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Favorite Specialty Shot

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What is your favorite specialty shot to hit and why? I mean shots outside of regular full swings, chips, and putts.

For me, I really like hitting a knockdown wedge. It just feels so solid and controlled, and I love watching it fly in low and stop on a dime.
 
I like a good flop that travels higher than farther and sticks the landing.
 
For me it's a punch long iron, that was my go to shot when I was playing regularly. I need to get that back in my arsenal

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punch with a hybrid
 
knockdown wedge for me as well. I love getting creative with a wedge in my hand from inside 100.
 
Probably the lefty club upside down swing. As a right handed golfer, swing left handed, and flip the club upside down. That one is pretty fun.

I have also been known to hit balls from off a bush (not on the ground under a bush, but floating in a bush on leaves and branches). But that's really just a standard pitch shot.

~Rock
 
McRock said:
Probably the lefty club upside down swing. As a right handed golfer, swing left handed, and flip the club upside down. That one is pretty fun.

I have also been known to hit balls from off a bush (not on the ground under a bush, but floating in a bush on leaves and branches). But that's really just a standard pitch shot.

~Rock
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Dang. I've never tried that one but seen it done. Crazy shot!
 
JohnSinVA said:
I like a good flop that travels higher than farther and sticks the landing.
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Definitely the flop shot for me as well. It's a great feeling when you're short sided and you can hit a nice high, soft flop to tap-in range.
 
Texas Wedge is by far my favorite. I will break it out almost anywhere and usually put it pretty darn close to the stick.
 
I don't know if it counts as a specialty shot, but really long lag putts. Nothing like being as far as you can be from the hole and putting the ball to tap-in range. Especially over multiple breaks. There's just something satisfying to me about picturing how a ball will roll all the way across a green then executing.
 
SkiBumGolfer said:
Dang. I've never tried that one but seen it done. Crazy shot!
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When I'm bored at my home course, which happens a lot in the Fall and I'm the only one out there, I try all kinds of crazy stuff. I can't do a full swing with it, but I can do little half swings, which is basically enough to get me out of trouble and back into a fairway.

~Rock
 
I love hitting high slices around trees, especially with my driver off the fairway.
 
For me, there is no better feeling than pulling off a shot where I have to shape the ball over or around or under a tree to land the ball on the green.
 
Low stinger 3 wood, about 4 to 6 foot off the ground that runs forever. Need that shot on my soon to be former home course (links course) when it is dry and dead into the wind on a long par 5.
 
Gotta go with the flop :)
 
My favorite specialty shot is the 50yrd top shot. Can pretty much pull it off whenever i want.
 
Is duffing a shot a specialty shot? If so that my best one, but all joking aside my favorite one would be hybrid punches from under trees, I spend enough time there that I have gotten quite proficient at them.
 
Evok said:
My favorite specialty shot is the 50yrd top shot. Can pretty much pull it off whenever i want.
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That's a handy shot into the wind.
 
Straight through a tree without hitting it. Usually about 125 out or so. I have a knack for hitting it through exactly where it would normally bounce back at yea. I get a lot of practice with that sort of shot so I've gotten good at it.


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Girardcorp said:
Straight through a tree without hitting it. Usually about 125 out or so. I have a knack for hitting it through exactly where it would normally bounce back at yea. I get a lot of practice with that sort of shot so I've gotten good at it.
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Related, I've gotten pretty good at the lucky bounce, where you slice the ball into the trees and it kicks back into the fairway.
 
Can't say it's my favorite, but the one I pull off the easiest, is the cut 5 iron around the tree line from 170 ish out. I get to practice that one a lot...
 
Dave Alvarado said:
Related, I've gotten pretty good at the lucky bounce, where you slice the ball into the trees and it kicks back into the fairway.
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This is a shot that many people do not take advantage of... Many a 'fairways hit' have started off disastrous... All about the angle!
 
Rope hook me haysoos.
 
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