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This is a fun drill that I will often use with students who are working to improve their use of "bounce"; properly utilizing this area of the club allows players to create a variety of shots (from multiple lies) with more room for error. Golfers who struggle here will be more susceptible to bladed/chunked shots and will ultimately make less par saves.
If you are working on your short game & scoring, this is a good challenge drill to add into your routine as it should dramatically increase your comfort around the greens, even when short-sided.
Tags: Poor Contact, Pitch, Chip, Drill, Advanced
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The drill is how fat can I hit it?
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So while you're working on trying to improve your bounce contact, one game that I like to play,
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especially with my junior's and my high school players is just playing around with how fat
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can you hit it and still get it reasonably to the target.
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So I've got some teas here and we'll do a couple of close-ups to help you be able to see.
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Basically, you could use teas, golf balls, rulers, whatever.
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I've got these teas about an inch apart on each side.
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So my goal, if I get this club kind of brushing, so that contacted the ground right about there.
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My goal is to see if I can get one where I get the club to contact here, which would be
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a full three inches behind the golf ball and still get it to end up okay because the club is
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sliding along the ground really shallow, not bouncing up and having a really narrow bottom.
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So if I hit behind and the club kind of comes up, then I would tend to blade it over the green.
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That would look something like that.
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However, if I'm using the bounce correctly, I've actually got that a little bit more forward.
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If I'm using the bounce correctly, that one looks based on the scuff marks there.
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Like, it hit the ground back by this tea here.
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But because the club was sliding along the ground, it ended up an okay reasonable shot.
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If you start getting too far behind it, it will just, if I keep the club sliding and hit too far
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behind it, I will tend to have a trajectory that goes a little bit too high.
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So that's the only danger of getting too far behind it.
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But if I'm hitting with the right part of the club and
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if I'm sliding the club appropriately, this helps eliminate some of the fear of the chunk shot.
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As you might have seen from the visualizing bounce video,
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the hitting behind the ball isn't a problem.
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I know amateur say, oh, I hit behind that one.
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But what's really the problem is they hit the ground with the wrong part of the club,
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and the club didn't stay low enough to the ground as it was coming through.
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So this game or drill helps you experiment with that.
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We'll do a couple of close-ups so that you can kind of help reinforce the visual of what we're trying to do.
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Okay, so we can see the camera there.
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I've got it set up normally, but I'm going to put the club a little bit more behind.
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And then slide it through like that.
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Try one more.
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So put the club well back here.
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We'll see where that hit.
