Start by opening an image of a golf player.
Create selection of the golf ball using elliptical marquee tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.
Using clone stamp tool clone the golf ball area in the main image layer.
Hide the ball layer.
Create golf stick selection using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.
Similarly stamp the golf stick area. Hide the golf stick layer.
Create lady selection using polygon lasso tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer.
Stamp the edges of the lady using clone stamp tool.
Create a rectangular selection of the below the hole area using rectangular marquee tool. Press Ctrl+J to copy paste the selection in a new layer. Move this layer above all the layers in layer order in layer palette.
Unhide the golf stick layer.
Duplicate the layer and press Ctrl+T. Right click the layer and select distort. Adjust nodes to get the shape as shown.
Create more duplicate layers and distort each layer to get stick position as shown in the image.
Open animation window. For the first frame hide all stick layer except the one that is the beginning position of the shot.
Duplicate frame. Hide the stick layer and unhide the next position of stick layer. Move the player layer 2 pixels downwards.
Repeat the above step for additional duplicate frames.
For the 5th frame move the golf ball towards the hole.
Duplicate frame. move the ball more towards the hole for additional frames.
For the 9th frame let the ball be completely hidden behind the grass strip layer that is above all layers.
Press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S to save an optimized animated GIF.
