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The way you get ready for this type of shot is to go ahead and make some practice swings. On both sides you are going to feel a round, it's a round on the back swing and it's a round on the way through. Very important to make a practice swing and keep doing it until you can brush that ground in the right place. You will see what I mean when you try it first, you might say, okay, Roger says stand tall, I got that, grip down, got that to baseball. Great! Okay. Make that practice swing walk into the ground right back here, you will see.
It's okay, you are just going to get a sense of feeling around on the way through as well. Now, there is a factor here that's very important also, and that is the ball is not going to want to go straight on a slope like this. It's going to want to jump to the left. Now you are going to be great at cocktail parties with this one because you are going to know what makes it jump left. Even some tour players don't really know why, if you ask them, well, what makes it go left, why does it go left. Well, because it just does, it just goes to the left, that's why. When you say, well, why does it go to the left? Because the hill makes it go to the left, that's why; the hill does it.
Well, it' snot really the hill and it's not just because it does. It's because of the loft of the club. The club, when it has loft to it, as you hold it up into the air, it starts to look more to the left. The actual hitting part of the club is facing more left. The more lofted the club is, the more it faces to the left. So you really have to play it for that ball jumping off to the left when you are playing this type of shot, especially if you are playing like a sand wedge or a pitching wedge.
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