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ARTICLES - NOVEMBER 2007
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The
Pancake Shot
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If
you're like a lot of straight hitters, a lack of
distance puts pressure on your golf game and you tend to play
a lot of short shots from around greens that you haven't
reached in regulation. Some of those shots are fairly
straightforward, but you're also bound to face
situations in which you need to get the golf ball up
quickly and land it softly, or your forced to play to a
very tight pin with very little green to work with.
This is where the "pancake shot" comes in. It's a soft,
high lob-style golf shot that's hit with a wide-open clubface
- so wide open that it resembles a pancake spatula. The
idea is to slide the clubface under the golf ball and
let the golf club's loft pop the ball straight up into the
air. The harder you hit it, the higher it'll go and the
softer it'll land.
Start by opening both your stance and the clubface and
weakening your grip - in other words, turn it to the
left on the handle, which will keep the clubface open at
impact. Play the golf ball off your left heel, and pick
the club up quickly with a sharp wrist cock, making sure
to keep your right elbow close to your right side. Swing
the golf club back down with a wristy action, and allow your
left wrist to break down through impact - you want the
clubhead to lead your hands onto the follow-through. And
don't turn your right hand over your left in the
follow-through. You want to keep the clubface open all
the way to the finish.
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