How do you approach elevated greens?

The title says it all.

There are 10 greens at my course where you cannot see the bottom of the flag and one where you cannot see the flag at all unless you hit it like a beast off the tee. Usually I just club up dependant on how far I think I am below the level of the green and allow for more run out. The closer to the green the less I find I need to club up.

I still struggle with these approaches so I am interested to see how everyone else approaches a shot to an elevated green? What actual adjustments do you make to your set up, if any? Do you have any particular swing thoughts for these shots?

I've never really consciensously tried to hit it higher but I am going to experiment with moving the ball forward slightly on these approaches to see if it helps. Lately I've been through the back a lot and I'm sure its the extra run out from the flat approach angle you get with this kind of approach.

is that lothianburn lairdy?

I find it's easier on the calf muscles if you take small steps
Approaching an elevated green is the one time i feel glad i don't use a trolley. That looks like hard work!

MustPuttBetter wrote:I find it's easier on the calf muscles if you take small steps
Approaching an elevated green is the one time i feel glad i don't use a trolley. That looks like hard work!

Not quite sure this is the response the OP was hoping for :chewie:

Oh

Where does Chewie come into it?? :Zombie:

One thing that can help if your stance is also uphill is to level of your shoulders relative to the slope. This is something I hear Nick Faldo talk about all the time during his commentaries, can you really ignore sir Nicks advice.

So increase the angle of your shoulders lowering right shoulder so it is close to parallel with the slope.

If conditions allow do not worry about using an opposite mindset to the high shot. You know the ball is going to run when it lands so go with that and play a shot with a trajectory that promotes more run and land it short. It may be possible to take some of the pace of the ball using contours before the green.

10 elevated greens?? I don't mind the odd one but 10 is getting a bit daft. I tend to club up one and play the ball a bit more up in the stance. Not sure it helps a lot but it makes me think I know what I'm about .

ban_bam no its not that course.

Yeah, ten of them. Tough course. Almost comes to the point where if you mess up one of the holes that isnt a elevated green then you feel like you are really struggling. One of them isnt probably what you called elevated but its still significantly above the level of where the typical approach usually is. I'll go with the ball slightly forward in my stance for most of them. There is the odd green where I could play Mac's suggested shot.

Liardy

If not Lothianburn do you play Swanston?

We can top that - 11 elevated greens and three of those you can't see the pin at all let alone the bottom of it. Trouble is I'm so used to playing them I don't know whether I club up or not. I just know "This is where I am so it's that club" been there before so I just know. To be honest distances don't make a lot of difference on our course.

I have never approached a green that needed an elevator. A few could have used an escalator however