Rickie Fowler offers you the information it’s essential to execute the perfect flop shot.
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Let’s be trustworthy right here, hitting a flop shot isn’t for everybody. Positive, the shot is helpful — like whenever you short-side your self and must cease a ball on the inexperienced shortly — however truly pulling it off is less complicated stated than finished.
As a mid-handicapper, I do know this too effectively.
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As an illustration, my setup’s normally strong, and I open up the clubface sufficient to make use of the membership’s bounce towards the turf. However then I appear to both lean again in my backswing (inflicting a skulled shot), or decelerate within the downswing (chunk metropolis).
When you’re like me and wrestle with mastering the flop shot, take a look at Rickie Fowler’s ideas under (video courtesy of TaylorMade’s YouTube channel). Perhaps the six-time PGA Tour winner will help you place all of it collectively and at last hit one in every of golf’s trickiest pictures with extra consistency.
How Rickie Fowler hits the proper flop shot
The most important concern for a lot of amateurs when hitting flop pictures is solely dedication — that’s, trusting that the setup, clubface management and swing pace are all proper.
While you really feel hesitant, that’s when the dreaded chunk or skulled shot happens.
Fowler says job primary is opening the clubface.
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“Clearly, the face needs to be open, however the weight’s going to remain fairly constant and totally on the [lead side], and the ball’s [on the front foot] with the burden going to remain in the direction of that entrance facet,” he says. “I wish to really feel the face form of roll open, after which I maintain it [at the top of the backswing] in order that it exposes bounce [coming down into impact].”
As Fowler swings by affect, he says he tries to make sure that he’s ending together with his weight ahead.
So whereas the flop shot could be a difficult one to grasp, by protecting issues easy, trusting the required steps, and committing to the shot, you possibly can see success like Fowler does.
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