Kirk is one of our Search 4 Scratch Program subscribers. And he wrote in,
and he's a 10 handicap player and he has trouble hitting thin and fat shots,
which frustrates him on the way around.
He feels like he'd get his handicap from 10 down to 3.
If he could get better with the pitch shots and the chip shots around the green.
So,
right now I'm about 40 yards off the
green.
And I'm going to show you a simple way of understanding a pitch shot and how to
become more successful at it. Kirk, I don't know, having not seen you swing,
I'm not sure exactly what you're doing,
but I've seen a lot of people that struggle with shots around the greens,
particularly lower handicappers.
And what I tend to find a lot of the time is that the golf club is swinging too
far back and there's too much wrist hinge in the swing.
And by adding wrist hinge,
you add a lot of speed in the golf club because the golf club has got to
effectively... What gets cocked has to get uncocked.
And when you've got a very short distance to do that in,
the golf club can overaccelerate and lead to a poor impact condition.
So I'm assuming that you probably got a little bit of that going on as a better
but there's probably a little bit of bent left wrist going on as you're striking
the golf shot or lead wrist.
And what I like to show you is a different way of doing it.
So first and foremost, in my short game system,
we swing the golf club back, knees,
hips or shoulders no further when we're around the greens playing chip and pitch
shot. So in this case, Kirk,
we're going to talk about a pitch shot and I've got a pitching wedge in my hand.
And when I swing the golf club back,
I don't want the golf club head to travel higher than my right shoulder. Now,
if you look at it, when I do that, Kirk,
you can see I've got very minimal wrist cock. So there's hardly any there,
just by virtue of making sure the golf club doesn't swing back higher than my
right shoulder. The other thing about it is if I go from this angle,
notice the golf club is in front of my right shoulder.
It hasn't traveled in behind here.
So if you get a combination of too much wrist cock in the club,
traveling too much behind your body,
and also a long way from the golf ball,
you can set up all sorts of problems as the club releases itself back down to
the ball. So we're not going to do that. We're going to go with;
a golf club stays more in front,
the wrist feel wooden or feel like they're not moving.
And the golf club is going to travel from the right shoulder to the left
shoulder.
And the type of motion through the ball is more like a sweep motion we are
sweeping through here rather than snapping the club through at the bottom,
kind of looks like this Kirk. So practice stroke. Ball's,
about middle of my stance.
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Scraping the ball off the top.
So I'm not jamming the club into the ground.
It's just going to land at just short to the green up there,
back to my shoulder, through, like that,
got a very small divot there. I've hit the ball first, Kirk,
the key points there at the stroke was,
golf club travels as high as the right shoulder travels through to here.
It doesn't travel higher than there. And when I came through,
I just let my club and my chest move together Kirk, like this.
So at no time did I feel like the club was releasing this way at the bottom.
Kirk,
if you practice that working on getting the golf club to travel no higher than
your shoulder and keeping the club a little bit more in front of you here,
as you strike the ball, I'm sure your contact on your chip and pitch shots.
And in particular here,
the pitch shot will be a lot better and you'll move yourself closer to that
handicap that you want best of luck with it.
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