How would you play this ball?

[Alex1975]

We have some short game wizards on here

Just a bit of fun to see how people visualize thing. You cant really answer the question without being a little descriptive as how your see it and play it.

 

[duncan mackie]

I don't understand all the options and issues - if you had the grass tuft the other side of the ball I might consider something unusual but you have uninterrupted access to the back of the ball so just play your normal shot for such a common situation.

My other response would be 'without finesse'

 

[Alex1975]

I don't understand all the options and issues - if you had the grass tuft the other side of the ball I might consider something unusual but you have uninterrupted access to the back of the ball so just play your normal shot for such a common situation.

My other response would be 'without finesse'

I am greenside in the middle of summer, my ball is sitting on mud and is so low that all the grass is in the bank well over the top of the ball... its not your every day greenside, summer shot and if it is it should not be.

Anyhow, no drama, more than anything I was interested to see if people saw it/played it as a bare lie or a fluffy one and how they adapted their shot for that. Very interesting so far.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

On closer inspection, that lie looks almost as if it's an old divot hole? Blame the flop shotters at your place

 

[garyinderry]

Steep dunt with a 56.

8 iron looks like It wouldn't clear the depression.

 

[Alex1975]

On closer inspection, that lie looks almost as if it's an old divot hole? Blame the flop shotters at your place

Na, if you look behind it you can see another one. In the winter the bit the balls on will be saturated and the grass even more tuffty. Its a nasty qwerk of our drainage or our green staffs strategy. Kinds trufts with mini rivers running between.

 

[stokie_93]

I am greenside in the middle of summer, my ball is sitting on mud and is so low that all the grass is in the bank well over the top of the ball... its not your every day greenside, summer shot and if it is it should not be.

Anyhow, no drama, more than anything I was interested to see if people saw it/played it as a bare lie or a fluffy one and how they adapted their shot for that. Very interesting so far.

what did you end up doing Alex?

 

[Alex1975]

what did you end up doing Alex?

Treated it like a bare lie, picked a low bounce 50* gap wedge back in my stance, got steep on it but intended to the ball and all the grass in front of the ball. It bounced twice, rolled out and I missed the simple putt..

 

[fundy]

Treated it like a bare lie, picked a low bounce 50* gap wedge back in my stance, got steep on it but intended to the ball and all the grass in front of the ball. It bounced twice, rolled out and I missed the simple putt..

sounds like you need a putter fitting......

 

[Alex1975]

sounds like you need a putter fitting......

I don't even want to talk about it..... :mmm:

 

[need_my_wedge]

Would putt with a 9 iron.

 

[stokie_93]

I don't even want to talk about it..... :mmm:

disappointed that you didn't chip in

 

[Alex1975]

disappointed that you didn't chip in

Oh I see, you thought I had set up the post to end it with.... "I just chipped it in" hehehe

 

[stokie_93]

Oh I see, you thought I had set up the post to end it with.... "I just chipped it in" hehehe

nah just my high expectations!

 

[USER1999]

A fun way to play this is to put it back in the stance and hit down on it with a putter.
Practice is required to judge how much top spin you get

I do this quite often!

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Back foot with a 56 wedge looking to land it just on the green and then for it to roll out

 

[Deleted member 21258]

The truth I would go to chip it with a PW and then proceed with 50% probability to thin it as I stop at the ball, as I would hate that lie.

 

[Robobum]

Something with a sharp leading edge would make me a bit yippy out of that lie, frightened of digging the leading edge in the mud. So I'd pull my PW which is a bit more rounded and would still come out ok even if it was a bit of a drop kick.

 

[Foxholer]

A fun way to play this is to put it back in the stance and hit down on it with a putter.
Practice is required to judge how much top spin you get

I've used the toe of a putter to good effect a few times (not recently as the shape doesn't work). Wouldn't do it here though, as there's too much height in front that needs to be got over. 9i, PW or 58 would be my choice in this case.

Does look like old divots btw!

 

[Alex1975]

I've used the toe of a putter to good effect a few times (not recently as the shape doesn't work). Wouldn't do it here though, as there's too much height in front that needs to be got over. 9i, PW or 58 would be my choice in this case.

Does look like old divots btw!

Ye, its not though. If you look in the first pic there is another next to it, behind it and so on. Its sadly a common thing in places at our gaff. You will note the first person to comments was fundy as he too knows well these lies. Its a poor drainage scenario left over from the winter. Would be kinda strange to have a divot that deep by the green too.