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Up and down
To get the ball into the hole having got out of a hazard.
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Up and Down
With the appropriate club, chip 5-10 balls from off the green. Imagine you are playing a par two hole. If you chip it in you get a birdie. If you do not make your next putt you bogey the hole.

Five Steps To Up And Down
By Jeff Ritter, Photo by D2 Productions
It's been well documented that a solid short game is the key to consistently shooting lower scores.

Up and down
When a player holes the ball in two strokes starting from off the green. The first stroke, usually a "pitch", a "bunker shot" or a "chip", gets the ball 'up' onto the green, and the subsequent putt gets the ball 'down' into the hole.

up and down-- Hitting a ball out of a sand trap, rough or other difficult area and still salvaging a par.
upright swing-- Type of swing in which the clubhead travels more directly backward and upward from the golfball.

Up And Down: Also termed "Up and In", the situation in which a player misses the green and then makes one chip and one putt to achieve his score.

Up and down
getting out of trouble or out of a hazard and into the hole in par or less.
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Up and Down: To complete a hole in two shots from the fairway such that the first shot gets the ball "up" on to the green and the subsequent putt gets it "down" into the hole.
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up and down Also referred to as up and in, the situation in which a player misses the green on her approach shot and then makes one chip and one putt to achieve her score.

Up and Down: Means missing the green in regulation but still achieving par. Usually by playing one chip or bunker shot followed by just one putt.
Uphill Lie: Where the ball comes to rest on a slope above the target line.

Up and Down : To put in the hole in two shots from off the green. Example: a chip, pitch or sand shot followed by one putt, as in UP onto the green and DOWN into the hole.

Up and Down
When you miss the green in regulation but still achieve par.
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Up and Down - This term is used often in relation to the golf par, but it doesn’t have to be. It just means that you only needed to make one putt to get the ball in the hole after reaching the green.

Up and Down
When a player fails to be on the green in regulation, but gets on it with an approach shot and one-putts into the hole.
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up and down

Where a player misses the green and then makes one chip and one putt to achieve his score.

Getting up and down consistently from around the green is critical to improving your golf game, no matter what level of player you are. The three basic shots you need to know are high lob or flop shot, medium pitch and low chips.

How do you get up and down (chip from the sand to the green with one shot and make the ensuing putt) easier from the bunkers?
Every bunker is different, but some principles remain the same.

PRACTICE GETTING UP AND DOWN FROM VARIOUS DISTANCES OFF THE GREEN.
Any chance you have to putt, instead of chip, you should. Because most people use better putters than chippers.

when a player gets up and down from a greenside sand bunker, regardless of score on the hole. Sand Save percentage is a player statistic kept by the PGA Tour.
Sand Trap
a greenside sand filled bunker as opposed to a grass or waste bunker.
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Example: It is a common exaggeration for people to compliment short game wizardry by saying, "That guy could get it up and down from the ball washer.

to start the downstroke -- instead, let the putter and arms and hands all drop "wherever gravity wants to take them", which is straight down at the ground swinging beneath the top bar of the swing set to the bottom of the stroke and then up and down ...

(hold the bucket in front of you with both hands and hold the bucket straight up and down, not tilted) As you turn back to halfway keep the bucket straight up and down with the open end continuing to face upwards.

Anne was bunkered at the last at The Berkshire and had to get up and down in two if she was to score the greatest win of her career. That she did speaks volumes for her courage and nerve.

Obviously there is a significant up and down movement to the golf swing because the ball is on the ground and the arms reach up to at least shoulder level during the backswing, so when I speak of swinging around, ...

The idea is to feel level in the rotation with no up and down movement. When hitting golf balls try to keep your head up and the spine rotating level and not up and down.

Place Ball Into Washer and Move Up and Down
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The hole near the base of the plastic, curving arm is where your ball goes.

Avoid bobbing up and down. Do not lift the club up in the air with your arms; ...

I've covered two ways to get it up and down from the same place. In golf, there is no one way to do any shot. If you practice both the lob shot and pitch & run shot, I think it will help you shave a few strokes off your score.
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Holding the club in my right hand only, I approach the ball from behind, sighting up and down that imaginary line that extends from the ball to my target.

It will be immediately apparent that there is no point moving handicaps up and down by the odd decimal place if there is no record kept of other than round numbers. Every player has an exact handicap as well as a playing one.

By then failing to get up and down in two from the drop zone, Els relinquished second spot to Kaymer, whose bid for a Ryder Cup berth is progressing well.

Try to putt with the disc flat or nose down and go for a lofting up and down arcing flight path. This line is advantageous vs. a line drive putt by reducing the fly by distance of misses.

Side of the Green or "Fringe" Up and Downs - Equals Saves
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You will remember that when you have your photograph taken in a gallery the photographer places a rest back of your mead, with a couple of prongs on it, to keep your head from swaying to the right or left, or up and down.

Unplayable lie---a situation where the player has determined that his/her ball cannot be played and opts to take a penalty stroke to move it within two club lengths no closer to the hole.
Up and down---taking two shots to get the ball into ...

up A shot reaching at least as far as the hole.
up and down Getting out of trouble or out of a hazard and into the hole.
upright swing A swing that carries the club head more directly backward and upward from the ball.

Up and down - Getting out of trouble with one shot and holing your next putt.
Upright swing - A swing that carries the club head more directly backward and upward from the ball. Swinging the club on a more verticle plane
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