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Have you ever tried using a hybrid around the green? Did you know it can be a great
club to get you out of trouble around the green and not just out of the rough? Hey this
is Sean McTernan and you are watching another episode of My Golf Tutor, the number one place
on the internet to play your best golf now. Welcome back, todays question comes from Colin
and Colin says hey Sean I was watching my club championship the other weekend and one
of the participants used his hybrids around the greens a lot. Is there a special way you
like to play this shot?" Colin thanks very much for your question. This is a club I use
every know and then around the greens and it is definitely a good shot to have. So I
would like to share with a couple of things that I think you should be doing to use this
club the best way possible. So first of all we are going to talk about setup. I would
love and see your feet nice and close together because it is such a short shot we are not
looking for any weight shift at all. We are simply just going to put our feet very close
together. I want you to stand maybe slightly open to your target. We are going to place
the ball pretty much opposite of our sternum. In the middle of our stance, maybe a hair
back and as we open up our stance a little bit it may look like its more off our right
foot. From a weight distribution stand point I'd like you to feel there is maybe like 55
percent of weight on your left side, maybe 60 percent. You definitely want to favor this
side a little bit. From a grip perspective there is another grip I would like to show
you for this particular shot. Typically when we grab a golf club when we are hitting a
normal shot, I'd like to see your heel pad on the top of the club or on top of the grip.
With this shot I'd like to see the grip going down the lifeline in both hands. This is going
to help take a little wrists out of the shot and hit it as if its like a putt. At the end
of the day we are just going to use almost a putting stroke to hit this shot. Lets go
ahead, we are going to get our setup, we are going to get in. One other thing I would like
you to consider as well, is I would like you to get a little closer to the ball and crowd
it a little bit. It makes it easier to squeeze it out low and get it running along the ground.
When we come in closer, the club is going to get a little more vertical. Obviously if
we are hitting a full shot or heal pad is going to be on top and we are going to have
this sort of angle. With this shot we are going to get in nice and close. We are going
to get our grip going down the lifeline of our hands, but a little bit of weight on our
left side and simple treat it just like a putt. So we just did a shot and it was from
the fairway and we had no rough and we simply just had to hit it up the green, like it was
a putt. Here we are in a situation where we have a little bit of rough. It is kind of
effecting my ability to take the club back. So I am going to show you a little thing that
you can change in order to get a better strike on this ball. So we are going do the exact
same thing as we were hitting the shot from the fairway. We are going to get our stance
close together, we are going to open it up a little bit. The one thing I would like you
try though is feel that this shoulder get a little lower. What is going to happen is
that it is almost a feeling that the club has a better chance of coming up in the air
sooner. Simply, weight on the left side and drop the left shoulder just a little bit and
simply just pick it up and let it go. I hope that information helps and I hope it gives
you a better understanding of how you can use your hybrid around the green. If you or
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