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Master your short game by simplifying your club selection. PGA Pro Katie Dawkins demonstrates how asking one simple question can tell you exactly which club to use for any situation around the green, helping you get up and down more often.
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00:03so a lot of people lose a lot of shots around the greens they've hit a couple of decent shots
00:08to
00:08get here yet somehow still walk off with a six or seven and usually that's down to pool club
00:13selection or pool shot selection if you like so when you find your ball around the green ask
00:19yourself one question if someone was going to give you a winning euro millions lottery ticket if you
00:23could throw the ball close to that hole how would you do it i bet none of us from here
00:28would go up
00:28and over and lob it as high as we can we'd all give it a bit of lawn bowls and
00:32roll it along the ground
00:34that gives you the answer to the question of what club you should be putting in your hand at that
00:38point we want something with less loft on here we want to be doing a short little chip shot that
00:43runs
00:43the ball in there's absolutely no point taking our sandwich out flying it as high as we can in the
00:48air
00:48because for that we're going to need quite a big swing and we all know if that goes wrong there's
00:53quite a lot of momentum there to carry a ball further out and over the back of the green so
00:58small compact swing is much much safer option so that's one of the best ways to work out what club
01:05to hit from what place
01:09so here's the perfect opportunity where if we had that ball on our hand and we were going to throw
01:14it
01:15we're going to have to be a bit cute with it and pop it up high and get it to
01:18stop quick so that tells
01:20us that we need to choose something with a lot of loft on it so possibly the most lofted club
01:23in our
01:24bags might be a sandwich might be a lob wedge the biggest thing to remember with these clubs is they
01:29put the ball in the air for you the only thing you've got to do is make sure you get
01:33the turf so
01:34you get what's underneath it and all you need to apply to this is a nice little tick tock action
01:40so just
01:41back and through and the ball will pop up in the air because there's loft on that club not because
01:47you're trying to help it
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