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Having a Stockwing on which you can trust under ideal conditions is great, but sometimes you have to make adjustments to get the ball close to the hole. One of the most popular of these “unorthodox” photos is the knockdown.
When you get a knockdown shot, you essentially try to take something of the Yardage that you would normally touch. This can be useful if it gets windy and you need less spider, or if you just want to hit a little more club and want to swing easily.
Learning to make a knockdown shot is simple, and it is something we have treated before. However, if you really want to be successful with the recording, you must remember an important adjustment in your setup. Colt Knost explains more in the video below.
1 important adjustment to touch a knockdown
The basic principles of the Knockdown shot are simple. Move the ball back in your position, take a little more club and then easily. But if you really want to change this shot in a weapon, you have to remember a different adjustment of the setup.
“One thing, and I learned this from the big Randy Smith, who will help you with your starting line – you have to open your posture a little,” says Knost. “I’m going to take my normal arrangement, move the ball a few centimeters back and then just open my posture, which means that your left foot moves a little backwards.”
When you move the ball back in your posture, you create conditions for an in-out swing path. So, by opening your posture, just a touch, you compensate that path and let the ball start more in line with the goal.
“By opening your position when you move the ball backwards, this will improve your starting line,” says Knost. “So many people touch big pulls when they try to make a knockdown shot, and that is because your posture is too closed. Open it a bit, make a normal swing with the ball back and you will see beautiful knockdown shots.”
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