Question on Swinging Left and Uphill/Dowhill Lies

[Richie3Jack]

What are the thoughts on swinging left with an uphill lie or a downhill lie?

I'm *thinking* that if the golfer has an uphill lie, they need to swing more left because the angle of attack should be steeper. Conversely, if the golfer has a downhill lie, they need to swing a bit more to the right.





3JACK

 

[jenhaoyen]

What are the thoughts on swinging left with an uphill lie or a downhill lie?

I'm *thinking* that if the golfer has an uphill lie, they need to swing more left because the angle of attack should be steeper. Conversely, if the golfer has a downhill lie, they need to swing a bit more to the right.





3JACK

Anthony Kim: I just pray. haha

 

[Burner]

What are the thoughts on swinging left with an uphill lie or a downhill lie?

I'm *thinking* that if the golfer has an uphill lie, they need to swing more left because the angle of attack should be steeper. Conversely, if the golfer has a downhill lie, they need to swing a bit more to the right. 3JACK

Just the opposite.

 

[ggsjpc]

What are the thoughts on swinging left with an uphill lie or a downhill lie?

I'm *thinking* that if the golfer has an uphill lie, they need to swing more left because the angle of attack should be steeper. Conversely, if the golfer has a downhill lie, they need to swing a bit more to the right.





3JACK

I would think the opposite. Swinging to the right on downhillers would shallow the club too much and land early and open. Opposite for uphillers.

It would seem to me that you would want a swing direction that matched the slope. Uphill being a shallower slope you would swing more right to match. Downhill being a steeper slope you would swing more left to match.

Just my thoughts....

 

[Kevin Shields]

I agree. Exactly the opposite.

 

[Richie3Jack]

Here's my line of thinking. Not saying that I'm right, I'm just showing my line of thought.

Played yesterday and had an uphill lie. Usually I hit these with a big draw, often times they start out to the right and draw quite a bit back to the target. But this time I hit it straight at the target and it went dead straight. Looked at the divot, divot pointed out to the left.

Then I thought about some things. First off, the normal flight on those uphill shots seem for me seem to be the same for others. This type of flight where the ball starts right and then you have a draw to me seems pretty similar to somebody with a lot of shaft lean and/or coming down steep at impact as the horizontal plane naturally moves to the right and swinging left will get the ball to straighten.

And when I was thinking about it further, we are told to try and get our shoulders parallel to the ground on uphill and downhill lies. With the uphill lie, that means we need to tilt the shoulders which promotes more of a swing that 'hits up' on the ball. I would think that the reason being is that if you were not to adjust your shoulders, you would have too steep of an angle of attack.



3JACK

 

[mjstrong]

Here's my line of thinking. Not saying that I'm right, I'm just showing my line of thought.

Played yesterday and had an uphill lie. Usually I hit these with a big draw, often times they start out to the right and draw quite a bit back to the target. But this time I hit it straight at the target and it went dead straight. Looked at the divot, divot pointed out to the left.

Then I thought about some things. First off, the normal flight on those uphill shots seem for me seem to be the same for others. This type of flight where the ball starts right and then you have a draw to me seems pretty similar to somebody with a lot of shaft lean and/or coming down steep at impact as the horizontal plane naturally moves to the right and swinging left will get the ball to straighten.

And when I was thinking about it further, we are told to try and get our shoulders parallel to the ground on uphill and downhill lies. With the uphill lie, that means we need to tilt the shoulders which promotes more of a swing that 'hits up' on the ball. I would think that the reason being is that if you were not to adjust your shoulders, you would have too steep of an angle of attack.

3JACK

I've always preferred to get my shoulders (more or less) with the slope and just account for the difference in trajectory. ie. Hit more club going uphill just to get your trajectory back to where it would have been without it.