Heavy rough

[Broadus]

How do you play out of heavy rough? I hit decent drives today but found myself just off the fairway in heavy, tall, wet rough on a new course. Any suggestions?

Bill

[doogkie]

Re: Heavy rough

take a few extra clubs and swing hard, put the ball back in your stance and how you dont break your wrist

[GregJWillis]

Re: Heavy rough

Taking extra clubs may not always be the right choice...it does help at times when you can get unger the ball enough. But in real heavy stuff, your ball is comming out like a rock. That alone is enough to add quite a bit of extra distance. It won't be in the air long, so have some room to run it up, but you are sometimes better to take less club. The back of the stance is good, this plays the ball in a position to be hit first, and that IS first on your task list. What ever you do, make sure you are playing to hit the top of the ball if you can see it. Otherwise guess. Hit down on it as hard as you can. Never try to lift it out, this will catch too much grass under the club and kill the shot. In realy heavy stuff, the club WILL decelerate, and this causes a painful but always true affect on the face and that is to close it down before you get to the ball. So now we aim open to our target. Don't open the face, this adds loft, you want to physically aim right. Last, is the club choice. I play a simple rule for me...never more then a 7i max. So I do not play a 6i, 5i..and down. That 7i can be hit well over 200 yards will all it's roll afterwards. Like I said, make sure there is nothing but runway in it's path.

[Broadus]

Re: Heavy rough

Greg,

Playing to the right confirms what would happen to me. Evidently, the grass would wrap around the hosel, closing the face, and I would pull the shot and remain in the rough.

I would have never thought of going no lower the a 7i, but I guess the loft is needed to get the ball up and out of the mess (and it was "mess" because it was so wet).

Of course, the fairway was so wet that there wasn't much roll, so the extra club, as Doogkie advised, may have been good for the wet circumstance.

Thanks,
Bill