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Welcome to Day 5 of the “9 Days to Amazing Ball Striking” series. Today you’re going to learn how to add loft to the club and hit higher-trajectory golf shots that land softly on the green.
This skill becomes invaluable when you’re playing on firm or fast greens, where a low, penetrating trajectory causes the ball to roll off the back edge. Sometimes you need additional loft to get the ball to hold the putting surface on landing.
The high shot is equally essential when you face a tucked pin. If there’s a bunker guarding the front of the green and the flag is positioned directly behind it, a higher trajectory brings the ball in at a much steeper descent angle — allowing it to hold the green and finish close to the hole.
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On Day 4, you learned how to deloft the club head for low, penetrating compression shots. Today we reverse that technique and add loft. However, unlike some of the earlier drills where we exaggerated everything dramatically, we’re only going to add a small amount of loft. A little goes a very long way with trajectory control.
Most golfers already tend to present too much loft at impact, so many of you will find this particular exercise fairly intuitive.
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