This week’s tip is a very valuable one on a few levels. The video below is part of the Frogger YouTube channel, which is full of great golf instructional videos by our resident pro Kris Moe.
Long Grass
We all end up in long grass eventually. Some of us more than others (me). What do we do? How do we get out of it?
What we do NOT do is try to hit too much club out of long grass. I 4-iron or 3-wood or something like that will probably not get airborne. In fact, the ball may not even leave a short radius within a few feet.
What we SHOULD do is take a more lofted club which helps get the ball going up. Going up helps keep the grass resistance down. We should also hit down on the ball with more of a descending angle, which helps reduce the drag on the club produced by the long grass.
At the very end of the video Kris Moe tells us he is only trying to get the ball to go about 100 yards in order to have a chance at saving par or bogey, and staying away from “big” numbers. That is a key statement. Big numbers are round killers. Avoid them at all costs by not trying to hit the hero shot out of the long grass!
