Golf Shots Explained

Golf Shots in general can be categorised into the subsequent types of shots:

Approach: - Any ball struck from the fairway to the green is termed an approach shot. as a rule this is taken with the suitable iron for the length required.

Chip Shot: - A shot obviously played from extremely close to the green, without using a full swing and are usually played with a 6-, 7-, 8- or 9-iron or pitching wedge. They are frequently engaged as short approach or distance lay-up shot, or a shot to get the ball out of a hazard.

Draw Shot: - A shot that happens when a right-handed player curves the ball to go from right to left. This shot is frequently played intentionally by good golfers. When a shot has too many draws or draws inadvertently it is referred to as a hook.

Drive Shot: - This shot is as a rule taken from the tee, but in some conditions can be taken from the fairway. The purpose of the drive shot is to move the golf ball the ultimate length expected towards the green. An amateur golfer may drive the ball 200-250 yards. However,professional golfers expected to achieve drives of 300 yards or more. A driver is the farthest hitting club and is also known as a wood.

Fade Shot: - This is the opposite of a draw where a right-handed player shapes the ball to go from left to right. A left-handed player fades a ball from right to left. Too much fade or unwitting fade is known as a slice. A slice is the most common hindrance for amateur golfers. A ball can also be hit awfully during a swing, resulting in a substandard and often awkward shot: nonetheless, a fade is often a shot played on purpose and is even the preferable ball flight for some of the respectable golfers in the world.

Fat Shot: - A shot which occurs when the club hits the ground before the ball resulting in digging up a lot of turf and taking the power out of the shot, and the ball does not move the desired length. The fat shot is the opposite of thin shot. A thin shot can be played advisedly by a skilled player, a fat shot is in no way played and the results are hardly ever good quality.

Flop Shot:- The flop shot is a high shot that lands gently onto the green. The ball takes a very high arced trajectory compared to the distance it travels forwards. Flop shots are used when the player requires the ball to stop efficiently on hitting the ground.

Lay-Up Shot:- The aim of a lay-up is to leave the ball in a good situation to make the present shot safer or the next shot easier to carry out. An exercise would be if there was a water hazard among the fairway and the green, a player might lay-up on the fairway virtually to the water hazard to avoid incurring a penalty by landing in the water, and take a second shot from there to land on green. Lay up shots are a common component in good course management.

Punch Shot:- This shot is commonly used in windy conditions, to prevent the direction of the shot lower than expected. The ball is played farther back in the stance with a shorter follow-through. The player often chokes down on the club that is used. This is when a golfer looses his nerve and therefore, plays an crucial or hard shot badly.

Put Shot: - A shot played on the green, generally with a putter. This is a short distance shot intended to roll the ball along the ground into a hole and is normally performed on the green.. accurate putting can often make or break a round of golf.

Shank Shot: - This occurs when a golfer hits the ball with the heel of a golf club other than the club face. This will cause the ball to radically veer off to the right for a right-handed player or the left for a left-handed player. A shank is one of the worst miss-hits in golf; in fact, many golfers do not even like saying the word out loud.

Top Shot: - (Thin shot): a poor shot when the club hits the ball above its horizontal centre, resulting in a shallow flight path. How severe the top is determines how far the ball will go.