So I have dreams of hitting stingers. I don’t necessarily ever NEED to hit one…but I want to.
Who here has that shot and can you teach me for no reason other than I want it in my bag?
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I hit the ball way too high to even think about hitting a stinger. My best hope is to skull a 4iron!
I think everyone should learn to hit a stinger… it all about face control…
You basically want to keep your hand ahead of the ball and de loft the iron at impact. For me it helps to focus on hitting through and not down and try to keep my hand low on my follow throughout.
I’m sure a more qualified person can explain it better.
I agree! The concept is “simple” and I do think it’s a practical, useful shot to have in your arsenal. Many of the techniques required to hit the shot produce a risk to hit a {redacted} or hosel rocket, though.
I think it’s very much a mental thing to work through that and sync up the timing needed.
Knowing how to hit it and breaking it out during a round are two very different things!
Adam and Jon talk about random vs block practice, and I think the stinger is a good thing to cycle through during random practice…
I like it because it forces you to focus on keeping your club behind your hands at impact (and at high speed to do it well). I have a bad tendency to let my club get ahead of my hands, so focusing on the stinger can help.
One of my off season goals is to get the low flighted wedge shot mastered, and it’s a similar concept.
you took these words straight from my brain. I don’t need a stinger…but I want one bad
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The low spinny wedge is my specialty. For some reason I’ve never been able to translate to the lower lofted clubs without hitting a wild hook.
I’ve got the low hook shot ready and waiting whenever I want it. One of the benefits of having a really in-to-out swing path, and the tendency to deloft the club at impact. I just move it back in my stance and exaggerate things a bit and I can make that baby curve and run forever. Don’t ask me to hit one straight, or a fade though 
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Yeah, I had the opposite tendency with an over the top swing… you need a moon ball? I had it in the bag!!!
The stinger really forces you inside, or at least it does for me.
I can hit the low hook all day, but struggle to hit it low & straight or fading. There is a hole at my club that I wish I could hit the low fade on. It’s always into a decent wind and everything slopes severely left towards the hazard. 
Exact same thing for me. Half the time I’m in great shape, the other half I’m dead to rights.
I generically play a fade, but don’t think I could hit a low fade… something new to work on!
I take a 3h and get slappy and steep with it. I’ll hit that when my driver mechanics get loose.
Take the club you want to hit the stinger with and start hitting quarter swing punch shots. Hit 5 good ones in a row, then half swing punch shots until 5 good ones. Keep lengthening the swing until you can’t hit good ones anymore and you have your maxed out stinger (something that can keep improving with practice).
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Just buy a 2i and tell everyone it’s a 4i. haha. No, there are some pretty good videos on YouTube explaining how to do it. Doesn’t take long to learn.
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Like Jon, I can hit a low hooking shot with the best of them. No chance at hitting it straight or left to right though.
A trap draw is my favorite shot to hit when in the trees on the left side.
Understanding spin loft really, really helped me understand how to keep the ball low. It also helped me understand how pros can hit sky high 1 and 2 irons
Steepen the angle of attack and get the face de-lofted at impact and it will keep it low every time.
Can’t hit one yet, but surely have a use for one! LONG distances to carry under the wind! And my longest iron is a 4. My 3 wood is no help unless I want it to go over a hill.
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You can never have an elite punch out game from the trees without one
Just play the ball back in your stance, hood the face a bit, and come down with a steep attack angle and almost no follow through
I find it’s a great layup shot on long par 5s as well