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flash Well Established Member

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the toughest shot for me is when my ball is backed right against the collar of the green and i'm only 20feet or so fromthe hole. any tips for this shot would be way cool!!! Cheers Flash
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This will take a little practice but try blading a wedge. Meaning, take a wedge, use a putting stoke, and try to hit the middle of the ball with the leading edge of your wedge. This allows the club to slide through the grass and make good contact with the ball. The ball will come out with a lot of topspin. So, it will roll out more than you expect. I use my 58, but a pw may be safer since its leading edge isn't as rounded which gives you a little more room for error.

Another option, if you have a blade putter, as opposed to a mallet, is to turn the putter so that the toe is pointing at the ball. This has the same effect as the bladed wedge. This lets the putter slide through the grass easier. Same topspin etc as above.

My toughest shot, since I fade the ball, is a tee shot with a strong left to right wind with trouble right.

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Well given my handicap, most shots are difficult. One that really gets me is when the ball is stuck in the side of a high lip bunker. I usually end up knocking it back into the center of the bunker or flying it over the green. I had a par 4 the other day that my drive landed in a green side bunker like this. I ended up bogeying the hole. That sucked!

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the toughest shot for me is when my ball is backed right against the collar of the green and i'm only 20feet or so fromthe hole. any tips for this shot would be way cool!!! Cheers Flash

Putting. End of story. I average in the high 30's per round, and on a bad day I could be as high as 45.

Toughest full shot is pretty much any tight driving hole with OB on the left side. When I make big numbers this is probably the case.
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I dislike when there are huge hills in the back of a green that is only maybe 10 yards to the pin. It makes it difficult to hit a shot that is strong enough to get up the hill but light enough not to roll all the way off.

Other than that... long irons.
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The next shot after a *gasp* topped ball.

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the toughest shot for me is when my ball is backed right against the collar of the green and i'm only 20feet or so fromthe hole. any tips for this shot would be way cool!!! Cheers Flash

If you carry a hybrid or 5-wood practice a putting stroke but using that club from the lie you described. The rounded sole will glide right through the grass and give you a higher margin for error than a bellied wedge or using the toe of a putter. Toughest shot for me is a downhill lie, I hate them. Yeah, I know hate is a strong word but it's appropriate.

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Hitting an intentional draw with my driver. Easy enough to hit that draw when I don’t need it, but when I call it, forget it.
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The shortsided chip/pitch that sits down in heavy bermuda rough. I just don't like the unpredictability that comes with that shot.

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Any iron shot that I have to hit on a low trajectory. I struggle a lot with that one.

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Hitting an intentional draw with my driver. Easy enough to hit that draw when I don’t need it, but when I call it, forget it.

This one is way up there for me. I have to close my stance a ton and really try to turn it over. Usually I will just hit my hybrid when I need a draw off the tee.

The toughest for me is with the ball below my feet. I am 6'8" and don't take much of a divot on flat lies, so when it's below my feet, watch out right. Throw in a downhill lie as well and you can forget about it.
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after a 50 foot putt it's any shot between 200 - 220. I just can't get my 3 iron to go that far with my current swing. :(

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Just about anything that requires more than minimal trajectory control. I can hit it generally high or low, but not with anything like precision.

Also, the fairway bunker. I usually struggle to advance the ball very effectively.

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allin Great Member

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The shortsided chip/pitch that sits down in heavy bermuda rough. I just don't like the unpredictability that comes with that shot.

I don't play out of Bermuda but that shortside shot especially to a downward slope is a killer. If it is uphill or flat you can be more aggresive or flop it. Downhill I tend to declerate, of course I am usually pretty irrated also, either I have made a bad decision, or had a bad break to leave that kind of recovery shot.

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JaY_B Great Member

JaY_B

shot im having trouble with atm is when the ball is well above your feet (knee height and above) havnt worked out how to strike the shot yet.

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after a 50 foot putt it's any shot between 200 - 220. I just can't get my 3 iron to go that far with my current swing. :(

You definitely need to check out some hybrids. I carried a 2-iron until last year and probably hit 3 out of 10 shots pure with it, I hated the deuce but could not find a fairway wood replacement. They either ballooned too much and the shallow faces didn't offer enough margin for error. I got a 2-iron replacement hybrid and it's become one of my favorite clubs. I like it so much I replaced the 3-iron from my set with a matching #3 hybrid. I can hit the hybrids higher and 10 yards farther than the irons they replaced. When I need to hit the fairway on a short, tight par 4 I grab the #2 hybrid and rip it with confidence.

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