Start playing golf | All the
shots | Taking up golf If you are planning to start
playing golf or are now in the early stages, I will simply show
you a very rough overview of what playing golf means today. Our golf courses, as you know,
have one to eighteen holes. This is, for example, one of the
18 holes. It starts somewhere on a tee. From there
you play forward, there you see the fairway everywhere, this is
the short mown grass, left and on the right are fairway
bunkers, which make it more difficult.
At the very
bottom there is a green and on this green there is a flagstick
in a hole. And into this hole we want to put this little ball.
We are allowed to use a bag with fourteen clubs
so we have fourteen such "rackets" that
we can use and I just show you today each of these clubs, what
you can do with it and how to play a golf hole at all! Let's just start and I'll start
here at the tee with the club that can hit the furthest.
Therefore the furthest, because it has the longest shaft and
because the clubface points very forward and not upwards.
So forward means the power goes forward and with
this long lever, if I hit it, the ball will
shoot forward. So this is the driver,
also called wood number one, with this club we will start our hole.
Wonderful, already on the
fairway and we continue from there. The shot from the fairway
Transport shot Now we have arrived on the
fairway. On the short mown grass we can use from here any
club that we have in our golfbag. They differ in the long clubs
with long shafts, for example, similar woods, which have a
different loft, which sometimes points more upwards
and sometimes more forwards. With these long shafts you can
hit it far. In the early days you don't need so many clubs,
maybe a driver with a lot of loft, because that's
just fun, maybe somehow such a medium iron, we have a lot of
irons here. These are all the extremes. Let's take this one, this is a
four-iron and this is a sandwedge, as you can see
these two differ in the length of the club from club to club
about one centimeter and in the loft. Have a look on the clubface, there
are clubs that point forward.
That's an iron four. The
difference in between the irons are about 3°-4° degrees
more loft, iron five, six, seven and so on.
And the club with the most loft in the bag has almost sixty
degrees of loft, which points really upwards and creates a
short high ball flight. The other clubs send the ball
more forward. If you start playing golf, then it makes sense first of all to spend time with a middle club,
for example iron seven or eight, they help sometimes. I'll
start playing something like that for you now. We have a very long fairway
here. So if you want to do a lot of
distance, you take, for example, a fairway wood like a wood five,
I'll show you that right away. But let's play first with an
iron 8 forward. Transport shot with Iron 8
Loft: 39° Shaftlength: 93cm So that's a non risky solution
to get along. If you want to take it more risky we can also use a fairway wood, so, this is now a wood five and
this wood will carry the ball further due to
its long shaft. In front of the green it gets very narrow.
Yes, let´s play the shot
with wood 5 and see where we will end up. Transport shot with wood 5
Loft: 19° Shaftlength: 105cm It landed just before the
bunker and we can continue to play from there. Long shot out of the bunker Out of the fairway bunker, you have
still long shots to the green, the
others are the greenside bunkers, which
are directly around the green. You can also play there any
club that is in your golfbag. The only decisive factor is how
high the edge is. Because there are bunkers that
have very high edges, you have to use clubs that can carry the
ball upwards, in this case, let`s have a closer look, so I have my iron eight,
that should easily launch high enough. Probably an iron six could could
work as well. But this designation of irons is
confusing at the beginning. You just have to understand,
the clubs create different launch angles and they just differ in the length
of the lever.
Not more. So with the iron eight I
think. I'll get out for sure. Let's try this now! In the bunker you were not
allowed to touch the ground, but that's at the beginning
not so important. In tournaments you have to hit
the ball out of the air first. That means the club stays in
the air and then you can hit the ground. So let's hit out
of here somewhere. The ball is wonderfully outside! So also fairway bunkers are skills
to learn over the years Shot out of the rough The next typical situation is that
your ball is lying somewhere to the left ore to the right of the fairway.
Now in a very deep rough. The lie of the ball is
in the deep solid high grass. It's difficult to get it out of
there, you quickly get stuck in the stalks. They get tangled up on the
shaft. You'd rather need a club that
stands steeply downwards.
So these are all the short
clubs like sand wedge and pitching wedge, so the clubs with lots of loft. And
then you have the chance to get the ball out just like
that. So it's like a wild hacking
into the deep grass and you can see that the club stops immediately. So somehow let's try to get the ball
out of there. Especially with these clubs
with a lot of loft! Let's see if we can get out of here! oh. And it succeeded! But also not really caught, but
out of the situation. Shot into the green with the
Pitching Wedge Loft:48° Shaftlength: 90cm So, now I have arrived just in
front of the green. It is still a distance of a
hundred meters. On these short distances you usually take clubs
that fly higher and stop faster. Depends on how far you hit naturally.
So if I were to play here normally, I
would take a wedge, so a club with 48°.
So you can see, this clubface is already pointing
strongly upwards again.
The ball flight will be higher and
not too far. So the ball launches high, falls down, the
power goes up and down than low and rolling. So it's more of a higher shot
and let's take that kind of shot. Let's play it there! The ball flies quite nicely
somehow lands at the front of the green and does
not roll quite as much anymore. It was quite nice!
But what you can do as well, you have the complete selection
in your bag. You can now take your iron eight or iron seven.
So there's no reason I have to play it high. You can easily
check the launch of your iron, i'll show you with the stick, the iron eight shows more
forward as your pitching wedge, which you just have played, this points more upwards in
relation to iron 8. So it is quite clear, the
ball flight will differ.
If I hit an iron eight,
then it's just a lower ball. Let's let the ball roll there. Shot into the green with Iron 8
Loft:39° Shaftlength: 93cm It rolls in front of it. Come up, whirl down the hill, Yes, it´s on the edge of the
green. Let's do another one. It's a bit difficult because
the green is hardly defended. So another one with the iron eight. Let's see how it ends up here
now. That was better. Yes and rolls also onto the
green easily. So we have a lot of options to
play the ball, either higher or lower. Let's keep going! Shot out of the greenside
bunker with the sand wedge Loft: 58° Shaftlength: 88cm And always near the green you will
often find these green bunkers Of course they will make it more
difficult. It's not easy to get out
of this bunker somehow, one's got to say.
So in the beginning, please
don't have a big claim. You can play the ball exactly as you
would play a little approach, if the ball sits up high. So you can play it without sand, so the ball only comes out like
that and when it's outside, that's enough. There is another possibility, you can learn by time Then you play it a little more with sand, such a small
piece and then the ball will fly out on this sand buffer.
So let's do one, but just give it a try to get it out.
If you can make it, that
would be sensational. Even if you get out on the second
time, that's also wonderful! So, that's why we try such little
shots. If you can get out somehow, Everything is great! So, near the green we have as
always many possibilities. We have so many clubs, but the
two easiest are I take a few more balls, the
two easiest clubs are then for example, what we already
had earlier, once again. low roller. And the low roller
is just best played with our iron eight or seven, this
medium iron. It usually rolls the majority of the distance,
so you have such a third flight and two thirds roll roundabout.
In this situation a third flight means somewhere at the
front of the green or just before the green.
The ball that
lands up here should actually roll the rest of the distance. Yes, and that's very beautiful.
So, that's a great possibility. Let's make another one but
you see that it flies a bit, the rest of the way it is
down on the ground. This is a very perfect approach
shot. And the next shot, which there
may also be to be, you will use it again and again, it is then the high approach.
Of course, you take a club that points upwards, in this case
the sand wedge or the 58°. And if I take it now, let's see
how the ball reacts. It is flying up there. And as you can see, it doesn't
roll that much anymore. That's why the ratio of the sand wedge
is theoretically two thirds in flight and only one third in the
roll and that's how you can calculate this shot. Let's get it a bit closer, so i have to aim to the left because of
the slope.
To the right again. Apparently, I have a right
tendency. Let's do another one, so one even closer. That should get perfect. Wonderful! So, as I said round
the green soft approach shots with these typical clubs.
In the beginning you will need one low solution and one high
one. On the green the shot with the
putter Loft: 3° Shaftlength: 89cm So we are now on the green, and
that is a awesome! How well maintained these golf
greens can be? It's a crazy one, like a carpet
with a few millimeters. Sensational how the ball rolls on it. For this we take our putter,
which has so zero to four degrees of loft, which only points
forward and which is perfect to get the ball rolling. But that's where the
difficulties start on this green! So have a look at how beautiful
a ball can roll on this green. Like on a glass plate and
almost in.
Let's try again. It is also beautiful and would
have to go in. Attention, attention. And that's the best thing that
can happen when a ball goes in! Splendid! Let's try again. So
we challenge our luck, but that rarely happens twice in a row. But almost. So, as you have seen,
you have seen all the shots that are so typical
on the golf course, from the tee, in deep rough, out of
fairway bunkers, … so now you have a better insight into the
game of golf! These were the most important
shots you need on the golf course and these were my explanations. I wish you a lot of fun with
this sensational sport!.