Golf: Different Ways To Pick Up The Ball With Your Club
Golf expert Rickard Strongert shows VideoJug how to pick up the ball with your club when playing golf. It makes playing golf much easier and will also manage to impress your golfing friends with your ball and club tricks.
Step 1: Trick One
For a standard pick-up, place the leading edge of the clubface right behind the ball so it can get underneath.
Twist your wrist to open the clubface and scoop the ball up.
For a step by step guide to learning this trick, see our video "how to pick up the ball with your club".
Step 2: Trick Two
A second way to pick up the ball with your club is to put the back edge of the club head behind the ball.
Then, pull the club against you, making the ball pop up into the air.
Step 3: Trick Three
This is a risky one. Unless you are a really tough sort of character you should be careful with this shot. A mistake could send the ball hard into your legs!
Hit towards you and down behind the ball at a steep angle with the leading edge of the club to make the ball pop up into the air. Then bounce it off the clubface into your hand.
Step 4: Trick Four
To pick the ball up with the driver, put the ball about 6 inches, or 15cm, away from your right foot.
Hit down onto the ball with the clubface and stretch out your foot to flick the ball up into the air. Then bounce the ball off the top of the club head.
When you can do this with your feet still, try kicking at the ball as you pick it up.
Once you have mastered picking up the ball with your club, you can move on to the other trick shots in our VideoJug golf series.
