Jonathan Yarwood Golf Academy

How to do the Rough Justice

BY JONATHAN YARWOOD

Tour players spend most of their time off the course working on developing their short-game skills – and not always from a perfect lie on the fairway. Miss a green and you never quite know what sort of lie to expect, and so the smart players test themselves from all sorts of situations, and figure out the specific technique they need to get a ball up and down from pretty much anywhere. So let me share with you some tour secrets that can help you to extend the versatility of your short-game with a look at how to take the ball cleanly from fluffy grass, how to get the clubhead beneath the ball for height and control from longer stuff and even how to play a controlled high shot from the jungle. Oh, and a useful shot with the ever-trusty hybrid. As ever, imagination is the mother of invention...

Photography by DAVID CANNON/GETTY IMAGES
shot on location at THE CONCESSION GOLF CLUB, SARASOTA
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