Today we’re going to talk about how to hit a knockdown shot when playing in windy conditions.
First things first on how to hit a knockdown shot. We want to put the ball back in our stance and choke down a little bit.
But there are some other things we need to take care of to hit a proper shot.
Our main goal with a knockdown shot is to keep that ball flighted low and not have a lot of backspin on it.
The first step in how to hit a knockdown shot is to take a little more club. If you think it’s an eight-iron then take a seven-iron and choke down some.
We want to make sure we get the ball in the back of our stance.
We’re going to choke down on the club a couple of inches.
However, we don’t want to get too steep on the ball to cause too much backspin.
Backspin is an issue when we’re playing into the wind. It can cause the ball to go too high in the air and then actually cause more backspin to spin it back off the green.
So, the proper way on how to hit a knockdown shot is we want to keep the club very shallow.
After we get the ball in the back of our stance, we’re going to open our stance just slightly, open it one or two inches than you normally would.
This will help shallow out our swing.
We also want to open our clubface slightly. When we put the ball back in our stance and choke down, we have a tendency to pull or hook a lot of these knockdowns and punch shots.
By opening our stance and opening the face, we’re going to help keep that ball staying straight and not going too far, left or right.
If we’re right-handed, when we go to make our golf swing, we want to make a very slow body rotation and not use a lot of our hands and arms.
We want to have the body control the golf swing, and not overly hit down on the golf ball to cause too much backspin.
When we finish, we want to make sure that our hands are finishing low to help keep the ball low toward our target.
If we finish too high with our hands, that will impact more loft on the club and therefore hit the golf ball too high.
Follow these steps on how to hit a knockdown shot and you’ll play a lot better in windy conditions.
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About Mike Marrone
Mike Morrone is the Head Golf Professional at The Foundry Golf Club in Powhatan, Virginia.
