Transcript: Bump & Run

Golf Tips
Episode “The fringe; Bump and run”

Joe Beck: Today we are going to talk about the bump and run, its one of the most important shots in golf. We need to get the ball on the ground and let it roll to the hole like a putt. We have got about ten feet of fringe in front of us, then after that we have got the green.
The biggest fault that I see, is that people play the ball too far forward in there stance, their weight is on their back foot and they have a tendency to chip up on the ball this way, which adds too much loft and obviously we can’t roll the ball. Here’s what it looks like the wrong way.
Notice the ball goes nowhere, that’s not what I am talking about. Here is what I am talking about right here. Set up on it with the ball back in your stance. Your hands are a little bit forward, and your weights going to be on your front foot. What you are going to do is feel a little bit of rotation in your hands and arms to put top spin on the ball. You have to have top spin on the ball so it stays on the grass and rolls to the hole like a put.
Let me demonstrate. That’s what I am talking about.
1. Ball back in stance
2. Hands in front of ball
3. Weight on front foot
4. Rotate hand right to left
5. Hooded club face