Learn to Flop Shot with Craig Stadler

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• Instructor: Craig Stadler
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Short Game

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Here we've hit our ball over the green about 15 yards from the hole. Problem here being we've got a real close-cut pin. We've got a big mound in front of us. We can't hit a pitch and run. We'll hit into the mound and stop. If we carry it over the mound, it's going to hit and take off down the hill. As you see, I'm playing it right off my right, uh, right big toe, way up in the stance. A little wider stance. Normally my stance would be here. I'm going to widen it now. The clubface gets a little bit open the more you put it forward. The most important part of this shot is you want to have a nice high finish. That's what's going to get the ball in the up, up in the air. It's kind of like a bunker shot near the green. If you hit the ball first, you're not going to get it in the air. You want to hit behind the ball into the sand. High follow-through lets the sand take the ball in the air. Same thing holds true here. We want to get the ball up in the air so it gets over the whole hill, takes out the whole hill completely, lands nice and soft on the green. Problem most people have, as I said, is they don't get that high follow-through. They'll get up here, get in a good position, —then do this with it. Short follow-through, the club bounces off the grass. Either hit it in the hill or you hit a shot like that, which is pretty ugly, actually. So again, what we want to do is get the ball way up on our left foot, hands a little behind it, clubface a…