The way you can think of it, it's almost like a postcard. If I were to take a postcard of a flat lie with someone hitting out of the light rough and I tilt that whole postcard, well, now look what happens as the ground looks like this, so does the swing and so does the golfer. That's why I want to talk about the Eiffel Tower. This can always help you on different slopes is to think of the Eiffel Tower. However, the Eiffel Tower would stand, that's how you need to stand. It sets you in a position where your swing can now match the hill.
So in this situation, I am going to stand a little bit more perpendicular to the hill. Now to do that I have to stand wide. You can imagine if I were to stand narrow and lean, I am going to fall right over. So I am going to go ahead and stand wide so that I can stand like the Eiffel Tower.
Now my swing is set to go more up and down the hill. This will help me to achieve that impact that I am looking forward. The club is coming a little bit more up and down in relation to the world, if you will, but the same in relation to the ground where it's that few inches above the ground as it approaches.
Once I make that stance, it's very important that I feel the club swing up and down the hill as well. I will really get a sense here that the ball is going to fly out lower, and it will, because when I lean like this, my sand wedge gets turned into a pitching wedge or my 9-iron might get turned into a 7 or an 8-iron. So the club is going to send the ball out lower.
Now again, as I stand there, I am going to be able to feel that and a lot of people will miss this shot even if they stand correctly, because they feel that loft and they will try to scoop it up into the air. So it's very important that I let my swing go up the hill and back down the hill. But down the hill part is the really important one because the club has to go that way, catching the ball first and then the turf.
So the swing is going to go up and down the hill a little bit more than normal. I am going to feel my wrist just a little bit more to let the club climb up the hill and then I am going to feel it swing down the hill as well. Very important as you are getting ready to play this shot to make some practice swings to see that you are brushing the ground after the ball. We never want to see a situation where you are getting right at the play by hitting the ground too early. So standing with the stands wide, Eiffel Tower, leaning well to the left there and now the swing is going to go up and down the hill. That's going to help me get the impact that I need. Now again, loft is going to play a part here. The ball is going to take out a little low and hard.
It will always out of the light rough but a little extra here, so you really have to play for it. You may need to take your club and lay it open just a tiny bit to get a little extra height, grab that lob wedge instead of your sand wedge, anything to get that little extra height on it. But again, to get that solid contact, the swing has to match the hill, up and down the hill and as always standing like the Eiffel Tower.
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