The Uphill Lie – Ultimate Sloping Lie Series

If you’ve ever stood over an uphill lie and felt unsure, unbalanced, or just downright lost — this video is for you.
Stuart Cartwright from Good Golf Coaching breaks down exactly how to adjust your setup, balance, and swing to hit clean, powerful shots from an upslope.
Whether it’s a fairway lie or a tricky approach, these fundamentals will transform your confidence and consistency on the course.

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📍 Chapters:
00:00 Intro – The Uphill Lie Explained
01:12 The #1 Mistake on Uphill Lies
02:08 Setup Secrets for a Sloped Lie
03:25 How to Adjust Your Balance & Weight
05:10 Ball Position – Get This Wrong and You’ll Top It
06:20 Swing Feel on an Uphill Lie
08:00 Club Choice & Distance Control
09:45 Recap – Step-by-Step Checklist
10:10 Bonus Tip: Uphill Lie in the Rough

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Welcome along to part two of this four-part series on sloping lies. Today we’re talking about an uphill lie. Quite a friendly slope, but when it gets a bit hefty, it can be quite tricky to play. We’ve got four degrees of up slope here. Now, for many, they will have immediately thought about shifting the ball back in their stance, putting more weight on their left leg. all of those old wives tales as far as I’m concerned. Today gonna really share with you how we’re going to fight this force. And that really needs to be the mantra of this four-part series in fighting the force that the slope is imparting on you more than any other shot. When we stand to the golf ball, we immediately feel in the same way as we use aim point, fingers out, feeling the floor for putting. This very much applies to hitting shots off of sloping lies. As soon as you get more weight pushed into a certain foot or a certain part of the foot, so in this case, the slope is pushing me into my right foot. the more it pushes me into that right foot, the more because we’re creating a dynamic movement, I’m going to need to oppose that force. So, with 4% of gradient here, it really feels like it’s ushering me into my right foot. Now, all I want you to do is feel like you push enough to balance yourself up. you’re pushing more with your right foot to balance yourself up and feel like you’re a little bit more into the slope. Now, that being said, the right foot is going to be a really strong activator in the takeaway in this particular shot because what the slope is going to do to you when you take the club away, it’s going to encourage you to push down the slope. Now, when people stand on my lesson tee, I get more pushers with the left foot off of the ball than anything else, which encourages lots of hip sway and lots of tilting in people’s golf swings and arm planes get out of whack and all sorts of nonsense. So, what we’re trying to use here is the right foot more so in the back swing. The right foot is going to feel like it’s going to push you more up the slope more than any other shot you’re playing. As I said in part one of this series that you can find up here, the slope is always going to be the cue for you to push in the opposite direction. So, as we take this golf club away, that right foot now feels like I’m trying to push myself up the slope because I can assure you when you start to pull that golf club down, that slope is going to try and push you in the opposite direction. Some would say that that is a bad thing. I would say it’s a great thing because the more that slope pushes your lower half back, the more it’s going to allow you to accelerate your chest up the slope. Get your right side up the slope. This left hip will clear more. And you see it more with any other golfer that when they hit shots on an ups slope, they sort of end up sitting back like so flatfooted on their right side. Now whilst this is not the objective of an ups slope, this hip opening up absolutely is. So many people will find that one of the slopes suits them more than any other. And this slope really helps hip action open up because it pushes the golfer back into their right foot and allows the chest to open up. But if I now make the same finish position as I just did in that last swing and I now make my chest move up the slope, I’ve stayed flatfooted. My chest has gone up the slope and I’ve created some rather nice numbers. So this slope does have some advantages of really helping golfers open up their hips through strike. So ball position is not going to move. We’re not going to suddenly start raking that ball further up in your stance. And nor are we going to move it back in your stance, which is absolutely what people will have encouraged you to do. And nor are we going to start to aim a million miles to the right to stop the ball from hooking. The only reason why balls hook from an up slope is because golfers get flatfooted and they end up wrapping the face over and it bends away to the left. That’s because there’s poor form and function with their lower half. So the slope is going to try and push your pelvis away from the target. We are going to oppose that by taking the golf club and the right side of the body to move up the slope. Can you see how the hip could be pushed down the slope and my chest can move up the slope? This is what we’re going to try and encourage you to do. So, as much as your left hip is being pushed back down the slope due to the slope, I’m going to encourage you to get your chest up the slope. And if you have to feel that your right foot pushes you in that direction a little bit, so be it. But if we’ve used the right foot in the back swing to push ourselves up the slope and to rebalance, it’s going to be quite tricky to not have some sort of influence of moving down the slope. But we can oppose that. We can oppose that with our top halves. We can oppose that by getting ourselves moving up the slope with our chest. We might feel a bit more flatfooted with our lower body, but my chest moves up the slope. I hit down at 4.6. I have a face to path of only a couple of degrees closed. We don’t need to start doing anything chaotic, folks. We just need to accept what the slope is imparting on us and we have to give back. We have to push back in a certain direction. So the slope is pushing us away from the target. In takeaway, we’re going to make sure that right foot, depending on the level of the slope that you have, we’re going to use that right foot to push ourselves back up the slope. None of this lining our shoulders up to the slope nonsense. We’re going to forget all of that because immediately you do that, all of a sudden you sit more on your right foot and all of a sudden you feel like you’ve got to drag the ball a long way back. Now the ball’s a long way back. Now I’m down the slope. Oh goodness me, how difficult do you want to make it? And then you wonder why sloping lies are the nemesis of all golfers. And then the explanation is, oh yeah, but you don’t practice on them. Well, yeah, practicing on them is absolutely fantastic. in platform golf have created a really great platform that allows golfers to not only practice on it but play great simulator later golf as well. But this the understanding and the opportunity to practice on a mat like this makes you then believe that actually this is not as a big a black art as you might think. So ball position stays in the same place. You’re going to use your right foot in your takeaway a little bit more than normal to push yourself up the slope to stop the slope from overpowering you. Then when you swing down, what I’m going to get you to do is start to feel how your right shoulder is going to catch up with your left foot more. You’re really going to feel more top heavy at the top of back swing. sorry at impact and through swing so that you can feel like you can offset the slope because the slope is going to push your lower half back and away from it. Once again, the data points are all very very similar. In fact, the same as they would be if I was hitting balls off of the off of a flat lie here. Ball position the same. right foot gets activated a little bit earlier and I get my right shoulder feeling like it goes up the slope a little bit more. I feel like my chest chases it a bit more. So there is absolutely nothing to fear when it comes to a ball on an uphill lie. It’s just about bit out of breath. It’s about understanding what that’s If you’re tired of paying too much for your premium leather golf gloves, head over to gxgolfgloves.com. These are gloves trusted by tour players and elite amateurs alike. Use my code good coaching to receive 10% off your next order. Go try them out. You won’t be disappointed. Slope is doing to your game. Hopefully, you’ve got a few keys in there to play this uphill lie a little bit more successfully next time you’re out on the golf course. Thank you so much for watching. Do consider subscribing while you’re here if I’ve offered something to your golf. And that my friends is good cutting.