My new favorite shot to get out of trouble.....

[jim_0068]

The 4 iron stinger that cuts out of the rough and still goes like 170-180 yards.

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So i have this problem lately, since i've converted to more of a swinger with horizontal hinging, i'm hitting my 8* driver TOO LOW. There is less
"leakage" from not performing an angled hinge anymore. HOWEVER now that i can perform a horizontal hinge, it is really easy to employ the angled (at least when i'm using a hitting procedure). Anywho...since im hitting the driver too low i was trying get a lot of tilt through impact to get it high enough for decent distance. Well i'm sure you can imagine i didn't hit a lot of fairways LOL.

For some reason i ended up in the rough (a lot) with trees in my way to a fairly narrow fairway and i needed to punch it out, cut it down the fairway, while advancing it and hope i either:

1) get on the green
2) get close enough to chip/putt and save par

So how do you do it:

- ball a little back in your stance for a 4 iron
- hands a little foward pressed
- take the club back (looking at the ball) something similar to brian's "twist away"
- take your hands to just under shoulder high
- then WITHOUT UNBENDING YOUR RIGHT WRIST....you STRAIGHTEN THAT RIGHT ARM INTO THE BALL (ala hitting procedure)
- then "hold off" the finish and try as hard as you can to finish at the follow through, no higher

End Result:

shot that comes out low (about 5-9 feet off the ground), goes about 20 -25 yards straight and starts cutting to the right and rolling hot when it hits the ground.

I hit this a few times during the round and actually made it on the green once and my playing partner thought the first time was fluke but when i kept repeating the shot, he was like, "how'd you do that?"

Just thought it was something i'd share