Giving Your Ball a Wedgie

Everybody knows what a wedgie is, right? In case you don't, Wikipedia has a rather... dispassionate description of the crime, complete with pictures (who in their right mind poses for a picture of a wedgie?):

A wedgie occurs when a person's nether undies or different garments are wedged among the buttocks. While a wedgie may be created obviously, the time period is normally related to a prank or as a shape of bullying. When someone is at the receiving end of a wedgie, his or her undies is forcibly pulled up by using a second individual.

That's the image that popped into my mind when I read about this unusual technique of hitting a high spinning wedge shot from the rough when you've shortsided yourself. It's much easier to link you to the golf.com video "Get the Drop on Short Pitches" than to try and describe it. (Hopefully it's embedded properly right here.)

It's that jerking motion on the cease of the shot that reminds me of a wedgie.

Scott Munroe's method is clearly not the form of issue you are probably to see from the big call teachers, but it is no longer out of character for a number of the photographs you see the pros strive. The high points from the video are:

• Use your lob wedge
• Stand closer to the ball
• Open your stance slightly
• Put more weight on your lead foot
• Lift the club sharply
• Chop down on the ball but instead of swinging through...
• "Recoil" the club as soon as you hit the ball and ground

You should definitely practice this before you try it on the course, but it looks like it might eliminate those shots where you go completely under the ball.