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Chipping from a downhill lie

Playing golf is about adjusting your skills to unique scenarios. Around the greens, you will frequently face uneven lies. This video walks you through playing downhill lies. The process is the same for handling uphill and sidehill lies as well. Use your legs and pelvis to get your shoulders level with the slope. That process is an easy way to control low point.

Tags: Poor Contact, Speciality Shot, Set Up, Member Question, Concept, Intermediate, Beginner

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video is chipping from the down to the lot. So I'm going to apply this concept of

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how to chip from down to the lot. But in it I'm going to kind of cover how to adjust

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your stance for any lot because when you're around the green to need some free

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activity and adjusting your stance to make your whole stock and escalator or

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the escalator and escalator. So what we're going to do is let's show you what we need to

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set up to match any slope. So here we have it down hillides probably

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I went in angle about like this. If I were to set up and play my normal stroke

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because the ground is on an angle like this my stroke would actually hit the

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ground before the ball right the ground is up here. So what I want to do is I want

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to take my entire stroke and match it to the slope with a lot of blame. So when I

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frequently see his golfers when they get this line they just kind of lean back

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which makes you feel more balanced but you can see that would be like if

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here's my normal stroke. If I lean it back like this you can see the bottom of the

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stroke it's boring more behind the golfer. What we want to do is actually

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tilt it forward. So you've heard you've probably heard people say you want to

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match your shoulders to the slope and I find that when you do that you're kind of

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able to work your spine. So when I like to think about matching the pelvis to your

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slope and you're going to use your knees to accomplish that. So here's my spine

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I'm basically going to match my pelvis to the slope if I was pulling up a little

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bit of a hole. That's going to keep my chest in a similar relationship to the

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ground. Now it might feel a little different and you can have to work around how

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that feels like by matching the slope with my pelvis now I can take my normal

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neck right stroke and get the pull up to bottom out here. If I was to pretend I was

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on a level lie and just have the slope normal you would see if I did my

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traditional finished wedge shot but we bought them out good foot behind the golf

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ball because it's very useful. So I'm going to have to have a little bit wider

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stance so that I can shift or into my left side and get that over nice and

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lovely. Now I may have to play around with how much golf I use because this now

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rely in my body when we need to. It's going to do off so if I had the really short

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or control shot I might want to open a cut face more but the general pattern I'm

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going to get that pelvis to match and it tested with my stroke and just make sure

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that it's a little better. We're going to pass batter. Make sure that it

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plums out pretty much on the golf ball and then try to execute.

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You can see it's going to come out a little lower in run but I can do my same

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at the pivot cut pattern and that's quite release and just build it around a

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slope bit where I've held this bit is tilted to match this slope. So now if you could

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say if I was put in a way to the camera this right I would use my legs again to match

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the slope so I probably have a little bit more hammering in or forward flex of this so

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that I call this a following slope.

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So this gives you the creativity of using really easy and your pelvis keeping your spine

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pretty much perpendicular to the slope or way to evenly with and then adjusting the

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walk or the amount of club face to open this.

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If you're frequently seen here's downhill match my pelvis and then a cup of

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this wide open so that I can get a higher shot off of this down the line which

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was my standard for nestling and trusting the walk or club and hopefully control

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that I've set up with my purpose.

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