How to do backwards golf shot?
How to do backwards golf shot?
A golf instructor at my country club took a golf club out of my golf bag when i was hitting balls at the range. I am right handed and he is as well. He hit a ball right handed than flipped the club around and hit it left handed. how do you swing the club left handed?
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4 Responses
2.2.2010
All it is is a mirror image of your regular swing. Just do it slowly the first few times. To make solid contact with your right-handed set, I would recommend using a 3 or 4 iron. The relative flat back will let you put more club on the ball. It may never be as good as your righty swing, but it will get you by.This is actually a good thing to practice. Not only does it help you out in a jam on the course, it helps stretch and build the muscles opposite the ones you stretch/build in your regular swing. This keeps you symmetrical, and helps prevent injury.
2.2.2010
There are two ways to hit a ball left handed. You can probably find some instructional videos on it on http://www.thegolfchannel.com or http://www.pgatour.com. Remember with both these shots to switch your grip, as if you were left handed. Left hand should be lower on the club than the right.The first is to hit the ball with the back of the club. This you should do with a longer iron, like a 3 or 4 iron. All you can do with this is a low punch shot really. It is a bit sloppy but effective at moving the ball about 30 yards if you have no other shot. The other is to take a pitching wedge or 9 iron, and turn the club over, so the end of the toe is in the ground behind the ball. All you do from that point, simply enough, is take a normal swing. You will hit the ball up in the air and it will have a quite amazing amount of carry on it. This shot definetely takes practice, but is valuable in competition when the only other option is taking an unplayable lie or only moving the ball 5 feet with some short stab.Keep in mind that you will have to take some time to get over some mental blocks. You will instinctively want to lift up before the shot is hit, or to swing harder at it. As hard as it is to believe, you just need your normal swing, only the other way. Coordination can be difficult as well if you aren't very ambidexterous. Like anything else, it just takes practice. Also there is a small article in a 1995 issue of Golf Digest where Vijay Singh talks about hitting these shots that should be helpful if you can dig up the magazine somewhere. Hope this helps! Source(s): Experienced competitive golfer
2.2.2010
There are many pros who can perform the shot. The right handed club has the shank of the club head closest to his lie angle( where club sole sits on the ground). When he turned the club into one for the left hand shot, the toe of the club is on the ground and the shank is raised . The grooves on the face are parallel with the body. In the normal striking position for the right hand shot they were parallel with the ground. Source(s): This is a shot that every golfer should practice and master. How often has one hit into the woods and found that he had to swing opposite his normal stroke to extract the ball.
2.2.2010
Here is a great resource Source(s): http://golfswingphysics.com