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🔥 OWN THE GREENS GIVEAWAY 🔥
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You make a flush swing, the ball comes out terrible — and you blame your mechanics. You're wrong. It was the lie. Mike Malaska shows you how to set up to any uneven lie — downhill, uphill, ball above your feet, ball below your feet — and flush it.
Most golfers lose 2 to 6 shots a round to slopes without ever knowing it, because a good swing off the wrong setup still produces a bad shot — and you walk away thinking your swing broke. It didn't. Mike breaks down the one rule that fixes all of it: match your upper body to the ground so your relationship to the slope is the same as it'd be on a flat lie.
Then he walks every lie — what each slope does to your loft, launch, and aim, where to play the ball, why you drop the trail foot back for room, and the practice-swing routine that tells you exactly where the club bottoms out. Learn this and the course stops stealing strokes from you. (Mike's best major finish came at Shinnecock — a course that never gives you a flat lie. He knows this one cold.)
CHAPTERS
00:00 It's not your swing (the real problem)
00:41 The one rule: match your body to the slope
01:36 Downhill lies
04:00 Uphill lies
04:44 Ball above your feet
05:51 Ball below your feet
06:54 Putting it together on the course
07:47 Inside the M-System
Stop guessing and start building. The M-System takes you skill by skill through the whole swing so you build a game you don't lose. Join at https://malaskagolf.com
🔔 Subscribe for more from Mike Malaska — and tell me in the comments: which lie costs you the most? Mike reads them.
MIKE MALASKA TEACHING CREDENTIALS
Golf Digest Legend of Golf Instruction
2011 National PGA Teacher of the Year
2021-2022 Golf Magazine Top 100 Teachers in America (Lifetime Achievement)
2020-2021 Golf Digest 50 Best Teachers in America
TaylorMade National Advisory Board Member, 2020-Current
PGA Class-A Member since 1996
Honma US Advisory Board, 2019-2020
Worldwide Director of Instruction at Nicklaus Golf Academies
2017 PGA Southwest Section Teacher of The Year
25 years as a Jack Nicklaus Academies Trainer & Instructor
2017 GRAA Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals Elite Member
TaylorMade National Advisory Board Member, 2015-2018
2016 GRAA Top 50 Growth of the Game Teaching Professionals
Southwest Section Senior Player of the Year
TaylorMade/Adidas Instructional Consultant
Former Director of Instruction at Superstition Mountain Golf & CC,
Superstition Mountain, AZ