As you saw in the video the secret to a low power shot is to have a large amount forward shaft lean. This takes some of the loft off of the golf club keeping the ball flight low.
This type of shot can be used in many different ways. It’s pretty common to use a 4 iron for this kind of shot but other clubs work in different situations.
You can use a half swing and get a small 50 to 75 yard golf shot with a low short flight and a really long roll, or you can use a full swing and like Bill said in the video get up to 200 yards out of it (which will also be low and have a long roll).
The bottom line is that this is a very versatile golf shot, one every golfer should know. It can really save you if you wind up in the trees or on the edge of the fairway where you need to keep the ball low to clear overhanging branches.
Aside from being able to use this shot to get out of trouble it will also help you train your hands to stay in front of the ball at impact.
This kind of low power shot simply exaggerates the forward shaft lean to keep the golf ball low. If you have trouble getting your hands to stay in front of the ball or can’t seem to keep your left wrist flat at impact this is a great shot to practice.
By exaggerating forward shaft lean with this golf shot you will get the feel for where you hands should be during impact on a normal shot (sometimes exaggerating something is the best way to get a feel for it).
If you play around with this technique you will also find that you can start controlling the height of all your golf shots by simply changing the amount of forward shaft lean.
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That’s it. Now I’m going to go out and try that umbrella trick myself (at night while nobody’s watching). You should try it too (but it’s not my fault if you break your umbrella). Leave me a comment if you can hit the umbrella, or just leave a comment for any other reason, I love to hear feedback from other golf nuts.
For better Golf,
Doc O’Leary
Head Golf Nut, OHP
Jack Nicklaus could float a long iron into a green like we hit a pitching wedge but he could also hit the low running shot as evidenced by his success at the British Open. We are lucky to be able to hit a solid shot of any kind with long irons. Playing the ball back a little allows us the opportunity to trap the ball and hit a solid shot that flies low and long, a very good shot to have for removing yourself from tree branches or just hitting a long accurate shot into the green with and unprotected front.
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i just believe, when it comes to the pcratical application of ball flight laws’, it’s a matter of semantics. At the end of the day, it’s a marriage of the two elements (face and path) that produce the desired ball flight. Trust me, D-Plane is not going to suddenly turn a 22 hdcp into a 3. But, I do agree that it’s better information. Palmer, Nicklaus, Trevino, Watson, Ballesteros, et al. didn’t have D-Plane. I’d say they did pretty well. But D-Plane is 100% valid.
they did! You studetns are fttuonare that you are familiar with the how it actually works. My real issue with the old laws is that they cannot account for a straight shot (assuming a on-center strike) The old ball flight laws are 2-D and do not take the angle of attack into account. So, a class A professional that does not understand D-plane cannot explain how to hit a ball straight unless the angle of attack is zero.
Great. Please keep me in mind if that happens and we’ll look at your swing and find the cause. It is uuslaly just hands opening the face or the arms and club getting stuck behind you. Here is another video that will help this problem called