Uphill, Downhill, & Sidehill Lies: A Field Guide

Automatic adjustments for uneven lies so contact stays crisp and flight stays true

De: Jack Moorehouse

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Your range swing falls apart on the course. Not because your technique is bad—because nobody taught you how to handle the slopes that show up on every single hole.

While other golfers are skulling downhill wedges and snap-hooking balls above their feet, you'll make automatic adjustments that produce crisp contact and predictable flight every single time.

This field guide gives you the complete system for uphill, downhill, and sidehill lies that actually works under pressure—no complicated theory, no "feel" tips that mean nothing, just specific checkpoints you can execute in seconds.

Here's What You'll Master:

The Downhill Secret: One ball-position rule that stops you from blading shots across the green (and the clubface adjustment that saves your bacon when the slope gets steep)

The Uphill Math: Exactly how many clubs to add when the slope launches it high—plus why your hands need to stay centered instead of forward like you've been taught

The Shoulder Match Technique: The single setup position that makes solid contact automatic on any hill, explained so clearly you'll wonder why nobody told you this before

Sidehill Mastery: Why the ball curves 20 yards left from ball-above-feet lies (it's pure geometry, not your swing)—and precisely how much to aim right to compensate

The Smart Player's Approach: When to attack from slopes and when par is actually a great score—course management secrets that save 3-5 strokes per round

Short Game Gold: Release patterns for chips and pitches on slopes, including Tom Watson's technique for the hardest shot in golf (the downhill chip)

Combination Lies Solved: The priority system for when slopes go two directions at once—setup from one slope, aim from the other

What Makes This Different:

✓ 10-second decision trees for every lie type—no standing over the ball confused
✓ Specific yardage adjustments based on slope severity (not vague "take more club" advice)
✓ Real instructor wisdom from Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Rick Shiels, Danny Maude, and Tom Watson
✓ The three questions that tell you everything you need to know about any uneven lie
✓ Pocket cards you can keep in your bag on simple index cards until the adjustments become automatic

Stop Making These Expensive Mistakes:

❌ Using your normal setup on slopes (guarantees fat or thin contact)
❌ Fighting the ball flight the slope creates instead of using it
❌ Taking the same club selection as flat lies (costs you 2-3 clubs of distance control)
❌ Aiming at the target when the slope curves it 30 yards offline

Golf courses have slopes because flat lies barely exist. Your range practice prepares you for 10% of the shots you'll actually face. This book prepares you for the other 90%.

While your playing partners are making excuses about "bad lies," you'll be making pars. That's the difference between hoping for good contact and expecting it.

The technique isn't complicated. The adjustments take seconds. The results are immediate.

Your next round on a hilly course is about to get a whole lot better.