FLOP

[Smiffy]

Everything forward. Hands, knees, weight, ball. Aim left and crank open the club.
Head still and just let it slide under the ball and watch it fly.
I love lob shots

 

[Yerman]

Bottle

 

[Fyldewhite]

The main tip I'd give is to only attempt a flop shot if you have a good lie.

I prefer the ball to be sitting up on the semi-rough so that the club will slide under the ball easily.

If you don't have a good lie don't try it. Just play around the bunker.

Fully agree. The lie is crucial to pulling off this shot and even with a perfect lie it will still be high risk for most. The bad shot is the one missing the green and leaving you short sided so take your medicine and don't turn the hole into a nightmare especially in a medal. Save the miracle escapes for the club matchplay.

 

[TonyN]

You could always play to the side of the pin away from the biggest part of the bunker, and to an easier part of the green.

Leave yourself 20' or so away and take the 2 putts.

I've done this a few times before and felt like such a big girls blouse. If it was coming down the 18th to save a score then yeah I'd probably do it but I'd rather take it on.

I'd rather feel like a big girls blouse and walk off with a par than look like a big girls blouse in a bunker trying to scramble for a bogie!

Just play a chip shot instead untill you have practiced the shot enough to have confidence in it. Naming your only two out comes as a duff and a thin is the wrong way to approach any shot.

 

[painterboy]

Everything forward. Hands, knees, weight, ball. Aim left and crank open the club.
Head still and just let it slide under the ball and watch it fly.
I love lob shots

The above says it all.
I would just add, make sure you smoothly accelerate through the shot. It's an easy shot to quit on.

 

[Parmo]

I open my stance, make sure my hands are ahead of the ball and think of the target I am aiming at with an open club face and take a smooth swing, works a treat from 40 yards and in.

If I don't have anything to get over I have the ball off my right foot, slightly open my stance and de-loft the club face a wee bit then think of the target I am aiming at and take a smooth swing.

forgot.. On either shot I push my body forward.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

My teaching pro and I had a competition after a short game lesson last year trying to see who could open a 56 degree the most and get it to come up and down and travel the shortest distance. Great fun and a great way of learning to trust the swing

 

[EaseNgrace]

I regularly practice flop shots, It's good for practice as it's imperative to keep everything loose and smooth. I can pull it off 9 times out of 10, even the delicate one that goes straight up and lands 6 ft away like it has a parachute attatched.
I tried it on the course once, I was 20 ft from the pin with a bunker to get over and not much green to work with so I gave it a go and I thinned it 50 yards over the green. I won't be doing that again in a hurry
So be careful.