Instruction with Steve Scott: Flop shots made easy — really!

The open-faced flop shot, caused by a short-sided miss; how do you make sure the ball gets high?
Golfweek’s Steve Scott has the answer.

It’s one of the scariest shots in golf — the open-faced flop shot, caused by a short-sided miss. How do you make sure the ball gets high?

Golfweek’s director of instruction Steve Scott has the answer in our new instruction series.

Scott, the PGA head golf professional at the Outpost Club, founder of the Silver Club Golfing Society and occasional broadcast analyst, has taken his thorough knowledge of the game and broken it down into digestible lessons from which anyone benefit.

Check out these step-by-step instructions and tips in the video above and share your before and after videos and photos with us on Twitter with #GolfweekInstruction.

Also, if you missed last week’s episode, Scott revealed the secret to producing massive distance like Bryson DeChambeau: creating major width.