How to Bounce a Golf Ball on a Club

Video Transcript

"AUSTIN MCBRIDE: Hi, I'm Austin McBride, here on behalf of Expert Village. Today, I'm going to show you how to bounce a golf ball on the flat surface of a golf club. This was a trick popularized by a 1999 Nike television commercial with Tiger Woods, where he was bouncing it over and over, pops it up and cracks into the driving range. This is the first step in learning that little trick. So, put the ball on the ground, roll it up to the club, push it onto the club, and, in one swift motion, we're going to lift and then lower the club. So just lifting the ball up in the air, popping it up, and it pretty much allows us to be bouncing it after that. So I'm just going to show that one more time. Just popping it in the air, just like that. Once the ball is in the air, we're going to repeat that motion over and over again...and just popping it up and watching it as it comes down. It will definitely react differently as it's hitting different parts of the club right in the center spot or a sweet spot. It will pop way up in the air and, as it hits other parts of the club, it might not bounce up as high, but you can definitely gain a feel of how high it's going to be bouncing and kind of what direction it's going to be going by where it hits on the face of the club."