Approach Shots with Steve Bosdosh

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• Instructor: Steve Bosdosh
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Chipping

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Here we are about 50 to 60 yards out from the green in no man's land. Most amateurs that I see really struggle with this shot. It's not a full swing, it's not a chip. You know, they have a lot of problems with rhythm, tension, can't feel the club. You know, when you have a full swing, they know what a full swing is, but with this shot, it's a partial shot, it's a partial swing, and we see a lot of fat shots, a lot of thin bladed shots. We've got a beautiful green complex here. We can have the pin up there on the left behind the bunker. We can get it back deep in the middle of the green or over to the right behind the bunker. You're gonna need two basic shots. You're gonna need a higher trajectory and a lower one. Let me show you how to hit these. I'm gonna take my 54° and hit a little higher shot to the back left pin. And I'm gonna make basically the same stroke. I'm just gonna change lofts, go to a pitching wedge. Give me a little lower, more of a bump-and-run movement. That'll drive the ball back in there. And here we have a green complex, you know, we have a false front, and many people use a sand wedge or even a lob wedge and hit it, and if they come up short, that ball could roll all the way back down to my feet. So what I would suggest you try is to take less loft, maybe a gap wedge or even a pitching wedge, possibly even a 9-iron, and you hit a little half shot in there. It's going to come in on a lower trajectory, bounce and skip up…