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Different lies present different challenges to your stock swing. When facing an uphill lie, even slight you will likely struggle to make the same swing as when on flat ground.
Common misses come from moving the low point backward and the path left. The low point backward can cause fat and thin misses and the path left usually causes pulls and pull hooks, but sometimes push fades.
To improve this, focus on swinging at less than full tempo and less than full distance. You can also preset some of your weight more on your left side, but make sure to match the slope with your pelvis.
Tags: Poor Contact, Not Straight Enough, Early Extension, Standing Up, Sway, Chicken Wing, Concept, Beginner
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This video is don't swing hard on the uphill life.
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So many golfers struggle with approach shots into the green or second shots off the fair
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weight if there's a slight uphill line.
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Now the hard thing here is most golfers don't know that they struggle with it.
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They just tell me, you know, oh I missed the screen, I missed the screen, I missed the screen,
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I missed the screen and then I'll point out that all of them had a slight up slope and they
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weren't making any adjustments.
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The two adjustments that I want most golfers to make is to not swing hard and to not swing
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as full.
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The swing faults that tend to cause problems on uphill lies would be sway, loss of posture,
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scoop or more of a roll or even more of a lunge.
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So if you have any of those patterns, you're probably going to have your timing
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thrown off and have those patterns exaggerated by a slightly uphill line.
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So what I want you to do is you're going to practice hitting three quarter shots where
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basically you're taking your backswing up to about shoulder height and hitting almost
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more of a punch style release in order to help control low point.
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If you imagine that you were sitting on a very severe uphill line kind of like this,
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you would find that jumping would be really hard and you'd kind of air towards shifting
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into that back foot.
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It's going to be hard for you to really get your weight forward.
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So what may help is staying a little bit more forward to begin with.
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So taking your normal stance and then still getting your pelvis level to the slope, but
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shifting it just a bit forward.
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Then doing your three quarter swing, even by being a little bit more on top of the ball,
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because it's a slight up slope, you'll still get tons of height.
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So you shouldn't have any issue hitting at the correct distance.
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With the longer clubs like the hybrid and the three would, you'll find that the easiest
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shot to hit off the slight uphill line is a little bit more of an arm dominant kind of
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slap hook.
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So getting a little bit more kind of arm and hand speed as opposed to getting tons and
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tons of body rotation and body speed.
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Earring on being a little bit more closed or even, or sorry, a little more closed this
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way or maybe even having a little bit more side bend.
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Both of those can help with getting maximum distance and eliminating the big misses
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off the uphill line.
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The big misses are the chunk shot and the puller, the pull hook and those are all
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easier to hit.
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They're all exaggerated by the fact that you're hitting off a slight uphill line.
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And it doesn't have to be a lot.
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Even a few degrees can mess up your overall contact.
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So I'm going to swing a little bit more with my arms, less with my body.
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And hit it.
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Nice and controlled.
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Didn't get that one to turn over but as long as I aim that at the right side of the
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green, I would have been fine.
