Pitch Golf
Most people think the answer to lower golf scores is to hit their drives further. The reality is that you will make more impact on your scores by chipping and pitching well. Yet many golfers do not know when the chip and the pitching moment.
Pitching is when you are about 100 meters of the flag, and you hit a high shot with plenty of backspin to stop smartly when you land. Yes, you pitch can be from 120 or 130 meters, but when you are closer, since you have more impact on your score.
You chip closer in, usually from 40 yards, even when you're just off the green. If you are a meter or two from edge of the green you can putt successfully, as long as the grass is short, and the grain not against you. But the chip is sure once you get away.
When to chip and when to pitch?
I see many golfers Chipping when they would do better to pitch and vice versa, both around the practice green and on the course. What is the difference between the two?
It has nothing to do with how you're pin, but everything to do with how you strike the ball. They usually pitch with a pitching wedge, or area of specialty, and sometimes with a sand wedge. It is vital that you hit the ball cleanly, get over it – If you hit "thin", hit the back of the ball instead of near the bottom, you hit the ball further than you want. He usually flies on the green. If you hit too thick, you can strike the turf first, and the ball may not reach the green.
This is important because if you have a very bad lie, as an area of bare soil or short grass, you may not want to height unless you must. You will find gravel is more reliable, once you learn the basics
Bend your wrists to the height
Assuming you have a reasonable lie, and you are 50 to 100 meters from the pin, you probably want to pitch. The important thing to about pitching is that you must bend the wrists on the backswing.
Not sure if you can? Here is a routine practice. Go to site practice, taking a 7-9 iron, and stand with your feet together. Practice swinging the club back, arms only, keeping your legs. Your wrists should naturally cock, so the club is approximately a right angle to your left forearm. If this is just practice hard until it happens naturally.
The easiest way to do this is to hold the club loosely – never keep it really tight – and just switch back. You probably not need a full swing, so when you reach the top, you let the weight of the club bend or cock your wrists.
When you swing to down – Nice and slow because it is the control and accuracy you want, not distance – let you disarm the wrists, and hitting down on the ball so it flies high, and then gently land, the race is close. It sounds simple, and yet I see many people trying to plant stiff wristed. When you are 100 meters of this Green Works, after a fashion, though the ball did not end well, but once you you approach it you will land in difficulty.
How to make a bunker
For example, say you are 30-50 yards from the green and there is a bunker in the path. Try more stiff wristed and you're likely to end in the bunker or right on the green the ball will not fly enough up to clear the bunker and land softly.
So you need to plant, taking a short swing, cocking the wrists on the backswing if the ball flies high and stops quickly.
On the other hand, when you chip, you must keep your wrists straight and not bend them. If you bend wrists, the ball may go up or down, in May you thin 'or hit the ball behind him. In other words, you will not be constant.
What you need to do is take something from a 7-iron to a pitching wedge – a 9 iron is actually ideal – and swing the club back as a pendulum. The swing forward, to always fall on the rigid wristed ball.
The ball will fly low with just a little backspin, and run through the green. To what extent does it depend on the club, but more often two to four times as it flies through the air by club.
I recommend you use a 9 iron for all the grit, unless you need a little more loft to get a green a little high When I use a standard pitching wedge. Similarly, I recommend using a pitching wedge standard for pitch, until you are very confident that you can get the ball near the hole. Then you can experiment with the sand wedge for very short pitches.
In conclusion, when you pitch, you break your wrists to get the ball high into the air. You stiff wristed smart to get a flight at low altitude. In case of doubt that should you do? Chip every time. You will find soon become accurate with your chip shots, but it will take longer to learn to ride with precision.
Find out the best way to improve your golf at http://www.swingingagolfclub.com/ the site run by John Hartley.
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