going to ask myself is,
what club is the best club for this situation to get closest to that pin.
Now, what I want to do, infact this is a chip shot by definition,
it's very close to the edge of the green.
So it's a shot that carries through the air,
a small distance and runs along the ground for a longer distance.
So what I want to do is hit a shot from here that travels,
just on the edge of the green and runs out. With these clubs here,
the best club for me here is an 8 iron.
I'm going to use the 8 iron from this place so I can make a very small swing.
And the reason I want to do that, Andrew, is when I'm working around the greens,
I don't want to make big swings. I don't need to.
As I've said to previous subscribers in the video lessons,
I want to keep the golf club in front of my body. Not let it travel behind.
And I also don't want the golf club to travel higher than my right knee or my
right hip. If it's chip shot and pitch shot no higher than my right shoulder.
So the great thing here,
Andrew is I can play all three of these shots by not swinging the golf club back
any further than my right knee.
So it'll go back no further than my right knee and through no further than my
left knee. So, 8 iron, put the other clubs to the side here.
All right. So I want to land it just off the green.
So I'll make a little strike, remember i'm playing the ball slightly towards
my right foot. So it's not in the center. It's more back of center.
Keep the golf club in front of me and the club won't actually travel from here
as high as my knee, it'll between my ankle and my knee.
It's brushing the golf club along the ground like this.
I'm not using much wrist cock, and just to land it here and let it run out.
So that's the first shot we're going to play little small swing, 8 iron,
run it out. And it leaves me with about a meter putt.
So pretty good first result. Now we move along to the second one.
And from the edge of the green Andrew, this one is about one,
two, three, four, roughly five meters off the green.
So from here, the same thing, what I want to do,
I don't have to land it on the green here.
I don't have a lot of green to land the ball on.
The greens here at Bali National are pretty quick greens, nice surfaces.
But what I want to do here is land it just off the green.
I could use that 8 iron that I used, but in this case,
I'm going to use my pitching wedge. So I'll put these clubs over here again.
And again, as I said to you,
the golf club is not going to travel higher than my right knee and all through
higher than my left knee. So the club stays in front,
move through like this, I'm going to land it just off the green here,
the ball is played towards the rear foot. Club stays in front of me,
pick it up and we've got another one.
And that one's inside a meter as well. Pretty lucky shot.
Move on to the next one, Andrew.
And what I'm going to use here is a little bit of a different club.
It's called a scrape shot. It is still a pitch shot,
but it's used with a very straight face club. Now, why am I picking this shot?
Well, I've got nothing in front of me.
All this turf in front of the green is mowed nice and low.
Now you may not have that situation. You might have to play it differently,
but in this case, I don't have to pitch it in the air too much.
Now I could use any three of these clubs, but in this case,
I'm just going to pitch and run it along the ground. I could use five, six
or seven for this shot quite easily. Again,
the club will not travel higher than my right knee,
and it's going to stay in front of my body. So I'm using some variations,
but the technique basically staying the same. So setting up,
the ball is played towards my rear foot. Club stays in front of me,
pick my line and just a nice little solid stroke with a 5 iron.
Pretty good.
Didn't hit it as hard as I wanted, but definitely the shot to play.
Something like that. I could even use an 8 iron but solid stroke,
frim through the ball. Run it up onto the green, especially for pins like that.
If the flag was further back,
I could probably pick something more lofted, landed on the front of the green,
but since I don't have a lot of pin on the front of the green,
that's probably the safest play and the smartest play. So Andrew,
I hope that advice helps you with your game.
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