i'm paul wilson the creator of swing machine golf and the director of
the paul wilson golf school at best las vegas. in this tip
i wanna talk about
the ball above feet golf shot
now there's a few set of modifications we have to do once you understand them
hillbilly bigshot without a problem
it first thing we want to do
is understand where
a ball is going to go if it's hit off of a lot like this
for right handed the offer
the shot
hit from this why is going to hook
to the left
okay so
why that happens
is because
when you hit a golf ball if the ball is on a slope
like this
if we take a look at our ball
each golf ball has an axis running through it
and in a case like this the axis is level
with are parallel with the ground
so that means that the axis is running through the ball on an angle
so if we hit this golf ball it will be spinning on an angle this way as opposed
to being
level to the ground if it was on uh... and even lie
okay so the whole bought the axis in the ball is tilted
sofa axis in the ball is tilted the ball will be spinning
which creates the curvature
for a right-hand a golfer
to the left case of the ball actually cooks off of this line
if that we know the ball is gonna hook what we need to do
sweeney to first adjust our states so
we're going to thima
a little bit out to the right
to allow the baltic look back on the target
now what you want to do is you want to judge the severity of the slope
determine how far out to the right you're going to any so
if it's just a slight slope
five or ten yards if it's more visits stream slope
maybe you're up to fifteen twenty yards if it's a real severe slope maybe year
thirty four yards out to the right
okay because that ball will really cook
uh... to the left a bit like a safe so dependent on the severity of the slope
so bright here the supremes
decent slope but it's not
so severe that i'd have trouble with the shop solar shot like this i'm throwing a
name about
fifteen twenty yards out to the right
and have the ball hooked back onto my target line
so if i was going to take my supposition
if this was square right here
hybrid in my whole body
a little bit out to the right
okay so
i'm doing that again because the balls in the stands of the lapd
as we take our setup position
what we want to try and do it again
based on the severity of of the slow
we're going to
for stock have our legs not as flax as we normally would
if we flax we're gonna get down to low here so what we're trying to do is
returning even ourselves out with the ball so ball is above my feet here so if
i stand up a little
i get more even with the golf ball sify was down here
again that's a little bit too
a minute not flex my knees quite as much on this shock
also
yeah i'm from a lot like this i'm gonna actually feel the way to belittle on my
toes because i'm trying to keep my balance i missed it
feel the weight on the heels i definitely
fall over
so we want a few let the weight solidly
like middle of the feet to the to the balls of the fee
so now
once we've kinda got our body in the correct position what we want to do
again depending on the severity of the slope
either grip down toward not written down on your golf club
in this case here
you know action
do actually prove my pretty much my normal grip on the golf club here
in this case i'm not going to be dripping down
i was on more of a slope i would actually grip down on the golf club
as i gripped down on the club
i'm going to want to take extra club
to make up for the fact that the club is getting shorter
the club's getting shorter i'm prolly gonna hit up a little less distance
so i want to take an extra club so that
hit the ball to the to the distance that i'm trying to get it
okay so again in this situation here
i don't have to really drip down because the slope isn't so severe that i have to
do that ball above feet golf shot
and why i'm saying
that i i'm not privy down here
i would prefer not to grip down if i didn't have to you
because i want to know that and then hit the distance that i'm trying to hit it
so if i dripped down and i gotta change clubs
the distance maybe a little bit off so
for right here
i'm gonna hold the golf club but the and of the club
okay so from right here
type in my body
uh... out to the right
eicher down a little kharach sorry i'm getting at the end of the club
i've got my
legs unflappable little bit
i feel the weight
just leaning forward belittled it
one other thing we want to talk about is just the ball position
for me what i do i think this uh... ball
just a little forward of center
okay i it's it's almost in my normal ball positions may be a hair back from
my normal ball position
why am saying you're not gonna dropped this ball back in your stance
his biggest remember the ball is going to correct
to the left a little bit ok depending on the severity of the slug if we can park
aimed
out this way
swing out that way
we're going to get
a certain amount of coverage
if we dropped the ball back in our states so imagine if the clouds coming
in like this and we're making contact
and we dropped the ball back
that means the face is going to be open
so that could potentially counteract
the spin we're gonna be putting on the golf ball
or it could force the ball
too far
out to the right of our target
soap even though the ball spinning back
we're still going to end up right of our target
we want to play the ball
farthest back would be center
i preferred a little forward of center
okay so
just use that as a guideline maybe try out a few different ball positions and
see what works best for you
so i think we've got pretty much everything and hit one for you and
aisles tell you one last thing
and then you'll have
uh... the ability to hit the shots takes up first thing
i know the ball's gonna hook off of this life because the axis of the ball is
tilted
okay so i'm gonna came
a little bit out to the right in this case
it's not a subd
two severe va slope sonya name about fifteen twenty yards out to the right
here i've
got my legs luan flexed
and gripping in this situation
at the top of the clever man dripping down here at all
ball position
i've got it just slightly forward of center
once i'm in this situation i don't want to be picking my golf club up
okay to actually make this morning i want to swing the club more
around my body
on one of the oldest clear this golf club i'm taking the club up like this i
can potentially hit down into the ground here
so because we're on a slope i'm going to try and swing around
my body so i make a little better contact
okay so that shot there is looking back nicely
and we're pretty much on target
okay so
try one more for you here
so again how it's going to run through the steps
so naming my body
out to the right
and gripping in my normal grip position which is at the end of the club
all physicians to stay here for the center
from right here
i feel my weight just a little balance more towards my toes
to take the club around my body and do my normal
golf swing
takes a from right here
okay false working perfectly back
and again we've successfully hit
okay so now
there's one other little thing i want to talk about
and this is just an alternative
to hitting the ball
the way i just described
now you might want to give this a try
especially if you're better player peso what have what that is is
in this situation we know the boat was going to cook off of this law
so we could actually do something to counteract that for if we wanted to
then you don't have to guess
how far out to the right you're going to be aiming
so what we could do
we could actually take
our normal setup position
univ that being in the morning square position
address we could actually open face a little bit
face if i open face a little bit
and i make
takes a lot of that's been
off the golf ball so that shot right there
pretty darn straight
so maybe that's an option for you if you don't like handing out to the right and
playing that curvature
mistrial putting up the face a little bit
maybe that'll straighten it out and allow you to end of a bit more squarely
ok i'd say that's more for an advanced player ball above feet golf shot
but gonna try anyway cus
he might find that works for you
okay so there's a bunch of different options for you make sure you run
through those steps next time you get the ball above your feet and then you go
ahead from those lies
make sure you ask your questions post comments below
i'll try to get to as many as i can.