Hey guys! Andrew McCombe here the founder and CEO of Golf University
In this Golf University "Tip from the Pro" I'm with one Asia order of merit winner Andre Stoltz
at the beautiful Kerwin de Waters Golf Resort on the Central Coast of Australia
Andre is going to teach us how to play the flop shot
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This is the flop shot one of the most dreaded shots in golf for most amateurs
and some of us professionals especially since there's water just over the back of this flag
What I want to talk about first is the different types of love wedges or 60 degrees available on the market
What's to notice here is I've got two two here one's got a four degree bounce and the other one's got ten
So what that effectively means is the more bounce the higher this leading edge is going to sit off the ground
So when you're playing off grass like this is here at kawin de waters it's hard and it's firm
and it's tight so for this shot I'm actually going to use the four degree
But if you play off soft grass dry grass Kikuyu grass anyway that's a bit soft and mud
Ian's got a bit of a cushion under the ball you actually want to have the 10
degree it because that'll help you get through that soft stuff and stop you're
hitting it fat so that's a great club but not so much for this demonstration
Okay so the theory about hitting this shot what we want to do is obviously
we're going to stand a little bit open because we really want to cut across
across this to get it up high quickly and to stop
so again spread your feet out a little bit so we've got a nice firm base
Toes pointing out a little bit open and we basically want the club's sitting here
In the middle of your stance and we and
you'll notice there that the face is actually sitting almost parallel to the ground
so what we're going to do is we're gonna take a pretty big cut at
this it's almost like I'm hitting this shot about 100 meters
But I'm actually in effect I'm only hitting at about 10
so I'm going to take a full swing up all the way through
and basically if I've got the club sitting here and the ball
in the middle of my stance that's going to reach the bottom of the arc so the
club's going to hit the ball right at the perfect point so here we go let's try one
Okay well I nipped that one pretty good and it's going to stop right on the money
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