First off, I own all of Brian's videos, so I've seen CFF and Over and Out.
I'm a (former) flipper. When I was a flipper I also had a fantastic short game, and could usually get up and down from just about anywhere. I played everything WAY off my back foot with a strong grip, and then I timed a flip.
Now that I don't play that way, my fatal flaw in pitches and chips is to flip it. But this won't work since I'm now bent over properly with the ball further forward in my stance. This usually happens once a round, when the pressure is on; this usually results in my hitting it very fat and moving the ball very little at all.
I wish there was a Manzella short game video, but in the absence of that, I've been working on chips and pitches from the Building Blocks Video. This has been working very well for me, and aside from that one shot a round, I'm hitting very crisp short shots - a lot of them close to the pin.
All of that is longwinded context for my question. In focusing on NOT flipping it, I am finding it VERY difficult to make certain I hit behind the ball on bunker shots. In every other shot my thought is FLW, and I'm trying not to flip it, but this means that in bunkers I often just hit the ball first - with predictable results.
I'm not really sure how one hits behind the ball without flipping it!
In OaO Brian never really says much about a FLW, but given what he says there about various hinge actions, I assume one should maintain a FLW and hit the ball like a normal pitch shot, but hit behind it. Should I play the ball much further up in my stance? Do others have advice on how to think about this shot? My instincts now - as trained by CFF - is to reach forward with a FLW and hit the ball, so how can I better approach a bunker shot so that I don't flip it but still hit behind it?
I'm a (former) flipper. When I was a flipper I also had a fantastic short game, and could usually get up and down from just about anywhere. I played everything WAY off my back foot with a strong grip, and then I timed a flip.
Now that I don't play that way, my fatal flaw in pitches and chips is to flip it. But this won't work since I'm now bent over properly with the ball further forward in my stance. This usually happens once a round, when the pressure is on; this usually results in my hitting it very fat and moving the ball very little at all.
I wish there was a Manzella short game video, but in the absence of that, I've been working on chips and pitches from the Building Blocks Video. This has been working very well for me, and aside from that one shot a round, I'm hitting very crisp short shots - a lot of them close to the pin.
All of that is longwinded context for my question. In focusing on NOT flipping it, I am finding it VERY difficult to make certain I hit behind the ball on bunker shots. In every other shot my thought is FLW, and I'm trying not to flip it, but this means that in bunkers I often just hit the ball first - with predictable results.
I'm not really sure how one hits behind the ball without flipping it!
In OaO Brian never really says much about a FLW, but given what he says there about various hinge actions, I assume one should maintain a FLW and hit the ball like a normal pitch shot, but hit behind it. Should I play the ball much further up in my stance? Do others have advice on how to think about this shot? My instincts now - as trained by CFF - is to reach forward with a FLW and hit the ball, so how can I better approach a bunker shot so that I don't flip it but still hit behind it?
