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- LOAD YOUR LEFT SIDE. Address the ball with your weight and left shoulder over your left leg. Gear. Spikes or spikeless?! This new study details which golf shoes promise more yardage.
- DON’T BE A SOFTIE. Grip the club firmly, and don’t allow your arms to be too soft, otherwise you’ll overuse your body during the downswing. Keep the arm structure you establish at address all the way through impact.
- MANAGE YOUR RATIOS. In a proper pitch swing, the backswing should take twice as long to complete as the forward-swing—a 2:1 ratio. Also, keep in mind that all shots, on average, take less than two seconds to complete.
- BALANCE YOUR SWING. Poor wedge players have a short backswing and long through-swing. Don’t be that player or you’ll risk a stub. Focus on matching swing length on both sides of the ball.
- Check the bounce on your wedges. When you’re selecting a club for a pitch shot, you want to select one with a high amount of loft and bounce. Bounce is, in a nutshell, a rounded bottom of your club which prevents the club from digging.
- Posture matters. It always surprises me when my student has perfect full swing posture, only to default to a sloppy, squatty posture on their shorter shorts.
- Center your setup. In order to use the bounce properly, you need to set up properly in order to engage your club’s technology. I want to see the markings on your grip centered, so it’s running perpendicular to the ground.
- Never lift the ball. It’s counterintuitive, but in order to get the ball up, you need to hit down. If you try to lift the ball into the air, you’ll most likely catch the ball thin.
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First of all, let’s clarify what pitching actually is. Pitching is a less than full-swing shot where the ball spends most of its time in the air. It’s often confused with a chip shot which is a less than full-swing shot where the ball spends most of the time on the ground. The basic intent of chip shots is to create a low shot that gets the ball ro...
Now, like we said above, most amateur golfers don’t spend much time practicing pitching or any short game shots. One reason is that it’s more fun to practice a full swing at longer distances. But I also think another part is that the average golfer doesn’t see the importance of pitching. It’s a short game shot that doesn’t require much strength, so...
Now let’s get into the good stuff; how to hit pitch shots. It’s one thing to explain the pitch shot and tell a player to just not hit their club full, but it’s another thing completely to execute and know the proper way to do it. If you’re like most golfers, when you have to hit a pitch shot, you probably guess at how hard you need to hit it every ...
When faced with an opportunity to hit a pitch shot, the first thing you need to do is select a golf club. Most of the time, I’m hitting pitch shots with one of my wedges. Personally, I carry four wedges; a lob wedge, sand wedge, gap wedge, and pitching wedge. Just because one of them is called a pitching wedge, doesn’t mean that’s the club you alwa...
Now that you know how to hit a pitch shot and what clubs to you, let’s talk about some drills you can practice to improve your pitching skills.
Mar 16, 2024 · When your trail arm bends and your wrists hinge quickly, you create the opposite: a very steep and narrow bottom to your swing that brings the fat and thin shots into play. You can get...
Feb 10, 2017 · Short Game. Learn The Secret To Great Pitching. By Grayson Zacker Photos by Dom Furore. February 10, 2017. Share story. Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. For better pitching consistency, your hands,...
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May 20, 2020 · #1 Trouble on a Par Four. If you encounter some kind of trouble on a par four hole, you might find yourself needing to hit a pitch for your third shot. For instance, maybe you hit your tee shot into the trees and you had to lay up short of the green as a result.
Dec 9, 2023 · But only 1 in 10,000 people have absolute pitch, and scientists don't yet know what leads to this ability. There are several theories, however. The first relates to genetics, as the skill can...
