At Augusta this year, I watched Jose Maria Olazabal
hitting these lob shots off tightly cut grass. He was taking
a full swing, and the ball was just popping up so beautifully.
Eventually I just plucked up the guts and said: ‘How the
hell do you do that?’Ollie gave away bits of information slowly but surely. I went to try and do what he told me, and after about 10 minutes I was hitting the shot pretty good. It’s tough, but you can do it. What struck me most was

just how open both he and the clubface were at the set-up, as I am demonstrating here. Ollie opened up the clubface until it was lying pretty much flat on the ground. He had the ball way forward in his stance, and I noticed that he played it right out of the heel of the wedge.
Once he was comfortable, he then made this wonderful full swing on the line of his toes and the ball popped up like it was in slow motion...