Shane Lowry’s best tip to help amateur golfers perfectly execute the incredibly difficult flop shot

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Shane Lowry is one of the best exponents of the flop shot in the professional game.

So with that in mind, it goes without saying that golf tips shared by Lowry regarding how best to tackle the flop shot are well worth listening to.

Lowry’s message to amateurs has always been about a strong setup, and that applies to all departments of the game from the driver to the putter.

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However, executing the perfect flop requires a little bit more care and attention than more straightforward shots.

That said, Lowry’s advice begins, as always, with a tip regarding your setup.

Shane Lowry’s tip to help amateur golfers execute the flop shot

Lowry possesses a truly sensational short game and he has a technique which is perhaps more natural than most players on the PGA Tour.

Now Lowry has offered advice for all amateur golfers who are looking to greatly improve their chances of perfecting the flop shot.

The Irishman appeared on a YouTube instructional video for golf Monthly back in 2016, and explained the best way to approach hitting a flop shot.

He said: “Today I’m going to show you how to play a flop shot over a bunker to a tight flag.

“As you can see, I’ve got a tight lie, a tight flag and I’ve got a bunker in my way, so I practice this shot a lot, so I’d be fairly used to playing it, so it comes quite naturally to me.

“One thing is your setup has to be good, if your ball is too far back in your stance, obviously you can’t get it up high enough.

If your ball is too far forward in your stance it’s hard to get the club working in the right direction to get underneath the ball, so I get the ball kind of three quarters of the way up my stance just inside my left heel.

“I open the clubface up just a little bit before I grip the club. From there, I try and keep my hands as soft as I can. If you grip the club too tightly you won’t have any feel and you’ll end up hitting it too hard or duffing it into the bunker, or something like that.

“If you set up to the ball properly, I think you’ve got a great chance of hitting a good shot.

“So like I said, the ball position just forward in my stance, clubface slightly open and from there I’m just going to try and hit down on the back of the ball and the ball should pop up.

“I’m using my 58 degree wedge for this shot, and if you open it up it’s probably 62 or 63 degrees.

“From there I open the club, grip the club and just take a swing.“

The advice offered up by Lowry is very simple and centers around giving yourself the best chance of succeeding by getting the basics right.

If you fail to set up to the ball correctly, you will have absolutely no chance of pulling the flop shot off.

Tiger Woods’ differing flop shot advice to Shane Lowry

The great Tiger Woods recently offered a differing view on how to pull off the flop shot.

The 15-time major winner emphasized the need to accelerate through the ball with … the heel.

“For me, this is all depending on lie. I’ve got a tight fairway lie, down grain, I need to hit the ball high.

“Now for me, when I hit these shots, I always try to feel that the heel of the club is accelerating, and the toe of the club is never shutting down. So it’s important for me, I swing the hosel and I try to feel that the hosel and golf club is really moving at speed, like it gets faster as it gets towards the golf ball.

“I try and feel like the heel moves and then accelerates to a finish.”

Essentially, Woods is saying that he drives the club through impact without releasing it, and maintaining the loft on the clubface.

If you want to improve the way in which you play flop shots, combining the advice offered by Lowry and Woods will help you do just that.