What Nobody Tells You About Pitching Onto The Green

So you've hit your approach shot just short of the

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, leaving you in those awkward 30 to 80 yards. Now it's an awkward shot. In this video, I'll show you exactly how you can make solid contact with the pitch every time and show you how you can control your distance. I'll give you a little system to do that and it's really very simple now before you watch, if you're new to the channel, this has been your first lesson from me, consider subscribing to every video like this and every week to try to help you improve your game and, as always, you never have to.

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ever I teach you here, I'm going to put it in a free download or practice guide in the description box below, so I've got 60 yards left to go, and I'm just going to pick my wedge of 56 Dee uh and the The first thing I want to acknowledge is that a lot of times when people throw,

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they do is they try to do a miniature version of the full swing and if you do that, the full swing is a completely different swing. Mechanics is about throwing with power, it's about control and finesse, so let me show you what I mean, so with a full swing mechanic, we're winding up here, the lower body leads followed by the torso, followed by the arms, the last thing that enters. it's going to be the club because that explodes that's what gives you that type of pitch and power you don't want any of that in your pitch in the pitch notice this my stands everything is a little bit smaller and narrower when I swing here it actually first to move on the way down is my head, the head of the club, not my body and all I'm passing is just Cala as I'm passing by here, the club, my hands, my sternum, everything is calm during the shot, so that's the first one.

What you have to recognize before starting to talk about the strike and distance control is that the action of the pitch is a calm action, not of hitting it super hard and without control. If you make that look, we start to follow, oh, almost in the hole, so calm comes first. Once you have the gist of what

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is, what we're going to do now is start looking at the strike, so how do you get a big strike every time? Long before we get into that, what do you do? Notice that the flag has changed. I think they saw my first shot and thought the flag position is too easy and stuck it a little in this corner.

It's still 60 yards, so we're good, so attack. You need to know three things, okay? I give this to a student of mine, John, this week. You know John was very inconsistent with his hitting. Basically, you have to control three things. You have to control where the club lands, how it lands in terms of how deep the club goes. actually landing the club on the ground and the third and final thing is where the ball makes contact with the face. Now a lot of times there's so much information that

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you how to do this in a lot of detail, but Johnny doesn't have a lot of time to practice and I gave him some things that he can take right to the golf course and that's what I want to do for you so that you have this type of calm movement, it is not a complete miniature.

The swing mechanics are very calm mechanics, okay, very calm swing, so I asked JN to just look at where the ball was here and I asked him to take some swings. The first stage was: can you land the club in line with that golf ball like I do? doing now, what do you think happened? John sometimes landed there, sometimes he landed here, and sometimes he landed on his head. He was very, very inconsistent and I said yes, John, you just have to develop that skill, that awareness before you start playing a lot of golf. balls because you know if one minute it's B bouncing here and the next minute it's here, of course, you're going to be inconsistent, so he develops the awareness and the ability to just practice.

Land the club in the right place every time you do it. With that done, now what I want you to do is have an even amount of interaction with the ground. I don't want to be deep one minute and not touching the ground the next, so just practice a few moves before each shot. Just land. Placement and getting nice, constant contact with the ground is nothing more complicated than the super smart thing about it and it will be the same for you. Your body is really smart. It will make the subtle adjustment automatically without you having to tell it.

So when John started hitting the ground behind the golf ball. I didn't tell him this, he started moving his weight further forward to hit the ground where he needed to hit it, okay, without any instruction from me, this is the beauty of this exercise. Once we had him do that, the final part was this, so if you want to be really good at throwing, you have to be good at hitting the ball in the right place with the right power, let's go for it, so we want to attack. that ball just below the equator with about the fourth or fifth groove on this club, so all I have to do with the drawing and I want you to do the same is just look at that spot on the club and look at it. and I go to the right, I'm going to try to make that point connect with that part of the golf ball, simple as that, now think about it, if I'm up here and I hit with this part that's going to give me a Top Shot or a fine shot, okay, but if all I'm going to do is make the goal here is to get this section to hit the golf ball, what can you notice with the group here?

I have a little bit of shaft lean, which will help the club look like hitting the golf ball, so just look at the face and think hard. I'm going to look at that face now and imagine hitting that ball at a certain spot. Now I'm not going to worry about distance control yet. I'm going to look at the face, look at the ball and see if I can make a connection just below the equator of that golf ball again. I'm not too worried about distance control at this stage, that's fine, that will help you develop. A really beautiful shot now, of course, most likely you won't do it right away, you won't get a perfect shot right away, but what you have now is a simple task, not a checklist of many things to do.

It's just a simple task to look at the face and think about what part of that ball I want to hit. If I want the ball to go higher, I'm going to hit lower on the equator if I hit lower on the equator. that ball is going to go up a little bit higher, so now I'm going to go a little bit lower. I could even watch. I'm already moving my ball forward, because that will help me look at the strike further down the equator. If I want to play the ball, um, hit it lower, I want to hit it higher, maybe on the equator, now look what I do naturally, look at this, my club goes this way and from here, higher on the equator , further down the equator.

I don't have to remember this, it just happens naturally, so take it down. Control the depth of the point. Contact with the face. I promise it will be enormously valuable. Now let's focus on distance control, so the final stage is distance control. You're halfway there, you've got your strike. Now I'm 56 here. I have 60 yards left. What I'm doing is choosing a club that doesn't require full swing mechanics, doesn't require me. to grab it or hit it hard remember I want calm I want calm movements okay so that's the first thing I'm swinging long enough so I don't have to grab it the other thing I'm doing that I mentioned before I'm I imagine the stick coming this way okay the stick , my hands, my body, they all work at the same pace.

Which feels like the same rhythm. We walked together through the impact area. I'm not creating a move where the club stays behind and then I have to do it. all of a sudden grab it this is the feeling this is how you control the distance okay so I'm swinging long enough so I don't have to grab it if I have a short swing I could grab it I'm swinging long enough so I have the pace, if that length doesn't get me to the pin I would go from 56 to maybe a 52 degree wedge or even a

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wedge, but I always choose a club that allows me to have the pace, so I get it. established here and I'm just swinging at a pace that allows me to hit 60 yards.

I don't do clock systems and all that kind of stuff, it's very much a feeling that I've developed and I want you to do the same thing, so nice and simple, here look back and there we go nice, simple and repeatable. Well then launch, keep it simple. Land in a place. Control the depth. Trust that your body will gradually begin to resolve this. Very very important. then make that contact, just focus on the contact, face to face, nothing more than that, okay and then make sure you have this beautiful calm movement. I hope you enjoy this video, if you gave it the thumbs up and if you want to see a chip video, that's it. along with this Simplicity, okay at its finest, hopefully click on this video here and of course watch, there is a free download practice guide in the description box below, but until next week, Have a wonderful week of golf.