How to hit A Flop Shot Video
A Flop Shot Lesson With Phil Mickelson
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what are the famous shots that Phil is
noted for is this is the flop shot the
technique is incredible Phil can you
explain it well Roger I need obviously a
60-degree wedge or more I sometimes will
use a 64 but the 60-degree is just as
effective I need to have bounce actually
people think that I don't have bounce on
this shot I actually have 10 degrees of
Bounce mm-hmm but I have this little
concave groove we talked about with a
leading edges sticking forward it helps
get underneath the ball right the
biggest thing in hitting the LOB shot is
assessing the line if we have one on the
ball I'd like to point out there are two
different lines here one where the grass
is fluffy and one where the grass is
tight I'm going to show you how to hit
the one off of the tight lie here and
what I do is I want the club to go
underneath the ball the bounce kicks it
into the ball and that's how I get it to
pop up so I open up the face almost flat
so the toe is almost touching the ground
whoo-hoo and I put my weight forward
this helps me drive the club into the
ground and keep it underneath the ball
now if I were to let the club pass what
happens is the sole starts adding bounds
and the leading edge starts coming up
off the ground and I blade it so I have
to make sure that my arm and club are
accelerating together through impact if
I start stopping my arm and letting the
wrist flip that's when the leading edge
comes up off the ground and blades it so
I've got my weight forward the club is
flat the toe is almost hitting the
ground and I'm gonna drive the club
right behind the ball and I'm able to
hit this soft little lob shot now if I
use that same technique off of this
fluffy lie watch what happens I go right
underneath it right so I have to make an
adjustment and that adjustment is my
weight my weight forward will drive the
club down underneath the ball off a
tight lie but I have to level it out off
of a fluffy lie so that I have a
shallower bottom of my arc this is
adding bounce to the shot
adding bounce exactly but it's also
leveling out the the angle of attack or
or impact and I'm able to hit the same
lob shot off of different lies it's one
thing to
be out with with the guys Saturday
afternoon but when you're when you're in
a tournament you've used this a few
times and it it just was the the gallery
I'm telling you well it's not a high
percentage shot you know but because
I've hit it so many times I do feel
comfortable with it enough to hit it in
pressure situations so the line at the
PGA in 2005 on the last hole where I had
to get up and down for birdie to win by
one the ball was in pretty thick rough
it was thicker that rough than this but
I put the ball down here you can barely
see the callaway logo there and the most
critical element of this shot was to go
into the ball aggressively to know that
i had the right amount of bounce that I
wouldn't go underneath it to know that I
was going cutting through the grass and
the club was going to continue on
through impact if I ease into it that
thick heavy rough would have just
grabbed the club and stopped it and the
ball would have come up well short so I
wanted to make sure to accelerate right
on through into the finish and let the
ball trickle just down right by the hole
