How would you...

[soloredd]

Oh I guess I'll be the hacker here and say what the hell was wrong with par?

Sounds like you played the shot fine. Make the first putt next time :)

[rhodes81]

thanks for all the advice! I love to hit flop shots, but this one was a little too tight for me. It was sitting down in a patch of dead grass with tufts of weeds around it and the swing speed necessary to get down to the ball would have been so risky. Anything but perfect contact would have put it in the bunker on the other side. My original thought was bumping it into the slope, but the darn grass there is still coming back and has not been mowed so your not really sure how the ball will react. Looking back at it, I believe the bump and run would have been a good option. Even if it got hung up I would have had, at the worse a good chip at the hole, and probably would have left myself a shorter putt. Just wanted to hear some fresh ideas, my mind can get in a rut when it comes to shot selection.

[chilly]

This is the correct answer, IMHO. Flop shot is sexy, but it seems much too risky off of a tight lie. The chip into the bank requires similar "touch", but it doesn't sound like the green is so elevated that there's a risk of having the ball roll back to your feet. As such, I say use your 9i/PW/GW to pick the ball clean, land it so it bounces one time (or so) in the apron, then start rolling once it hits the dance floor. And err on the side of hitting it too hard, because even if you run it a little by the hole on a green that slopes away from you, at worst you'll have an uphill putt for birdie.

Seems riskier then a standard high chip to me. You don't hit it hard enough, it's still on the hill and you're still short-sided. If you hit it too hard, it's a lower ball flight and hit relatively hard ( to make it release after the bump) so it's going to run off the green.