Have you ever tried using a hybrid around the green?
Did you know it can be a great club to get you out of trouble around the green and not
just out of the rough?
Hey this is Sean McTernan and you are watching another episode of My Golf Tutor, the number
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Welcome back, todays question comes from Colin and Colin says hey Sean I was watching my
club championship the other weekend and one of the participants used his hybrids around
the greens a lot.
Is there a special way you like to play this shot?"
Colin thanks very much for your question.
This is a club I use every know and then around the greens and it is definitely a good shot
to have.
So I would like to share with a couple of things that I think you should be doing to
use this club the best way possible.
So first of all we are going to talk about setup.
I would love and see your feet nice and close together because it is such a short shot we
are not looking for any weight shift at all.
We are simply just going to put our feet very close together.
I want you to stand maybe slightly open to your target.
We are going to place the ball pretty much opposite of our sternum.
In the middle of our stance, maybe a hair back and as we open up our stance a little
bit it may look like its more off our right foot.
From a weight distribution stand point I'd like you to feel there is maybe like 55 percent
of weight on your left side, maybe 60 percent.
You definitely want to favor this side a little bit.
From a grip perspective there is another grip I would like to show you for this particular
shot.
Typically when we grab a golf club when we are hitting a normal shot, I'd like to see
your heel pad on the top of the club or on top of the grip.
With this shot I'd like to see the grip going down the lifeline in both hands.
This is going to help take a little wrists out of the shot and hit it as if its like
a putt.
At the end of the day we are just going to use almost a putting stroke to hit this shot.
Lets go ahead, we are going to get our setup, we are going to get in.
One other thing I would like you to consider as well, is I would like you to get a little
closer to the ball and crowd it a little bit.
It makes it easier to squeeze it out low and get it running along the ground.
When we come in closer, the club is going to get a little more vertical.
Obviously if we are hitting a full shot or heal pad is going to be on top and we are
going to have this sort of angle.
With this shot we are going to get in nice and close.
We are going to get our grip going down the lifeline of our hands, but a little bit of
weight on our left side and simple treat it just like a putt.
So we just did a shot and it was from the fairway and we had no rough and we simply
just had to hit it up the green, like it was a putt.
Here we are in a situation where we have a little bit of rough.
It is kind of effecting my ability to take the club back.
So I am going to show you a little thing that you can change in order to get a better strike
on this ball.
So we are going do the exact same thing as we were hitting the shot from the fairway.
We are going to get our stance close together, we are going to open it up a little bit.
The one thing I would like you try though is feel that this shoulder get a little lower.
What is going to happen is that it is almost a feeling that the club has a better chance
of coming up in the air sooner.
Simply, weight on the left side and drop the left shoulder just a little bit and simply
just pick it up and let it go.
I hope that information helps and I hope it gives you a better understanding of how you
can use your hybrid around the green.
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